Incidentally, most ethologists prefer to use baboons as ways to deduce human behavior. While they're far more distantly related to us than great apes, or even most other Old World Monkeys, they live in organizations and environments roughly analogous to those of our prehistoric ancestors.
I don't think making up is in the near future. Only a cataclysmic event will pull the country together IMO.
Heck, I think the blood's running pretty hot on FR in some circles still.
Why don't we just kiss and make up?
Because I ain't kissin' NO animals, NO guys and only ONE woman.
The nice little scene described above involving Hennie and Nickie would not have taken place among a group of Black Face Chimpanzees. Quite the contrary.
Bonobo behavior is not the rule among animals. It is the exception.
We reconcile within our own groups (tribes). Wake me when two separte packs of wolves reconcile -- unless, you consider dominance a from of letting us all just get along.
So what they are saying is that if someone comes along and beats the crap out of you, you should go to them and be all sweet so they have no consequences and learn that it is ok to walk up and beat the crap out of you and if you don't go to them and beg them to like you, that makes YOU a bad person?
Bullcrap. But then again, maybe I am part of the problem because I don't want to live like that.
[Article: “Perhaps we could learn a lesson or two from the spotted hyena.” ]
Bloody battle between lions and hyenas: Strange and spectacular, a bloody war has been waged between lions and hyenas in the lowlands of East Hararghe. According to media reports, the predators started fighting each other in the Gobele wilderness southeast of the town of Girawa in early April. What initially was thought to be a delayed April's Fool Joke has now enjoyed wide national and international media coverage. Providing updates on the territorial dispute in the animal kingdom, press and radio reports tried to ensure transparency and accountability on the development, while Ethiopian Television thrilled its viewers with breathtaking footage showing ferocious battling between the lions and hyenas. In its issue of April 20 the Ethiopian Herald said that after the situation "returned to normal", the latest death toll stood at 6 lions and 35 hyenas killed - the former obviously having won the upper-hand over the latter. According to a local villager, the lion-versus-hyena-war is an "old blood feud" going back 45 years, when a lion escaped from emperor Haile Selassie's palace menagerie in Harar and wreaked havoc on a hyena family. Ever since, the locals believe, the hyenas have waited for an opportunity to get even with the lions. (Ethiopian Herald, April 20; DPA, April 20; AFP April 19; Reuters, April 8; and other media reports.)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Hornet/hoa0399.html
DG
reminds me of one of my favorite FR topics:
Eating our own...Time to make a new start in Free Republic.
7-26-04 | Bob J
Posted on 07/26/2004 7:41:11 PM PDT by Bob J
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179142/posts