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1、DO ANIMALS FALL IN LOVE? Jeffery Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthyHumans believe they know what love is, and value it highly. Yet many who study animal behavior are cautious about saying animals experience love, preferring to say they are not displaying true love, but simply following the dictate
2、s of their genes. Is it really as simple as all that? What about the animals who stay together until one dies? Evolutionary biologists often say that pairing is a way to ensure adequate parental care, but its not always clear this is the case. Some animals continue to accompany each other when not r
3、aising young. And they appear to exhibit sorrow or show a sense of loss when one of the pair dies. Konrad Lorenz, studying the behavior of geese, describes a typical example. Ado s mate, Susanne-Elisabeth, was killed by a fox. He stood silently by her partly eaten body, which lay across their nest.
4、In the following days, he hung his head and his eyes became vacant. Because he did not have the heart to defend himself from the attacks of the other geese, his status in the flock fell sharply. A year went by. Finally Ado pulled himself together and found another mate. Animals may fall in love dram
5、atically. According to Lorenz two geese are most likely to fall in love when they have known each other as youngsters, been separated and then meet again. He compared this to a man who meets a woman andastonished that she is the same girl he used to see running around in a school uniformfalls in lov
6、e and marries her. According to parrot specialist Sue Athan, it is common for some parrots to fall in love at first sight. Instinct may urge animals to love, but it does not say whom they will love. Seeking a mate for a male parrot, Athan purchased a fine-feathered young female and introduced the tw
7、o birds. To Athan s disappointment, “the male nevertheless acted like the female wasnt even in the room.” A few months later Athan was given an older female in extremely poor condition. “She didnt have a feather from the neck down,” she says. “Her feet were all twisted. She had lines around her eyes
8、. And yet the male thought she was the love of his life.” The two birds immediately paired off and eventually produced young. Zookeepers know, to their despair, that many species of animals will not breed with just any other animal of their species. Timmy, a gorilla in the Cleveland Zoo, declined to
9、 mate with two female gorillas introduced to him. But when he met a gorilla named Kate, they took to each other at once. When it was thought that Kate was unable to reproduce, because of her advanced age, zookeepers decided to send Timmy to another zoo, where he might have a chance to breed successf
10、ully. Defending the zoo s decision to separate the animals, the zoo director said, “It sickens me when people start to put human emotions in animals. We cant think of them as some kind of magnificent human being: they are animals. When people start saying animals have emotions, they cross the bridge
11、 of reality.” Jane Goodall, whose work has shed light on the emotional life of chimpanzees, also writes, “I cannot think of chimpanzees developing emotions, one for the other, comparable in any way to the tenderness, protectiveness, tolerance and spiritual joy that are the mark of human love in its
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