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Why does kissing feel good? Certain tribes around the world just don't make out, anthropologists say. While 90 percent of humans actually do kiss, 10 percent have no idea what they're missing. Others believe kissing is indeed an instinctive behavior, and cite animals' kissing-like behaviors as proof. While most animals rub noses with each other as a gesture of affection, others like to pucker up just like humans.
Bonobos, for example, make up tons of excuses to swap some spit. They do it to make up after fights, to comfort each other, to develop social bonds, and sometimes for no clear reason at all — just like us. What is important with lip-on-lip kissing and other types of kissing is that the moment is about sharing close, intimate information about each other.
Kissing by pressing our lips together is an almost uniquely human behaviour. If kissing has an evolutionary purpose, why don't we see more animals kissing?
One of the reasons we might have been compelled to get up close to the face of a partner is to give them a good sniff.
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