Sadly for other primates, that’s not entirely accurate. (Not that it takes away from her larger point)
As described in his excellent book A Primate’s Memoir Robert Sapolsky spent years following around a group of baboons, studying their social interactions and taking regular blood samples to measure stress hormones. He described one disturbing account of a male who, fresh off of an angry encounter with another male, then went and attacked a female, forcing himself upon her when she clearly wasn’t physically or mentally prepared to mate, injuring her in the process. (With female baboons there are visible physical changes present around mating time). Despite biologists generally avoiding the use of the term for non-humans, he felt that “rape” was the only appropriate word for what he saw. And in that case it was clearly about male anger and asserting control over others, not procreation.
So yeah, other primates can be just like us, in all the wrong ways.
