Avoiding going off topic for leo

sumthin fishy

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OrionGirl said:
Very few animals deliberately hurt another animal outside of self-defense..........
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Ok so OG posted this in leos thread about morality. Since I didnt want that one going off topic, but had a comment to make on this, I started a new thread.

Watching discovery channel a while back, they had a special on the african plains. There was a family of lions who attacked and killed a baby cape bufalo. The mother couldn't do much to fend off the entire pride, so had to call it a loss. A while later, that same heard came across one of the females from that same pride, alone with her newborn cubs. The bufalos separated mother lion from the babies, and then killed the cubs quite brutally. Obviously, buffalo dont eat loin, so this was purely an act of vengance. If nothing else, it was a suvival method, kill the potential preditor before it matures.

Now, Im not contradicting what the big onion said. I just though that was an interesting series of events. Now, for those of you who dont know, The cape buffalo is one of the most dangerous animals you can hunt. It will actually run away from you, then hide...wait for you to pass, then charge from the rear. EEENerestink!
 
Sure they will. We recently had 2 large dogs run into a lady's yard, snatch her chihuahua away from her and run off with it. You can't tell me this little dog was a threat, and these were not wild hungry dogs, they were someone elses pets.

My younger dog will pounce with all er weight on the older one when she wants to play. We try to keep her from doing it. She's such a brat. :rolleyes:
 
Dangerdoll said:
I don't think OG said all animals, I recall her specifying "some"..... BUT while we're on topic.... elephants also show deliberate harm.
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And speaking of elephants... I think that I heard that they also have sex for pleasure. Not being nasty, you know, I just found that interesting. Anyhow, I think I heard that somewhere.:)
 
Larissa said:
And speaking of elephants... I think that I heard that they also have sex for pleasure. Not being nasty, you know, I just found that interesting. Anyhow, I think I heard that somewhere.:)
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Or did you misunderstood it w/ Dolphins? Monkeys? :joke:
 
I was hunting in my tree stand last year and watched a coyote grab and kill a rabbit. It then left it there and trotted off. I've heard from some old farmers that swear they have seen turkeys eating baby quail on the edge of hay fields when they were mowing hay.
 
Gorillas have been documented performing murder. Premeditated murder. Males formed groups and went into other territories, lured a weaker, younger male away then brutally bashed his head in until he died.

Creepy.

But no, most animals don't act like this. There is some sort of code they follow. For the most part, animals of all types can coexist peacefully, in say, a shrub, even though there are animals capable of killing other animals for non survival reasons.

PS: Thanks sum!
 
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