What are platonic friends for?
Posted on 06/18/2009 6:26:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Male and female baboons form platonic friendships, where sex is off the menu. Having a caring friend around seems to greatly benefit the females and their infants, as both are harassed less by other baboons when in the company of their male pal. But why the males choose to be platonic friends remains a mystery.
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What are platonic friends for?
No it isn't. The males figure she'll cut loose with some eventually.
Exactly. Just like humans!
;^)
Maybe they’re married.
even female monkeys can be fag hag hos! :P
And which senator/congressman appropriate the money for this research?
I think they should fund my research study of how many women I can impregnate while drunk during a 3 day holiday weekend.
Maybe the baboons are just realiists...because they don’t have access to viagara.
ROFL. Exactly.
This exact scenario plays out every day for humans everywhere.
They are interior decorators, hairdressers and fashion designers. They have “the eye”.
Your stimulus dollars at work in this study.
“So we really don’t know what these guys got out of the friendship, other than maybe spending time with a mum and a new baby and having other females seeing this.”
So a guy holding a little baby can work as a chick magnet in the baboon world too.
Would you really rather have those dollars you earned in your own wallet, instead of being spent by a god-like leader? Who do you think will spend your money more wisely? [Hint: 52% of Americans don't think you're qualified to make those spending decisions.] If we let the little people make those decisions, they'd probably waste the money on their own families or their own social lives instead of studying a baboon's social life, and then where would we be?
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