Is it normal for males to hump another male?

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Sometimes one of my guinea pigs follows the other one everywhere and keeps attempting to hump him, is this normal? He's normally the subservient one as well which seems a contradiction. Apart from this they are really bonded, never fight.
 
I think it's a dominance thing. My boys do it too. Actually, my girls do it sometimes :)
 
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Sometimes one of my guinea pigs follows the other one everywhere and keeps attempting to hump him, is this normal? He's normally the subservient one as well which seems a contradiction. Apart from this they are really bonded, never fight.
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mine do this too and its the quiet one who does the mounting so I guess its their way of working out whos the boss, :)p
 
TOTALLY! whee had two boars as our first pigglies..............

ahhhhh the beginning of a TOTAL LOVE x) for me :)

they love to be the boss........... it sometimes takes time for them to do this......... other times....they can be overly dominant!

whee had as our first piggies two gorgeous boys (Sully and Duke) and yes Duke was the dominator..........he humped poor Sully heaps :{
now knowing what i do (and still learning!) i'd try again to bond.......... we made basic mistakes......... but then also sometimes they just don't get together...............
BUT our two boys lived so happily together beside each other thru their divider......chatting away ..........:)

i would still to this day ............ have boars again x)
 
Walter did this to William when i first moved William in and i thought it was a dominance thing, occasionally now Walter will chase William around their hutch trying to mount him but he never makes it.
 
my poor dyl was out on the grass today with his new baby brother and Arnie just jumped on his head and went for it and when he jumped off dyls hair was sticking up:)) it was funny but i felt so sorry as dylan was like what just happened there and carried on eating.
 
My pigs do it all the time. Boys and girls. The girls just get confused, I think rolleyes Nelson 'humps' Freddie, but he doesn't mean anything by it. He's just daft.

Perfectly normal!
 
Yep very normal behaviour, especially for those establishing dominance.
 
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