Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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T. Cade 1957 Lemurss - behavior notes 15 June, Barrow, Alaska 1730 - Observed large adult ? asleep on top of grass. He woke up and rolled over on his back and began grooming his genital area with tongue and teeth. While doing so he ejected a fecal pellet, which he took immediately from his anus in his teeth and chewed it up and apparently ate it. He consumed 4 pellets in this fashion in quick succession, actually removing them from his anus with his teeth. Then he resumed the grooming of his ventes. In a few seconds, he erected his penis and licked the head of it with his tongue and appeared to work it over lightly with her teeth. This may have been some kind of auto-erotic behavior but as it was preceded and succeeded by grooming, it probably should be closed with that activity. He continued for some time grooming her whole body, gradually working cephalad. The whole activity lasted about 5 minutes.