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>Fluffy bunnies are lunch for everything with sharp teeth. If it were
possible to develop a simple pheremone to make any creature behave in a
generally friendly fashion, then Fluffy Bunnies would find it very handy
t= o
have. No fluffy Bunny or any other perrenial victim of the ecology has thi= s
as a defense mechanism.
>This says to me that Pheromones are pretty specific.
Okay, I get it now. Of course if the "fluffy bunnies" evolved
some kind of=
chemical
means to alter the behaviour of the predators that feed on them, the predat= ors then
could evolve some means to ignore the chemicals or to counter the effects.
On the other hand, Ksassans and non-Ksassans have not evolved together and
do not co-exist, so there has been no evolutionary give-and-take between
th= em.
It is possible that the effect of the Ksassan pheromones might weaken with
time as individuals and perhaps species build up a tolerance to them.
This=
is an
angle that I have not considered, but perhaps I should. I know that there = are
medical means to dampen or even prevent the effects of the pheromones on
individuals, but these counteracting agents have to be individually
prepare= d,
implying that people respond in different ways and to different levels with=
the phermones,
and different Ksassans might have different effects on the same person. Th= is is
an idea to consider, and perhaps explain why Ksassans who spend a lot of ti= me among
non-Ksassans tend to move around a lot.
Steve
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>Fluffy bunnies are lunch for everything with sharp
teeth. If it
werepossible to develop a simple pheremone to make any creature behave in
agenerally friendly fashion, then Fluffy Bunnies would
find it very
handy tohave. No fluffy Bunny or any other perrenial
victim of the ecology has thisas a defense
mechanism.>This says to me that Pheromones are
pretty specific.
Okay, I get it now. Of
course if the "fluffy
bunnies" evolved some kind of chemical
means to alter the behaviour of
the predators that
feed on them, the predators then
could evolve some means to ignore
the chemicals or
to counter the effects.
On the other hand, Ksassans and
non-Ksassans have
not evolved together and
do not co-exist, so there has been
no evolutionary
give-and-take between them.
It is possible that the effect of
the Ksassan
pheromones might weaken with
time as individuals and perhaps
species build up a
tolerance to them. This is an
angle that I have not considered,
but perhaps I
should. I know that there are
medical means to dampen or even prevent the
effects
of the pheromones on
individuals, but these
counteracting agents have
to
be individually prepared,
implying that people respond in
different ways and
to different levels with the phermones,and different Ksassans
might have different effects on the same person. This
is
an idea to consider, and perhaps explain why
Ksassans who spend a lot of time among
non-Ksassans tend to move around a
lot.
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
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