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posted by Jessica Morris in Relationships

Infidelity and the Birds!

February 21, 2012

A study recently published detailing fidelity patterns in birds may provide further understanding of human infidelity.

The study published in the scietific journal, PLoS One, was done by researchers at North Carolina State University and Columbia University.

Over 200 species of birds were studied and found that birds are more likely to reproduce with a greater number of partners to increase when their climates and habitats become unstable.

“Humans have been able to transform the environment to such a level so that basic processes like rainfall and temperature affect us very little,” Botero told Discovery.com. But humans have considerably less control over changes in the stock market or other outside economic forces -- the human equivalent of an unpredictable climate, as Discovery.com points out.

(Read the full article @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/why-we-cheat-bird-mating_n_1285...).

Now I'm just not buying this one.

If my boyfriend cheated on me and said, "I'm sorry, my climate conditions just became unstable" I would laugh at his face.

I don't really see the logical correlation between this research and human infidelity. Human decision making skills vary drastically from that of birds.

Maybe I'm wrong though, perhaps infidelity does occur when we feel out of control. Is it just a natural reaction? What do you think?

 

 

 

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