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Female Chimps Keep Quiet About Sex


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So that's why the girls never bragged about me.

 

FEMALE chimpanzees are hungry for sex with as many males as possible, and keep their mouths shut about it to boost their chances of luring the top chimps, a British university says.

 

Scientists at the University of St Andrews studied the copulation calls - sounds they sometimes make during mating - of female chimpanzees in Uganda to find out more about what they mean.

 

The Scottish institution's team concluded that that female chimps sometimes keep quiet during sex so their female rivals do not find out what they have been up to.

 

Evolutionary psychologists Simon Townsend and Klaus Zuberbuhler studied chimp behaviour in Uganda's Budongo Forest over 16 months.

 

The team established that female chimpanzees hid their sexual activity when high-ranking females were nearby, perhaps in a bid to reduce competition for good quality males.

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