Inferring Behavior (was: Occam's Bulldozer ...)

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Rich Travsky (rtravsky@uwyo.edu) wrote:

<That was my take as well, however, I do allow some slack in that when
fighting amongst themselves, giraffes do use their necks.>

  I beleive this behavior has been linked to intraspecific non-harming
combat between males (akin to strutting) and/or to social-sexual displays
between males, likening some to the rather not-uncommon same-sex courting
behaviors seen in animals today.

  Cheers,




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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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