In 2017, a photo of a macaque riding a deer came out of Japan.
This jaw-dropping cross-racial love has also made scientists from all over the world begin to pay attention to this unique love orientation of Japanese macaques.
As everyone knows, the absurd things done by Japanese macaques are far more than interracial love!
The bizarre operation of the Japanese macaque
Japanese macaques have been hyped on hot searches more than once, the most famous of which is a large number of Japanese macaques that injured people somewhere in western Japan in 2022.
According to incomplete official statistics, more than 60 people in Japan were attacked and injured by monkeys at that time.
In Japan's small western town, the youngest victim was even a baby girl who was not yet a year old, and a wild monkey entered the house through a window and scratched a baby girl, but fortunately there was no life-threatening situation.
The Japanese wild monkeys then began a large-scale attack on a local school, but they only bit the students of the elementary school.
This is because they are extremely intelligent, and they hardly choose men or women who appear to be tall and tall, but choose women and children to attack.
In severe cases, they appear in all corners of the city, looking for opportunities to attack humans, which also makes the local residents panic, after all, who knows if monkeys will come in and bite their families and children when they are asleep!
Until now, scientists have not given a reasonable reason why these Japanese macaques attack humans, only emphasizing that it may be because of people's overexploitation that these macaques choose to retaliate on a large scale.
However, this also indirectly shows that the intelligence and wisdom of these Japanese macaques have reached the point where they can hate humans or attack them?
It's scary to think about!
In this incident of Japanese macaques attacking people, in the end, the local authorities did not arrest the monkeys who attacked people, so there was no way to check whether they were infected by the virus or caused by other reasons to injure people.
This kind of news quickly aroused everyone's attention to the Japanese macaques once they were exposed, in fact, in the mainland, the macaques are not very popular, and the monkeys on Mount Emei often rob tourists of food.
In the final analysis, the macaques in Japan themselves are quite special, and the reason for their survival is that they are contaminated with the habits of many locals, so the news of cross-species love that has been picked up again on the Internet can be understood by this interpretation.
The mating concept of Japanese macaques
Japanese macaques are social animals, they have a strict class system, especially males, only if they are strong enough to sweep thousands of armies, they can have more rights to choose mates and mate.
In fact, this situation is very common in nature, after all, the law of nature is that the law of the jungle is that the strong can get more resources, which is understandable.
But the Japanese macaques are especially serious, these male macaques have a low status, there is no right to choose a mate at all, they have not reached the estrus period, there is no way to resolve the desire, and finally choose to solve each other with the same sex.
This is really jaw-dropping, the same-sex love of the monkey group? It's too much of an eye-catcher.
Monogamy is not prevalent in nature, after all, they live in a harsh environment, and they need more mating to be able to give birth to their offspring and grow up smoothly.
Japanese macaques have no concept of chastity, and they are looking for more mating opportunities during the estrus period, but after the estrus period, they will return to the family and play with their lovers.
This would explain why Japanese macaques fall in love with sika deer, which are also a common species in the wild in Japan, and it is very likely that those low-status male macaques will have their sights on sika deer!
So you will see that in the opening photo, a male Japanese macaque rides on a sika deer and communicates love!
As a sika deer, although the sika deer is larger than the Japanese macaque, but it is not flexible, how to get rid of the male macaque, this is a difficult problem, and the Japanese macaque choice of angle is also very tricky, so that the sika deer can only reluctantly accept.
In addition to all the scandals, there is also such a tourist attraction in Japan, which is the Japanese island of Honshu, which is unusually cold, but there are many macaques gathered.
Because of the cold and year-round snowfall, these Japanese macaques are also known as "snow monkeys".
However, there are hot springs on Honshu Island, so many local snow monkeys will be arranged by the chief, according to the class ranking of the hot springs to warm up, this kind of monkey group with strict order and imitation of humans in the hot springs to warm up.
Some tourists also took pictures of the baby monkeys frolicking in the hot springs, and a series of pictures made many Japanese people feel incredible and cute, and became a tourist attraction in the area.
So can interracial love break through reproductive segregation?
In fact, interracial mating is also common in nature, such as the liger bred in zoos, which is a larger and more ferocious beast than the average lion or tiger.
Cultivating ligers is to cultivate the relationship between lions and tigers from an early age, and when they grow up, they mate during estrus, so that this new species remains.
There are also examples of successful breeding of ligers in mainland China, and in 2020, the Jingzhou Zoo in mainland China bred ligers.
If you want to talk about the strange love and sexual orientations in nature, you have to gossip about chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees are similar to Japanese macaques, because they are social animals, and they also have a strict internal order system, which also leads to the situation that some males do not have the right to mate and have same-sex love.
Humans have a special affection for chimpanzees, and the film "King Kong" alone has a vague relationship between a giant orangutan and a glamorous human woman.
In ancient China, there was also an ancient saying that the mule was pulled out for a walk, and the mule here was a species born from the mating of a horse and a donkey.
As early as a long time ago, this species was discovered in the Shang Xia period on the mainland, and later became the main labor force of many farmers, they have a long life cycle, and they are also good at doing farm work!
Epilogue:
Nature is endless, anything can happen, and the love between a monkey and a sika deer is, in the final analysis, a helpless choice for Japanese macaques to be oppressed by their ethnic groups.
Many netizens can't understand or even sympathize with this sika deer, but in a country like Japan, this kind of thing is not uncommon, after all, Japan has a small land area, and the animal species here are also very concentrated, so it is inevitable that this will happen.
Fortunately, apartheid was safeguarded, otherwise what would the descendants of sika deer and macaques look like? Will there be another exotic species in Japan? This is unknown.
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Resources:
Beijing Time - "Love Across Species? Researchers photographed the intimate relationship between Japanese macaques and sika deer"2017-01-24
Phoenix.com Technology - "Species is not a problem: Japanese snow monkeys actually did this to sika deer!! December 19, 2017
Red Star News - "The Monkeys Are Crazy All Over the World!? Japanese macaques slammed into the house in a series of 'murders', Indian wild monkeys snatched and killed babies" July 20, 2022