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Eliminating competition?
killing without eating will eliminate them too
why would eating boogers be a selective advantage? They eat each other's boogers as well? the wild males are never observed participating?
> Among primatologists, bearded capuchins are famous for using stone tools to obtain food. They’ve been observed placing palm nuts on a hard surface and smashing them with rocks to reveal the tasty kernels inside. Wild females have also been seen using sticks or blades of grass to pick their noses and eat any boogers they extract. why would eating boogers be a selective advantage? They eat each other's boogers as wel…
Conversely, when animals are scarce, wolves will eat lots of blueberries. https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-wolves-may-be-helping-...
> Among primatologists, bearded capuchins are famous for using stone tools to obtain food. They’ve been observed placing palm nuts on a hard surface and smashing them with rocks to reveal the tasty kernels inside. Wild females have also been seen using sticks or blades of grass to pick their noses and eat any boogers they extract. why would eating boogers be a selective advantage? They eat each other's boogers as wel…
Everything an animal does isn't a selective advantage, sometimes it's just not a disadvantage .
Now please don't tell me "it doesn't have to be a disadvantage for males, it might just be an advantage for females" !
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Everything an animal does isn't a selective advantage, sometimes it's just not a disadvantage .
Fine, in that case, why is it a disadvantage for the males? Now please don't tell me "it doesn't have to be a disadvantage for males, it might just be an advantage for females" !
Who said it was? Just because males don't exhibit a behaviour doesn't mean it's necessarily a disadvantage.
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Everything an animal does isn't a selective advantage, sometimes it's just not a disadvantage .
Fine, in that case, why is it a disadvantage for the males? Now please don't tell me "it doesn't have to be a disadvantage for males, it might just be an advantage for females" !
Who said it was? Just because males don't exhibit a behaviour doesn't mean it's necessarily an evolutionary disadvantage.
Once a horse gets a taste for baby chicks, it's hard to convince them they aren't omnivorous.
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Its probably true of most animals. I raised a couple of pigs and we intentionally never fed them any meat, even though they'd probably eat it, because we didnt want them to get a taste for it
For sure they'd eat it - pigs have a taste for everything. You don't want to be the farmer who falls over in his pig sty.
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Fine, in that case, why is it a disadvantage for the males? Now please don't tell me "it doesn't have to be a disadvantage for males, it might just be an advantage for females" !
> why is it a disadvantage for the males? Who said it was? Just because males don't exhibit a behaviour doesn't mean it's necessarily an evolutionary disadvantage.