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Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship
- apt-apt-apt-apt 1y ago"For example, our study found that strong and stable social bonds are generally linked to less illness in female gorillas -- but more illness in males. ... the stress of this may reduce their immune function."" Ah, this must explain why I have rarely been sick these days.
- N2yhWNXQN3k9 1y ago> Ah, this must explain why I have rarely been sick these days. Because you are a gorilla?
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoThis doesn't answer the question we're all wondering..
- bee_rider 1y agoThis time the gorillas have friends. 100 gorillas could definitely kill an unarmed dude. Actually one Dunbar number of gorillas vs one Dunbar number of humans could be a good spin on this meme.
- thrownblown 1y ago100 gorillas could definitely kill the most well armed dude
- thaumasiotes 1y agoArmaments have a pretty high top end. If I'm armed with a missile-launching submarine, I'm confident that 100 gorillas will never be able to touch me.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoI think they were probably limiting armaments to things you could carry in your arms. Which would make it a lot harder.
- bee_rider 1y agoI could carry a bicycle, a backpack of bullets, and some kind of rifle… I think it really depends on the specifics of the scenario (how far apart do we start and is it flat ground?)
- bee_rider 1y agoWe’d have to set some bounds here. I think one guy would have trouble operating a submarine. Tanks are typically crewed of course… but in theory, a guy could patiently go around and man every station… I wonder if 100 sufficiently motivated gorillas could damage a tank from the outside.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoIf you want to consider armaments that are routinely crewed by one guy, a bomber will have the same property of being easily capable of killing all 100 gorillas at the same time that they lack the ability to even try to attack it.
- bee_rider 1y agoYah. My main answer is a man on a bicycle with a rifle and a backpack full of bullets. Somehow having a powered vehicle seems against the spirit of the thing, although really is it just a fundamentally silly topic anyway!
- chasil 1y agoLife really answers that question for you. If you are successful and established, friendship often means obligation. Money, skill, resources and effort are requested, sometimes politely, sometimes not. If you are not successful and established, finding someone to engage in this relationship can provide significant advantage. Some might say "a real friend would not ask such things, what you speak of are fairweather friends." I would reply, "have you ever found your perfect equal in a friendship?" I haven't. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fair-weather_friend https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fair-weather_friend
- thrownblown 1y agoA real friend will help me fight a gorilla whether there are 100 of us or not
- bluefirebrand 1y agoWhen you say "I could fight that Gorilla on my own no problem", a real friend would say "yeah you definitely could, but I got your back"
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoThe only one who got it lmao.
- N2yhWNXQN3k9 1y ago> have you ever found your perfect equal in a friendship In my experience, if you somehow keep some of your close friends that you had early in life, some of them end up eerily similar to you late in life.
- chasil 1y agoI am working towards being an expatriate in my retirement, so that really isn't an option.
- N2yhWNXQN3k9 1y ago
- wonderwonder 1y ago100 men win. But some of them aren't going to make it
- klank 1y agoThe stories of Maggie, Titus, and Cantsbee were poignant and I found worth reading to reflect on our own humanity. I recommend reading for that reason alone.
- standardUser 1y ago> Cantsbee, also a silverback, led his group for 22 years -- the longest dominance tenure ever recorded -- and fathered at least 28 offspring. He was known for his authoritative but peaceful nature, rarely initiating or entering fights, but was quick to protect others and resolve conflicts in the group. He had a particularly close relationship with his son Gicurasi, whose mother left when he was young, and who eventually took over leadership of the group in Cantsbee's final years. When Cantsbee later became ill, he chose to leave the group, spending his final months alone, except for one brief visit to the group shortly before his death. This last paragraph is almost hidden by the ads, but worth reading.
- bee_rider 1y agoGoddamn, if we’re the ones with the enormous brains, how come that gorilla figured out life so much better?
- _jab 1y agoIs fathering 28 offspring your idea of a better life?
- tough 1y agoat least that gorilla seemed more caring of his 28 offspring and his community than say some billionaire's obsessed with having children...
- bee_rider 1y agoI dunno. I’m not sure how to calibrate that to human standards—I’m sure gorilla parenting is not quite as involved as human parenting.
- dyauspitr 1y agoYes, I would have as many children as I could afford to comfortably raise.
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- 55555 1y ago“Can’t we move past that and be friends again?” “Dude you ate my newborn baby.”