Male chimps prefer more mature and experienced females over fresh and young ones. That is according to the study conducted by Boston University's Martin Muller, an American anthropologist. Apparently, after a year of observation, he concluded that male chimpanzees consistently chose older females among a troop of female chimps to be their screw buddy of sorts. Female chimps reached sexual maturity when they are about 10 years old.

So what if male chimps want to go after older females? Well, this discovery suggests that socialization has a larger role in male-female relations, especially when compared and contrasted with the sexual taste of humans. Muller adds that "the masculine preference for young woman is a derived human trait, probably due to the tendency to form long-term relationships between couples".

No wonder some primatologists think that chimps may not be that clever. But then again, experience counts for something, we suppose.