Posted on 04/08/2009 8:01:02 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
For chimps, candy is dandy but steak is quicker
Tue Apr 7, 2009 8:06pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human females may get offended at dates who expect a little something extra after they buy a steak dinner, but for chimpanzees, the exchange may be a fair one, German researchers reported on Tuesday.
They found that female chimpanzees mate more frequently with males who often share meat with them.
"Our results strongly suggest that wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex, and do so on a long-term basis," Cristina Gomes of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany said in a statement.
"Males who shared meat with females doubled their mating success, whereas females, who had difficulty obtaining meat on their own, increased their caloric intake without suffering the energetic costs and potential risk of injury related to hunting."
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Oooh, this will definitely be a fun thread!
Does this mean I can take a date to Burger King?
HERE’S THE BEEF!
The steak dinner always worked for me.
And I suppose the couple bottles of fine wine had nothing to do with it -—— right?
Pleased to meat you...
No, the rest was due to my charm and good looks.
Lookout! Your nose is growing!! There goes your good looks.
Well I guess it’s charm and wine now. (Candy’s out.)
That would imply that the meat in a whopper was actually edible.
I would err on the side of some Barry White and some intellectually stimulating conversation, that combined with your ability to cook the meat at home.
Same strategy works for crank whores.
Fire was invented just to get some Neanderthal chicks.
I think most Herterosexual inventions were to “get chicks”. If not for women we would probably all still be living like cavemen! Now there has to be a connection to Muzzies and living like cavemen here somewhere....Hmmmmm. No offense to cavemen of course!! LOL
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