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Female vervet monkeys manipulate males into fighting battles by lavishing attention on brave soldiers while giving noncombatants the cold shoulder, researchers said on Wednesday.
After a skirmish with a rival gang, usually over food, females would groom males that had fought hardest, while snapping at those that abstained.
When the next battle came along, both those singled out for attention and those aggressively shunned would participate more vigorously in combat, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [Paywalled, abstract only]
Female grooming and aggression "both appear to function as social incentives that effectively promote male participation in intergroup fights", a research team from Switzerland and South Africa reported.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @08:08AM
This story is red meat for pathetic red pillars.
Given the abysmal levels of sociological knowledge here, there isn't much more value to this than provoking a reaction from the dry-dicked among us.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday November 25 2016, @12:41PM
What sociological knowledge? It's monkeys.
As for humans, violent death had to have been as common for males as death during child-labor was for women. Otherwise, monogamy wouldn't work. That leaves either hunting or warfare.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @04:43PM
Modern monkeys generally opt for welfare.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @01:41PM
This story is red meat for pathetic red pillars.
Given the abysmal levels of sociological knowledge here, there isn't much more value to this than provoking a reaction from the dry-dicked among us.
Given the abysmal levels of any domain-specific knowledge here, there shouldn't be much value to any discussion on this website by your standards. Why exactly are you here then?
Or are you just using shaming language to shut down a conversation whose implications make you uncomfortable? Funny how it's feminists always whining how other people are trying to stop them from talking, yet they are the first to try to shut down those whom they object to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 25 2016, @06:30PM
Oh man, have you seen the fallout from this?
http://theredpillmovie.com/ [theredpillmovie.com]
(Score: 2, Touché) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday November 25 2016, @02:11PM
Only a homophobic asshole would assume that people who don't have sex with women aren't having sex at all.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Francis on Friday November 25 2016, @05:18PM
LOL, obvious troll is obvious.
Anyways, there's a reason why men are refusing to marry women. Mostly that women tend to suck at marriage. Gay men have the best success rates for marriage and lesbians have the worst with heterosexual couples being somewhere in the middle with the women involved initiating divorces twice as often as men.
Seems the reasonable inference here is that women just suck at marriage. Either marriage proper or choosing somebody to marry.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:31AM
Francis! Stop it! It is alright! Not all males are you! Many of us are perfectly happy with our perfect wives, Stepford Husbands, if you will. What is your problem? Are you saying you want to get gay married? Sorry, I am already taken. But your misogynist rant could use some citations, or it just makes you look like a red-pillared dry-dick, if you know what I mean. (And, postscript, if women sucked in marriage, it would be even better! )
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:19AM
Did you see this? [imdb.com]
(Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:23AM
LOL, more aristarchus trollery. You'd have more credibility if your posts were occasionally well-informed or had some actual credibility.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:01AM
My Dear Francis, I do not seek credibility. I only want to see you post comments that contribute to SoylentsNews! You know, by bringing up things that you actually know, with the citations to back it up. I know you can do it. But first you have to pull you head out of your own ass. Men do not want to marry women? Speak for yourself! In fact, hetero marriages vastly outnumber same-sex marriages, not that there is anything wrong with that, and divorce rates are at an all time low. ]
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So, your assertion tells us, as usual, much more about yourself than it does about the state of the universe. Here is the hard thing to grasp, Francis. No one is all that interested in what you think, what you feel, what you have been through. Yes, it is cruel, I know, but it is the way of the world. If you were to be able to post a comment that connected to persons beyond your own experience, well, that would be great! And if you could post something that could connect to those people, and make them see in a way they had not seen before, that would be marvelous! This is what you are here for, Francis! You are a Soylentil, born of the fire of Slashdot Beta, forged in the give and take of free debate, and you should not go silently into the night! But to do that, you need to post better, bro! More facts, less about what you do not know, convincing points. Every once in a while I do sense greatness in you, you have the aptitude, you just need to develop the skill. So please, Francis, make me proud.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:54PM
Go away radical left. Wasn't it enough for you to get Nixon and now Trump elected?
You bring about absolutely zero valuable change that cooler heads can't make and you ruin everything. You're the brush that the much larger radical right uses to paint every liberal cause. Just accept you ruin everything and find a new hobby