Yes, that's a monkey grinding on top of a deer [View all]

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From https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/12/16/yes-thats-a-monkey-grinding-on-top-of-a-deer/?utm_term=.c357048f1fc6

Yes, that’s a monkey grinding on top of a deer

By Kristine Phillips December 16 at 6:21 PM

After spending a few months observing macaque monkeys living in a Japanese forest, a group of scientists found a pattern of behavior they described as both “unusual” and “intriguing.”

Adolescent female macaques climbed on top of a sika deer and crouched. Then, they moved their pelvises as if thrusting or grinding. They squeaked sexual sounds. They also bit, sniffed and pulled on the deer’s antlers.

The deer, meanwhile, stood nonchalantly and continued foraging for food.

When the deer walked away, the female monkeys “often displayed sexually motivated tantrums which consist of crouching on the ground, body spasms and screaming, while gazing at the deer,” the scientists wrote in a peer-reviewed study published this week in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

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More at link.

Link to report abstract, "Deer Mates: A Quantitative Study of Heterospecific Sexual Behaviors Performed by Japanese Macaques Toward Sika Deer"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-1129-8

Link to abstract of earlier report, involving male macaque and deer:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-016-0593-4