Animal Nature vs. Human Nature

I have heard the argument before that monogamy is purely a human concept and ideal that does not in fact acutally exist and is not natural, but something humans have created out of some sense of need and that it is really irrational for a person to really exepct two people to stay together only with that one person for the rest of thier life, and of course the monogamy goes against basic nature is an excuse that I have heard used by cheaters, but this is all a bunch of marleky and so I thought I would debunk this sorry attempt for an excuse and get a few things clear, as I am quite tired of people using the "its not natural" excuse for things, when that is complete nonsense and the person does not know what they are talking about.

Animals are infact more like people then one would think, or perhaps it is the other way around, and it is people that are more like animals then they would like to admit, and just like in humans, in the animal kingdom there are those whom are sutited to from monogmous pairs, and those that are not suited for it, but indeed monogmoy is very much a part of nature.

For startes nearly every single bird species with perhaps a few exceptions here and there form monogamous pairs in which they choose one partner whom they will remain with for the rest of thier life, in fact there is even one speicies of bird, of which I wish I could remeber exzactly which one, but it slips my mind at the moment, whom, once it has taken on a mate, not only is it monogamous but if its mate should die or be killed the surviving bird will never take another mate again. And here is an intresting fact, one of the animals that is seen as perhaps the most primal and has some of the oldest roots, the crocidile does in fact live in monogomous parings. 2 crocodiles will infact stay mated to each other for the rest of thier life.

If anything, it is infact cheating that is a human created ideal, for as far as I know cheating does not exsist in nature. Animals that are not inclined to mongomy go about it in a couple of different ways, for one there are many speicies of anaimals that get together only around mating season, in order to reproduce and then part ways, in some cases the pair might stay together untill after the young if born and ready to take care of itself, and the male will remain to help take care of the female and thier offspring and then they will part to both find new partners for the next mating season, and in other cases after the female is inpregnated the male will instantly leave, or be chased away in some cases by the female.

Or in the case of pack animals such as elephants, lions, and certain seals, they will have a harem structure in which there is one alpha male whom is not bounded to a particular female but mates among all of them freely, or in the case of wolves, they have what might be called an open monogamy, in which the alpha male will take on a mate to be the alpha remale, and he will stay bonded to her the rest of his life, but now and then might mate with some of the other females in the pack, but it is not done behind the alpha females back, it is not as if the alpha male sneaks off in the woods with another female to have an affair, it is all done in plain view with the alpaha remales full awanress.

In fact as far as I know, thare are no animals in the animal kingdom as far as I know other then humans  that will form a so called monogmous paring with another, and then against the knowlege of its mate, make an effort to sneak away in order to make with other males or females while remaining "bonded" to another.

11:20 AM - 11/29/2006 - post comment

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