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(...) The way I read this, it sounds like you think the critters know that reproduction is the outcome of their sex act. I don't think that's so. I agree that it's instinctually and hormonally driven, but I think the female allows and the male (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote in message news:37384BDE.5D9568...uri.edu... (...) females (...) of most (...) "heat". (...) I think that Ed is writing in a style that is used when discussing evolutionary life strategy. An (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This _may_ be, and I understand the style and its purpose, but since the conversation is about personal motivation for animals to engage in homosexual behavior, that frame of reference is inappropriate. (...) Are you asserting this, or are you (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote in message news:3739A6C9.4D7137...uri.edu... (...) the (...) Hardly. The original hypothesis floated here was that animals engage in homosexual behavior, thus humans have some sort of natural (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<3739A6C9.4D71376@cc...souri.edu> <FBMy2u.Hy4@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I missed the point (I guess) that this is the derivitave of 'natural' justification for homosexuality. That (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, all animals have emotions. Mammals have much more sofisticated emotions than, say, lizards though. If the Discovery channel re-runs the show 'Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry', check it out. It was extremely informative about the (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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