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I'm listening to David Attenborough's book right now, and he makes it clear that all kinds of confrontations and deceptions arose due to sexual selection, something I can't seem to think about enough. The idea is that you have to have a lot of resources to burn, so you kind of show off how badass or bawler you are, with the end result being that the fittest do indeed pass on their offspring, albeit with peacock feathers and stuff like that.

I'm gonna write about scorpion sex soon.

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Sex definitely underlies all. I wish someone would tell Trump his approach is not working in that regard though. I guess if there were animal narcissists that would be a different special category.

I should read that book and I eagerly await the scorpion sex!

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I will confess that "I eagerly await the scorpion sex" was not on this morning's bingo card.

I think it's very likely that the US electorate is about to tell Trump exactly how bad his approach is working.

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I hope so and he’s not hot!

Scorpion sex for the win!

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Once when I had my (small) parrot I left for work and when I came home 8 hours later saw I'd not put his water dish in and left the little door open. (Horrors!) Anyway, there he sat happily on his perch so I fixed the issue. Then I was looking at the back of my recliner and saw a number of poop droppings. The little f'er had climbed out of his cage, hop/flew to the back of my chair (where he hung out at night with me) until he was done with it - probably 1-1/12 hours by the number of poops - then flew back to his cage and back inside where he waited, thinking I'd be none the wiser.

I'm also reminded of something a friend's grandfather used to say about Boston terriers (I was raised by one) - they're the only dogs smart enough to lie to you. I personally think they're the smartest/funniest dogs out there, but I doubt they're the only ones who lie.

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I've definitely seen the guilty face of some dogs who seem ashamed of something bad they did. But they don't seem good (for that reason) of hiding it. There's something sub-animal about Trump's lack of conscience on this.

But your grand bird is the best, lies and all!

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