Weasal and Chameleone share a kiss in Burundi on stage, again

Over the weekend, Weasal and Chameleone flew into Burundi for a concert at Van Beach Hotel. At some point during Chameleone's session, the two brothers shared a kiss and later on posted the picture with the caption "Forever and Ever".

What is so special about kissing anyway?

According to BBC future, Lip-on-lip kissing is not as universal as people think. However, the various ways of engaging in this intimate act shows what many people find as valuable. The study was conducted on 168 cultures around the world, almost half of the global population kiss with their lips.

Chameleone at Burundi concert Pulse

A professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada found that only 45% kiss for romantic reasons except for parent-child greeting and kissing.

"Two theories for why humans have a need to kiss stem from the idea that as babies we have an innate liking for lip touching. In one case, it might be that we associate lip touching with breastfeeding, and that reflex is innate in everyone."

There is also a suggestion that mothers and their children bond over lip-on-lip kissing because of something called "premastication food transfer". The mothers of our ancient ancestors might have pre-chewed our food for us in our early years, and transferred it directly into our mouths.

Weasal before take off for Burundi Pulse

"But I think the key to the human universal of kissing, or the absence of it, is that people's sensuality can be met in many ways other than just kissing," Professor Jankowiak says.

Other ways people enjoy intimacy

Those cultures that do not kiss lip on lip find other ways to be intimate, says author Sheril Kirshenbaum. "There's the Malay kiss that Darwin described, where women would squat down on the ground and men would kind of hang over them and take a quick sniff of each other – take a sample of their partner’s scent."

Weasal at the concert Pulse

On the Trobriand Islands, off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, lovers kiss by sitting face to face and nibbling at each other's eyelashes. 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.

Evolutionary purpose?

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?

Weasal and Pallaso Pulse

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. Scent can reveal all sorts of useful information: diet, presence of disease, mood and relatedness, to name some. Many animals have far more sophisticated senses of smell than we do, so they don’t have to be nearly as close."

Weasal, Chameleone and friend Pulse

This is the third time the brothers are involved in kissing situations. The first time happened in November 2016 at a local concert around town when, during a stage performance shuffle, the two kissed.

Same thing happened earlier this years in March during a family reunion, when Weasal quickly kissed brother Pallaso.