Female Bats Are Enthusiastic Fellators

The study found that more than two-thirds of female short-nosed fruit bats performed fellatio on their sexual partners, and that they were rewarded with longer bouts of intercourse as a result.

Previously, the only animals known to carry out oral sex – apart from humans – were bonobo chimpanzees.

However, the study, by Libiao Zhang and his team of biologists from Guangdong Entomological Institute in China, found that female bats were enthusiastic fellators, with 70 per cent performing oral sex on their mate during intercourse.

Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta and an expert on bonobo chimpanzees, said: “The finding of fellatio in bats is exciting news.”

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Source: telegraph.co.uk

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