日本屋久岛公猴与母鹿交配震惊学界!
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，日本久屋岛的一只公猕猴被发现试图与一只母鹿进行交配，这是一例罕见的异种交配行为。It is only the second recorded example of sexual relations between two distantly related species.
这是世界上第二次记录到两种远源物种交配的案例。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《灵长类》期刊上的最新相关论文，描述了一只低级别的公猕猴骑上两头母鹿重复进行交配动作。
One doe was seen to bolt and run off, but another female did not appear to object.
可以看到一头母鹿闪开并逃走，但是另外一头母鹿并未抵抗。
Marie Pele, the lead author based at the University of Strasbourg in France, said: "No ambiguity is possible, it is clearly sexual behaviour."
来自法国史特拉斯堡大学的第一作者玛丽·贝利表示：“这不可能有歧义，这是很明显的交配行为。”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.
在此之前唯一一次报道的远源杂交是一只南极海狗被发现试图强奸帝企鹅。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.
科学家称，在考虑这只公猴正在学习交配行为、未能认出鹿是其他物种成员的可能性之后，“交配对象不足”是对此异常行为的最合理的解释。
