Re: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 14:43:23 MDT

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    > (Greg Jordan <jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu>):
    >
    > Sterilization disrupts herd social patterns?
    > More than violent deaths? please.

    Actually, that seems quite reasonable. Many mammals have
    alpha males with harems, while most males don't breed at all.
    When an alpha male dies, another male takes his place. But
    animals wouldn't /know/ they were sterilized, and so if you
    happened to sterilize an alpha male, you wouldn't reduce the
    breeding rate, you'd eliminate it entirely. I can imagine
    that other social systems might also be upset by sterilization.
    Predation, on the other hand, is something prey animals have
    evolved to deal with sensibly.

    Not to mention that being shot by a human hunter is much
    less "violent" than natural predation.

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