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Chimpanzees Exchange Meat For Sex
the_therapist writes "A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, studied chimps in the Tai Forest reserve in Ivory Coast and discovered that chimpanzees enter into 'deals' whereby they exchange meat for sex. Among the findings are that 'male chimps that are willing to share the proceeds of their hunting expeditions mate twice as often as their more selfish counterparts.' They also found this to be 'a long-term exchange, so males continue to share their catch with females when they are not fertile, copulating with them when they are.'"
I need to head to the closest butchers shop!
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
I'd rather use MY meat for sex.
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Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
There is a vegetarian girl that I'm interested in. I wonder if I'd get sex in exchange for an offering of meat?
Except the chimps don't seem to exhibit the signs of buyer's remorse.
...at a high rate of give and take.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
All the hottest chimps get fat. Seems like a bad system to me.
If you ever find such a human society, can you let us know? Thanks.
about exactly how they word their craigslist ad when they do it.
Not living in their mom's basement.
For us humans, the key thing (at least for males) is to avoid the marriage trap. Outside of marriage, the resources-for-nookie exchange holds true at market rates. Imbalances are corrected by the laws of microeconomics.
But once locked in a marriage contract, a human male MUST provide resources under penalty of law, while the female is not obligated to do...anything. The predictable result is the epidemic of sexless marriages in the U.S. and other developed countries.
So, just beware the marriage trap. It's like signing an oil futures contract where you're required to deliver oil at $12 a barrel, indefinitely. You'd be a fool to sign either a $12/bbl oil contract, or a marriage contract.
My theory was that marriage was invented by mobs of ugly men. Or maybe by alpha males that were just plain shagged out and wanted a reason to cut down on the number of wives.
Either way, it works for me!
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
I thought being high up in the chess club was a worthy display of prowess. Seems it wasn't. Who knew?
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
and there is really only one reason to take a girl out on a date....
To bribe them to set you up with another girl?
A slut sleeps with everyone, a bitch sleeps with everyone but you.
Hehehehe...I guess there are many more women lurking around slashdot than we originally thought.
You mean there are two!?!?
It's comments like this that lend a strong argument as to why the stereotype of geeks missing the punchline exists.
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That's because they keep their women silent.
Or maybe it's because female chimps are satisfied with what they have, instead of constantly demanding more and more like little bitchy princesses! (sigh). No I'm not bitter. I just have this gnawing pain in my gut until I can feel the bile rising-up into my mouth. Or maybe it's just indigestion. Anyone have a tic-tac?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
And in breaking news, researchers have discovered that rich guys who regularly walk into bars and buy everyone drinks tend to make more friends, be surrounded by more friendly women, and consequently seem to get laid more often than those lone researchers who sit all alone in the darkest, emptiest corner of the bar all night clutching a single drink and taking research notes for their anthropology thesis without actually ever talking to anybody or even making eye contact - Dammit.
Eric Baird