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FR
at Sat Jul 7 12:29:09 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
First of all, no one every said, ALL do anything, its very clear, animals, all animals have many stradgies to accomplish the goal of exsistance.
Your answer can be found with birds or other animals as well, why do they do it?? That answer is very simple, it works.
I would think its fairly common sense that having a reliable approach to reproduction if possible would be a good thing. I would think that having to find nesting areas and new mates every year is rather questionable and does not make much sense at all. Particularly when you don't have legs, which means, your not going to go far.
I would also think a varied stradgy of reliable recruitment, same pairs or gourps, PLUS wandering individuals with unreliable recruitment would be a great advantage under conditions that vary.
If I was you, I would think about how animals "know" what they are and what other animals? They do not read books or watch TV. Or have the internet, google is unknown to them.
Simply put, a kingsnake from one area, does not know that a kingsnake is from another area, how would it. You see, they did not name themselves, we did and they don't talk to us. not at all.
This is the effect of the great Human ego. Even the good ones, everything we think is based on US. Even the term cannibilism is silly, what is it. Consuming your own, but if its not your own, its not cannibilism. Early or tribal man did not consider other tribes man. They were the OTHER, and they did not seperate man from animals. So eating other tribes was simply eating other animals. Same for kingsnakes.
Science has failed to investigate how snakes recongize their own? But that is changing..
Sorry for the rant but its to make the point that these animals name eachother based on how they treat eachother. not by what we call them.
Its what I call prejudiced, WE have a mindset that these animals are indeed a product of what we want them to be, but they are not. They are what they are. Our words mean nothing.
Cheers
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RE: The subject of bonding - FR, Sat Jul 7 12:29:09 2012
