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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (35177)	4/18/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

Precisely what I said. But the instinct evolves not because of any conscious desire of lion to preserve his unique genes, but because the pride survives. A thinking lion would understand that in time he will be expelled by his daughters, and be replaced by a foreign lion to die alone in pain and hunger. The new lion on taking over, doesn't even know what a proper cub smells like. If the cubs were his own he would still slaughter them. I was merely attacking nature fakers who think that a male can identify his own young (i.e. by smell). The lion simply kills the resident cubs whose ever they may be. That is the instinct. Reread Thomas Hidden Life of Dogs on the murder of the dingo's pups and her passive acceptance of the act. Note that the pup that survived was accepted by the murderer (alpha female) after Thomas rescued it. The murder was instinctual, and once the ritual was played out, there was no hatred or residual effect. New Hatched wasps have an instinct to chew through clay plugs in their pupation cells. They will chew through thick artificial plugs 1" or more thick. Once they are through a plug they will die, stopped by a sheet of paper from emerging, rather than chew through it.