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above their own individual good.
Rood saw a really unusual example of this type of behavior when a mongoose actually climbed a tree to try to rescue another mongoose from the talons of an eagle. He was successful.
Although this type of action seems contrary to our ideas of natural behavior. Rood explains it by the principle of kin selection. “In a colony, all the mongooses would be related,” he said. “By saving a relative, the heroic mongoose in this incident also assured that his genes would be perpetuated.”
The Roods find that the study of animals in society is much more complicated and interesting than the study of animals who live in solitary or small family groups.
A sideline of this type of research is that other scientists who are more interested in human behavior rely on studies such as Rood’s to try to understand some of the complexities of human society.
The funding for Rood's research has come about in part from the interest by the Guggenheim foundation in determining reasons behind human aggression.
From Liona to Bluebirds
A visit to the Roods in their Rappahannock home high above Sperryville found Jon in the process of building houses for the bluebirds he hopes to attract to their yard.
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