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Study finds bats practice oral sex

Source: NewKerala
Guangzhou : China | about 1 month ago  
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Fellatio, also called fellation, is oral sex performed upon the penis, reports New Scientist. Min Tan of the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, conducted the study on short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx, found in south-east Asia.
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  • News Source: io9 | about 1 month ago
    Outside of humans and a few other primates, oral sex is a rare phenomenon. But researchers have found male fruit bats do enjoy a little oral stimulation, and that the reasons females offer it go beyond simple pleasure. Min Tan of China's Guangdong...
  • News Source: NewKerala | about 1 month ago
    Fellatio, also called fellation, is oral sex performed upon the penis, reports New Scientist. Min Tan of the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, conducted the study on short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx, found in south-east...
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  • Blog Source: fitnhit.com
    Study finds bats practice oral sex. Posted on October 30th, 2009 in Sexual Health. London, Oct 30 (ANI): A new study has show that female short-nosed fruit bats perform fellatio on their partners during copulation. ...
  • Blog Source: www.boingboing.net
    As part of their attempt to prove a practical function for oral sex, the team conducted a study of the fellatio habits of fruit bats. The paper was published October 28 in the journal PLoS ONE. You can read the whole thing online. ...
  • Blog Source: jwz.livejournal.com
    Oral sex is widely used in human foreplay, but rarely documented in other animals. [...] Female bats often lick their mate's penis during dorsoventral copulation. The female lowers her head to lick the shaft or the base of the male's ...
  • Blog Source: scienceblogs.com
    Many humans whinge about not getting oral sex often enough, but for most animals, it's completely non-existent. In fact, we know of only animal apart from humans to regularly engage in fellatio - the short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus ...
  • Blog Source: www.tressugar.com
    (Just look up the sex acts Bonobo chimps engage in and your sex life may look vanilla in comparison.) But they're trying to figure out if the fruit bats that are performing oral sex on each other might not also have sex for longer ...
  • Blog Source: denimandtweed.blogspot.com
    Endless forms: Oral sex by fruit bats · ResearchBlogging.org One of those scientific papers that seems to have been written with the blogosphere in mind: biologists have just published records of fellatio by the fruit bat Cynopterus ...
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  • erinbiba

    @erinbiba I love scientists. They'll pretty much study anything. "The finding of fellatio in bats is exciting news." http://bit.ly/3tmQQz

    23 days ago
  • jr_raphael

    @jr_raphael The most disturbingly strange science story I've ever read: "Fellatio keeps male fruit bats keen" http://bit.ly/2Fkt1V (via @newscientist)

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