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Originally Posted by parmnion
If livestock were wild, the females have no, or very little choice in who gets up them to impregnate them.
They also don't have the option to abort, the closest you will get to abortion in the animal kingdom is the killing, or abandonment of new borns by their mothers.
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Actually most primate species (and loads of other species) do have a high degree of female partner selection (and thus male competition); there's a lot of "trying to impress" with physical prowess and resource gathering, "peacocking" bewteen males in hopes of being chosen as a mate by as many females as possible. It's a bit like "Love Island".
The second part you've pretty much covered yourself there Parmy; animals DO abort, they just do it at birth. Normally for (to be bleak/blunt) the same reasons as humans often choose abortion; because there's a reason to believe they won't survive anyway, or because of a lack of resources to feed/raise them. Then there's bloody hamsters... they're notorious for eating their babies for no apparent reason/because they fancied a snack.
