Lizard Love Traingles Exposed

I found this article to be interesting on more than one level.

There is so much talk about the Lizzies I felt someone could see themselves in these behavioral traits.

A three-way sex struggle resembling the game rock-paper-scissors may have existed for 175 million years or more in lizards, research now suggests.

The reptilian triads may be far more common than previously recognized—and may even shape the way humans behave, the scientists said

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www.livescience.com...

[edit on 3-10-2007 by interestedalways]

Interesting... and it definitely shares some resemblance to humans.

Orange-bellied males are brutes that invade other lizards' territories to mate with any female they can hold. But while they're gone, yellow-bellied males sneak deceptively onto the vacant territory and mate with undefended females. White-bellied males guard their mates closely and ally with other white-bellied lizards to keep the yellows at bay. Thus the analogy to rock-paper-scissors—orange force defeats white cooperation, cooperation defeats yellow deception and deception defeats force.

I suppose I'm more like the white-bellied cooperator lizard.

That does seem like it would work out better in the long run!

Funny how their traits are inherent in the color of the bellies and that they change roles every few years.