Sex-mad monkeys have been sexually experimenting with other species, creating an entirely new hybrid population of apes — and scientists are absolutely fine with it. Red-tailed monkeys and blue monkeys are thought to be the only species of guenons living in the narrow forests along Lake Tanganyika in Gombe National Park. Red-tails are mating with blues, blues are mating with red-tails, blues are mating with blues, red-tails are mating with red-tails, and hybrids are mating with everyone," said Dr Kate Detwiler, who led the new research. And neither type of primate was put off by the other's distinct features, opening the floodgates to cross-species copulation — with future generations of hybrid monkeys following suit. "The Gombe hybrid population is extremely valuable because it can be used as a model system to better understand what hybridization looks like and how genetic material moves between species," said Detwiler.

Source: Fox News April 25, 2018 14:16 UTC