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A western lowland gorilla named Mouila holds her 10-day-old baby, Mbeli, in 
an enclosure
at Sydney's Taronga Zoo February 25, 2003. One of three species of gorilla, 
western
lowland gorillas are classified as endangered and have a population of about 
20,000 in
the wild. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne 
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Lesbian monkeys challenge Darwin theory
Wed Feb 26, 7:35 PM ET   

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 -- but the macaques 
don't follow
that pattern. 

A colony of 120 wild macaques in the mountains in Kyoto shows enormous sexual 
diversity,
including female-female relationships. Females will reject the advances of a 
pursuing
male in favor of their existing female partner 92.5 percent of the time. 

"If females are choosing female sexual partners over male reproductive 
partners," Vasey
told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (news - web 
sites), "that
suggests a pretty fundamental revision of sexual selection theory. 

"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." 

Vasey said it is clear the females are deriving sexual pleasure when they 
mount other
females. In some positions, he said, a female will rub her clitoris against 
her partner's
back, while in others, "it's common for females to masturbate with their 
tails" where
there is no direct genital contact. 

"The traditional evolutionary theory says you do things in order to 
reproduce," he said,
"so why would you do all this non-reproductive sex? To me, that's a really 
compelling
evolutionary puzzle." 
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http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030302p2a00m0fp002000c.html

Celebrity chimp heads to Big Banana Tree in Sky

Jahnie, the second-oldest chimpanzee in Japan, has died of natural causes at 
age 46,
officials from Tokyo's Tama Zoo said.

Jahnie, who arrived in Japan from central Africa in 1958, was the star of a 
series of
commercials for Birely's carbonated drinks during the 1960s.

He is survived by the 10 children he sired.

Zookeepers said that Jahnie's age was the equivalent of about 90 human years. 
(Mainichi
Shimbun, March 2, 2003)