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Mammals With out care.; How would it effect them?
Topic Started: Dec 14 2009, 01:40 PM (920 Views)
ATEK Azul
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This topic is for the descussion of what Mammals would be like if they Never developed Pariental care.

Here are some things we can figuer out:

What are the Mammalian milk glands going to be used for?

How would this effect Mammalian developement and dominance?

How would this change other features of Mammals?

How will this effect Mammalian behavior?

How will this effect other groups?

Along with any other differences that you can think of happening.

I also Have some Ideas already but I would like to hear your thoughts before I post them.

Any way Please post, comment and share ideas please.
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Since when is parental care the only way to have descently have intellegence?

Also these new animals as suggested before might still be social pack hunters using the milk glands to get males and other species to hunt and work for them.

Other things that makes them not Reptiles is their erect stance, fur and warm blooded nature.

I think Mammals could do quite well(even if not as much as here).
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It's not, but what I'm saying is that it's more likely you will get intelligence if you are raised by parents who must teach you how to survive. Without parental care there is very little need for learning, as instinct can guide you through almost any situation you will encounter. If your species is one that receives parental care, then you gain a predisposition for learning, and you can make the leap from learning by observing your parents' examples to learning by simply observing.

The reason I said birds would likely become dominant was because they receive, to some degree, parental care. They are taught, at least a little, and thus have some capacity for learning by observation, and thus intelligence. This can be seen in birds today like crows, that, through observation, can learn trash schedules and know when dumpsters will be full and ready for scavenging. Or the African Grey Parrot, a bird capable of not only learning, but comprehending simple English and even forming its own words by combination. Would they become as intelligent as us? Probably not, they don't have a very effective method of manipulating the environment, but they could still develop some kind of tribal intelligence.
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True Parental care does create learning. Maybe these Mammals develope their brains to hold more instincts?

And I agree that Birds will be more dominant I just don't see them taking over completely.
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Or the mammals could instead learn from each other ;)



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Well the only way this new version of Mammals can teach themselves is interspecies relationships(the thing I have been saying milk glands might be used for).

But most of you don't seem to support this idea.
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