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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is what "alpha male" humans don't understand:

According to primatologists monitoring this community, a couple of days earlier, Hugo had acted aggressively toward the infant of the youngest attacker, Bella (15 years old). Infanticide is a common male strategy in many species to ensure reproductive success: a male fathers offspring once the female is no longer caring for the children she had with others.

“Bonobo females, however, have managed to reverse this trend, which chimpanzees do, thanks to an unusual cooperation between them,” explains Pashchevskaya, “and they even attack males who misbehave with their young.” “Extreme violence would be better explained as a response to the extreme threat: infanticide,” summarizes the lead author of the case now detailed in Current Biology.

One "alpha male" may be stronger than any female, but almost no one is stronger than 5+ individuals working together.

They all dream of being able to impose their will on women, and never think about how that'll end up. Which is with a group of individuals banding together against the "alpha male", biting his testicles off, and then engaging in "genital to genital rubbing" on top of his unconscious soon to be corpse.

Every society is built on the threat of violence if you don't follow social norms. There's no inherently peaceful primate society, just some that don't need to routinely follow thru to enforce their social norms.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 9 points 3 days ago

Every society is built on the threat of violence if you don't follow social norms. There's no inherently peaceful primate society, just some that don't need to routinely follow thru to enforce their social norms.

Since humans are primates this checks out.