Shouting monkey sex

I have to be careful here, but I just couldn't let this study go by without comment. I tried. I debated. In the end I posted. It just shouted blog!

It has been known for years that female monkeys shout during intercourse. What researchers didn't know was why. What has been discovered recently is that the shouting makes the males climax quicker. Some monkeys almost never ejaculated without the shouting. You can read the tawdry details in the article. Here is the link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22327844/

If I understand this correctly, the female monkey shouts to let the male know when she is most fertile thereby giving the sperm its greatest chance. Then she shouts during the sex act to hurry it along. I guess there is nothing like a shouting female to increase arousal in an ape. In a side note, this finding explained so much about King Kong and his relationship to Faye Wray.

To sum it up, monkey females seem to be much more "metasexual" in their approach to reproduction, They see beyond the act itself. First they shout..."Hey moron, I'm fertile here! Get a clue!" Then when the male monkey is thrusting, the female shouts to hurry him along. "Hey moron, we don't have all day, I need to get dinner going!" If monkey sex were in the metaphor of a home building company, the female would be the architect and the male is mainly there to hammer and nail.

It's comforting to realize how distant we are from the primate world.