It was the surveillance cameras trained on the dark corners of St Matthias church in the village of Castenray in the Netherlands that caught the creatures in the act.
The video footage is in black and white, the animals are entwined and upside down, and the events that unfold against a metal grill are more frantic than romantic.
But the recording may nonetheless prompt the rewriting of textbooks. Researchers believe the film of serotine bats is the first documented evidence of any mammal mating without intromission. In plain English, that’s having sex without penetration.
With a title like that, I thought preists were going after bats now.
They are, it’s just not newsworthy.
I think the bats learned it from the priests.
Nadja and Lazlo on vacation
I saw this earlier in an unfamiliar language, but what I could glean from the post was … unexpected. Thanks for context
That’s weird.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was the surveillance cameras trained on the dark corners of St Matthias church in the village of Castenray in the Netherlands that caught the creatures in the act.
The video footage is in black and white, the animals are entwined and upside down, and the events that unfold against a metal grill are more frantic than romantic.
Instead, they wielded their outsized penis like an extra arm, to push aside the female’s tail membrane and make contact with the vulva.
This confirmed the impressive proportions of the penis but also revealed hairs on the heart-shaped head that may provide sensory feedback when searching for the vulva.
While the footage doesn’t prove non-penetrative sex in mammals, some females were left with fluid on their abdomens, suggesting males had at least attempted to deposit their sperm.
Prof Gareth Jones at the University of Bristol, who won an Ig Nobel prize for documenting fellatio in fruit bats, said he found the evidence convincing, though confirming sperm in the vagina afterwards would prove successful copulation.
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Heavily redacted church footage?
Great. Now the republicans will want to ban them as well.
nearly 13 hours at best
Good lord
13 hours is insane, sounds like some kind of repressed sexuality kink. Is it possible they’re doing all this this outercourse freaky business because they were raised in the church and can’t get married?
