Male bats found to perform oral sex on females - Science

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Maruthupandian J, Marimuthu G. (2013) PLoS ONE
A male bat performs oral sex on a female bat after mating in this video still.

By Charles Choi
LiveScience

Male bats perform oral sex on females, apparently to make sex last longer, researchers say.

 These findings, the first discovery of male-to-female oral sex in bats, match prior studies revealing that female bats perform fellatio, or oral sex, on male bats.

Scientists analyzed a colony of about 420 Indian flying foxes (Pteropus giganteus) roosting in a single fig tree in southern India, near the village of Nallachampatti. This fruit-eating bat is one of the largest bats in the world.

Over the course of more than 13 months, using binoculars and a video camera, researchers witnessed 57 cases of sex -- oral and intercourse -- usually in the [...]

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