I have to wonder why another word needs to be use. No offense, what is it about that word that bothers you?



If you take the word and treat it like glue, to bond means to stick together, well then maybe your right. You know, like epoxy, is really stuck, but rubber glue is bonded but flexible.



Lets take birds, many species do bond and sometimes for life. Yet those birds don't fly everywhere together. They just come back to the same nest. You see what I mean.



You and others here want AN EXTREME Not A but Z meaning of words or actions, when in fact, in real life, they do not occur.



For instance, I say they are bonded, and your responce will be, so they never part. Who fuggin cares if they part once in a while, or even stay and get some somewhere else, the point is, they return to eachother and are together year after year, by their own choice.



So much of whats written does not match with whats now being observed. For instance, the dominate male syndrone. Its huey. I have rattlesnake congregations what have huge males, but I will find a tiny male breeding a female, within inches of the big dominate male. And man is that thing dominate. Just not with breeding.



Also, when one of a pair fails to show up, the other does not run off seaching for another mate. They stay and wait for the mate to show up, and if it doesn't they stay there all season.



Your right thought, bonding is measure by how much and how long the pair stays together. Not just to copulate.



Back to nature, with every copulation we have ever seen, the pair stayed in attendance with eachother for months.



The problem is how you work your animals. If you kept them in groups the "bonded" pair could stay together for long periods, but thats very hard to observe when you put the male in two weeks after the first shed, or the day after the second shed, and pull him out as soon as hes done his backside business. You see, your controlling your own observations.



What is odd is you shoot down others yet have done nothing to actually have it occur. Explain that to me please.

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