Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Tan, Min ^a,c   Jones, Gareth ^b   Zhu, Guangjian ^a   Ye, Jianping ^a,c   Hong, Tiyu ^a,c   Zhou, Shanyi ^c   Zhang, Shuyi ^d   Zhang, Libiao ^a  

^a Guangdong Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Gangxi Normal University   (China)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAT; COPULATION; FELLATIO; FEMALE; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL SEXUAL CONTACT; PENIS GLANS; POLYGYNY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; CYNOPTERUS SPHINX; GLANS; PAN PANISCUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; PENIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449585210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007595     Document Type: Article

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