昼飯作りが面倒になった細君から近所のパン屋さんでサンドウィッチを買って来いとの命が下った。
マルミ屋さんの前に行くと盆休みの貼り紙である。
急遽駅前の北欧まで調達に向かった。
駅前の広場では保育園児が水遊びをしていた。大方の子供は保育士さんと噴水で遊んでいるが、中にはハグレ者がいて離れたところにある水道の蛇口を開けて遊び始める。保育士さんは八方目なのでその子の行動は視野に入れている。
花を見る目配りにさえお人柄(高澤良一)
暫くして保育士さんがその子に近づいた。抱き抱えて集団に戻すのかなと見ていると、その子と少し遊び言葉を交わしている。そしてその子が自然と集団に戻るまでじっと待っておりました。
噴水の向かうに回つてみても夏(小松生長)
細君が昼寝の間、暇潰しに“ときわ”にまいる。水分補給、塩分補給、そして酢分補給であります。酢の物盛合せと云うメニュー外の一品をお願いした。
酢の物の酢を飲み干せり鴎外忌(藤崎実)
店のテレビでは富田林警察からの逃走事件に随分と時間と自称評論家たちを注ぎ込んでいたな。
警察も必死だろう。これで逃亡犯に強姦や殺人事件でも起こされたら首がゴロゴロと転がることになる。
容疑否認は最近当たり前になったようだが、刑務所や留置場からの逃走も耳にするようになった。“しんみょうにお縄につけ”はナショナルがスポンサーを降りてこのかた聞かない台詞になった。“しんみょう”は“神妙”と書くらしい。
狐火や顔を隠さぬ殺人鬼(大澤鷹雪)
凶悪ということではチンパンジーは相当したたかのようです。ゴリラ、人間、チンパンジーではチンパンジーが一番のようです。
Chimpanzee behaviour - Killer instincts June 26th 2010 チンパンジーの苛 烈な縄張り争い、殺し合い
People are not alone in waging war. Their closest living cousins, chimpanzees, also slaughter their own kind - in brutal attacks that primatologists increasingly view as strategic, co-ordinated assaults rather than random acts of violence. But however tempting it is to see these battles through the lens of human warfare, the motives for chimp-on-chimp violence are poorly understood. In particular, researchers have long debated whether the apes fight for land, or for females.
A report just published in Current Biology may help to settle the question. The study it describes, led by John Mitani, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the first to offer a detailed picture of organised conflict between chimpanzees are fuelled by territorial conquest.
Between 1999 and 2008 Dr Mitani and his colleagues shadowed a group of chimpanzees called the Ngogo, who live in the Kibale national park in Uganda. Most of the time, the Ngogo chimps were anything but model soldiers - squabbling, foraging and lolling about their domain. But on 114 occasions Dr Mitani's colleague Sylvia Amsler watched large groups of males strike out on silent , single-file patrols to the fringes of their territory.
These forays often turned violent. All but one of the fatal attacks Dr Amsler witnessed occurred during boundary patrols. In each case, males colluded to kill chimps from a neighbouring group.
To understand what motivated this violence, the reseachers looked at which chimps were actually attacked. If the purpose of chimpanzee warfare were either rape or the abduction of mates, then the expectation would be that adult males would be the targets of lethal violence. On occasion, they were. But most victims were juveniles, and of both sexes.
Furthermore, chimpanzee mothers were often beaten as the raiders snatched and killed their offspring. Though these assaults on mothers were rarely lethal, patrolling chimps were clearly more likely to batter females than recruit them as mates, suggesting that other motives might drive their violent behaviour.
The researchers therefore asked whether geography offered a better explanation. Using the Global Positioning System to map patrol routes and attack locations, they saw that the Ngogo chimps' reconnaissance fanned mainly beyond their north-eastern border, encroaching onto the land of a neighbouring group. Almost all of the killings occurred in this disputed territory, which sported particularly fine stands of the chimps' favourite fruit-tree. By the time the study ended, the Ngogo group's campaign had displaced its rivals completely, annexing the north-eastern lands and enlarging its range by 22%.
Though the territorial upgrade may eventually attracts new mates, none of the displaced females has been spotted joining the Ngogo group. This suggests that real estate, not a tight mating market, is the true motive for chimp combat. Such motivation makes sense in the context of the discovery in 2004, by Jennifer Williams of the University of Minnesota, that larger territories enabled chimps in neighbouring Tanzania to produce more offspring. This provides an evolutionary incentive for the apes to expand their range - and its associated resources - by any means necessary.
Can chimpanzees skirmishes tell people anything about their own violent tendencies? One lesson, which may surprise cynics, is that humans are more peaceful than chimps. The rate of killing Dr Mitani reports is between one-and-a-half and five times that seen in human agricultural societies - and between five and 17 times higher than attrition due to warfare among hunter-gatherers, who could have less need to defend territory than farmers. (It is also, it must be acknowledged, higher than that reported for other chimpanzee communities, suggesting that the Ngogo troop may be exceptionally bellicose.) In the context of comparisons with humans, though, the most salient feature of chimpanzee combat may be its co-operative nature.
Chimps avoid single combat. To fight successfully, they must maintain complex, collaborative social networks - suggesting that only by bonding within groups can chimps engage in violence between such groups. This has big implications. It may be the ability to form bonds with strangers was forged by the demands of war. Thus, the human tendency to coalesce around abstract concepts such as religion or nation, which underpins civilisation, may well be an evolutionary legacy of a violent past. Signs of anything similar in a species that, albeit a close-ish relative, parted company from the line leading to humans at least 5m years ago are therefore interesting.
