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Impressing the Ladies: Forbidden Fruit & Powerful Gifts, Jungle Style
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by PEP | September 12, 2007 at 06:47 am
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Here's the tip of the day to impress the ladies: risk a lot to bring a really sweet bit of forbidden fruit for her to pick over. Hey, science says so!
Male chimpanzees will risk serious injury to provide females with the "forbidden fruit" that they crave, reveals a study of chimps in western Africa.The males advertise their prowess and impress potential mates by stealing papaya from local farms, researchers found.
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at 06:54 on September 12th, 2007
When I was in high school, I was convinced that chicks would really fancy me if I just snagged enough papayas...
at 06:58 on September 12th, 2007
But it gets better... when chimps can't quite make the love connection, they're not above a bit of porn, trading fruit juice for a chance to view the posteriors of females.