Re: Do other species feel love?


Mark VandeWettering wrote:
On 2007-08-31, Kippers <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do other species feel love?

There occasionally exists a need in nature for a monogamous (or close
to monogamous) bonding of opposite sexes of the same species. As I
understand it these bonds exist when a large amount of male parental
investment is required in the upbringing of the couples's offspring.
My question is what causes these two non-kin individuals to behave in
this way?

I'm curious: given the high incidence of marital infidelity, isn't it
a bit presumptuous to conclude that humans are monogamous as a species?

But isn't most infidelity transitory? If a spouse cheats on the
other, but remains married, isn't that still 'mostly' monogamous?
Even within widely varied estimates of infidelity, humans still tend
toward monogamy.

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