Ed Yong reports (with relish) on a successor to the Ig Nobel Prize winning study on fruit bat fellatio:
Oral sex in fruit bats is clearly a hot area of research. In just four years, the number of papers on this topic has doubled from, er, one to two.
It started in 2009, with a study that described regular fellatio among the short-nosed fruit bat. It earned its authors an Ignobel Prize in 2010….
Now, to balance things off, a new paper describes cunnilingus among another fruit bat species—the Indian flying fox….
