Hi, When your talking behavior(ethology) you need to understand what that means. First it means, tendencies and trends. It does not ever mean All and always.

With animals,(and people) social training occurs at birth. Any social animal raised alone, becomes socially problematic. Again, including people. So your first mistake is, you raised them alone. Therefore, you have no reason to ever think they will socialize normally. Back to behavior, they still can. Isn't behavior cool? Behavior has soft rules, not hard fast rules.

When raised with other animals, its more then simple bonding with a mate. IT teaches them how to live with other individuals and WHICH other individuals to trust. Out of that, normally they pick a mate to bond with.
When they Bond with a mate they were raised with, they are totally trustworthy. Two individuals that you introduced at a late age, they do not bond to the same degree, they may breed and not eat eachother, yet. Pairs introduced in the beginning of winter, are more trustworthy then those introduced in spring, etc etc. Folks its all by degree.

So can they be kept together without bonding, yes sometimes. But that's not the problem. The problem is, when they do not tolerate eachother, like your experiencing now. If they are normal, the above applies, end part 1

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• Female cal king trying to eat male... - AaronBayer, Tue Mar 18 18:15:17 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 19:20:44 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - thomas davis, Tue Mar 18 19:49:29 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - DISCERN, Tue Mar 18 20:45:54 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 22:46:49 2014
• continued - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 22:47:39 2014
• RE: continued - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 23:07:13 2014
• RE: continued - AaronBayer, Wed Mar 19 09:13:18 2014
• RE: continued - Bluerosy, Wed Mar 19 11:45:53 2014
• RE: More about this subject - FR, Sun Mar 23 08:28:54 2014
• RE: continued - FR, Wed Mar 19 19:48:02 2014
• RE: continued - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 20 10:44:34 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - thomas davis, Wed Mar 19 23:09:40 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - JonathanI, Sat Mar 22 17:10:48 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Sat Mar 22 17:32:22 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - FR, Mon Mar 24 18:20:56 2014
• FR - AaronBayer, Tue Mar 25 09:12:52 2014
• thanks for the quick replies so far - AaronBayer, Tue Mar 18 21:17:34 2014
• RE: thanks for the quick replies so far - DISCERN, Tue Mar 18 21:18:55 2014
• RE: thanks for the quick replies so far - markg, Fri Mar 21 14:41:01 2014
• RE: thanks for the quick replies so far - AaronBayer, Fri Mar 21 15:01:15 2014
• Proper bonding - Bluerosy, Fri Mar 21 16:25:21 2014
• RE: Proper bonding - markg, Sun Mar 23 20:30:24 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - mikefedzen, Wed Mar 19 00:22:55 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Wed Mar 19 00:49:21 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - mikefedzen, Thu Mar 20 03:19:10 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 20 10:51:18 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - rtdunham, Mon Apr 21 14:10:51 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - AaronBayer, Wed Mar 19 09:01:06 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - FR, Wed Mar 19 16:27:34 2014
• RE part 2, abnormal - FR, Wed Mar 19 16:38:40 2014
• RE: RE part 3, female behavior - FR, Wed Mar 19 16:50:53 2014
• RE: a side note - FR, Wed Mar 19 17:09:31 2014
• Update - AaronBayer, Thu Mar 20 19:07:20 2014
• RE: Update - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 20 19:35:37 2014
• RE: Update - FR, Sat Mar 22 09:48:42 2014
• RE: Update - Bluerosy, Sat Mar 22 12:00:01 2014