Fidelity – here that is the cornerstone of all strong relations. Can find examples of devotion of people even in fauna, there are dozens of types of the living beings inclined to a monogamy.
Among most of people the wrong opinion that the love and fidelity are the phenomena peculiar only to the person as to top of evolutionary development is widespread. But if to get acquainted with a way of life of some types of living beings, then it is possible to learn on their example the true devotion striking reason of people and pulling down a prestavleniye about the wild world. Many of monogamous animals even found the status of the real symbol (or even a charm) the family relations.
The monogamy in fauna is a type of the relations in which a male individual more or less long period of time (at least one marriage season) is in communication only with one female. Very often similar relations last several years for which the male participates in conception of posterity, and later helps with his education. In exceptional cases the love of animals in the native habitat proceeds all life, to death.
Swans
Graceful snow-white birds from family duck personify many decades strong family bonds for the person, use their image as a symbol of love and the romantic relations. First of all it is caused them by appearance and behavior: the male and a female tenderly nestle each other the heads, and their long necks are gracefully bent, forming a universal symbol of love – heart. But it is not the just beautiful picture which is represented on many romantic and wedding attributes, swans are really monogamous and faithful to the couple until the end of life.
Owls
In fiction and cinema the image of owls was fallen in love by millions of people for a long time, but they are represented generally as loner birds. In fact it not absolutely so. They do not form packs as it is done by many birds, but their family bonds in couples are strong and long-term: both parents tremblingly care for the posterity, supplying the chickabiddies with food to "majority". Owls have relatives on spirits and to a way of life brothers, sovoobrazny birds of a sipukha are the pretty animals with a muzzle of a heart-shaped form who are also forming strong couples.
Wolves
These wild animals often become the main anti-heroes of fairy tales, but they developed craft of happy family life to the highest level. Not only that they find to themselves the partner until the end of life, so also form the real family groups of related individuals. Wolves are animals with high I.Q., and in their packs the accurate hierarchy at the head of which there are the strongest a male and a female is observed. During the marriage period they actively protect each other from lone wolves and she-wolves. After death of one of partners another does not enter the relations any more, being loyal to death.
Gibbons
These primacies are called sometimes small anthropoids, they have many common features with us, people. Also, as well as the person, at gibbons has no certain periods of pairing, and posterity number for one pregnancy seldom exceeds one cub. The child demands long care of parents and becomes absolutely independent only by 8-9 years. Gibbonovye are very choosy in the choice of the partner: in wild conditions they can long look for couple, and in zoos and artificial reserves can ignore all individuals of an opposite sex if they not in his (her) taste.
Foxes
Beautiful red mammals from family of canids are good family men and parents too. The social behavior at these animals is developed highly, they form strong couples and the whole packs of relatives. The male shows true love and tenderness concerning a female: during pregnancy he preserves it, shows an affection and builds a family nest. Both mom, and dad of cubs care for posterity. But there is one nuance: foxes are really monogamous and are loyal to the elect, but in case of the death of the partner the "stepfather" helping a female to protect little young foxes can take the place of the father of posterity.
Penguins
Penguins males are real heroes and examples for imitation. They divide all economic and educational questions with a female: tenderly look after a female individual during incubation of egg, brings food and if the female needs to leave, assumes incubation function. The hatched kid is also preserved by both parents. In tragic cases when the father or mother of family perishes, the individual of an opposite sex alone nurses posterity, without accepting the help from outside and without entering the new relations.
Albatrosses
These sea birds very carefully select to themselves couple, and in couple on search of the partner in life at them more than 10 years leave. Individuals are one-woman men, and remain faithful each other even after the death of the partner. In exceptional cases the union of these birds can end with a gap: if at "lovers" long time it is impossible to get posterity, then one of partners can depart on search of other couple. If whether fertilization happened successfully, then partners together equip the family dwelling: collecting dry branches, a moss and flowers, they construct an attractive and cozy nest for the future family.
Beavers
Beavers build to themselves small lodges with the real roofs canopies made of collected branches. In each building the seed lives alone only: parents and their cubs. The true matriarchy reigns in beaver families, the female takes in the paws not only an initiative to pairing, but also completely controls education and training of posterity. The father is engaged in construction and production of food in family meanwhile. And here pretty relatives of beavers, sea otters (kalana), will strongly disappoint fans of lovely photos: in spite of the fact that males-kalany strong hold the self-check by a pad (that hundreds of times got to lenses of photographers-naturalists), they are polygamous and can copulate with several females for one marriage period.
White-headed sea eagles
The bird large and powerful by sight from North America also leads a monogamous life: the male and a female can be in the relations all life. An eye of observers can bewitch marriage dance of sea eagles: to impress a female, the male begins demonstrative flight during which it will sharply dive down, flies up up. When the female reciprocates to it, passionate "dance" begins: the couple can chase one after another in air, cling claws and dive together to the earth. However, there are at these birds also tragic partings. If in the spring (after the wintering) one of partners does not come back to a nest, another looks for to itself an individual of an opposite sex on replacement at once.
French shchetinozub
Even among fishes there are strong couples. The French shchetinozuba (chetyryokhglazy fishes butterflies) are one-woman men and create strong bonds. Presumably for life they can have only one partner. These bright small fishes after the choice of couple all do together: side by side float, get food and protect the territory from other inhabitants of sea depths.
There are dozens more of species of animals one-woman men, but they are the most popular. Touching photos of animals in love can suggest an important idea: can, and in fauna is to what to learn?