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What is animal study: animal studies are used to naturalize human behavior. Assumption that they are closer to nature and that their behaviours are thus natural based upon instinct or genetically hardwired traits. Problems: animal studies often ignore fluid nature of animal communities and importance of context. Indian gray languor: violence in city, forested areas, get a long. Result of different physical environment context plays role in shaping both animal human behaviour. Anyone questioning the natural and therefore privileged status of heterosexuality today is likely to meet up with an evolutionary narrative: after all, how could the human species survive without heterosexuality? . A lot of sociobiologist that many great apes have almost 99% of the same gene as us. This is used as an analogy to explain human actions chimps do this so it"s natural for humans to do this .