When the animal is in heat, the six relatives do not recognize, so have you ever wondered what will happen when the stray male lion outside meets his mother again?
The lion is a typical social animal, whether in Africa or Asia, the lion's large family consists of at least 7-10 female lions and 1-2 male lions. Among them, the female lions are the core of the lion group, mainly responsible for hunting and bringing babies; The male lions open their mouths for food, and as soon as they open their eyes, they have prey, not because they are lazy, but because the male lions are responsible for guarding the territory, and the lion king mainly acts as a deterrent and can mate with all the female lions in the lions.
In addition to this, there is a special presence in the lion pack, the lion cub. But the time of the lion cub in the lion group is often not too long, generally the cub lion grows to about 2 years old, the lion king will use a rather cruel way to drive the little lion away, and the little lion can only wander on the grassland and live a hungry and full life. This is the "male adult leaving home" system in the lions.
Although on the surface, it seems that it is quite cruel to throw a lion cub out when it is only 2 years old, in fact, this naturally occurring system well avoids the possibility of "inbreeding" between lions. After all, after animals enter estrus, they will be governed by hormones, and there is no reason to speak of. If the animals are inbred during estrus, then the health of the offspring of this lion herd will be seriously threatened.
The little lion who walked out of the lion herd has since become a "wandering male lion" on the grassland, and how it will survive is full of countless possibilities, in order to survive on the grassland, the stray male lions will temporarily form a small alliance that is not very strong, hunting together to survive.
What if one day, the stray lion cub sees his mother again and is still in heat?
Generally speaking, after the little lion is expelled by the lion king, he will rarely continue to live nearby, because as the little lion grows up, the fear of the strong engraved in the DNA will make the little lion take the initiative to leave, and the grassland is so big, almost all his life the little lion can not see his father, mother, brothers and sisters.
But there are exceptions to everything, the earth is round, the grassland area is limited, after experiencing countless difficulties and dangers, the little lion also has the opportunity to counterattack again, as long as the little lion is strong enough, he can kill the lion king of any lion group, take over this lion group, and still enjoy the priority mating right with the lioness in the lion group. This old lion king who was killed may also be his father. then Will new lion kings inbreed?
This is also unlikely. When the lion cub meets his mother again, he can recognize it, and this is based on the smell. Lions have a keen sense of smell, and it is easy to identify the special smell of their relatives, as long as they are close, lions can remember their childhood smell and recognize their relatives. Of course, this is not absolute, because lions do not have human intelligence after all, and there is no ethics, and inbreeding still exists.
But this probability is very low, so low that it can be ignored, because inbreeding is likely to lead to various disabilities in the offspring. In nature's brutal survival of the fittest, few lion cubs return to their original herds unless they want to futile their efforts.
If the male lion leaves, people can avoid inbreeding, so if it is a female lion left, will it have inbreeding with the lion king?
The answer is also almost none. If the lion king is very strong and waits until the young lionesses are still in place when they grow up, then the sexual maturity node of these lionesses will be postponed to avoid inbreeding. You can say it's the wisdom of nature, or you can say it's a script written in animal DNA.
Humans can avoid inbreeding by establishing ethical concepts, animals do not have such a high IQ, can only avoid inbreeding through the simplest expulsion, infidelity.
The representative of the expulsion is the lions. In the lion herd, male lions are expelled, and these homeless people can only find new lions to replace them, resulting in genetic hybridization. It is worth mentioning that the lion herd is centered on females, so male lions are expelled; Some animal groups have males as the core, then females are expelled.
The representative of the derailment is birds. Based on DNA analysis, scientists believe that 90 percent of birds have extramarital affairs, and that perhaps 70 percent of the chicks in a nest are not born to males in the couple. People like to praise monogamous mandarin ducks and swans, but these birds only appear to be monogamous in behavior, but the true sexual aspect rarely remains faithful. Scientists analyzed that the female bird "cheated" in order to make the genes of the offspring more diverse.
What's more interesting is that the male birds find ways to closely guard their nests to prevent their females from cheating, while also finding ways to feed their families, bring food to the birds, and find opportunities to fool around with other females; Females are similar, not only to take on the task of laying eggs, but also to find ways to sneak out and date other males, but also to evaluate the abilities of different males, and to remember the way home. This series of operations has led to a lot larger brain capacity and a lot smarter.
