Yes, and nearly 100% of animals with mate with their own offspring. Many species eat their young.
Parents virtually never mate with their offspring. Some species of mammals may eat the young of others. Never their own. Most species do not eat the young of their own species. Whoever made the statement that they do is simply not well informed. Human serial killers do eat their co-specific victims though. Not something any other animal does that I know of.
My cat had kittens 3 months ago and her son is already trying to mate with her. I also had brother and sister cats that tried to mate when they were like 5 months old before I got them fixed. My ferret poops in my shower. Animals do all kinds of weird things. People make choices.
Yes, humans make choices, but who you are attracted to is NOT one of them. As a heterosexeual male, I have never been attracted to a man. I hate that religious fanatics honestly believe that gay people CHOOSE to be gay. It just doesn't make sense.
Completely agree with you John. Straight men can't be made gay and visa versa. Although humans do make choices sexual orientation is not one of them.
Its not who you copulate with that matters its who you can play with and laugh with and drink a cuppa tea with and talk with and let them into your inner most being -be it male or female - homo or hetero - so much pain is caused by people marrying because they want to couple and keep coupling - sex is the very last reason why two people should marry - be with who you can be yourself with - whether you have sex or not - love is what its about NOT lust. Because the church says NO loudly to sex out side of marriage - millions of people live in misery and sadness. Yes of course many marriages work but these days many more don't bacause of wrong foundations.
True, animals do all sorts of weird things, but so do humans. The only reason that we believe that animals do weird things is because us, as humans, don't actually do the same things ourselves.
Currently the cat sleeping on my bed is the daughter and sister of a cat that has since disappeared. There are two cat's next door who are inbred. When I had siberian hamsters as a child, they had babies. If I didn't remove the male before they gave birth the male absolutely would eat the young. In nature the male would not have remained present through it's pregnancy. Later one of the 3 siblings got it's leg caught in the wheel and damaged itself. The next day the other brothers ate him. All that was left was blood. Soon after for no apparent reason, another gets eaten. And then eventually the sole survivor died. Tell me that didn't happen why don't you? Oh and for the record, those hamsters were inbred also. 4th generation spawned from a combination between a female of the 2nd generation and a male from the third.
Umm...do you think all of these additional behaviors might have occured because they were inbred in the first place?
It's a behavior that occurs among almost all domestic hamsters. In the natural habitat, the male hamster will rut, then leave. The eating of the offspring/litter mates by the parent and each other is likely created by forced proximity in an artificial environment. BTW, anyone who's read a book on the hamsters they are raising would know that scenario would play out. Breeding animals in captivity without even basic research before hand is reprehensible. Jeff should be ashamed.
I was only 8 years old, and they weren't my responsibility. I did state "had as a child" but should have phrased it, witnessed my Mom's hamsters... Either way, what place do you have judging anyone? But I'll leave it up to you to decide which way you feel about your behavior.
Domestication is not the natural state for most animals. If you could find me significant examples of incest occurring in the natural habitat of Siberian hamsters, or incest between large cats, then this might hold some water.