Homosexu
Homosexual
mounting in wild male Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Huangshan,
China
Ting Jiang1,
Jinhua Li1,2,3, Lori K Sheeran4, Yong Zhu1,
Binghua Sun1, Dongpo Xia1, Xi Wang1
1 School of Resource and Environmental Engineering,
Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China
2 Anhui Key Laboratory of Eco-engineering and
Bio-technique, Hefei, Anhui, China
3 School of Life Science, Anhui normal University, Wuhu,
Hubei, China
4 Anthropology Department, Central Washington
University, Ellensburg, Washington, USA
Email: [email protected]
Abstract: Homosexual
mounting behavior in non-human primates is very common, but its function may
vary across species. We studied male-male mounting behavior in a wild troop of
Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at
Mt.Huangshan China, from August 2010 to May 2011. We used focal behavior
sampling and continuous recording to document mounting related behaviors. We
found that this behavior occurs among males of all ages, but its frequency
decreases with increasing age (P<0.05). Homosexual and heterosexual
mountings differ in that the former ones can have 1 or 2 steps, while the
latter ones have 4 distinct behaviors. The contexts of male-male mounting
varied across the male lifespan. Mounting behavior exhibited during immaturity
is crucial to the development of adult homosexual mounting behaviors.
[Jiang T, Li J, Wang Q, Lori K Sheeran,Zhu Y, Sun B, Xia D, Wang X. Homosexual
mounting in wild male Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Huangshan,
China. Life Sci J 2013:10(1):3192-3197].
(ISSN: 1097-8135).http://www.lifesciencesite.com.
Key words: Tibetan Macaques(Macaca thibetana); Male
primates; homosexual mounting; development
