The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany has done a study on chimpanzee behavior. From Reuters…
“Our results strongly suggest that wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex, and do so on a long-term basis,”
“Males who shared meat with females doubled their mating success, whereas females, who had difficulty obtaining meat on their own, increased their caloric intake without suffering the energetic costs and potential risk of injury related to hunting.”
So, males doubled their chances with meat. Double…that’s substantial.
“The meat for-sex hypothesis is a plausible explanation for male-female meat sharing in this species, as chimpanzees are highly promiscuous, they have a certain degree of female choice and hunters can usually control the sharing of their catch,”
In other words, for chimps, it’s a real meat market. Basically, the guy who has the meat, gets the pick of the meat tramps.
What is the point, you ask?…
“These findings are bound to have an impact on our current knowledge about relationships between men and women; and similar studies will determine if the direct nutritional benefits that women receive from hunters in human hunter-gatherer societies could also be driving the relationship between reproductive success and good hunting skills,”
It’s all a “women who like men, who like women who like meat”, sort of thing.
And, it’s pretty easy to over think this kind of thing and ask too many questions. How would the results differ among a group of vegan chimps? Are we really a human hunter gatherer society?
All in all, it’s probably a good idea to stop off at the butcher shop and pick up a couple of rib eyes on the way home, in the interest of science and just to be on the safe side.
Yesterday, I was driving along and I was kind of hungry, semi-hungry. Let’s say minor league hungry. Not enough hungry to drive out of my way and go to the Korean Buffet, not that hungry. And, I had places to be so I wasn’t going to negotiate my way through the Country Mart to grab some organic celery hearts.
A lot of times, what I’ll do in this situation is stop at the next gas station a grab a plank of good old beef jerky. Probably not the best thing for you but, surely not the worst. Tasty and, for gas station food, maybe your best choice to avoid food poisoning.
Anyway, I grabbed a hunk of the stuff and I was waiting in line at the register and I decided to look at the label; maybe find an expiration date just in case. Buffalo Jerky, it says on the label. Buffalo Jerky!
Now, I got nothing against the noble bison. I’ve eaten buffalo burgers, steaks etc. I know the deal about how it’s leaner meat and better for you blah, blah blah. I happen to think that the cow is one thing they got right; tailor made for eating. So, I walked back to the display, to replace it for some bovine and, the whole thing is buffalo jerky. That’s all they had.
Actually, I’ve seen that at a few places lately; no beef. And sometimes it’s even worse. Sometimes they have these “exotic” jerkys. Not just the chicken, turkey jerky and that jive. I’ve seen alligator jerky.
I don’t want to drive down the road chewing on a chunk of mule deer or Kodiak bear. It started me thinking back to years ago when the old black man from South Carolina told me; “Jack, if I saw a cow and a pig walking down the street together, I’d shoot the pig. Can’t go wrong with the pig Jack.”
Instead of Antelope or Manatee jerky why isn’t someone making pork jerky? It is the other white meat for crying out loud. Surely with all of the modern jerky technology, someone could bust out some pig jerky.
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