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Scientists may have caught two animals from completely different species having consensual sex for the first time.
A new paper, titled ‘Interspecies sexual behaviour between a male Japanese macaque and female sika deer ’, describes what is thought to be one of the first ever recorded instances of “reproductive interference” between two very different animals.
Sex between animals of different kinds has been reported across a wide range of the animal kingdom.
But those tend to be seen only between animals that are closely related and look similar, and are understood in the context of their relationship to how they allow the animals’ species to survive. Those reports of very different animals are usually seen between animals that are born and bred in captivity.
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Most of those examples also constitute a kind of sexual harassment. For example, scientists had previously observed Antarctic fur seals harassing king penguins.
But a new paper reports mating behaviour between two wild animals – a male Japanese macaque and a female sika deer in Japan. In this case there appeared to be no coercion and both of the animals appears to behave as if the approach was consensual.
Japanese macaques have in the past been known to ride along on deer. But the researchers say that the monkey in the new study “showed clear sexual behaviour towards several female deer”. Some of those deer tried to escape – but others apparently consented to the behaviour and “accepted the mount”, the researchers write in the journal Primates.
The researchers wrote that one deer "seemed to accept to be ridden by the male macaque", and that it was apparently licking sperm that had been deposited on its back by the monkey. Another deer refused the mount and threw the macaque off its back.
The scientists say that the most likely explanation for the strange behaviour is “mate deprivation”, a theory that suggests that animals that don’t have access to females are more likely to show such behaviour.
That may have been encouraged by the fact that the two animals already play together and co-operate, and that the macaques were entering breeding season, the scientists speculated. As such, it might just be a sexual manifestation of the play already seen.
Other explanations include the argument that the behaviour is a way of learning to copulate, the scientists said, but that is unlikely given that they are social animals and can learn from one another. It’s also unlikely that they would have sex with them because they were short of a mate – since in that case they tend either to masturbate or show homosexual behaviour.
Usually, reproductive interference is thought to be the result of one animal not properly recognising what species another animal is. But that also explains why it mostly happens in animals that are closely related and look similar – and so the explanation doesn’t apply in the new case.
The new case is the only the second report of such a case, and apparently the first of this kind. But the scientists hope that further study of it can show how mating happens between species, and could also shed light on why humans show a sexual interest in animals.
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Rare interspecies mating behavior between a macaque and sika deer is captured on camera. Video courtesy Alexandre Bonnefoy
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Why did a male macaque mount a sika deer in Japan? Scientists have some theories.
A male monkey in Japan has been filmed trying to mate with a female deer—likely the first observation of two distantly related species having a nonviolent sexual encounter.
Japanese macaques and sika deer regularly hang around each other on the island of Yakushima. This association has little to do with camaraderie: The deer know that if they stay close to the macaques, they can scarf up any fruits that the macaques drop from the canopy above.
The deer have also been seen eating the monkeys’ feces, and the primates, in turn, have been seen grooming and even riding the deer, says Cédric Sueur , an animal behaviorist at Hubert Curien Multidisciplinary Institute in France. ( See a woodpecker atop a weasel and other animals riding animals .)
These are the interactions wildlife photographer Alexandre Bonnefoy hoped to capture when he visited Yakushima for an upcoming photography book, Saru . But he ended up getting more than he bargained for when he captured a single male macaque mounting two separate female deer.
When Bonnefoy showed the video to Sueur and several other primatologists, the scientists quickly realized nothing like this had ever been seen before on Yakushima—or anywhere, for that matter.
“Heterospecific sexual interaction between non-closely related species is very rare to observe,” says Sueur, senior author of a study published this week in the journal Primates . “This case is only the second one to be reported.”
What would lead two distantly related animals to do such a thing?
It could be that the whole episode was merely a case of mistaken identity, but this seems unlikely given that interspecies mating usually happens between closely related creatures—a coyote and a dog, say—and it's unlikely the macaque confused the deer with another monkey, the study says.
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Similarly, it’s possible that the male macaque was using the female deer to practice sex. But this explanation also doesn’t quite fit given that macaques are highly social animals, and there are many opportunities for them to observe and mimic their kin.
Instead, Sueur thinks the most reasonable explanation is that the macaque is a so-called peripheral male—a low position in macaque society that generally does not come with breeding rights.
“As a consequence to not having access to females, these peripheral males could socially learn to have sexual interaction with sika deer in order to decrease their sexual frustration,” says Sueur. (Related: " Why Monkeys in the Middle Are More Stressed ")
Emily Burdfield-Steel , a behavioral ecologist at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, agrees the mate-deprivation hypothesis makes sense.
“I would be very interested to see if this behavior spreads to other males in the population,” says Burdfield-Steel, noting that this appears to be what has happened in the fur seal-penguin interactions.
She's less sure whether the monkey's behavior amounts to what's called reproductive interference, which occurs when there's a cost to one or both members of an interspecies sexual experience. (See " Interspecies Sex: Evolution's Hidden Secret? ")
For instance, does the monkey's mating behavior prevent the deer from foraging or courting mates? Is the monkey using valuable energy of its own?
Each of these outcomes would be considered reproductive interference, but because there's only one observation of the behavior, it's impossible to know, Burdfield-Steel says.
The other question on the scientists' minds: Was the sika deer a willing participant in this monkey business?
In one video clip, a female deer clearly rejects the macaque’s advances, while another shows the deer seemingly nonplussed by the monkey's actions. For instance, after the monkey jumped off, the deer turned its head to lick the semen on its back—possibly a protein source.
“The behavior certainly seems less aggressive” than the fur seals forcing themselves on the penguins, says Burdfield-Steel, “probably because macaques do not often kill and eat deer!” Fur seals sometimes kill king penguins, and the sexually aggressive fur seal observed in the previous study ate one of the coerced birds.
Beyond that, Burdfield-Steel says the two instances may be more similar than you think.
“In both cases, males with limited access to females of their own species were observed mating, or attempting to mate, with another species that they already interact with,” she says. “Both species are also known to play, and I think this could also be a potential explanation.”
The deer may also be weighing the risk of being bitten or otherwise attacked for not cooperating, says P. J. Nico de Bruyn , a large mammal ecologist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and author of the seal-penguin study. Of course, it may also be easier and less taxing for the deer to just let the macaque do its thing.
“As the evidence mounts, excuse the pun, the ability to investigate possible drivers increases,” says de Bruyn.
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