To say that the most shameless, most promiscuous, and most shameless animal in the animal kingdom today should belong to the close relative bonobo . Although bonobos are genetically closest to humans and have higher IQs than other animals, their living habits make people disagree, because in their lives, apart from foraging and sleeping, mating is the only entertainment , And every day, this kind of shameful deeds are happening all the time. This is the scene of a large number of unsuitable children in the bonobo group.
Scientists have been studying, why do bonobos have such promiscuity? From the perspective of genetic evolution, bonobos are the animals closest to humans. Bonobos should not be the most shameless animals in terms of IQ or behavior. However, in fact, nature has created the current situation of bonobos. They have become insensitive and unscrupulous about mating, and have even reached a level of madness. In addition to mating between opposite sexes, the same-sex mating behavior of bonobos is even more rampant, which is really amazing.
The explanation given by scientists for this inexplicable chaotic mating behavior is very reluctant. Scientists believe that the fertility rate of bonobos is very low, and it usually takes 6 years for female bonobos to be pregnant. Once, not only was the chance of pregnancy being very low, it was also very weak in fertility, and it could only give birth to one cub per child. In order to allow the population to continue to develop and expand the size of the population, bonobos have to adopt frequent mating methods to increase the probability of conception. This fertility strategy of winning through numbers can maintain the continuous development and reproduction of chimpanzees.
This explanation of scientists can only give people an illusion that the bonobo must increase the number of pregnancy of bonobos by accidental pregnancy, and increase the population in this way. quantity.This is also why bonobos use frequent mating to achieve the possibility of unintended pregnancy. Through a large-scale increase in the number, with a certain probability of winning, it is likely to increase some fertility rates. This may also be the population. The only way to multiply and develop.
Bonobos are difficult to get pregnant. It is the result of tens of millions of years of continuous evolution. The main problem is the female bonobos. Their special reproductive structure and physical development process make them have to wait. It takes six years to get pregnant again. This kind of long wait will make the bonobos have a very limited number of cubs in their lives. Female bonobos who can give birth to two or three births are already regarded as glorious mothers, especially in such harsh nature. It is not an easy task to raise the scarce number of bonobo cubs, and for this reason, the population of bonobos has not been increased on a large scale.
Faced with the result of this natural evolution, bonobos have no other scientifically feasible solution. What they can do is to greatly increase the frequency of mating, and even regard mating as the only content of their entertainment life. Almost all adult bonobos mate several times a day, and they practice a chaotic mating system of polygamy. There is no fixed mating partner. Under this complicated background, The purpose is only to hope that through the screening function of the best selection, strong and healthy sperm can be won, and the female bonobo can be conceived as soon as possible, and the reproduction of the next generation can be accelerated.
Some people may regard the frequent mating phenomenon of bonobos as a kind of indecent and humble animals. But in the long process of biological evolution, this bonobo has undergone countless natural selections and eliminations. Their only ability to retain and promote population development is to create more birth opportunities by increasing the frequency of mating. Every choice in nature is forced to be helpless. This is the result of natural evolution. For the bonobos themselves, they cannot reverse this situation at all, let alone find a more suitable solution.Out of the instinct of this animal, all they can do is to try their best to increase the number of such matings.
Facing promiscuity in the animal kingdom, we should never criticize human morality, and we should not use human morality to measure whether animal behavior is scientifically appropriate. Every animal has its own way of survival and its own evolutionary development process. If we only see the situation before us, and ignore their evolutionary process that lasts for tens of millions of years, we ignore this important Background, judging their current behavior arbitrarily is neither scientific nor fair. And as human beings with advanced civilizations, many of us also show abnormal chaos in their lives. Even in a modern and civilized metropolis, how could this chaos be less? Shouldn't we humans ask ourselves? (The picture comes from the Internet)
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