Animal Instincts

Humans are animals. End of story. Actually, this is where it begins too. A cycle. The circle of life. Having the fairer sex around just makes it more vicious. We may be sentient. But we are still animals. I have always held the view that women rule the world. 'Tis true as Perfect Melange says. Women are experts at what I call "Head Games", while we men are more attuned with Animal Instincts. We men are secretly glad that very few women have actually realised the fact that they have us wrapped around their little fingers. The Bee Gees once asked, "What makes the world go 'round?". The answer, Maurice, is "women"! Humans, like a lot of social animals, live in a matriarchal society. Humans are social animals. Another example is the fact that humans, like herbivore animals in the wild, exhibit herding behaviour. Ruminants and bovines in the wild often stay together in large groups. Grazing together. This form of groupism is extremely effective as protection against predators that are at the most a pack of maybe, ten animals. Imagine 7 or 8 hyenas against a circle of 20 thick-skulled, sharp horned African buffalo. Not a great chance. This sort of system allows the herd to feed in peace while one or two members keep watch. Humans too exhibit this system of grouping. My friends and me, for example, meet up at the Splot everytime we have a break between classes. We form a little herd there between all the vehicles feeling secure and all that. Most come there to exchange news and hugs (a lot of the latter). Puppy & me though, usually go there to sniff out the girls' lunchboxes (Up with us grazers!). A lot of herbivores show communal behaviour at all times. Whether eating, sleeping, mating, dying or even relieving themselves. Communal toiletry. Believe it or not, humans exhibit communal toiletry! Take for example my friends again. Sparks & Hippo always go to the loo together. Always. Often, Dog-killer joins them too. I can't imagine what they do in there. They go in there ever so often. Puppy estimates they'll have spent half their lives in there by the time they finish their degree course. I can come up with loads of other parallels but I think I should draw the line here. I've more than proved my point. Darwin was right. We do have monkeys in the higher branches of our family trees.