It isn’t just us.

Posted by Leslie on September 17th, 2007 | No Comments

Nope. Apparently chimpanzee males will raid villages and steal fruit in order to get more attention (read: grooming and sex) from the females. And, yes, the females in turn trade sex for the better fruit.

This article in The Telegraph states:

“The male who shared the most food engaged in more consortships and received more grooming than the other males, even the alpha male.

“Therefore the male chimpanzees appear to be ‘showing off’ and trading their forbidden fruit for other currencies, for example ‘food-for-sex’ and ‘food-for-grooming’.

Hmmm…sound familiar?