\[ **up: [[Zoology]] | [[Primates]]** ] --- # Japanese macaques > [[‘Female snow macaques routinely pair off and form temporary but exclusive relationships with other females, during which they engage in same-sex mounting complete with pelvic thrusting.’]][^1] > [[‘Female snow macaques routinely pair off and form temporary but exclusive relationships with other females, during which they engage in same-sex mounting complete with pelvic thrusting.’|‘Females will compete with males for access to other females and will sometimes preferentially associate with other females rather than available males.’']][^2] [^1]: Julia D. Monk, et al., ‘[[Monk et al, ‘An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals’, 2019|An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals]]’, *Nature Ecology & Evolution*, vol. 3, no. 2 (December 2019), p. 1625. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1019-7. [^2]: Monk et al., ‘An Alternative Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals’, p. 1625.