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Goddamn, if we’re the ones with the enormous brains, how come that gorilla figured out life so much better?
by bee_rider 2y ago
Goddamn, if we’re the ones with the enormous brains, how come that gorilla figured out life so much better?
- _jab 2y agoIs fathering 28 offspring your idea of a better life?
- tough 2y 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 2y 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 2y agoYes, I would have as many children as I could afford to comfortably raise.
- sandworm101 2y agoAssuming a stable population, if some males are fathering dozens of offspring, the bulk of males are probably fathering zero. Are those males still part of society or are then shunned/killed? What does the life of a not-dominant male look like? One who isn't the king's favorite?
- colechristensen 2y agoMost people's obituaries sound like that. It reads in exactly the same tone as you'd get for an obit of a small town mayor, CEO, or really any leader.
- jajko 2y agoYes but those would be often omitting some proper personal shit from their lives. We don't (need to) do such things for gorilla pack leader. If you properly look around and sometimes go deeper than pleasant very few people are uncritically good people from various angles.
- selbyk 2y agoNor are animals.
- colechristensen 2y ago>We don't (need to) do such things for gorilla pack leader. Need to? Maybe not. But I can imagine the folks who studied these animals feeling a similar sort of attachment and desire to portray positivity in writing a gorilla obituary.