what male lobster will do after winning the battle // what male lobster will do after the battle. In this article, I am going to tell you about after winning battal what lobster will do.
The female lobsters (who also fight hard for territory
during the explicitly maternal stages of their existence) identify the top guy
quickly and become irresistibly attracted to him. This is a brilliant strategy,
in my estimation. It’s also one used by females of many different species,
including humans. Instead of undertaking the computationally difficult task of
identifying the best man, the females outsource the problem to the machine-like
calculations of the dominance hierarchy. They let the males fight it out and peel
their paramours from the top. This is very much what happens with stock-market
pricing, where the value of any particular enterprise is determined through the
competition.
When the females are ready to shed their shells and soften
up a bit, they become interested in mating. They start hanging around the
dominant lobster’s pad, spraying attractive scents and aphrodisiacs toward him,
trying to seduce him. His aggression has made him successful, so he’s likely to
react in a dominant, irritable manner. Furthermore, he’s large, healthy, and powerful.
it’s no easy task to switch his attention from fighting to mating. (if properly
charmed, however, he will change his behavior towards the female. This is the
lobster equivalent of Fifty Shades of Grey, the fastest-selling paperback of
all time, and the eternal Beauty-and-the-Beast plot of archetypal romance. This
is the pattern of behavior continually represented in the sexually explicit
literary fantasies that are as popular among women as provocative images of
naked women are among men.)
It should be pointed out, however, that sheer physical power
is an unstable basis on which to find lasting dominance, as the Dutch
primatologist Frans de Waal has taken pains to demonstrate. Among the chimp
troupes he studies, males who were successful in the longer term had to buttress
their physical prowess with more sophisticated attributes. Even the most brutal
chimp despot can be taken down, after all, by two opponents, each
three-quarter as mean. In consequence, males who stay on top longer are those
who form reciprocal coalitions with the troupe’s females and their infants. The political
ploy of baby-kissing is literally millions of years old. But lobsters are still
comparatively primitive, so the bare plot elements of Beast and Beauty suffice
for them.
Once the beast has been successfully charmed, the successful
female (lobster)will disrobe, shedding her shell, making herself dangerously soft,
vulnerable, and ready to mate. At the right moment, the male, now converted
into a careful lover, deposits a packet of sperm into the appropriate
receptacle. Afterward, the female hangs around and hardens up for a couple of
weeks (another phenomenon not entirely unknown among human beings). At the
leisure, She returns to her own domicile, laden with fertilized eggs. At this
point, another female will attempt the thing –and so on. The dominant male, with
his upright and confident posture, not only gets the prime real estate and most accessible access to best-hunting grounds/ he also gets all the girls/ it is exponentially
more worthwhile to be successful if you are a lobster and male.
Why is all this relevant? For an amazing number of reasons,
apart from those that are comically obvious. First, we know that lobsters have
been around, in one form or another, for more than 350 million years. This is a
very long time. Sixty-five million years ago, there were still dinosaurs. That is
the unimaginably distant past to us. To the lobsters, however, dinosaurs were
the nouveay riche, who
appeared and disappeared in the flow of near-eternal time. This means that dominance
hierarchies have been an essentially permanent feature of the environment to
which all complex life has adapted. A third of a billion years ago, brains and
nervous systems were comparatively simple. Nonetheless, they already had the
structure and neurochemistry necessary to process information about status and
society. The importance of this fact can hardly be overstated.
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