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Re: The difference between a monkey and a gorilla
From: <halvar () gmx de>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:52:16 -0700
While we're on the topic of subspecies: http://www.n-tv.de/557590.html (in german) On some Island in the Atlantik, a group of mice has learnt they can kill a young albatross if they gang up in very large numbers. This seems to be the first case of learned behaviour being passed on over generations in mice. They're apparently pretty effective, putting the death rate of young albatross' into the 80 % range. Learned behaviour can have interesting consequences for the evolution of subspecies: By learning a new technique, a group of animals changes the landscape in which they evolve (in the above example, individual strength of a mouse might not be as important as communcation capabilities), whichwill lead to this group being put under different evolutionary pressures, which
will lead to the forming of a subspecies in the long run. Wee. Evolution is too much fun. Cheers,Halvar
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