antonlavey
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Originally Posted by YouMadYouBad
Yea, but cheating on your spouse derives from religion. And I'm pretty sure there arent any practcing catholic animals out there, well besides humans of course. Anyways I don't want to go off topic. But animals don't cheat.Originally Posted by AntonLaVey
Originally Posted by Ruxxx
^@ those cats.
You for real Anton?
Yes, some animals mate with one partner for life and cheating on said partners is a very common occurence if given the opportunity.
[h4]Social systems[/h4]
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Like others of its family the male Raggiana Bird of Paradise has elaborate breeding plumage used to impress females.[sup][135][/sup]
Ninety-five percent of bird species are socially monogamous. These species pair for at least the length of the breeding season or—in some cases—for several years or until the death of one mate.[sup][136][/sup] Monogamy allows for biparental care, which is especially important for species in which females require males' assistance for successful brood-rearing.[sup][137][/sup] Among many socially monogamous species, extra-pair copulation (infidelity) is common.[sup][138][/sup] Such behaviour typically occurs between dominant males and females paired with subordinate males, but may also be the result of forced copulation in ducks and other anatids.[sup][139][/sup] For females, possible benefits of extra-pair copulation include getting better genes for her offspring and insuring against the possibility of infertility in her mate.[sup][14[/sup] Males of species that engage in extra-pair copulations will closely guard their mates to ensure the parentage of the offspring that they raise.[sup][141][/sup]
Other mating systems, including polygyny, polyandry, polygamy, polygynandry, and promiscuity, also occur.[sup][39][/sup] Polygamous breeding systems arise when females are able to raise broods without the help of males.[sup][39][/sup] Some species may use more than one system depending on the circumstances.
Breeding usually involves some form of courtship display, typically performed by the male.[sup][142][/sup] Most displays are rather simple and involve some type of song. Some displays, however, are quite elaborate. Depending on the species, these may include wing or tail drumming, dancing, aerial flights, or communal lekking. Females are generally the ones that drive partner selection,[sup][143][/sup] although in the polyandrous phalaropes, this is reversed: plainer males choose brightly coloured females.[sup][144][/sup] Courtship feeding, billing and allopreening are commonly performed between partners, generally after the birds have paired and mated.[sup][5
I'm not even sure to respond to this.
You can be non-religious and still cheat on your life partner/wife whatever you wanna call them. The reason why some animals are monogamous is because the chances of their offspring surviving are greatly increased by a collaborative effort between the male and the female. Some animals don't need to expend that much energy on child rearing because they make so many offspring eg. eggs it becomes a numbers game. Animals that have one offspring per breeding cycle usually spend more collaborative energy rearing their young. So if a male bird, leaves its mate to start a mating cycle with another female...it is cheating.
I don't know what the moral implications are for animals but strictly from a reproductive standpoint the female or male that gets cheated on is getting a bad deal.
