How come female simian creatures aren't shaving their legs with tools?

I was thinking about this and realised that humanoids are definitely a vain species. Female humans have to shave most of their body to fit in to societies ecosocioeconomical build/construct but some rebel against it. Are we simians or are we a god made/alien altered race?

Humans have bigger brains and higher cognitive capacity.

We evolved this way, and didn't start having "fashion" until we started settling down in agricultural societies.

But doesn't much of the animal world have the option to access this path that humans apparently are unique to? What exactly is going on in this monkey world?

They haven't evolved the cognitive capacity.

At best, modern great apes are similar to the Homo sapiens sapiens ancestors of Homo erectus, who were the first to start using tools.

Is there a reason one specific group of humanoids evolved so rapidly and surpassed all of the others?

Wolves aren't shaving their legs because they don't have fingers, don't have tools, and don't have warm clothing to wear.

Shaving is terrible though. It's just easier to cough up the money and get it waxed.

It's not even just a lack of cognitive capacity. It's also a lack of a mass media which is telling all apes what they should strive for in terms of beauty. Fashion is highly cultural and changes widely over time. Without shit such as worldwide global media which is communicated to nearly every member of the species, how the hell is that SPECIFIC manner of altering one's appearance supposed to be accepted by the species at large?

I mean, we humans have the required cognitive capacity, but without internet and TV and national/international relations, then we'd be in the same boat. At any time, someone in Florida might have to deal with someone from London. A more inter-connected world requires more of an appreciation of other cultures as well as the ability to compromise and remain presentable to as many people as possible. Without that need for communication between cultures, there'd probably be a LOT more noticeable differences between people from different geographical regions. And that's WITHOUT mass media. Now we have people creating content in Hollywood and selling that image to people in China.

There were others, such as Neanderthals... who actually had a greater brain capacity than us humans.

But they went extinct.

I don't have much body hair and I'm a guy.

Body hair pointless. We have clothes.

A human being by nature has no fur so it can chase down animals by running. An animal that pants (most of them) would eventually have to stop running to pant so it can cool off it's body. This is why humans could ever outrun (or outlast) their prey. Women have witnessed men shaving since the stone age when men would shave with a piece of obsidian. Did you know it's just in America where women shave their underarms and legs? Are Americans an alien race because they SHAVE?

What are you trying to say TC? It reads like you wonder why animals don't groom themselves in the same fashion as human cultures tend to, but you seem to be inferring that it's exclusively a female trait and that it's thanks to societal pressure, thus oppression....

Are you aware that most men either shave or groom their beards too? Try walking around with a massive ball of velcro attached to your chin, you HAVE to manage that shit.

If women spend exponentially more time on themselves, then that's entirely on them and the fashion industry is not dominated by men. In fact, I'd say women do it to compete with eachother. Men compete too, just rarely on the paraeter of attractiveness.

Dolphins probably would do something similar, we just don't know what it is yet.

Don't several species of animals do one thing or another to enhance what is considered attractive attributes among them in order to gain a partner for mating?

Women who don't shave are gross

Animals have social standards too. Male and female animals are supposed to behave to certain standards, supposed to move in certain ways and look the part to be considered a good mating partner. I'm sure there are animals that 'dress up' to be accepted in their society. The reason they don't all shave or put paint on their head is probably because they are a little pre-occupied with other things in their fragile existence, and maybe it has to do with them typically having no hands and surpluss of tools to do so.

If you don't want to shave to conform to social standards, you can always be the rebel, or wear a burca.

@Maroxad: greater doesn't mean better, they ain't around no more.

Agreed

If i remember correctly, i heard that neanderthals may have gone extinct because they couldn't compete with the homo sapiens. Homo sapiens were better at doing certain stuff than the neanderthals.

at one point in this planet history many humanoid creature lived at the same time but only the most intelligent survived in the long run and it led to us. Humans had different fashion throught out the ages, women shaved their entire body, slim blond women with big breast etc is just our modern thing. Maybe in 50 years 5'3 fat black women will be the "thing"

@trustygamer: I don't know for sure, but my guess is that women shaving their legs is a fairly recent thing, maybe a couple decades or maybe a couple hundred years.

Relevant points...

1. It's generally cultural, with occasional practical applications that would not be practical for other apes to copy.

2. Cultural appearance mores are not unique to humans. Link to article about chimps using blades of grass as earrings.

3. This particular cultural mōs isn't even that widespread among humans (there are many human cultures where females do not shave).

4. Someone said, humans do not have fur and explained shaving in terms of its possible ancient practical applications. Humans have similar follicle densities as the other apes. Whether called hair, fur, or horns for that matter its all made of the same chemical, specialized in each animal by adaptation.

Aliens, duh.

it's not because the neanderthals had a slightly bigger brain that it was more effective for survival at that time. They could have been overly emotional or analytical.

So apparently a couple of chimp entrepreneurs may be slowly proving that they are highly evolved as well according to a piece of Monkey News.