I am about to discuss why non-human animals did not invent their own religions and why premarital sex is not an issue for animals… Really, that was joke. The study of animal courtship, sexual behavior, and sexuality (and primate sexuality especially) is a rapidly developing field. Complicated touches, vocalization and touching, intricate displays of beauty and fighting prowess, fear, aggression, all contribute to sexual behavior and courting in animals. Courtship is the collection of ritualized behaviors unique to each species that leads up to and enables animals to successfully mate [1]. Mating is the placement of sperm, the male sex cells, in the vicinity of eggs, the female sex cells. Animals utilize a mixture of methods to mate, all of which promote fertilization, or fusion of sperm and egg. Fertilization initiates development of a new organism, the beginning of the next generation. Fusion of sperm and egg, known as sexual reproduction, is the main means of reproduction on ea...