Why is man the only animal on the planet that needs a haircut and shave ?

Answer 1

Wow. 29 respondents and none of them gave the correct answer.

In many individuals, head hair and/or beard hair grows indefinitely, as contrasted with other animals, in which hair growth stops after it reaches a certain point. We lack inherent hair length limits because they have evolved away, and they have evolved away because we do not need them, because our ancestors have been cutting their beards and head hair with sharp stones for tens of thousands of years. The minisucule evolutionary advantage of being able to have long hair evidently won out over the now-unnecessary advantage of having inherent limits.

Answer 2

We don't NEED haircuts/shaves; it's just that what started as a masochistic practise (shaving) or ritualistic (hair cut) has become mainstream, and there are cultural pressures to conform.

We could jolly well have normal lives without ever shaving or having a hair cut; Sikh men, for example, do that and they are successful in every field of live just like anybody else. Having haircuts, or shaving are not needs.

Answer 3

Because thaat's what culture dictates. It's interesting how many cultures have placed people with wild unshorn hair and unshaven faces in a more animalistic category, or at least a less "civilized" category than others. For example, in The Epic of Gilgamesh, the character Enkidu is portrayed as more animal-like until he has sex with a woman and cuts his hair. In popular American culture, part of the essentialist stereotype of traditional Native Americans is the characteristic of being "closer" to nature, or being on a closer level to the "natural" world than more "civilized" and technologized and Europeanized whites and others. An important part of this stereotype is long, flowing hair, maybe tied with feathers.

Answer 4

Were the only animal that is so far advanced mentally that we notice that we look better with haircuts and shaves. Other animals don't care.

Answer 5

Actually he isn't - a man does not NEED a haircut or a shave - he CHOOSES to have them in the name of cleanliness etc.

Answer 6

Sheep get sheared! Man doesn't need to shave, but they shave in order to attract a mate

Answer 7

Sheep need shaving. There was this one in NZ that ran away and escaped the shears for something like seven years and when they found it it looked like a moving wool mountain.

Answer 8

We don't need to shave. We choose to. We could go around all hairy like other animals, but we have decided that we look stupid and so shave ourselves regularly.

Answer 9

Sheep need shaving!
though apart from us and sheep, i dont think there's any others coz their hair naturally falls out in summer

Answer 10

You don't Need tham, you Want them, and they're availble to you. And to a Yorkshire, and a Siamese cat, or you could shave a sheep or two....