When It Comes To Chimpanzees And Sex, Consent Is Optional

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 20:10 in Biology & Nature

We may talk about a battle of the sexes when it comes to our species, but in the rest of the primate world, it really is a battle. We have the luxury of cultural hand-wringing about the shirt a Rosetta mission engineer wore in a YouTube video, but when it comes to chimpanzees, a shirt is the least of female problems. Male on female violence among chimpanzees is frequent - and it has to do with sex.  read more

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