Thank you Muko.What the animal experiment has proven is that Man is at the wrong end of that ecological niche. It were better the places were swapped and may be,just may be the World would be a much better place to live in. On criticing those bands and broods of politicians who have parasited on the Ugandans and caused us untold sufferings,both individually and collectively as a people,do not harbor the feelings that I only choose to criticize one and leave the others,out,to me they are the two sides of the same coin!. Thanks. Kipenji. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- J Ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ---------------------------------
Mr. Kipenji, Animals are, in fact, primitive, relative to Man, although the latter often behaves more savagely than animals. That said, on blaming and/or criticising the Kaguta and his Movement (and even other dictators like Obote & Amin) I do it usually without reservations. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Owor Kipenji Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Study Shows the Queen Breeds Democratically Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Omukulu Ssemakula,reading this story from research conducted on what many of us would brash off as primitive animals,dont you think that it is pertinent for Ugandans to roundedly condemn Mu7 and his murderous regimes on the atrocities he has visited upon the people of Uganda in general and Northern Uganda in particular?. Thanks. Kipenji. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------July 27, 2001 Study Shows the Queen of Beasts Breeds Democratically http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C9E71-4320-1C60-B882809EC588ED9F Among animal societies in which group members cooperate, certain individuals get a better deal, especially when it comes to reproduction. Social insects such as bees, for example, have a single breeding queen. And other cooperative creatures, including numerous birds and carnivore species, exhibit that same pattern of reproductive dominance by one or a few females. New research has revealed a striking exception to this rule, however. According to a report published today in the journal Science, female African lions have an egalitarian breeding system�setting them apart from not only other social carnivores but even males of their own species. Previous observations had suggested that lionesses employ a democratic approach to breeding; pridemates hunted and reared their cubs together, and none seemed to be reproducing more than her fair share. But to determine whether subtle reproductive hierarchies might in fact exist, as in the case of female chimpanzees, veteran lion researchers Craig Packer and Anne Pusey of the University of Minnesota decided to take a closer look. They compared lifetime reproductive variation in females from 31 Tanzanian lion prides to the variation in simulated prides, in which reproductive rate and demography were the same as in the real prides but births were randomly allocated. In all of the real prides, some females had more offspring than others. But the same pattern held true for the simulated prides. The team thus failed to find any evidence of true reproductive despotism among fe! male lions. To explain the unusual system, the authors point out that unlike females of other cooperative species, these cats can't control one another's reproduction. Lionesses go into hiding to give birth, returning to the pride only after the cubs are several weeks old and less vulnerable to attack. This fact, in combination with the mother's formidable teeth and claws, makes it hard for one lioness to kill a pridemate's newborn. Beyond that, females participate in the communal cub-rearing only if they themselves have cubs. Thus, if one lioness were to eliminate another's cub, she would lose that female's contribution to the rearing of her own offspring. "Lion society provides a distinct alternative to the dog/bird model of cooperative breeding," the authors write, "and reveals the female lion to be one of nature's true democrats." -- Kate Wong --------------------------------- Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
