Is it a common occurence for wild animals and animals in general to masturbate as seen in this clip?
I would also like to know if it is true that Monkeys and Apes are frequent masturbators.
Is it a common occurence for wild animals and animals in general to masturbate as seen in this clip?
I would also like to know if it is true that Monkeys and Apes are frequent masturbators.
Yes and yes.
Are you kidding? Even parrots masturbate. Your dog will happily hump your leg.
Good to know, huh?
My wife’s Conure (a small parrot) humps her hand. Never in mine thank God.
The OP’s film clip of Yogi going down is interesting. You’d think a full size bear would be packing a little more tool.
Some of us do.
I wouldn’t classify leg humping has masturbation.
For one thing, it’s done to display dominance and not for sexual release.
For another, there’s another being involved (the owner of the leg), so even if it were a sex act it wouldn’t be a solo one.
Quite a few animals masturbate, but most don;t simply because they don’t have the equipment needed. As others have said, many apes and monkeys routinely masturbate. Elephants also masturbate by rubbing themselves on ternmite mounds. The mound tends to get quite sticky in the process.
…which can be quite embarassing when you take your four year old to the zoo and they ask “Daddy, what’s that monkey doing?”
Ironically , I took a picture of a bear at the St. Louis Zoo doing this very thing . The funny thing is , when I actually TOOk the picture , I thought he was just sitting up , asleep , with his head hanging down , and I thought ‘awwwww…’ . Then I got the pics developed , and saw what Mr. Bear was REALLY up to . :o
I had a cockateil that would regularly masterbate on his perch , making an annoying little ee-ee-ee-ee sound .
I have friends that have dogs that hump their stuffed toys .
Horse breeders put belly bands on their stallions with tacks in them to keep the horse from masterbating , rubbing his penis against his belly .
So yeah , animals masterbate .
My Dog did this all the time. Of course, if he washed it, then he lost interest in it for a while.
A classmate of mine helped pay bills by working for an animal behaviorist that was studying masturbation in stallions. The job consisted of sitting in a blind and observing a pasture, noting who was doing it and for how long.