Stink Flirting Among Lemurs is a Thing! It Can Attract or Offend 💨 | Smithsonian Channel

When a male ring-tailed lemur picks up the scent of a female who is ready to mate, he releases his own powerful odor from glands on his wrist and tail. This exchange of smells is known as ‘stink flirting.’ But this orgy of odor also triggers instant aggression in other males, causing them to fight for the right to mate.
From: Gangs of Lemur Island
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[@humbertsmith8864]

In Newark we experience "stink flirting" pretty much every weekend at Krug's Tavern. It's not pretty but it gets late very quickly.

[@nancyoffenhiser4916]

Hahahahaha LOLOLOL!! I'm from New York so this is just perfect!

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[@dekelpolak4190]

We need to understand that being at the top of the pyramid of creation means that everything we do trickles down the structure, from top to bottom. When it reaches the bottom, the inanimate level of reality, from which everything grows, it changes it. If we ooze ill-will, it creates negative changes throughout the system, which manifest in increasingly extreme climatic and geological events. In other words, when human relationships go out of balance, everything goes out of balance. When our relations become extreme, everything becomes extreme; when we become violent, everything becomes violent. Each summer, the ramifications of the linkage between our relations and our world become more extreme, until we acknowledge that everything that exists, exists in a connected, hierarchical system and that whoever is at the top determines the state of the rest of the system. It is not as if previously, we were better people than we are today. It is simply that there were fewer people, and therefore fewer elements that exude ill will. Also, relationships between people in the past were less toxic than they are today. While there are fewer wars today than ever, the levels of suspicion and alienation between people are skyrocketing, to the point where people can no longer trust their own family members. As a result, wars between countries are rarer than ever, but divorce rates, domestic violence, and violence in the community, are at an all-time high. Even the internet, which we invented purportedly in order to connect people, is being used to abuse, deceive, and exploit people. The world-wide-web proves that everything we create, we use against others. When there is such a negative element in a system, and that element is at the top of the system, how can the entire system not go awry? Therefore, if we want the weather to cool, the sea-level to drop, and the storms to subside, we must cool the fire and calm the storms between us. Mutual concern, mutual responsibility, or at least the knowledge that we are dependent on each other, are necessary in order to restore balance in our world at all levels, from the ground we walk on to the hatred in our hearts.

[@sallysmithern1515]

You cut it off when it really got interesting!

[@tonyarichards5430]

I’ve never seen King Julian do any of this.

[@indyreno2933]

The Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) is split into three subspecies, the Southern Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta catta), the Eastern Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta cinereobrunneus), and the Western Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta procyonoides), though, other classifications can regard them as separate species.

[@rocketRobScott]

I feel pity for all the spouses who get “stink flirted” tonight because of this video.

[@davidcrane6593]

Evolved from monkeys?.... yet there are still monkeys...whackie doodle thinking.

[@pingASS_]

Elvoved from the same ancestor. Do you think a shark is the same as a salmon?

[@davidcrane6593]

@@pingASS_ you got to have TWO to start with(from the beginning)... and without TWO(MALE AND FEMALE) you are gonna be waiting a LONG. LONG LONG TIME to EVOLVE... that's quakery.

[@nickfontana2801]

One branch of monkeys broke off to evolve into humans little by little of course, some species of monkeys never evolved; it's pretty simple. 🤷