it comes in pints?

This is important work, Emily. Thank you.

Females will reject the advances of a pursuing male in favor of their existing female partner or book or ipod 92.5 percent of the time.

so female humans act like female monkeys then?

sounds like definitive proof of evolution to me.

We've got females that are competing for males with other females, we've got males that are being choosy, males that are sexually coercing females ... we've got females sexually harassing males that don't want to copulate with them, we've got females that have sex with each other, we've got females that are competing with males for other females, we have females that are mounting males.

For their next evolutionary leap - The macaques have a 'cuddle party'..

And the female monkey says "Sorry, boy, I don't need you. I have macaque."

Pete,
If you ever use the words "cuddle party" on this blog again, I will have you killed.

pete, i hear the macaques give eachother human plushies for christmas...

And after cuddle parties, can plushies be far behind?

Again, Emily?

I will kill you as many times as it takes for you to learn your lesson, Pete.

I should let you know, Emily, that may take a while..

It will be worth the effort in the end.

Besides, think of how much money you can save being dead, especially for tax purposes.

Macaques are nice, but for pure, unadulterated monkey sex, the bonobo chimpanzees cannot be beat.

Fuck! "Monkey sex research!" I meant to say "monkey sex research!"

It's okay, Chris. You're among friends here, we won't judge.

Just don't stand too close, okay?

You will all now notice that Ken has created a very special "Lesbian Gorilla Blogging" category to keep things efficient and organized. A most important gesture.

Emily,

Wrong, this.

"A psychologist claims that a group of lesbian monkeys in Japan shows that Darwin's theories of evolution are incorrect. Paul Vasey, of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, has been studying the sex lives of Japanese macaques.
According to Darwin's theory of sexual selection, said Vasey, the male monkeys should compete amongst themselves for access to potential mates .."

I don't believe Darwin ever wrote or said such a thing.

And even if he did, it misses the point altogether about natural selection.

Darwin's idea focused on what "succesful" species do in order to promulgate their genetic traits.

The fact that there are examples of monkeys or other species doing unexpected things, does not invalidate the general idea. Rather, it may yet some day (and very likely so), show how a species dies off, given it's unsuccessful and maladaptive behaviors.

On the other hand, there may be something wrong with male macaques, or that female macaque sexual action is just so good, that it's hard to give up, even if it means extinction.

Give the macaques some time, and with behavior like this, there might not be any more of them.

But at least the female half will have died satisfied.

Just sayin'.

Thanks for pointing out the errors, MTT. I just cut and pasted the first reasonable thing I could find after Googling "lesbian gorillas," to be honest.

"lesbian monkey" gets this

hmmm....

Miss Emily,

Please do not think I was criticizing you!

Never!

On the contrary, I, like many, sing your praises, especially when you come to Ken's aid with additional lesbian gorilla stories.

Rather, the point I was trying to make, was that neither the psychologist, nor the writer who quoted him, seemed to have any interest in understanding the scientific issues at hand.

Besides, I still haven't read the books (you know the ones). And I must before NYC!

My bad.

Don't Piss Off Lesbian Chimps!

if it indeed "proves Darwin wrong" (though I fail to see how), I still don't imagine the creationists will be using it in their pamphlets any time soon...