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Geege Schuman wrote:

>"British scientists were honoured for research that found ostriches became
>more amorous with each other when a human was around. In fact, ostriches
>eventually started putting the moves on humans."
>
>this is true of manatees also.  you don't want to know.
>
>  
>
So how much of it is due to jumping the inter-species boundary for 
STATUS - i.e. I can fuck any of several
reasonable candidates from my own species, or I can  be ambitious, and 
go after the authority figure in the room.
The alternative hypothesis is that its due to novelty, and then of 
course, there's the "they'll fuck anything  given
appropriate conditions." Hmmm, is this a potential intelligence test, 
seeing as the last is a particularily human response?

Owen