Wednesday, March 26, 2008

True Love

Here's something to cheer you up if you found the last post too depressing.

Interestingly, swans mate for life,* so aside from the size difference, this behavior isn't really that unusual. It does have some interesting implications about how swans self-identify as a species. It seems visual shape cues must play an important roll in their mate selection.

* well sort of. See here.

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