That's kind of interesting about the promiscuous apes, are you saying
that they're homosexual? I think that bit about the lack of violence
may be a little far fetched. Recently it has been brought to the
publics attention that information involving violent behavior of
primates has been squelched and supressed to some degree. I remember
reading somewhere that non human primates had a 1000 fold higher
amount of primate-acide than humans. I guess you can't use the word
murder because that would show a certain degree of intention.
Keith
On 10 Mar 1997 18:20:32 GMT, foster at cs.uidaho.edu (James Foster)
wrote:
>Keith Christoffers (christkh at umdnj.edu) wrote:
>>: Is there any species that you know of in which such a phenomenon is
>: present. Do you see homosexual apes aiding in the copulation of
>: heterosexual apes? I don't know, it's not a loaded question.
>>Promiscuous behavior is very common with bonobo's (aka pygmy
>chimpanzis). It is a form of social bonding. Interestingly, bonobos
>are far less agressive (aka violent) in the wild than the other two
>species of chimpanzi: common chimps and humans. If I remember my
>cladistics correctly, the bonobos are the species of apes most closely
>related to humans, and their social organization is the most
>well-developed of all non-human primates (can anyone confirm this?).
>>Also, remember that homosexual animals may not copulate with
>heterosexual animals...and still be homosexual. Humans homosexuals,
>for example, often copulate primarilly with other human homosexuals.
>--
>James A. Foster email: foster at cs.uidaho.edu>Laboratory for Applied Logic Dept. of Computer Science
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