Gay sex – some humans do it, some penguins do it, and as it turns out, many monkeys do it.
By watching a group of rhesus macaques over a three-year period in Puerto Rico, scientists from the Imperial College of London found it was more common for the males to engage in sex with the same gender than with the opposite.
But the researchers believe their observations actually support a whole new theory – that the males who have sex together have an evolutionary advantage over their heterosexual counterparts.The male monkeys who had sex with each other often backed up their partner in fights, the researchers reported. Moreover, these male monkeys weren't strictly homosexual. They did have sex with females, too.
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