Are any Animals Truly Monogamous?

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Monogamy isn’t that popular in the animal kingdom, and it turns out that even "love birds" are often cheaters.
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@lindyhop24 7 лет назад

Valentine's Day Card: "I love you so much I want to fuse with you and spend our lives blissfully sucking blood out of a fish's gills"

@neneenenejrkerre1828 5 лет назад

#RomanceMovieOfTheYear

@jetwingsdaydream 4 года назад

I would marry anyone that sent me that 100% Did it work-

@katiaromero7149 3 года назад

I have an idea for next Valentine's day :D

@ZeldaFreak4by2 3 года назад

A match made under water! 🪱💍❤️💍🪱 How Romantic! (sorry fish) 🐟

@goodmorning2386 21 день назад

@@jetwingsdaydreamI would too 😂

@uzernam303 8 лет назад

So I guess instead of calling a couple "lovebirds" it'd be better to call them "loveworms"? Loveparasites? Lovebloodsuckers? hmm..

@doughboydevito4529 8 лет назад

+Neenjah Rammus Yeah, that makes a lot more sense to call couples that. :p

@ellabehan801 6 лет назад

Neenjah Rammus wormlovers

@jaimeclemente9627 6 лет назад

Neenjah Rammus lol LOVE BLOOD SUCKERS

@alexderek5233 6 лет назад

Doughboy Devito love birds are a beginnings of being a couple so the term lovebirds is accurate because most couple breakup within the first month

@janesselorenz7107 6 лет назад

uhhhhhhhh.......

@danbark4603 6 лет назад

i still love it when people go around "oh see animals do it too! so its ok! its natural, cheating is part of nature!" well yeah there are some animals that literally kill and eat their babies so go ahead and use that line of logic

@haylnanna5575 4 года назад

Ughhhh the amount of common Sense 👌but seriously we're not fucking animals so there's really no excuse unless all individuals agree in said relationship

@JoeMartinez18 4 года назад

Technically we are animals.

@Al-.-ex 4 года назад

Everyone says don’t cheat and yet it’s super prevalent. Honestly just accept it happens and it’s likely to happen to you and move on.

@jamesrogers6779 4 года назад

@@Al-.-ex cheating is an act of breaking trust. If you know your going to go off with someone else than have a polygamous relationship with everyones consent.

@Al-.-ex 4 года назад

James Rogers sounds logical, doesn’t happen though. Plus that doesn’t make sense years into a marriage - better just to have an affair & keep it quiet. If nobody finds out then that’s the best option.

@Leotique 8 лет назад

Diplozoon paradoxum...still a better love story than twilight :)

@lone2234 8 лет назад

+Official Leotique. XD they should make a movie about them >.> XD

@Michael-xm4ux 8 лет назад

fuck that. donkey mating sway hotter

@goober1846 8 лет назад

@mauirandall8176 8 лет назад

A Guatemalan donkey show is a better love story than twilight

@arandomzoomer4837 8 лет назад

I've never heard of that love story. but it sounds bad, and I've heard many people say "still a better lover story than twilight" so I'm never going to read that book.

@samysaid1989 9 лет назад

These birds ain't loyal

@DamarisJohnsonnakomiah 8 лет назад

+samy said LMAO! I got my laugh for today.

@cottoncandyman8274 8 лет назад

+samy said I'm pretty loyal

@samysaid1989 8 лет назад

Ebony Atheist Kudos for being another black atheist.

@samysaid1989 8 лет назад

Colton Byrd Shut up, bird! haha

@DamarisJohnsonnakomiah 8 лет назад

samy said No problem!

@cazmaestro 10 лет назад

'Will you be my Diplozoon paradoxum'

@evangelionpilled 5 лет назад

No, I dont know you, You fuckimg player

@nataliaborys1554 5 лет назад

The nerdiest romantic words out there

@cobhlaith8844 5 лет назад

"You may now kiss the Diplozoon paradoxum"

@SeanSpencersRedHotChilliSemen 5 лет назад

Will you fuse with me and suck the blood of fish?

@Arctic_and_The_F0X 4 года назад

I wound legitimately say yes to that

@erhixon773 8 лет назад

I GET IT! This explains the story of The Ugly Duckling.

@lone2234 8 лет назад

+Ericson Caranto owo make sense !

@QueenMeowTigeress 8 лет назад

+Ericson Caranto o.o omg!

@CMDrRedstone 8 лет назад

+Ericson Caranto :O

@erhixon773 8 лет назад

might be possible, who knows?

@erhixon773 8 лет назад

well it's a kid's show so whatever.

@redcharget5894 4 года назад

Male bird: u cheating on me? Female bird: yes Male bird: good, we need more variety

@driftingdruid 3 года назад

Hail consensual swinging!

@TheOneGuy1111 2 года назад

That's not cheating, that's an open relationship.

@Cheesepuff8 2 года назад

Ye animals like birds don’t seem to care about the whole cheating thing so maybe it’s not cheating, I think some apes do but maybes that’s cause each of them wants as many females as possible

@pria2008 2 года назад

Every cuckold porn

@dibershai6009 Год назад

The male bird doesn't like that fact that she is cheating on him. But at least he can cheat on her by mating with the other females that arrive to their nest at night.

@akafacts 10 лет назад

As a Pokemon professor I can tell you now that at the Pokemon Daycare I run, there is little to NO monogamy. ...Still trying to figure out how the Eggs keep appearing though.

@swiftroph 10 лет назад

Because Ditto is everybodies bitch.

@squidpizza6320 10 лет назад

Then how do fathers pass down moves?

@siaotak4657 7 лет назад

Bulba Tube Your comment dorsn't even make any sense.

@AquaBurgerPro 6 лет назад

It does if you've played Pokémon. :)

@silass4899 6 лет назад

Bulba Tube Lol

@ipodnazar 10 лет назад

These crows ain't loyal.

@warrenbuffet5152 3 года назад

It was ancient beta male homo sapiens that created monogamy and religion to force w*men to stick with one partner and make sure she doesn't leave because she can't provide for herself and it'd be a sin. It we returned to the way we naturally were, then the human race will go extinct in the next century.

@KyleRavenborn 8 лет назад

OH MY LORDE I'M ROLLING! I read the title and decided to check it out, and the ad that plays before it starts is a wedding ring ad by Kay jewelers XD

@furqanbaba5274 5 лет назад

Lorde?

@brubrenwoodard6721 4 года назад

😂

@ratstyle5468 4 года назад

Foods before doods

@darkicedragon1988 6 лет назад

"Monogamy isn't natural!" Said every cheater ever...

@kateajurors8640 4 года назад

And apparently this video. Also studying for class some Japanese history and it's starting to make me feel like those cheaters may be right. There's never been monogamy in the world. Everything is a lie. The cake is a lie.

@jonnjones8263 4 года назад

@@kateajurors8640 True. But it also doesn't mean that there SHOULDN'T be monogamy in the world.

@Azknowledgethirsty 4 года назад

@@jonnjones8263 exactly, there has NEVER been peace in humans, but that does not mean that it shouldn't be Also monogamy does not require a life long bond, you can have a lot of monogamous relationships in your life

@haylnanna5575 4 года назад

@@Azknowledgethirsty nahh really?

@countryhumanskorra4065 3 года назад

@@haylnanna5575 yes really. Monogamy doesn't really last a life time just look up 'homewrecking penguin' a female left her mate for someone else because he lost a fight. Humans are known to break up with their mates in favour of new ones when things get tough just look at all the men and women who used to be in relationships with people that cheated on em but are now in happy ones

@logicalfundy 10 лет назад

. . . although I should note that looking for moral guidance from the animal kingdom probably isn't the wisest idea (murder, theft, and other things we consider crimes are also rampant in the animal kingdom . . .).

@shachintheartist Месяц назад

Yes

@utilizator500 10 лет назад

The comments are stranger than usual...

@netizenkuripangistanyolo3339 4 года назад

Much more stranger is this video appear on my reccomendation

@crowbaby9565 4 года назад

Are they though

@cinnamondreams 3 года назад

These are some old coments but yeah they are

@catsandwich1406 3 месяца назад

@@cinnamondreamsold? Look at you now

@atomictesting6412 Месяц назад

There’s a disturbance in the force…. quick, Spock, get in the Time Machine we need to go back to the future to defeat the Daleks

@kayskreed 2 года назад

To those who are not monogamous just say so before entering any relationship. Saves everyone a lot of trouble.

@ibrahimihsan2090 Месяц назад

Good advice. But doesn't always work, unfortunately.

@CheatBuddy 28 дней назад

@@ibrahimihsan2090Honesty always works. Even if one or the other party ends up disappointed at least they knew what to expect upfront.

@ibrahimihsan2090 28 дней назад

@@CheatBuddy If by honesty you mean being completely open to your spouse about whether or not you have a relationship with someone else, I for one, recommend one to be completely open about that, in most cases. But that's the thing, in most cases. Some cases don't need said openness. I am not talking about love affairs mind you. If you live in a society where one spouse is expected by most, then said honesty is necessary to follow established norms and love affairs are akin to treason but in most societies where polygamy has some level of acceptance, it's the man to decide within the social approved limits whether or not he gets to engage in marriage with another woman or not, not the wife. Hence, in such situations, full openness is not necessary. Openness is way healthier, and leads to less problems, but isn't advisable for all situations.

@blinkyy1088 15 дней назад

@@ibrahimihsan2090 Are you the man in this purely hypothetical scenario

@ibrahimihsan2090 15 дней назад

@@blinkyy1088 I'm not married(and I would hate myself if I had anything close to a girlfriend), so I don't think I'll fit. Also, as a 1st year college student in a country where having more than one spouse is legal, I don't think there is much of a chance I'll ever get to have more than one wife since only around 1%(if not lesser) of marriages in my country are polygamous, not to mention being expensive, so I'll be fine with monogamy if I get a well paying job after university. In fact, I'd personally like that more than polygamy since the latter is not really something I could imagine myself finding fun. Also, I am not really sure what are the conditions for polygamy in my country. I was simply referring to religious law which sadly my country doesn't follow too well. My point was simply that full openness to your spouse regarding your marital affairs isn't something one must do regardless of the situation. For some people, that isn't always appropriate. Don't be mistaken, in almost all situations, it is much better to be open but in some rare situations, some people can't really afford that.

@m.s.7756 4 года назад

the fact that monogamy is this rare in the animal kingdom makes it all the more beautiful, to be honest

@robymaru03 3 года назад

Actually monogamy is deadly for the rest of nature, because a woman normally give birth to up to 15 children in a lifetime, and when those 15 children are born from the same father, there's like a 10% chance of 1 of them being born with birth defect if both parents are healthy, but if you talking about small mamals or little birds, this goes exponentially higher, a bird can lay up to hundreds of eggs in their lifetime, and small mamals are the same which means this birth defect will surely occur and might doom the entire species as a whole.

@holyravioli8648 Год назад

@@robymaru03 Could you give a source for that because that makes zero goddamn sense. The amount of children any pair has will only increase the number of genetic errors by rolling the dice more often, the same number of offspring produced by a single monogamous pair or a bunch of adulterous pairs should have no significant difference in the number of birth defencts.

@Squintel7 9 месяцев назад

@@robymaru03You straight up made that up lol. Wtf. Are you implying that 2 totally healthy genetically dissimilar randomly start imitating eachothers DNA everytime they breed? Because that's the only way your hoockus poockus stuff makes any sense. You're wrong.

@curious5887 6 месяцев назад

@@robymaru03 maybe used the term "mother" when describing the female non-human animals, because the term "woman" is only for humans, of course, because every term we made are just construct

@alisav8394 5 месяцев назад

@@robymaru03what are you taking about? If the parents are not related the chance of having a child with a birth defect is the same as if each child had different parents. What you were refering to is inbreeding. The problem with monogamy is that the children of monogamous parents might breed with each other and the lack of genetic variety can lead to birth defects and general lack of resilience of the whole population to environmental changes

@Adovock 10 лет назад

Penguins practice monogamy. Male penguins present a female penguin with a rock from the shore. If the female says no, the male tends to wander off on his own and dies from depression.

@r.babylon2885 10 лет назад

Ha! Stupid penguins.

@PatrykPonichtera 10 лет назад

Sound like my love stories

@chohsena627 10 лет назад

Good to know, but it sounds like a better argument to make against monogamy than for it.

@AvangionQ 10 лет назад

Lots of bird species are monogamous for one mating season ~ this includes some species of penguins.

@MrEdub84 10 лет назад

I heard of that penguin species its called Sphenisciformes Drakeicus

@RedNymph234 10 лет назад

Thing is, humans have what we call higher brain function. To me, marriage or monogamy is more than just sex--it's friendship. For me, I've known my husband for 7 years, and he is truly my best friend. We talk about everything together. We can have 4 hour conversations at a time. I love him more and more as time goes by. I couldn't find another person who is just as geeky, or into the same things as me, or will take care of me, or make me laugh the way he does. Plus, having multiple partners would take too much effort to please.The animal kingdom spread their genes around, but don't have "friendship" the way humans do. I don't care that some people have multiple partners, that is totally fine. But I don't want people to scoff at monogamy. Some people like it, some don't. Do what you want. But we have it for specific social reasons, and it kind of needs to be there

@awesomewav2419 Год назад

Love this comment, I hope you and your just husband are still just as In love 🥰 . I feel the same way. My girlfriend was never expected to become my girlfriend. We were just great friends for 3 years. Turns out we wanted to together so often got together. Been with her for a year now still absolutely my best friend. I love spending hours talking with her. We want to together for a very long time.

@danielalejandrofernandez5907 Год назад

Still, under that premise, the most common thing is to have multiple friends, not just one. In fact, nobody would call anyone a cheater for having friends other than their love partner. So, in that aspect, monogamy is related strictly to sex. In any case, monogamy seems to be more of a social construct than a natural development.

@monickalynn4365 10 месяцев назад

Wait 10 years Well,actually 7,now 3 yrs. on comment. What attracts,and much of what one is drawn to in another will eventually become low key grating. I've seen this in the closest bf couples repeatedly.Tho some of this is the"Familiarity breeds contempt"

@Squintel7 9 месяцев назад

@@danielalejandrofernandez5907If you wanna be badass and go full "nature" one sex doesn't get any say in the breeding session if you know what I mean... Human rights is also a social construct you know? How degenerate do you wanna get? How many morals do you wanna pick and choose? Lol

@Squintel7 9 месяцев назад

@@monickalynn4365It's only you, sorry.

@TheeTurtleQueen 7 лет назад

i needa get me a diplozoom paradoxum

@evxl- 7 лет назад

Demoturtle Hopefully you don't end up sucking a fish dry.

@mrwolf31 8 лет назад

Why my gf shared this video to me???

@TheGuardian163 8 лет назад

+Monty K hahahahhahah

@tentativeentertainment3363 8 лет назад

+Monty K youre fucked lol shes cheating on you 10000% guaranteed i will hand you all my money if im wrong. its been a month, was i wrong?

@mrwolf31 8 лет назад

Jason Evas Yes.. you were wrong. She just wanted to share this so I have something to write for my next project. :)

@tentativeentertainment3363 8 лет назад

what he said. she cheated on you and got away with it lol im kidding man i probably blurt out alot of suspicious shit around my girlfriend and im seriously devoted to her :) just messing around

@isabellesanantonio3878 8 лет назад

You're screwed m8, she's cheating on you

@JadeCaro 9 лет назад

No mention of penguins? =(

@RSP13 9 лет назад

JCarolR penguins

@isaacmartinez5680 9 лет назад

Penguins are prostitutes

@commenter8465 9 лет назад

isaac martinez really dude

@DingDingDingDongDongDong 9 лет назад

Fuck you Isaac u are a fucking douchebag

@isaacmartinez5680 9 лет назад

Ding Ding Ding Dong Dong Dong its true the females give up their body for special rocks

@kicsnasdc 10 лет назад

Very nice video to upload on Valentine's day lol

@cristobalgomezvera3615 9 месяцев назад

Cheating is a human concept based on not respecting a set of agreed rules within a specific relationship structure (monogamous or not). Saying birds cheat doesn't make sense at all... it's like saying birds commit money laundering like what?

@EC-jd9ej 23 дня назад

A squirrel tresspassed into my yard yesterday and stole an acorn! I gotta take him to court.

@reubencaldwell8494 4 года назад

Albatross seems to be the only one that's actually loyal, they literally can only pick one mate in their entire lives comfortably. If a partner dies, and the living member's fertility drops significantly often never breeding again or if they do, fail to hatch most eggs.

@emmettdel 10 лет назад

Never heard of a more beautiful love story. You go Diplozoon paradoxum! 😭

@BinkieMcFartnuggets 10 лет назад

Does Maury reveal the paternity results to the birds?

@Cricapher 10 лет назад

hahahahahaha made my day!

@nayruslove2262 8 лет назад

I'd rather be a blood sucking leech than have a cheater as a partner

@TeddyKrimsony 7 лет назад

or be a cheater yourself, worked out for me

@nullpoint3346 5 лет назад

Are you sure you're not just over-possessive?

@DanielaL702 5 лет назад

Nayru's Love Lol same here!

@warrenbuffet5152 3 года назад

@mcry4201 3 года назад

@@warrenbuffet5152 I agree with all but the 'we would disappear' part. We don't have the continuous struggle of food searching and 'worrying about who the father is' like we used to. So returning to an non-religious system, where gender roles are semi non existent and we just adapt to changes would probably be our best time, not our extinction

@shaina9675 7 лет назад

diplozoon paradoxum are goals 😩💦💞

@evxl- 7 лет назад

shaina F*** off. "ugh goals" like really?

@lpsmackenzie3305 7 лет назад

zRainman- Don't bully him or her for giving her or his opinion

@DukeofThanksgiving 7 лет назад

zRainman- (clearly a joke)

@JupiMeow 6 лет назад

zRainman- Wow, bet you're fun at parties, buzzkill.

@forfluf 10 лет назад

Great horror movie scenario. -What did you do to me? You sown our bodies together? -Till death do us part! -Noooooo!

@z-beeblebrox 10 лет назад

Now we shall drink the blood of fish gills for all eternity!

@KRENxOFxEVIL 10 лет назад

Eugene Conniff Mondays through Fridays with two weeks of vacation per year.

@cameron6542 10 лет назад

I feel saying animals 'cheat' on each other is a form of anthropomorphism and therefore carries negative connotation. But it did help get the point across

@platanochips 7 лет назад

I think monogamy is so common to us humans because of how strongly our emotions affect us. Jealousy is a good example. You only want the person and no one else can have them.

@alandonsaji6673 5 месяцев назад

No...humans are mildly polygamous...

@Lowseeds 5 месяцев назад

@@alandonsaji6673 Yeah actually im sure if there was no society we'd be largely polygamous, its just that we socially engineer ourselves.

@alandonsaji6673 5 месяцев назад

@@Lowseeds Mildly Polygamous Means While Looking At Sexual Dimorphism And Testicles Size - Sexual Bimaturism We're Not Extremely Polygamous Like Gorillas But Also Not Monogamous...Mildly Polygamous With Pair Bonding Tendencies Like Strong Bonds Parental Investment Raising Children Together Etc...But Predominant Was Serial Monogamy Because Most Men Don't Have The Resources To Be Polygamous...

@alandonsaji6673 5 месяцев назад

@@Lowseeds Even though we're polygamous most dominant mating strategy was serial Monogamy... Because most men don't have the resources to be polygamous...

@Quinton_ovo_ 4 месяца назад

"Don't do to others what you don't want done to yourself" type of logic. Seeing your partner with another partner makes you feel inferior...lesser. That's the general sentiment of the public at least. It's why polygamy has been so hated in the world in the first place. I blame monogamy then on our internal structure. And also how easier it is to maintain a single partner than multiple families with multiple mouths to feed

@makothetako Месяц назад

There's a few reasons monogamy stands out as advantageous for humans (aside from our morals and building relationships): 1) Human females die more frequently in childbirth than other animals (without medical help), due to complications from our upright posture. A woman would want a trusting bond with a man she'd trust to take care of the kid if she passes away. (Versus "welp there's other fish in the sea - sorry kiddo!") 2) Most of the time, humans only birth 1 kid at a time. This is way different from a lot of the animal kingdom where they normally birth multiple babies. The whole idea of "needing" different genetic material doesn't make sense when the amount of kids you can have is limited. 3) Human babies are helpless far longer than most animals, so it's beneficial to have a committed partner that is just as invested in watching over them. Breaking trust is not a good sign of caring for that commitment. There's also just how we, as humans, really crave long-term stable bonds. We crave other bonds, sure- but having those stable bonds is especially important in childhood when the brain is developing. Polyamory is different from cheating, as it should be an agreed upon dynamic where trust and communication is involved. But not everyone is into that, and if someone tries to use science to back up the need for different partners, just also point out the science that humans have a lot of unique factors compared to the rest of the animal kingdom that equally lends to monogamy.

@ibrahimihsan2090 Месяц назад

To me, polygamy(legally recognized marital union of a man with more than one woman) is something that is okay to exist amongst humans but is probably better off not a common practice. I mean arguably only 1%(or even less) of humans actually practice polyamory. It's hard to turn that into a common human practice except in maybe small societies. Plus, humans would usually rather just have one partner in most situations than multiple. Loving multiple partners equally is really quite hard for most people. However, cheating is by no means a merit-bringing practice.

@caihly2443 Месяц назад

None of your arguments are in favour of monogamy though? Someone expecting or raising a child will find more support if several partners or paramours are around and commited to help. Before religions and capitalism dictating the constructions of our societies, a new child wasn't just a matter of the parents, it was the whole community who would provide help wherever help is needed.

@makothetako Месяц назад

@caihly2443 That's actually complicated. If you were in a community, yes- and it's still like that for a lot of people. People have families and friends who offer help. As communities, we look after the safety and well-being of kids. This isn't just exclusive to partners. But if they fell outside a community (like say, fleeing due to war)? It was beneficial to find a partner that wasn't just going to split. People needed more trust.

@KillerKingTy23 Месяц назад

Really all you have to do to see what's most beneficial to us is look at it from the children's pov. Anyone who grew up under the household of infidelity knows how detrimental it is to that child's mental state.

@caihly2443 Месяц назад

@@makothetako trust isn't a scarce resource; people have shown that they can be dedicated and earnestly involved in multiple relationships. The idea that there is a limited amount of love and care you have to split between your partners, and that a polyamorous person will be less trustworthy and less caring to their individual partners is simply idiotic stereotypes based on religious and societal taboos that equate polyamoury with promiscuity, and promiscuity with lack of care

@sheriecherrybaby 10 лет назад

Are we really looking to other animals as an example of how we should live our lives? Monogamy is a choice, we ultimately make the decision to cheat or be faithful. the animal kingdom doesnt have to be an example as to why we do certain things in our personal life nor should it be an excuse.

@socaialschism_works 10 лет назад

Right, chickens eat their own feces, and dogs eat vomit (anyone's vomit), spiders and praying mantis cannibalize one another, orangutans steal from one another... imagine the "well the animals do it so it must be okay" excuse... I've heard people, time and time again use animals as an example to show how 'normal' something is (like homosexuality). Well, by that standard, we should be able to cannibalize one another without being thrown in jail.

@oeal9351 10 лет назад

Brian Clark Just because you possibly think that homosexuality is morally wrong, which i think most people would agree that it isn't (depending on one's personal believes, most likely religious if opposed to homosexuality), doesn't mean you can group it in the same basket. Also, I'm sure you are capable of seeing the tiny difference between eating someone, or part of someone, and being attracted to a person of the same sex.

@codediporpal 10 лет назад

define "should"

@sheriecherrybaby 10 лет назад

codediporpal I think I was trying to say that we are all individuals and we do things for different reasons our basic animal instincts do not have to dictate our choices in life we are thinkers and we have the ability to choose what is right for us we are not limited to our basic instincts just because some animals are not monogamous does that mean we as humans cant be? maybe I am just naive :(

@TheMarkrafter 10 лет назад

Ultimately "To cheat or not to cheat" is down to our own decision. Studying the animal kingdom however allows us to conceptualise why we have this need in the first place. However clever, animals do not have enough brain power to override the stronger instinctual signals they receive. We humans have the potential to override instinctual signals due to our large frontal cortex. However this is just potential and doesn't guarantee we will.

@TherrusD 10 лет назад

Happy single awareness day!

@griffinberserk9295 7 лет назад

Arminius hi

@TherrusD 7 лет назад

Anish Kispotta Creepy. This comment is 3 years old O_o

@fannyvaldivia2216 6 лет назад

$@fractalisomega9517$

@fractalisomega9517 Месяц назад

The biggest perk of sexual loyalty is cutting out the risk of STDs by a large margin

@rosevampire3755 7 лет назад

Awwww the only creatures that aren't a complete failure are carnivorous worms. Awwwww

@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574 7 лет назад

*parasitic

@orphantheism 7 лет назад

Rose Vampire it's not really failure. Animals have survival brains and monogamy doesn't really help them to insure the survival of their bloodline

@Zela_Night 4 года назад

The parasitic worms are the only Species that are monogamous and do not cheat. That does not mean that there are not INDIVIDUALS in other species that are monogamous and don't cheat.

@ChiquitaSpeaks 10 лет назад

Every reason for adultery or cheating an animal kingdom seems to be linked to some sort of survival reasoning. What reason did humans have for this and we live comfortable lives away from the dangers the animals have to face

@lmao_zedong7723 10 лет назад

Because humans didn't live comfortably until 5000 years ago or so. And because many of us still do not live comfortably. Besides, what sort of evolutionary pressure could make us less adulterous in the first place?

@Legomyegoorj 10 лет назад

Jeffrey Li Well, you could look to the overpopulation of the Earth with human life and use that as an argument for monogamous relationships--though this assumes that the individuals in the monogamous union would together have less children than if they procreated with many other humans over the span of their lives. That assumption may sound reasonable but also isn't necessarily true.

@ws6778 Год назад

@@Legomyegoorj When you have too many relationships in your social life, you have less precious resources like time, attention and energy to spend with each and to your relationship with yourself.

@ygotsvlog3762 Год назад

@@lmao_zedong7723 ah so thats why that bitch left me she was just living 5000 years ago

@sambones1092 Месяц назад

It's not only about natural selection, also about sexual selection, as in if a female breeds with an attractive man her children have more probability of having these traits and thus breeding too, think if height, good face etc

@GreyWolfLeaderTW 10 лет назад

Animal infidelity is non-sequitur to human morality. Just because someone/something else does it, that doesn't mean you can do it too. It's the "everyone jumps off a bridge" fallacy. Most animals do everything from incest to rape to murder for merely trespassing on territory, and yet no one dare attempts to justify these behaviors in humans but actively condemn and attempt to stop them. While interesting in pointing out how animals behave, this isn't relevant to humans and human morality.

@elspoko 10 лет назад

It wouldn't matter if we were purely social beings without any biological mechanisms that trigger our behaviors. Alas, we're biological beings and with that biology comes the genetic memory of our mammalian ancestors. Even monogamy in humans is a somewhat new idea that isn't practiced all over the world today. With that said, why would you bring up any kind of morality issue when it comes to sex? Unless you see sex as some kind of deviant behavior if not practiced in one specific way that fits your particular bias, I don't see why you would bring it up.

@GreyWolfLeaderTW 10 лет назад

Spock I don't think you understand my belief system. The point of life is to acquire a physical body. But with that comes the duty to become the master of the body and not a slave to it's passions. I also have to question the validity of the idea that humans and all mammals are literal descended from some common rat-like ancestor. We don't see a continuous chain in the fossil record that links man to all other species, in fact, there are great gulfs between the biological systems of life forms of one era and those who come right afterwards. For example, the first complex multi-celluar life forms in the fossil record were trilobites. They leap fully form into the record with compound eyes, antenna, shells, multi-segment bodies, legs, and digestive, nervous, and reproductive systems. Before them were only single-celled organisms. Evolution (the theory that life forms gradually change and gradually become more complex) doesn't explain this sudden jump from a single cell organism to a complex aquatic cousin of the horseshoe crab. Human sexuality is sacred, since it exist specifically for reproduction, and regardless of your belief system, you have to agree that this is a very important ability and should be taken seriously. As opposed to you who apparently has his own particular bias regarding human sexuality and is hypocritically calling someone else out for having his own?

@elspoko 10 лет назад

GreyWolfLeaderTW I apologize for wasting your time. I thought you knew something about biology but your statements indicate otherwise. I thought you actually were trying to make a point instead of proselytizing. I see now I judged you correctly. Thank you for reinforcing the stereotype.

@GreyWolfLeaderTW 10 лет назад

Spock *Laughs And you're not proselytizing your own belief system, hypocrite? I certainly do know something about biology, I've studied it through High School and a bit in college. But I doubt you do when you resort to ad hominem and poisoning the well fallacies. Acting like only you can possibly know about biology science is preposterous. Pasteur and Von Leeuwenhoek among many, many others, were famous biologists and Christians too. Thank you for reinforcing the stereotype of secularists as anti-religious bigots relying on pseudo-science to justify their bigotry.

@elspoko 10 лет назад

GreyWolfLeaderTW I'm sorry, I thought I made it obvious that I did not want to have a conversation with someone that clearly isn't intelligent to understand the basics of the natural sciences. Again, I apologize. The willfully ignorant are too beneath me to bother with.

@KSmith-kp5jz 7 лет назад

Better get myself a diplozoon paradoxum least I know they'll be loyal 😒

@anujanshika533 3 года назад

Hi i know it's been 3 years before you wrote this comment may you be good

@driftingdruid 3 года назад

good luck with your full-body fusion surgeries :P

@BenSparrey 8 лет назад

He uses the word 'cheating' but somehow I don't think animals would see it that way...

@SPACEMONKEY288 7 лет назад

i dont think most cheaters see it that way either lol you ever see someone getting caught cheating. its never a big deal untill its someone else and not you haha

@realdeal5712 4 года назад

It doesnt matter what way they see. Its about us understand what action they do from listening to the word. And tf u mean most cheater see it that way? They do, they just dont feel the same pain or understand how painful it is. But they do know what they are doing. And they know it is wrong.

@ellelk2443 4 года назад

True + not everyone in multiple relationships is a cheater... most probably are but still

@haylnanna5575 4 года назад

Making excuses I see

@pusheenpusheen3701 4 года назад

If you consent to “cheating” then it is called polyamory

@adamklam1 10 лет назад

its pretty hard to write romantic poetry about bloodsucking flatworms....

@driftingdruid 3 года назад

I lay amused Our bodies fused Sharing drinks with Wife Crimson bliss of life how's that verse? would like feedback

@ritasalengiene2706 3 года назад

@@driftingdruid It was great. Good work.

@mintyfresh9080 10 лет назад

Does anyone else miss actually watching Henry draw the pictures?

@Volvary 10 лет назад

Henry draws stuff on MinutePhysics iirc.

@eugeneng4187 4 года назад

"No babe, I didn't cheat on you. I just wanted to ensure my DNA gets passed on"

@frosout4crochet 6 лет назад

If our love isn't like two combined flatworms sucking blood out fishgills, I don't want it

@notbobby125 9 лет назад

Isn't there a species of deep sea fish where the males attach to the females and essential become an extra, sperm producing organ?

@jigwan6009 9 лет назад

Good point! I don't know if a female anglerfish can mate more than once in her life, I'd be interested to find out though.

@iamthedotmaniamthedotman5346 9 лет назад

Tyler Lofgren There have been female anglerfish found with more than one male attached.

@GiraffeOmelette 9 лет назад

That's the Angler fish. The female is gargantuan in comparison to the male and yes, the male attaches to the female and he basically dissolves into a pair of testicles.

@janslosn3019 8 лет назад

+notbobby125 That's probably the angler fish.

@Dantick09 8 лет назад

+notbobby125 yes but they are not monogamus (at least not the female)

@UPlayNetwork 10 лет назад

Homo erectus was monogamous and faithful back then

@iamdmc 10 лет назад

That's why H erectus isn't around anymore :P

@melvinJBswanton 10 лет назад

All this talking is getting me erectus. Sorry.

@raptor10412 10 лет назад

Michael Swanton lmao

@WolfDragon-iz7wq 6 лет назад

One of the truly monogamous animals are wolves 🐺 it's till death do us part for those guys once a wolf finds that special someone they will stay together till the bitter end and the thing about wolves is they don't judge whether the partner is a widow or widower or a single parent or a loner that wolf won't care because the other is the whole world to him/her plus they make great step parents cuz one way to win the heart of a mother/father is through their children

@SacsachCCABP Год назад

Bird 1: Are you cheating on me? Bird 2: You know I do Bird 1: Good, you have lovely genes

@haiggoh 10 лет назад

what an amazing conclusion. Romantic gillworms

@AbrahamWilliams 10 лет назад

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

@gspromvlogs1528 5 лет назад

my sister and I love your videos because we learn things in your videos and thank you for teaching us

@mihaipascal3423 23 дня назад

I love how a lot of you felt attacked and insulted by an otherwise very interesting video exploring various animals' take on "relationships".

@the1337fleet 10 лет назад

*ends video with cheesy pun* 2:54 "If you're still here..." lmao

@vaxivop1 10 лет назад

So the most faithful creatures in the world are bloodsucking worms?

@justsomeguywithtattoos6267 Месяц назад

Brings the phrase "would you still love me if i were a worm" to a whole new level

@Horesmi 7 лет назад

Fish be like "make it end... Make it all end!!!"

@atc 10 лет назад

I need to show this to my girlfriend.

@Humineral 10 лет назад

Yes please.

@mateuszw1013 10 лет назад

What if she already knows?

@lone4896 10 лет назад

what if she has already been practicing cheating monogamy?

@Happy81555 7 лет назад

Oh, she was planning to show this video to you.

@joroc 6 лет назад

You're so openmided LUL

@timetuner 10 лет назад

Cheating: breaking rules for benefit. What rules? The rules of a relationship. Who makes the rules of a relationship? The people in the relationship. Seems pretty simple to me. Ethics don't really seem to come into the picture in an equal relationship. If the power is distributed unequally or if the people involved can't agree on what the rules are then they don't have any business in a serious relationship.

@sk8rdman 10 лет назад

The rules of the relationship for these examples are the rules of monogamy. We're not saying that these animals shouldn't be doing what they're doing. We're only saying for creatures that seem to have monogamous relationships, they don't actually follow the rules that come with monogamy. They're breaking the rules that the otherwise appear to follow. In other words, they're cheating.

@timetuner 10 лет назад

sk8rdman Cheating at a game that someone else decided they were playing.

@sk8rdman 10 лет назад

Abraxian Absolution Yes, for the sake of the question, "Are any animals truly monogamous?" We could not answer this question without examining their behavior within the parameters of monogamy.

@timetuner 10 лет назад

sk8rdman The answer to whether or not they do meet the parameters of monogamy is a simple yes or no. Explaining the "no" as "cheating" and the "yes" as "loyal" and "faithful" makes the implicit value judgement that they Should be monogamous. You might want to say that we're just anthropomorphizing the behaviors of animals and we don't really mean anything by it, but that's even worse because it means we impose those values on people by default.

@sk8rdman 10 лет назад

No, it is not a simple yes or no, as the video explains. The answer is not an obvious one. You can not draw a conclusion without examining their behavior within the parameters of monogamy, and finding that they do not follow those rules.

@prettyprincess8598 6 лет назад

This brings us to the argument of whether humans are naturally monogamous or if it was a choice the human species made as a majority as a way of expressing loyalty (which is commonly seen as an important trait in human society) and as a way of providing an outlet for natural human selfishness, jealousy, and greed

@cats-hv2lm 7 лет назад

tfw flatworms are more faithful than most humans

@warrenbuffet5152 3 года назад

Humans are primates. Flatworms are protostomes. Only humans have practiced any form of monogamy in the primate family whereas there are numerous protostomes that practice lifelong monogamy. Why do you think religion was created? It was invented to stop people from acting like apes.

@randomguy3648 3 года назад

@@warrenbuffet5152 5 months ago, but I don't think that those with high status of power within this concept of religion you speak of would say the same thing. They would probably laugh at you for beliving in this bs at the time. In fact, it was invented to stop people from critical thinking, so they wouldn't challenge their secured position... you see it everyday today and actually experience it on your own skin, but it's too much details for me to write in YT comment section.

@gearfire123 10 лет назад

While this video shows that polygamy is natural, it does not justify cheating, because cheating is not bad because someone is having multiple partners, it's about the fact that they lied to someone that they said they would love and trust. However what I think this does justify is polygamous relationships. If a groups of sane and like minded adults decide to engage in polygamy, I think this is excellent proof that they should be able to. There is nothing naturally or morally wrong with consensual polygamy.

@TheWatchdogChannel 10 лет назад

another poor soul lost to Idiocracy.

@gearfire123 10 лет назад

TheWatchdogChannel and why is that?

@ThisNameIsBanned 10 лет назад

A fair deal of countries actual allow it and absolute nothing prevents you from having 10 girl friends. You just cant marry them all in every country, which kinda solves a bunch of problems connected to stuff that a mariage brings ; like if someone marries, they are allowed to stay at a country, so if everyone could marry a limitless amount of others, you would have a clear problem with this. As marriage also means sharing your financial income (at least normally) , it would also become a little bit strange if someone has 20+ girlfriends working for them and the like. So while the idea is totally fine and everyone that truly wants to have more than 1 girlfriend married, just do so, but it has a bunch of problems connected to it, if you think a little bit further what that actual means. And even in countries that allow multiple marriage, only a small amount actual do it, as having multiples wifes is a very expensive thing (having 1 is allready). So for humans its quite confident to have only 1 men + wife , if both accept to have a "open marriage" they are free to do so.

@TheWatchdogChannel 10 лет назад

Gearfire Read my response to this video. Again, this society is getting far, far too stupid for its own good. And I'm not talking "religions" here or anything. This is purely from a reason standpoint.

@gearfire123 10 лет назад

TheWatchdogChannel again you make a claim without any reason to back it up. Why am I lost to idiocracy? Why is society getting far too stupid? You're claims carry no weight when you don't explain your reasoning.

@Mindseas 10 лет назад

As always, I'm in awe of the production quality you have on this channel. There are only a few of your videos I've not particularly liked so far. Which is why I felt I had to comment on this video. That is, unfortunately this one was one of the "not liked" ones. One tiny point that bothered me in this one is that I felt the terminology was a bit wobbly at points. Using female and guy (bird) in the same sentence - for example -, or even in consecutive sentences sounds strange to me (the part about nest dynamics). I also think that using terms like cheating - a concept we've come up with to describe our own behavior, that has a lot of baggage in it's meaning - in a context with other species than our own seems a bit superfluous. Sure, I get that you've chosen an angle for this topic and using "cheating" serves as a means to make the presentation more contrasted, but still, just didn't find it fit the subject matter. Anthropomorfism is a tricky thing to deal with :) Maybe you could've presented this more as a "we humans are - to our knowledge - the only ones who carry such a weight on our shoulders about cheating, lets look at some other species for comparison". Obviously then there's the whole emotions angle...but I hope my point is still apparrent. Keep up the (otherwise) good work!

@jaredwmac Месяц назад

making my depression worse challenge succeeded

@sophiejanas9704 6 лет назад

The end was so beautiful

@124Nightwing 9 лет назад

Human mating seems very complicated. Did a specific group of people decide that humans should only be allowed one mate and that cheating is wrong? And if we were like lions or deer and had one male for every group of females then why do we get so jealous and hateful when our chosen mate has sex with another?

@MarcoManiacYT 9 лет назад

Cheating is being frowned upon because it's hurtful. No one decided that, it's just a thing.

@Novumic 9 лет назад

I just taking a wild stab at the dark, but my guess is to reduce the spread of disease. A monogamous relationship is more likely to survive during an epidemic or at the very least contain the disease within it's own bloodline so they wouldn't be a burden on others.

@MarcoManiacYT 9 лет назад

Novumic That would only be true if there was no cheating, of which there was alot.

@Novumic 9 лет назад

MarcoManiac Yeah... I'm talking about monogamy. If there's cheating involved, it wouldn't be true monogamy.

@MarcoManiacYT 9 лет назад

Novumic Exactly, humans aren't monogamous then. It is a good idea, but ultimately failed.

@drewmarcum5813 10 лет назад

the fish end though. XD

@Robbiekilljoy69 10 лет назад

LOVE the profile XD

@jeanmichel6159 6 лет назад

SAOME BODY TOUCHA MA SPAGET

@and9091 26 дней назад

As a person with a "disorder" that makes it very hard to distinguish between close friendship and love, monogamy confuses me, honestly

@MariaMartinez-researcher 4 месяца назад

Human society is way more complex than any animal one. Imagine monarchies, inheritance laws and state family subsidies without monogamy.

@ibrahimihsan2090 Месяц назад

You need to have a very strong idea of animal societies for these statements to be 100% accurate.

@Mortablunt Месяц назад

No need as there is no truly monogamous culture out there. Absolutely every single society out there has a mechanism for at least the male members to be promiscuous to certain degrees. Add the most have certain allowances for female promiscuity. There is no society that force pairs, people from childhood and then kills the survivor when one becomes widowed or kills them both if they want to break up. The closest is Hindu society where they brutally murdered a woman for the crime of outliving, her husband, and if she somehow escapes being brutally, murdered with fire for this hideous unpardonable offense against God’s nature, she’s 42 live in squalor in the wild, barely surviving on scraps of food, and usually ends up dead from exposure or rape. Anyhow, in accordance with the wonderful sublime, great heroic, supreme, superb excellent peerless amazing Dharma. What the Hindu man can have multiple wives, and even is told he must take new wives if he outlives them. Fucking pagans.

@DigitalCoffeeBrewer 10 лет назад

Did you dare forget the Anglerfish? Sure, the male lives in the side of the much larger female, but there is no potential for cheating!

@MarcoManiacYT 9 лет назад

yeah, partly because the male basically dies during the process

@michaeltariga5285 9 лет назад

Uhmm.. actually there are instances where there are more than one male attached to a female anglerfish... so...

@DigitalCoffeeBrewer 9 лет назад

This just got even weirder...

@longliveplanetawesome3223 4 года назад

Michael Tariga But the male fish doesn't cheat. So I guess it's a one-way monogamy?

@dinoT_T 4 года назад

IN MY NEXT LIFE IM BEING AN ANGLER FISH.

@unvergebeneid 10 лет назад

Great video! Now tell us the story why you had to make it ;)

@Nennieharg 3 года назад

This is my favorite video ever

@chloepeifly 7 лет назад

i actually aww'd at the "sucking blood from fish gills" part what is my life

@sirpiken 10 лет назад

Polygamy = Multi wives/husbands where this fact is known. Bigamy = Multi wives/husbands where the spouses don't know about each other. Only one of these is actually "cheating". If you want the opposite of Monogamy, you pretty much have to say Non-monogamy, Any other word narrows the scope of the relationship too much to be truly accurate.

@aquariansage1451 10 лет назад

Actually, polygamy is the overarching practice of single a person having multiple spouses, but polygyny is when a single man has multiple wives and polyandry is when a woman has multiple husbands.

@sirpiken 10 лет назад

Marina Santos Right, I was just posting this because of all the people using Polygamy to mean anything that wasn't monogamous.

@ChrisCucinell 10 лет назад

Wrong, Marinia. Polygamy means multiple mates but not necessarily a male with several "wives". You are confusing the word with "polygyny" with means multiple women. A woman with two husbands would still be practicing polygamy, although the more specific term would be polyandry. And yes, this has been practiced in some parts of the world.

@TheMagicRat933 10 лет назад

Where did you hear this? Doesn't bigamy just mean any situation where one person has two spouses since the "bi-" denotes twoness? Like how bisexuality is the attraction to two sexes and a biplane has two wings.

@sirpiken 10 лет назад

TheMagicRat933 Technically, bigamy and polygamy are essentially the same things. However most practicing polygamists include all the spouses in the same family unit while a true bigamist often hides the other relationships from the respective spouses. This can often mean that the bigamist maintains more than one household, sometimes even in different cities so that each spouse is unaware of the others.

@moleClaw 10 лет назад

People are confusing Monogamous marriage with Monogamous sex. This video isn't trying to justify cheating but explain why human beings can have more that one sexual partners through the course of their lives. For instance you can stay faithful break up and find someone else stay faithful and break up again and so on. Many people get sexually involved with 2 or more partners before the settle down and get married. As an example Warren Beaty was notorious for his promiscuous dating life however he has had only one married partner and never divorced. How many adults can truly say they've had only one sexual partner in their entire lives?

@perryforsyth9094 10 лет назад

Nah man, you missed the point by a tad bit. If it was comparable to human relationships, it would be saying that the animals have ONE lifelong partner but they still "cheat" while in the relationship. The video isn't either justifying monogamous relationships/sex or polygamous relationships/sex. What you are referencing is dating (a.k.a. testing a relationship with another human being). The animals find a life long (emotional) partner but have multiple one night (sexual) stands. Basically it's comparable to an adulterous marriage.

@anthonysmith1228 6 лет назад

...and if anything the video did justify cheating by making it clear that it is a successful reproductive strategy. I doubt it aould exist if it weren't...

@Vikas_Singh_Kushwaha 8 лет назад

Great way of explaining

@Lemonz1989 8 лет назад

So, basically no reason to freak out about multiple partners. :P It isn't cheating if you are honest with your partner about it and you have an agreement of terms. It's the lack of honesty that causes the problems.

@Lemonz1989 8 лет назад

***** Sorry for your loss.

@Lemonz1989 8 лет назад

***** I know sarcasm is hard for people with autism to understand. You are forgiven.

@ExtinctWaffle 8 лет назад

@1TrueJuliet 7 лет назад

No. Even jealousy occurs in the animal kingdom. Animals feel threatened when their mate treats them as inferior. In short, just don't do it.

@Lemonz1989 7 лет назад

That Part of Your Brain You Don't Listen To Yes, I know. People are different, and some are more jealous than others. My point is only that "cheating" implies deceit. There is also a difference between being treated as inferior and having an arrangement of some sort - that in an of is self implies that you are respected enough to be asked for your opinion.

@Yui714 10 лет назад

Maybe if we didn't glorify sex and weren't so clingy and desperate then monogamy wouldn't be a big deal. But to us sex is the most important thing in the universe, we hate being alone and want our partner to be our property and to praise us forever. Monogamy is wanted for our partners but not for ourselves. Problem is that the only way you're going to get monogamy from a partner is that you are monogamous yourself. Guess it's worth it because we pick it.

@randomnamegbji 10 лет назад

As a nerdfighter i am pretty sertent that deep sea dweling anglerfish never has to find a mate. They are always there together when its time to procreate, see once the male is born he bites the female on here side and the slowly become a sperm produsing parasiiiiiite. So id say they are very monogomus aswell

@Shishimantaru 10 лет назад

It would depend; not all deep-sea angler fish use sexual parasitism. In addition, while I'm far, far too lazy to do proper research so can't say I'm actually correct on this second bit, I'm not confident that the female only uses one parasitic male for the entirety of their lives. Depending on how long they live, it might be that they need additional males for the following breeding cycle, as I can't imagine a parasitic pair of gonads are going to continue supplying an indefinite amount of semen.

@cameron6542 10 лет назад

i feel like this is that one animal fact everyone has herd somewhere and then they individually think very few others have herd it and therefore are proud to share it

@sion8 10 лет назад

Shishimantaru Doesn't the male become part of the female's circulatory system as he degenerates which gives him nutrients like any other part of her body; basically saying that the male well be alive so long as she is alive?

@alexinator10 10 лет назад

incorrect. the female angler fish has many other male anglers fused onto her. Not monogamous at all.

@craigape 10 лет назад

sion8 Does the fish's body accept the male's organs as a part of her body? Can her system repair tissue damage or decay to his body as though it is part of her own? If so, there might be a key to fixing the issue of organ-rejection in human surgeries. If not, then your question is answered.

@yojanmaharjan5544 Год назад

This gives a whole revolution to the term "Love Birds".

@kutstarhz-646 6 лет назад

That's the reason why I not going to having another boyfriend after what happened last year. Cheating is a no-go relationship.

@lemonehammock3802 10 лет назад

I feel like the difference between monogamy and serial monogamy is missing here. I hear it mentioned as "paired for life" and "paired for a period of time". On another note, I love to see the Gibbon on here. They are my favorite of all of our cousins and are the very best brachiators I have ever seen! Great video!

@ESDAFable 10 лет назад

Gibbons are not actually monogamous though. They live in polyandrous societies where gibbons are typically one female and multiple unrelated males (though it's a single social group). It's one of the few known examples of polyandrous behavior in primates. That said, they're pretty exclusive to each other. Also the gibbons in your drawing are both male (males are black colors, females are creamy colored). Which is totally fine, but I think they'll have difficulty biologically producing young that way unless they go find a donor female. This is all said with a grain of salt since I'm deriving this information from a physical anthrology course I'm recalling from seven years ago, but it stuck out in my mind because gibbons are mad cool.

@mothzw 5 лет назад

1:59 that small one is like: hay i see you have chips

@TheLodjur 6 лет назад

I'm such a diplozoon paradoxum, my wife and I mated 16 years ago and haven't been apart since. The bloodsucking is a bit less intense now though.

@barkikiripictures 9 лет назад

This video really speaks to me

@YoutubeCom_1 10 лет назад

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@thezombiedoc 6 лет назад

MinuteEarth, someone in your office should read "Sex at Dawn" by Cacilda Jethá. It does a pretty good job challenging the notion of Human monogamy (with or without adultery). Might be a lot to tackle in a 3 minute video, but since you have at least two videos that imply Humans are monogamous it might worth a read.

@user-gw9bt1ft9c 6 лет назад

So my boyfriend has the genetics of a bird? *Nah just kidding, I don't have one*

@BaggyMcPiper 10 лет назад

Most animals don't write novels or explore space, either. Just because other animals behave a certain way doesn't mean we should.

@77batering 10 лет назад

Right but your argument is completely flawed in that your comparisons aren't equal. Animals do not choose not to write novels or explore space, they simply can't do so. We on the other hand, may choose to have sex in any way we like, with how ever many individuals we choose. You are comparing an impossibility (can't), to a personal view (shouldn't) and those things, simply aren't equal for comparison.

@craigape 10 лет назад

Aleria Argentum"Can't" versus "shouldn't"? So what, we should mimic animals out of pity because it's not their fault that they aren't smart? Just because they "can't", doesn't make his point any less valid. The animals don't have to choose a horrible life for us to be able to analyze why we shouldn't try to live like them.

@BaggyMcPiper 10 лет назад

MrBigEnchilada Humans actually have very good eyesight.

@77batering 10 лет назад

craigape No but rather we should stop pretending we are way above them in some sort of philosophical manner and accept that as animals, we ourselves still succumb to animalistic desires and that these are perfectly natural. I'm not saying that we should act like every other animal (which is a stupid point in and of itself as animals themselves have different behaviours and little is shared universally), but that we should accept that if we do act in such a manner, there was a reason (or rather lack of reason) for it. I think the Philosopher David Hume best described it when he said, "Reason is and ought only to be, the slave of the passions."

@BaggyMcPiper 10 лет назад

Aleria Argentum So if I have the urge to rape somebody, I should be allowed to do that because it's 'natural'?

@UchiaMadara 10 лет назад

2:04 the monkey on the right...........are those his balls dangling there?

@jeremyh9174 10 лет назад

What else would they be?

@jayq1933 10 лет назад

why the fixation?

@UchiaMadara 10 лет назад

I had to double take...like...wait what? lol

@evangelionpilled 5 лет назад

Oh my,that last one about the paradoxem was truly beautiful, TRUE LOBE, FORWVER ALONE!, I SHIP THE 2 WORMS!

@voidc4472 7 лет назад

you've forgotten Eagles, they mate for life and never separate, when one of the partners die the other never mates again for the rest of their life.

@Ral9284 10 лет назад

Nature is a cheater, how fitted topic for this date of the year (feb,14th/2014)... ¬_¬ But totally makes sense. Monogamy is rare in nature and cheating is not rare among monogamous couples. I suppose there is some moral of a fable but I cannot see it. #MinuteEarth #monogamy #cheaters

@DarkAngelEU 10 лет назад

the moral is it ain't a sin until you get caught (whom, you decide)

@Ral9284 10 лет назад

I want to point out that we are erected walking hairless apes with a big brain. That is no excuse for cheating but we cannot fight nature but we can try all we want.

@mayronsting5627 10 лет назад

i guess i know how you feel, it's natural to cheat but it's morally wrong

@Ral9284 10 лет назад

That is true, it is morally wrong. Which takes me back to: *What is moral?* Hint: is man made/artificial.

@Ral9284 10 лет назад

_"so what? they are made so it works so you dont have to worry about people stealing all day so that we can move on to something else."_ If the only thing that prevents you from stealing is that "moral" forbids it... well, there is something deeply wrong with you, MrBigEnchilada. With the above you are basically saying that if stealing wasn't forbid you will steal from everyone coz nothing can stop you from it. I want to think that people won't steal coz that is the reasonable thing to do. I want to think that people doesn't need for something to be forbid to avoid that conduct. But lets not be naive. I never said moral was wrong but moral can be wrong, they've been wrong many times. Moral changes with time, geography, and from individual to individual. Just look at religions and their different "morals." *To be moral is immoral from the start.* Anyone whom thinks that moral is needed is no different than a caged animal waiting for its "moral" cage to crumble down.

@kapilesh14 10 лет назад

I believe there is so much more to humans then just passing there genetics to the next generation, that's the reason we are monogamous - atleast most humans are:).

@AtamanTube 10 лет назад

It is true that there is more to humans then just passing genes to the next generation but it is not true that we are truly monogamous which is great!

@jiangbotao9270 10 лет назад

um that is actually not true, and so its not the reason why we are monogamous.

@raider1297 Месяц назад

This was posted a decade ago and I'll forever hate this video, which has only helped cheaters and people who don't care about hurting others to justify themselves.

@jonasg.bisgaard1086 Месяц назад

This video was never intended to excuse cheating, but rather try and explain why there’s so few species that are monogamous, however it has the wrong implication for some people that since other species are not monogamous then why should they and in turn excuse their cheating.

@raider1297 Месяц назад

@@jonasg.bisgaard1086 Oh please, thry knew exactly what they were doing. Even the thumbnail is an implication that it includes humans.

@lovley_furby8400 Месяц назад

eh, im monogamous and think cheating is terrible, monogamy is also a cultural concept i believe, as many people have diffrent relationship structures outside of monogamy that they are happy in and i respect that. and for the animal kingdom, i think its cool to see the way humans differ from other animals i dont think the video is justifying cheating, maybe you could make an argument for polyamory but thats a diffrent thing, and i think if anyone shows this video to explain why its okay to not be truthful to their partner(s) i think theyre an asshole

@bill2908 Месяц назад

@@raider1297 how do humans not apply in this scenario? Just because someone says something is a natural behavior doesn’t mean they’re excusing it, infanticide was incredibly common in prehistoric times but pointing that out doesn’t mean I’m condoning it