((non-human animals))
If so, does this mean that cheating is natural?
If not, does this mean animals have higher moral standards than humans?
2007-12-18 07:13:04 · 16 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Swans, those paragons of faithfulness, sometimes DO cheat. And they go to great lengths to conceal it.
That's the only one I know, though.
2007-12-18 07:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
Do Animals Mate For Life
2016-12-08 13:03:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
11-T - unless the animals take vows, which they might, they aren't cheating.
Some animals most definitely have higher moral standards than humans - there are some pretty poor examples of animals in mankind.
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I'm actually Dr Doolittle, so I'm very familiar with the various vows and ceremonies conducted in the animal kingdom - and those Swans are a testy bunch.
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2007-12-18 07:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe they cheat. But very few animals mate for life. And, yes, they have high morals. At least, higher than some people I know.
2007-12-18 07:23:14 · answer #4 · answered by magix151 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that they might, but, ironically, I think that in most cases in which they mate for life, that there are less incidences of "cheating" in the animal kingdom then with humans. Just goes to show how far "moral" laws can take you...
2007-12-18 07:18:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Animals are programmed to survive. Hunt, mate, and reproduce to keep the species going. They do not have a sense of right and wrong like we humans do. Besides animals have to work as much to mate as humans do. Ever seen the bird dances, the way females in certain animal groups go for the biggest antlers/horns, the fighting between giraffes is a good one; they beat each other with their long necks and sometimes results in breaking their own neck. But in the end they are doing it to keep their species going. No right or wrong with animals in a whole.
2007-12-18 07:20:03 · answer #6 · answered by Fallen 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's a good question, I don't really know.
However, I grew up on a lake which always had plenty of Canadian Geese on it. They mate for life and if one loses its mate they are then a social outcast - other families of geese will go after it and chase it away. The only way the loner becomes acceptable again is by finding another who has lost it's mate and then they are accepted once again. So given that example, I'd say those that mate for life don't cheat.
2007-12-18 07:17:47 · answer #7 · answered by genaddt 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Humans are animals as well. The difference is those other species do not promise in front of a non-existent god till death do us part. I think they just life for each other, and they do not pretend to be something they are not! For example, people who believe in god think they are not animals.
2007-12-18 07:23:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a matter of fact, they do.
Many studies of animals who "mate for life" have shown that they do leave their mates and go off with others. In once case study of geese, two of them (both females) killed the one's male mate and then became bonded for the rest of their lives.
No, we're not so different from the so-called "lower species". And they're not so different from us...
2007-12-18 08:08:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humans actually are not mate for life creatures by nature, not at all. Especially male humans. They are breeders by nature, with nature's goal of impregnating as many attractive (fertile) females as possible. It is in rising above this wild nature that humans show moral standards.
2007-12-18 07:19:31 · answer #10 · answered by An Independent 6 · 6⤊ 3⤋