Idk I bet there are lots of beavers sluttier than me

maybe a sheep that got cheated on wrote this article 😢

Surely there can't be that many sheep on Soay to come up with such an estimate.

I suspect the scientist got a bit lonely out there doing the fieldwork, tried something that he'd normally get away with on a domestic ewe, got rebuffed, and wrote this paper to slander the whole species as revenge.

Ewe SLUT!

Depends on the human.

What does this say about the Welsh?

Jesus tending to his flock: "This is not what I meant when I said be like sheep"

Learning moment for me: does conflict of interest section not include known baises? why wouldn't the researcher being monogamous be listed there?

I'm definitely putting that on my dating profile. Sluter than a sheep

who wrote this list, idaho?

I don't understand the methodology at all. Genetic analysis of a mother's babies would show "monogamy" if the alpha male in the herd keeps their status in multiple seasons. The typical polygamy relationship counts as monogamous, afaiu. Could it simply be that sheep change their alpha male each season, instead of everybody fucking everybody rules?

First, what it really measures is not the rate of monogamy (as in being with one partner at a time), but the rate at which animals only mate with one other animal throughout life, without contraception (which humans have).

Second, I wonder how culture shapes the score for humans. A lot of monogamous behavior in humans is shaped not by natural drive to stick to one partner, but by culturally defined repercussions for going out with someone else.