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- From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: Whales and Dolphins
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 10:53:24 GMT
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- > I don't doubt you're right, but other less intelligent animals will
- sometimes
- > do this too, particularly the "bachelor groups" as you describe.
- I've heard of
- > groups of male lions attacking a dominant male to get territory or
- mates,
- > then fighting among themselves. There are extensive studies of
- possible
- > evolutionary incentives to form specific behavior patterns.
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- There is a difference. You are talking about a group breaking up in a
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- free for all. Dolphins are the only other society in which GROUP A
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- gets support of GROUP B against GROUP C for a specific project but
- when the situation changes, GROUP A will double cross GROUP B with
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- the assistance GROUP C. The groups are basically stable. I do not
- remember enough details of the paper to say whether they are kinship
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- groups or not. The situations do not appear to be random accident,
- but much more sophisticated plotting of actions. Probably closer to
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- the relations between feudal lords than to a gang of hoods who fight
- for the loot among themselves after cooperating to get it...
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