I know some animals fight and wound each other but I have heard they stop short of killing. Why us?
Becausw we’re to dumb to live together in peace.
Heck no. Animals kill each others kind all the time.
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Which ones? I don’t think you are correct.
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Most animals do. They kill each other over territory disputes, some do after mating and a lot of carnivorous animals will kill the babies when the females are pregnant from other males. Lions, tigers, meerkats, wolves, hyenas, bears, etc.
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@anon78876561 is absolutely right. Mother owls eat their babies whole if there is anything wrong with them.
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Sadly they’re right
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@anon78876561, @SkinnyMe, I stand corrected. Thank you but somehow that doesn’t make me feel any better. People should know better or it’s not called civilization.
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Also baboons eat their babies
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Every animal will kill it s own kind. Some notable ones are dolphins that will do it for pleasure.
The higher the intelligence the higher the likelihood of murder.
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Wasn’t killing called psychotic though? A disease, not the norm.
Logs of animals also kill their babies if somethings wrong with them. Rats do this for example. They’ll eat them. It’s kind of horrifying.
i had a rat eat her whole litter. Rabbits will eat their babies with nothing wrong!
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A lot of the time when two males fight for dominance the one who loses will be banished from the group, which can be a death sentence. Other times they’re banished to the worst places for grazing, which is also a death sentence. Crocodiles don’t hesitate to kill and eat each other. How bad things are for a defeated male varies from specie to specie. Octopus’s usually fight to the death, but I think a defeated male wolf just goes back to his previous position in the pack. That makes sense, because the larger a pack of wolves is the bigger prey it can bring down.
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Something must have been wrong with the rabbit - like fear.
Yes. The requirement of social cooperation could be our life saver, too. Doesn’t say much for the soloists among us.
Sometimes the soloists can make the greatest contributions, like a solitary scientist working his life away in a lab, or a writer giving us great works of literature, or a composer composing a sonata.
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It’s just something some rabbits do.
Lots of different kinds of animals will kill their own kind.
Polar bears will sometimes eat the cubs as an example.
In an animal pack though, the soloist can not survive without help from his team. Humans seem to do well on their own, but even we need a certain amount of companionship.