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And did they mention what happens to the 80+% of males that dont make it to silverback status? Few like to talk about the darker sides of gorilla life. As for
by sandworm101 5mo ago
And did they mention what happens to the 80+% of males that dont make it to silverback status? Few like to talk about the darker sides of gorilla life.
As for teaching cultures, it isnt about IQ. Cats and dogs teach thier young, both wild and domesticated species.
- Mistletoe 5mo ago[flagged]
- gloflo 5mo agoYou did not check, you let a text generator generate plausible sounding text.
- Mistletoe 5mo agoAnd that text generator has time and time again given me accurate enough results that I trust it like Wikipedia now. Is the answer wrong?
- sandworm101 5mo agoDude. That is an AI, disney-acceptable version of non-reality.
- internet_points 5mo agoand raptors teach their young to catch prey
- amelius 5mo agoYes, we should highlight failures (if you can call it that) more, not just when talking about apes but with ourselves as well. Otherwise we're prone to survivorship bias.
- sandworm101 5mo agoThese are not failures. Failure to reproduce does not mean they do not contribute to their society. If that were true, the male/female ratio would have evolved differently.
- dmurray 5mo agoThis doesn't follow. In animal societies where males are useless apart from their reproductive value, males are still produced at approximately 1:1. This is evolution optimizing for the reproductive success of the individual, not of the population, and is called Fisher's Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle