Fruit Bats May Hold The Key To Blowjobs

By Mark Lorenz on October 30th, 2009

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No, seriously. And this isn’t a sort of Zelda-like quest, either, where you must track down a fruit bat and make him unlock a secret door with methods we will not describe here. To further understand the functional purposes of fellatio in animals, scientist are studying ways that tiny, adorable fruit bats blow each other.

Although I hope this study one day makes it into a video-game. In animals, most sexual behavior has a purpose ingrained in evolution. Humans, for instance, are one of the only species that has sex in private. If humans were like other animals, they’d just do it in the stands, watching NASCAR. Some people still do. With the rationale, that every sexual act has a purpose for the survival of the species, scientists have started examining fruit bats blowing each other. Man, that all sounds good and logical until you get to the last sentence. The study was a joint effort between schools in Britain and China.

Apparently, when fruit bats were given fellatio, the time of copulation increased, increasing the female’s chances of bearing fruit babies. Says the study -

“In conclusion, we have documented fellatio in animals that may have functional significance. Of course, adaptive benefits remain unproven until tested, ideally by experimentation, but our study identifies potential avenues to explore if the null hypothesis of no benefit is to be rejected. We believe that ours is the first large scale observational study of oral sex in non-humans, and we extend the interpretation of such behaviour beyond that of ‘pleasure giving’ into an evolutionary context.”

I’d volunteer for this sort of study. Provided the test subject wouldn’t be a female fruit-bat. The journal can be found here.

Source: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007595