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Re: Responsible Hunting (was Re: We are what we eat. Or is that "whom we eat?")
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:11:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
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> > > > Deer don't have recreational sex,
> > >
> > > Cite.
> >
> > Show me a deer copulating outside of the hormone driven mating season. You • won't
> > find one, unless some researcher is playing with deer hormones (which points • back
> > to deer not having the control humans do).
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> OK, I guess I have two comments to this, but I want them to come after first
> noting that I agree with the general gist of this.
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> One thing, is that we may have lucked into not being hormonally ruled WRT our
> mating habits. I remain unconvinced that this has to be the case for us to be
> the intelligent species. Anyone know how it is for the monkeys that most
> resemble the species from which we evolved? Or with primates in general? Do
> they have cycles of estrus, or do they mate whenever?
I'm not sure of their exact evolutionary similarity, but the Bonobos chimps
demonstrate a considerable sex drive and incorporate sexual play into their
everyday social structure. In addition, several Victorian-era zoos found it
unacceptable to display human-similar primates that spent a good deal of their
time copulating in the most unseemly fashion! My source, by the way, is the
very cool book "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Sagan and Druyan.
Dave!
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