Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Rolan7]

C makes the most sense to me.
If D, males would have a lot of females to choose from.  Vice versa for A.  (Ignoring the food availability, seems irrelevant)
B seems like A and B but both directions.  Lots of options for mates would, if anything, discourage monogamy right?

And E seems kinda intuitively wrong.  A naturally monogamous species would have roughly even operational sex ratio.

[Gentlefish]

...Honestly? If I had to take a stab at it I'd go for A. Only because females cannot bear offspring with multiple males in a season so there is less incentive for them to gather multiple mates.

[Kagus]

Sperm competes though.

[dragdeler]

-

[Gentlefish]

Typically females don't host harems - they can afford to be picky with their mates, and in fact are rewarded for multiple breedings with the strongest male, rather than multiple children with multiple males of varying quality considering how expensive it is for them to lay eggs.

Males, on the other hand, have no such expense and can afford to bear as many offspring as his little birdie groin can produce.

[Kagus]

Or you go the way of that one primate who mates with two males at a time and then gets both of them to take care of the kid because neither one can be certain it isn't his...

Not specifically humans in this case, actually.

[scriver]

It does read like a very love-bitter comment about people

[wierd]

Why? Humans are animals; it makes no sense to approach it any other way.

[Kagus]

It does read like a very love-bitter comment about people

Humans specifically have sperm that will attack other sperm, and genitalia that is theorized to be designed for multiple, successive male partners for a single female.

There's plenty to be bitter about, all around.

[scourge728]

It does read like a very love-bitter comment about people

\genitalia that is theorized to be designed for multiple, successive male partners for a single female.

how exactly does one determine that?

[Frumple]

Presumably see how much damage the practice would do, for a start. Designed probably isn't the right word for it, mind, but if multiple partners like, kill the prospective mother or somethin' (bedbugs, ferex, iirc. Incidentally, you're probably better off not knowing how they breed if you don't already), you can assume the bitsies aren't well equipped for it. Then stuff like what kag mentioned. Probably other concerns. Trying to piece together what's fairly inaccurately called design is pretty complicated under the best of conditions. Human reproduction is very much not best conditions.

[itisnotlogical]

When they show Marvel movies on TV, how do they deal with the post-credits stinger? I know when they show a movie on cable television, usually they either omit the credits entirely or play ads or the next show on top of it.

[Kagus]

It does read like a very love-bitter comment about people

\genitalia that is theorized to be designed for multiple, successive male partners for a single female.

how exactly does one determine that?

The shape of the head is supposed to "scoop out" ejaculate from previous partners in order to make room for the new partner's contribution, thereby increasing chances for the newest partner to have their genetic material carried on instead of the one before.

Which is a pretty specific condition for that to be used in, considering time constraints.

[TamerVirus]

When they show Marvel movies on TV, how do they deal with the post-credits stinger? I know when they show a movie on cable television, usually they either omit the credits entirely or play ads or the next show on top of it.

From what I’ve seen, they play the credits up to the mid credits scene, then immediately jump to the post credits scene. Then they flash the remaining credits in the span of 10 seconds before starting the next program. I think this was for FX, though different channels will vary

[scriver]

Over here they usually do like a few seconds (maybe not more than a couple, hard to estimate), then a scene, then a beat and the second scene if there is one.

Movies with blooper runs during the credits also gets those shown.