2006-12-22 14:34:18 · 15 answers · asked by KENNY T 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Not in the way humans do. Animals consider our elaborate ceremonies stupid. Most weddings are preformed with no one but the bride, groom and sometimes a friend or preist. Witnesses and a preist aren't required since animals have no goverment or organized religion.
2006-12-22 15:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by Licca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No animals get technically "married", but there are some animals
(some breeds of macaws and all wolves) that are monogamous, which means that they only have one mate in their entire lives.
In many animals though, the male just goes to mate with the female and moves on. There is a extremely high chance that that one couple will never see, or mate with eachother again.
2006-12-23 00:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by EyeHeartSnakes1259 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is a social ceremony conveying certain sexual and social rights and responsibilities on those being married.
Yes some animals mate for life, but this is not just a social thing.
Some males have sex and leave while others stay to look after their mate or the young (Male penguins get to stand on Antartic ice floes for the Winter looking after the egg). So this is similar to the responsibilities of marriage.
Mating ceremonies are often social, allowing one male to have exclusive sexual access to one or more females.
Sometimes males become part of a complex social arrangement, such as a Pride of Lions.
If we were looking for something akin to marriage we would want to look at primates. Here we see one Alpha or dominant male with many female partners. He has exclusive sexual access to them, controls the social group and so on. While this is not exactly equivalent to modern marriage, such social organisation has been common throughout human history and is still present in many cultures (eg Mormons).
2006-12-22 22:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by flingebunt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is a human concept.
It was invented by the man to keep women down, you know? We women must RISE UP AGAINST THE MALE TYRANNY AND CEASE THIS EVIL RITUAL KNOWN AS "MARRIAGE"!!!
But no, seriously, only humans "marry". Some animals mate for life, which can almost be called marriage, but it's not legal and they don't have a ceremony.
2006-12-22 22:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by No one important 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some animals mate for life, but I think they skip the legal stuff.
2006-12-22 22:42:06 · answer #5 · answered by man_of_mustard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahaha, sorry for laughing but its sound funny... but no animals do not get married, they mate and have kids but they do not get married, get that out of your head!
2006-12-22 22:57:13 · answer #6 · answered by fire.kisser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no and some animals even mate and then move on to a new mate and never return to mate with the mate they have previously had
2006-12-22 22:37:21 · answer #7 · answered by shorty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not for real But maybe in a kids imagination But thats not real.
2006-12-22 22:38:33 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ Jennie ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like yeah
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4347164980528834281&q=marry+animal&hl=en
2006-12-22 22:37:08 · answer #9 · answered by TheApocalypticOrgasm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they get married and divorced, I have seen it on Jerry Springer
2006-12-22 22:45:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋