Early this year, we all pretended to be shocked when we saw a video of monkeys having sex with deer in Japan.  New research actually studies the behavior. Scientists headed to the Meiji Memorial Forest in Japan from November 2012 to January 2013 and again from November 2014 to January 2015 to watch Japanese macaques get freaky. What they found the second time was females humping the backs of sika deer.

Early this year, we all pretended to be shocked when we saw a video of monkeys having sex with deer in Japan. New research actually studies the behavior. Scientists headed to the Meiji Memorial Forest in Japan from November 2012 to January 2013 and again from November 2014 to January 2015 to watch Japanese macaques get freaky. What they found the second time was females humping the backs of sika deer.

Monkeys Screwing Deer in Japan Surprises Humans, Somehow

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