What's great about science

I'm currently reading a paper on infant-killing behavior in males, and other evolutionary reasons why males and females hang out together. The authors, two perfectly nice old men, predict that, given the patterns seen in other primates, orangutan males should be infanticidal.

The only problem? It's not true; they aren't . Not to worry- this never stopped the scientific process before!

"How orang-utans cope with the risk of infanticide is puzzling, especially since attempts at infanticide have never been described despite long-term studies in the wild."

van Schaik, C.P. and Kappeler, P.M. (1997) Infanticide risk and the evolution of male-female association in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, Series B, 264: 1687-1694.

I'd like to re-write this as:

"Despite never actually having seen a ravenous, flesh-eating zombie, La Blonde's lack of anti-zombie protective measures is puzzling..."