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Fascinating Fact: Some female penguins engage in prostitution

Believe it or not, in the wild, certain female penguins (even when in a committed relationship) will exchange sexual favors with strange males for the pebbles they need to build their nests. According to Dr Fiona Hunter (a zoologist): “It tends to be females targeting single males, otherwise the partner female would beat the intruder up.” On some occasions the prostitute penguins trick the males. They carry out the elaborate courtship ritual, which usually leads to mating. Having bagged their stone, they would then run off.

Is there any other animals/mammals that are known of, that also punt???
 
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My handyman was the exact opposite He Would screw you and still you did not get the building supplies you wanted
 
A few years ago there was an experiment with chimpanzee behaviour where they were given money for doing some activities. Just to see whether they would be motivated by money, and what they would do with it.

One of the first male chimps to get money gave it to a female chimp for sex.

The experiment was stopped on ethical grounds - that they were encouraging chimp prostitution.

True story.
 
A few years ago there was an experiment with chimpanzee behaviour where they were given money for doing some activities. Just to see whether they would be motivated by money, and what they would do with it.

One of the first male chimps to get money gave it to a female chimp for sex.

The experiment was stopped on ethical grounds - that they were encouraging chimp prostitution.

True story.

And then you were allowed to go free Demon
 
Nothing unusal there there are many animals that "mate for life" but DNA testing shows that cheating husbands/wives is definitly not confined to humans
 
For the last six months, three orang-utans at the Milwaukee County Zoo have had the pleasure of playing with a donated iPad a couple times a week, and guess what? They love it.

"We show them the iPad, and read them stories or let them have different apps," said Jan Rafert, curator of primates and small mammals at the zoo. "We don't let them hold them, but they can do some of the paint apps by sticking their fingers through the mesh."

The orang-utan iPad program, known as Apps for Apes, was started after the gorilla keeper at the zoo mentioned on her Facebook page that she'd like to get some iPads for her gorillas to play with, Rafert explained. It was kind of a joke, but a zoo volunteer took it seriously and donated a used iPad to the zoo. It turned out that the gorillas didn't really enjoy the iPad - "they are more stoic," said Rafert - but the orang-utans went wild.

Now the orang-utans' keeper, Trish Khan, lets the orang-utans play with the iPad about twice a week. The orang-utans are not allowed to hold it because they are so strong that they would probably wind up cracking it in half. Khan holds it up to their cages and allows them to interact with it.

The orang-utan conservation group Orang-utan Outreach is now involved with the project and is hoping to get Apps for Apes started at other zoos. Richard Zimmerman, executive director of the group, said Zoo Atlanta, the Toronto Zoo and the Phoenix Zoo are just waiting to get iPads for their orang-utans to play with. The Houston Zoo already has an iPad, but has not yet introduced it to the orang-utans.

Once the other zoos are on board, Zimmerman said zookeepers will arrange primate playdates - where orang-utans from different zoos can see each other via the iPad.

Nobody has done research on how orang-utans interact with iPads, but Zimmerman said that may be coming soon. For now, the Apps for Apes program has two main goals: providing stimulation for orang-utans who are easily bored when in captivity, and raising awareness for orang-utan conservation in Malaysia and Indonesia where the animals are suffering declining numbers and loss of habitat.

"Seeing the animals with the iPad has had an effect on the zoo visitors," he said. "They have this recognition that these are amazing, cognitive, curious creatures, which gets back to our message, that these are animals that need to be saved."

If you have an old iPad you'd like to donate to the orang-utans, you can contact Zimmerman at rich@redapes.org.

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Fascinating Fact: Some female penguins engage in prostitution

Believe it or not, in the wild, certain female penguins (even when in a committed relationship) will exchange sexual favors with strange males for the pebbles they need to build their nests. According to Dr Fiona Hunter (a zoologist): “It tends to be females targeting single males, otherwise the partner female would beat the intruder up.” On some occasions the prostitute penguins trick the males. They carry out the elaborate courtship ritual, which usually leads to mating. Having bagged their stone, they would then run off.

Is there any other animals/mammals that are known of, that also punt???

I know most birds are dirty bitches...But If a bird ever shits on your car, don't take her out again.... that's just over the top.
 
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