geege schuman wrote british scientists were honoured for research that found ostriches became more amorous with each other when a human was around in fact ostriches eventually started putting the moves on humans this is true of manatees also you don t want to know so how much of it is due to jumping the inter species boundary for status i e i can fuck any of several reasonable candidates from my own species or i can be ambitious and go after the authority figure in the room the alternative hypothesis is that its due to novelty and then of course there s the they ll fuck anything given appropriate conditions hmmm is this a potential intelligence test seeing as the last is a particularily human response owen 