Masturbation may increase a male primate's chances of impregnating a female – Study

The study, which was published in The Journal Proceedings of The Royal Society, focused on both wild and captive primates.

Primates like chimpanzees, monkeys and apes masturbate quite often just like humans and other animals like dogs do.

Matilda Brindle, lead researcher and her colleagues collected data from 246 published scholarly papers and 150 questionnaires in order to gather information about masturbation as well as correspondence between zookeepers.