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Monkeys Like it Loud

One of the best things about being a scientist is that people will pay you to research strange things, like why monkeys yell during sex. It turns out the male monkeys like loud females and will have a more "vigorous" session with them. "Counting monkey pelvic thrusts is admittedly "quite weird, but it's science," researcher Dana Pfefferle, a behavioral scientist and primatologist at the German Primate Center, told LiveScience. "You get used to it.""

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