Fellatio keeps male fruit bats keen

[Indenturedebtor]

Female short-nosed fruit bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during copulation. Mating pairs spent more time copulating if the female did so.

Cynopterus sphinx live in south-east Asia. The males often roost with small groups of females.

Min Tan of the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues captured 30 male and 30 female short-nosed fruit bats in Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou City and observed their mating behaviour in enclosures.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18077-fellatio-keeps-male-fruit-bats-keen.html


I've actually seen my dogs do this. The boy is fixed and the girl is not. When she's in heat she says "hello" to him in a very friendly manner.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That's one of the better thread titles I've seen lately.

[Indenturedebtor]

6. Yeah hehe in browsing NewScientist, as I do daily my stream on consciousness was like so:

"Global warming... not in good enough of a mood. Mind reading... hmmm always cute look at that later. Ah Felatio! What's this one about?"

Those editors know what they're doing :rofl:

[saltpoint]

2. Sounds like important work indeed. Carry on!

[rurallib]

3. My admiration for nature is buoyed once again.

WOuld calling the wife an old bat now be considered a compliment?

[Indenturedebtor]

5. LOL no doubt... I still haven't developed the courage to send this to mine n/t

[unpossibles]

4. I'm pretty keen on it too! nt

[safeinOhio]

7. Good thing it's the short nosed bat

and not the long tooth bat.

[xchrom]

8. i know how they feel. nt

[sakabatou]

9. Now, to see if this correlates to other species...

:evilgrin:

[Indenturedebtor]

10. I propose a study! I will bravely be the experimentor and the experimentee! n/t

[sakabatou]

11. I'd be an experimentee

but only if my partner was my fiancee.

[Indenturedebtor]

12. Mmmm yes of course.... I meant to reduce the pool in that way as well

:devil:

[joshcryer]

13. I do not believe autofellatio was observed in these studies.

:evilgrin:

[FiveGoodMen]

27. Ron Jeremy? Is that you?

[n2doc]

14. Bats Find Fellatio Beneficial

By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience
posted: 30 October 2009 04:07 pm ET

Chinese fruit bats add oral sex to get the males to prolong the act, scientists now find, suggesting the behavior confers evolutionary benefits.

Oral sex, or fellatio, is often used in human foreplay, the researchers noted, but rarely seen in other animals. As such, there have been few evolutionary reasons given for oral sex to date, and fellatio is largely thought confined to humans, although juvenile members of the chimpanzee-like bonobo do it for play.

Now scientists find the short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) routinely engages in oral sex, the first time fellatio has been seen in adult animals other than humans. The researchers argue the act likely has evolutionary benefits.

Scientists at the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, and their colleagues investigated bats they captured at a nearby park. Although bats comprise the second largest order of mammals at more than 1,100 species, little is known about their mating habits because of their nocturnal lifestyle and their often-inaccessible roosts. The researchers were originally expecting to watch behaviors such as grooming or the construction of tents from Chinese fan-palm leaves.

more:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/091030-bat-mating.html

Bats have all the fun...

[Arctic Dave]

15. There is going to be a lot of guys in bat costumes on Halloween.

I can almost guarantee it.

[NickB79]

26. "I'm Batman!"

:evilgrin:

[FiveGoodMen]

28. ...says the one guy on the show who probably wouldn't be interested.

[Bonobo]

16. So THAT's why they hang upside down! nt

[tularetom]

17. So do my dogs

That's why they do it to themselves all the time.

[imdjh]

18. But do they charge for it? Are there any animal prostitutes?

[RC]

20. It would not surprise me at all, that that would be.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. The bats are just finding this out now?

They've been missing a lot, messing with fruit.

[Historic NY]

21. "Bats just want to have fun in the belfry"

[Cronus Protagonist]

22. Looks to me like she's lubing him up

Doesn't look at all like a sex act.

[bleever]

23. Perfect. Weekend. Thread.

Happy Halloween to all my spooky DU friends and fiends.

[Danascot]

24. This gets a rec for the title alone

nt

[Indenturedebtor]

25. Here it is in the thread from Thursday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x58405