Why do animals have multiple "partners" while humans only have one?
459867
Not all animals have multiple partners.many have the same one year after year.to reproduce. However most of the animals just mate to reproduce and that's all. they just don't go having sex with every species of their kind just have sex,like us wonderful humans tend to do.for animals it's not about how many chicks they can get "laid" by.It's only to keep their species in existence..
433113
Several animal species exhibit homosexuality. It can actually be beneficial in an evolutionary sense if care is taken of siblings or other relatives. On the other hand, evolution does not respond to *future* threats, so any genes for homosexulaity would not have had time to spread in response to overpopulation.
821737
i can understand why they do it but...\n\ni dont agree because animals are not humans and they do have different d.n.a to us.
368677
maybe because they are less agile than that of a smaller animal there by needing only to consume such quantity of food, and also bigger animals has the ability to conserve energy in their body......i guess
710161
Animals have 2 or more. Humans have 1. \n\nLook at a cat or dog for an example of a double eyelid. They may have their outer lid open but there is a membrane underneath that slides back and forth to block out light or let it pass through. That is something that people just don't have.
812119
asexual reproduction doesn't require two partners in order to reproduce...sexual is the opposite.  It requires two creatures of the opposite sex in order to reproduce.
849678
Well all animals attract the opposite sex by the female of the species coming on heat.This function allows the female to attract the male over a wide area.Usually a dominant male breeds most of the females,this ensures that the resulting offspring are strong and healthy
259118
Humans ARE animals. We are a mammalian species of bipedal primates called "homo sapiens."\n\nMany people believe humans are separate from animals because of our superior intelligence, but I think intelligence is just a trait that every animal has, some more than others. Cheetahs and peregrine falcons are superior in speed, elephants and Kodiak bears are superior in strength, and squirrels and jaguars are superior in agility, for a few other examples of superiority. Just because we are capable of more things than other animals intellectually does not make us something foreign to the Animal Kingdom.
261209
There is not a specific number that you would say that above it you had too many partners. In life we are all looking for the partner that we will share our life with and until we find that partner we get to know other people and create relationships. If what you mean though is the scenario of having more than one partner at the same time then i am saying that more than one partner is too many.
373680
It is something that everyone thinks about, I mean, humans are attracted to many others than just their spouse, it is natural, we are animals all in the same sense. So, as long as there is a mutual agreement, and one from the other couple/person then there should not be much trouble.
1086883
Relative to humans, yes, but even then not that common. Most animals lay eggs and then leave, so they'll probably never encounter their young again. Other animals have parents that care for their young, but don't mate with them because they later leave and find other mates instead (and presumably don't want to mate with their own young). It makes biological sense to have anti-incest behavior pattern because incest produces more bad recessive traits. How they perceive that, though, who knows. Incest happens primarily in small, isolated populations where there aren't enough individuals to go around so that, probably out of a desperate sex-drive, they have incest.
314891
Only 10 percent of all animals in the animal kingdom mate for life, so the odds against humans being monogamous.And love has nothing to do with sex,as the worlds oldest professions can attest to!
557143
Animals cannot get the same stds that people get.  Human STDs are specific to us - that includes crabs.  Crabs evolved to hold onto human hair - not fur, which has a different structure.  Things like human herpes, HPV, syphillis, etc. also have evolved to affect only human hosts.  \n\nThere are STDs that affect animals though.  They cannot transmit them to us and we cannot transmit our to them.  \n\nEven plants have diseases that are tranmitted through pollenation - which is one form of plant sexuality!\n\nAnimals can transmit Hepatitis A, salmonella and other infectious diseases - but they are not considered stds.\n\nAnimals cannot get HIV because that is HUMAN immunodeficiency virus.  Some animals (like cats, monkeys, apes, and others) do have immunodeficency viruses, but they are not transmittable to us and we can't get theirs.\n\nAlthough some animals share about 90-95% of the same genes as we do - that 10 to 5% is still a huge amount of genes that we don't share.
531442
Actually, you can. And not only two.  Who says that love is whole and can not be given to more than one person? It is just a cultural bias. There have been many cultures where men have multiple wives and women have multiple husbands though the former is more prevalent.
1137276
There are organisms (fungi, mostly) with more than two genders. We call these "mating types." A mating type can usually mate with individuals of all other mating types except its own type.\n\nSupposing there were many mating types at first, as rare ones get unlucky they go extinct, until there are only two left. These become male and female (if they have gametes of different sizes).
229515
If people admit that animals are worth being in relationships with, it calls up all the other problems. People have trouble morally with all that they do to animals and they don't want to be reminded of it.
669232
I don't understand that either because I sure don't.  Animals may be less evolved than we are but they still have emotions and feelings and can show them.  To me, I would rather be around animals and appreciate them more than I do most humans!  They are more simplistic than we are and don't have the same egos we do but they are equal in every way and deserve respect, compassion and love just as we do.  They are a living breathing spirit just like we are and need to be treated as such.