日本屋久島公猴與母鹿交配震驚學界!
A male snow monkey has been observed attempting to have sex with female sika deer on Japan's Yakushima Island, in an unusual example of interspecies mating behaviour.
日前，日本久屋島的一隻公獼猴被發現試圖與一隻母鹿進行交配，這是一例罕見的異種交配行爲。It is only the second recorded example of sexual relations between two distantly related species.
這是世界上第二次記錄到兩種遠源物種交配的案例。The latest paper, published in the journal Primates, describes how a low-ranking male monkey was observed repeatedly performing sexual mounts on at least two different female deer.
刊登在《靈長類》期刊上的最新相關論文，描述了一隻低級別的公獼猴騎上兩頭母鹿重複進行交配動作。
One doe was seen to bolt and run off, but another female did not appear to object.
可以看到一頭母鹿閃開並逃走，但是另外一頭母鹿並未抵抗。
Marie Pele, the lead author based at the University of Strasbourg in France, said: "No ambiguity is possible, it is clearly sexual behaviour."
來自法國史特拉斯堡大學的第一作者瑪麗·貝利表示：“這不可能有歧義，這是很明顯的交配行爲。”The only previous reported case of sexual interactions between two distantly related species, was that of an Antarctic fur seal observed sexually harassing king penguins.
在此之前唯一一次報道的遠源雜交是一隻南極海狗被發現試圖強姦帝企鵝。The scientists said that "mate deprivation" was the most likely explanation for the unusual behaviour, after also considering the possibility that the male was learning to copulate or had failed to recognise that the deer was a member of another species.
科學家稱，在考慮這隻公猴正在學習交配行爲、未能認出鹿是其他物種成員的可能性之後，“交配對象不足”是對此異常行爲的最合理的解釋。
