Cunnilingus Apparently Increases Duration of Copulation in the Indian Flying Fox, Pteropus giganteus

Jayabalan Maruthupandian; Ganapathy Marimuthu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059743

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Cunnilingus Apparently Increases Duration of Copulation in the Indian Flying Fox, Pteropus giganteus

Jayabalan Maruthupandian,

Affiliation Department of Animal Behaviour and Physiology, School of Biological Sciences Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
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Ganapathy Marimuthu

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Affiliation Department of Animal Behaviour and Physiology, School of Biological Sciences Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
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Cunnilingus Apparently Increases Duration of Copulation in the Indian Flying Fox, Pteropus giganteus

Jayabalan Maruthupandian,
Ganapathy Marimuthu

Published: March 27, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059743

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