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To: gondramB
What animals should we act like? Black widow spiders who pull the heads of their male companions when they're having sex with the female spider?

Unless one can talk to the animals, one can't be sure of the reason they're doing the strange things they do nor is what the animals do necessarily of net benefit to human beings.

29 posted on 04/18/2006 8:21:45 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: Stepan12
"What animals should we act like? Black widow spiders who pull the heads of their male companions when they're having sex with the female spider?"

That's another reason to not get upset about these sort of studies even when they are done by real scientists. Acceptable human behavior is a different issue than what animals do. For example my cat thinks nothing of lifting his leg and licking himself when we have company.

But it is interesting to see the behavior is naturally occurring in a wide variety of species - it may play into the nature versus nurture for animal behavior debate.
31 posted on 04/18/2006 8:26:07 PM PDT by gondramB (You can always tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs - Country music saying)
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