Editing Animal sexual behaviour (section)

===Sexual imagery viewing===
A study by Platt, Khera and Deaner at Duke University North Carolina (reported in ''[[Current Biology]]'' and online [http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=1551 here]), showed that male monkeys will give up privileges (in this case, juice, which was highly valued), to be allowed to see a female monkey's hindquarters.<ref name="Deaner,Khera,Platt,2005">[http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0960982205001041 Current Biology - Deaner M. O., Khera A. V. & Platt M. L. Curr. Biol. published online]</ref> 

Deaner and his team reported that monkeys would take a juice cut to look at powerful males' faces or the perineum of a female, but to persuade the monkeys to stare at subordinate males, the researchers had to bribe them with larger drinks. "Virtually all [male] monkeys will give up juice to see female hindquarters ... they really value the images." 

The researchers stress that in monkey society, such behaviours have great social utility and we should therefore not simply reach the conclusion that "monkeys enjoy pornographic pictures". There is no evidence at this point that viewable pictures or movies of sexual activity are valued for their sexual enjoyment, although as noted above ([[#Autoeroticism (masturbation)|Masturbation]]), there are reports that watching sex in real life may have such an effect. The subject of animals and sexual imagery is not yet well researched.

Problems with encouraging [[panda]]s to mate in captivity have been very common. However, showing young male pandas "panda pornography" is widely credited with a recent population boom among pandas in zoos.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15852885/ ''Porn sparks panda baby boom in China: Research — and blue movies — attributed to record-high birth rate in 2006'', Denis D. Gray, Associated Press, 4:58 p.m. ET Nov 27, 2006]</ref>