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Fourcats--- Such behavior from gorillas and other apes is more about being
imprisoned in an unnatural setting and their reaction to it than it is about how they behave in a natural setting. I truly believe that similar deviant behavior occurs in cities (everything from rudeness to rape and murder) because so many people are "imprisoned" there.
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Jazwolf
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June 11, 2006
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passionflower - never mind all that. i just realized you were talking
about mothers in particular, not just habits per se. carry on and don't mind me!
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fourcats
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actually, passionflower, there are lots of calculatingly cruel wild things
in the world. for instance, the cuckoo bird lays her eggs in other birds nests. when all birds hatch, the baby cuckoos push the other hatchlings out of the nests to their deaths so that the cuckoos get all the food. and of course, we've all seen a kitty torment a mouse. when i lived in san diego i would spend time at the zoo. many's the day i would while my time watching the humans watch the apes, including a female gorilla quietly sitting on one hand. when the crowd was at full fence capacity, a handful of gorilla feces would be hurled from the female's perch, head high, the feces held together with straw bits sticking out at all angles.
we humans are a sick bunch, no doubt about it, but we're not alone.
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fourcats
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June 11, 2006
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Very cool story. Birds are definitely one of the types of animals
one should attempt to help if harmed.
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brettnik
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June 7, 2006
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Jazwolf...I think there are alot of animals like this who we would normally
not consider "smart". Yestereday, I observed a mother duck with 8 ducklings in the water. 2 ducklings kept slowing up and the mother would go back and hurry them along with the othe 6 marched (swam) in a straight line.
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Sturgis
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June 6, 2006
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I often observe that mothers of the animal kingdom
Are much more loving, nurturing mothers than human mothers. We also like to say that people "live like dogs" or someone was "raised by wolves".
But the truth is that dogs and wolves won't live in filth and squallor if they can help it. They take care of their young. They won't purposely harm one another without cause.
Only MAN is that cruel, violent and selfish.
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Passionflower
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June 6, 2006
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