For most female primates, a single copulation with one male is just the warm-up. When they are sexually receptive and sometimes even when not, they may seek out copulation after copulation with numerous males, one after the other, often in rapid sequence. Female chimps in one group averaged 3.6 daily copulations while in estrus, and never with just one male; an Indian female rhesus was observed soliciting four different males in less than two hours. A female chacma baboon would be unimpressed by her rhesus cousin’s appetite; chacmas have been observed to mate with three males in three minutes.
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