If women are supposed to be equal, why is it in the animal kingdom that the male counterparts are always ...?

Question

trying to dominate in a situation where a female exists?

Answer 1

They don't. Look at ant, bee, or termite colonies. They are completely female dominated. The few males that exist are only needed for fertilization.

Answer 2

men seek a mate for ability to reproduce (i.e. health, and base this decision on looks); females seek a mate for ability to support her and her child (and base this decision on intelligence and strength)

this natural selection has resulted in modern males being more intelligent & stronger than modern females. no amount of social engineering can change this, at least not in one generation which is what feminists are attempting to do.

Answer 3

You shouldn't compare animals with humans.now that's just stupid. Just shows the saying women are smarter than men. now why is that...hmmm

and the dominate part , really its dominate amongst the male population in the group, not the females, they'd surely kick his *** if he tried to get smart.they just want his sperm to get the most healthy spawns.

Answer 4

You obviously haven't heard of the bonobo, have you?

Answer 5

Always is a very big word in the animal kingdom. In this case it doesn't hold up . The show Lemur Street comes to mind, they film clans of Lemurs going through their daily lives. These clans are clearly led by the dominant female. That's just the ones with their own show many more examples exist.  

Answer 6

You are right.  You should create "equal rights" legislation for animals.  If a male animal bellows, moos, farts, burps or yowls too loudly, then that's domestic violence!  

Women should protest, demonstrate and march.  Why those darn male animals are, well they are acting like animals!  How dare they.

Yes this will be a real moneymaker!  Put all the male adult animals on RX meds.  Then drug er medicate the male animal children with ritialin.  Heck first buy RX stock!  

Feminists can seperate animal families.  Drag away the fathers and isolate the male children (throw em on computer games.)  Heck animal lawyers will love it!  

Prosecutor:  "Did you or didn't you Mr. Bat fly under Ms. Bat's head while she slept upside down?"    

Defender:  "Your honor, Mr. Bat claims he is blind and didn't mean to "buzz" Ms. Bat.  He claims he was going after a midnight snack..."    

Judge:  "In LIGHT of circumstances, Mr. Bat is to lose 100% of the Batcave & all rights & claims to mosquitoes/insects within a 500 mile radius to Ms. Bat.  Furthermore and inter alia, no further communication with the children, 500 hours of community Cave service and a fine of $55,000 payable to Animal Farm.  Five years hard labor in Animal Siberia."  "Mr. Bat I suggest you reform your flying ways.  Why I ought to cut off your wings, you, you Patriarch you!  Get out of my sight, you vampire!  You make me sick."    

Oh and we need animal therapists, counselors, animal domestic violence counselors...great idea, this will create thousands of jobs for butch female animals.  ;P

You can have a new slogan "down with c*cks and up with b*tches." *

Answer 7

Be happy it's that way with humans. Female domination in nature equates to males getting their heads cut off, being cannibalized, or worse.

Answer 8

*Yawn*

"Equal" is a mathematical concept.  Things don't need to be the same to be equal:

(2 + 2) = (4)

Different - yet entirely equal.

Can you find a male animal that can do this?

Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθένος parthenos, "virgin", + γένεσις genesis, "creation") is an asexual form of reproduction found in females where growth and development of embryos or seeds occurs without fertilization by a male. The offspring produced by parthenogenesis almost always are female in species where the XY chromosome system determines s*x.

Parthenogenesis occurs naturally in some species, including most lower plants, a Kalanchoe succulent plant genus of South Africa, invertebrates (e.g. water fleas, aphids, some bees, some scorpion species, and parasitic wasps), and vertebrates (e.g. some reptiles,[1] fish, and, very rarely, birds[2] and sharks[3]) and this type of reproduction has been induced artificially in other species.

As with all types of asexual reproduction, there are both costs (low genetic diversity and susceptibility to adverse mutations that might occur) and benefits (reproduction without the need for a male) associated with parthenogenesis.  Asexual reproduction existed alone from the beginning of life on Earth for many epochs. When sexual reproduction arose (presumably through mutation) it introduced a means to expand genetic diversity through the contribution of the male, providing more options for the survival of the species in which it began. Many species achieved this reproductive path successfully, some to the exclusion of the asexual pattern from which it arose, some enabling both, some retaining the capacity to revert to asexual reproduction—if necessary, and yet others that abandoned sexual reproduction and reverted to the asexual. "

Answer 9

OH dear...have u ever watched a lion pride on telly?...yes the lion gets to have 4-5 lionesses to breed with and supposedly 'dominate' but after closely watching the dynamics ive noticed that it is the lionesses who hunt the male never does he isnt skilled enough so he is reliant on their good graces to be fed. Also when he becomes to old and decrepit the lionnesses will watch a younger lion come into the pride and evict the older one or kill him to supplant him. the lionesses will do nothing to interfere. essentially these females get to spend all day looking after their cubs spending time with the other females who they are close enough with to leave their offspring in the care of so they can go out and bring back food for all the pride.in other words they value their offspring and female ''family'' more then the male.In the end the only real function a lion has is to ..well rut in springtime and fight when another lion comes around looking at his fine gals!! hes just gotta hope he has the right stuff or hes gone:)

Answer 10

That's a really good question, I don't have a really good answer for it. Though it seems that in our society today - everyone is equal and it doesn't matter about ability anymore - That's why this country is going up **** creek.

Answer 11

Your knowledge of zoology and ethology is obviously limited.

Answer 12

Always?  I suggest you do a bit more research.

Answer 13

Humans do the same thing. You can enact all the laws that you want and pass legislation until you go blind, but remember this. Mother Nature cannot read. The instinct to breed dictates the the 'spoils' got to the strongest and the biggest. And regardless of what our society dictates that will always be the case.

Unfortunately "the strongest and the biggest" ofttimes refers to the persons bank account. Women may be expected to be submissive, but we can't expect them to be stupid too.

Answer 14

They aren't, if you look at different species of animals they all have different ehaviours but when it comes to gender it's completely mixed. Depending on the species the male and female dominance/interaction is different.  

Answer 15

So, this is what you constant battle for equality has got you; comparisons to the animal kingdom.  Animals by the way don't care about equality; they only care about their own survival, which can correlate into survival of the fittest and why hunters prey upon  the sick, the aged and the weak.  The soul purpose of the male is to propagate the species.

Answer 16

Females in a lot of species try to dominate the males too.  I can think of a lot of examples, but black widow spiders immediately come to mind.

Answer 17

that's life mate

Answer 18

That's not always true. But whatever the situation, the underlying biological imperative is that females seek out the best male sperm whilst the males seek out the best female eggs. That's nature.

Interesting case with ants (and some other insects) is that the 'work' is done by females. There is the 'queen', whose sole function is to breed, and there are the status-less females whose sole function is to work. The males are all soldiers.

Answer 19

You could also ask this another way ~ why are the females submissive or selective in some species of animals?

In most cases where the male is the 'dominant' animal of a species, he fights for territory and females by harnessing his aggression and strength and using them to overpower others, including the females.

For example, female cats are smaller than male cats, but the male cat almost always has to demonstrate his strength and dominance in order to get s3xual access to the female.

The way I see it, animals can't have a conversation with a potential mate, and make committments and decisions, so the trial of strength is the way they decide which of the available mates is the one they will select. Also, in some species, such as apes, the dominant male does not allow other males to have access to the females ... this is a clear pattern in some male dominated societies, also.

In humans, it is something the male still does, in some ways ~ muscle building sure, but accumulating power, money and goods are other ways of showing 'strength' and 'dominance'.

However, as with humans, in some cases animals will NOT select the dominant male and will opt, instead, for one that appears less impressive ~ even if that could get her into trouble with the dominant male. Why? No-one really knows, except that perhaps personality DOES enter into it, just as it does for humans.

How these things work is not a certain science, and there is still much more to learn, which makes it very interesting!

Cheers :-)

Answer 20

Strong and healthy genes are desireable in general.  It's just nature.