Did You Know That These Lizards Mate For Life?
They had a reptile dysfunction.
👩❤️👨 Just kidding. Sticking to one partner isn’t quite common, even for animals.
💤🦎 But for the romantics like you, we found a role model from Australia. The sleepy lizard (yes, people call it that), aka. Tiliqua rugosa, are these blue-tongue creatures that love the idea of monogamy. You might also know them by their nicknames — bobtail or shingleback.
Anyways, once the shy boys target a girl lizard they like, it would carefully stalk her for days. Even months! (That’s actually creepy)
🏩 These lizards mate for life. It’s in their blood, and they know it to the gut. Once they do it, they’re stuck to the same dick forever. It’s incredibly rare to find monogamous animals. (Only around 5% of mammals do it!)
😢 On the other hand, researchers have also discovered a touching gesture they do. When female lizards die, the husbands would constantly push the body and growl, hoping to bring her back. They wouldn’t even think about looking for someone new! (Damn, they need to move on!)
We don’t know exactly why they love the idea of monogamy so much yet. But hey, there’s always something to learn about, and lizards are no exception. Maybe the Kardashians wanna check them out.
Humans embraced monogamy to begin with because it helps support a family with children. It just increases the survival rates for animals that need forever to grow up. However, those of you who think monogamy is bullshit. You’re not exactly wrong. Sticking to one partner does come with the con of a lack of genetic diversity.
We’re not trying to take sides on either, but we do want to remind you that dyadic relationships are made up. Humans didn’t evolve to adopt monogamy. We designed it. As long as you can see through that, you could suddenly realize there are many, many ways mother nature reproduces. That being said, marriages should be free from moral values as well. The world is always changing. If a certain type of relationship can’t follow up with how the world reacts to it, adjustments must be made.
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