Yes this is real and I thought I would share. Apparently, some scientists taught monkeys a "currency system" which they immediately used to pay for sex.


http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...s-practic.html


"Something else happened during that chaotic scene, something that convinced Chen of the monkeys' true grasp of money. Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its fungibility, the fact that it can be used to buy not just food but anything. During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind. (Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape.)

This is a sensitive subject. The capuchin lab at Yale has been built and maintained to make the monkeys as comfortable as possible, and especially to allow them to carry on in a natural state. The introduction of money was tricky enough; it wouldn't reflect well on anyone involved if the money turned the lab into a brothel. To this end, Chen has taken steps to ensure that future monkey sex at Yale occurs as nature intended it. "

 

Not immediately, but it was an awesome study. Cool **** if you actually read the article that wired.com links to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/ma...FJH1LooxHYd5/g

 

I did read the article... see the quotes above? If it happened by page 2 of the real article..that is immediately enough for me haha.

 

I thought this was going to involve some inter-species lovin'. I'm honestly a little disappointed.

 

bwhahahahahaha

 

hmm... I've got some grapes in the fridge.