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Am I alone in thinking (sometimes hoping) that when an animal is captured and subsequently eaten on nature shows by a predatory animal, the attacked creature should fight back a little more?
Whilst I understand it is mere survival of the fittest (which form the basis of my entire socio-political-economic ideology), I really do hope the victims had a little more "thrustos" inthe approach to defence.
For example when a gazelle is eaten by a lioness, the gazelle never spears the big cat with its horns. There is also never a group effort in defence. If all the wildbeast turned and faced a prowling leopard, the leopard will surely lose.
Sometimes the injustice makes me sad. But I like all animals, including spiders and snakes.
Whilst I understand it is mere survival of the fittest (which form the basis of my entire socio-political-economic ideology), I really do hope the victims had a little more "thrustos" inthe approach to defence.
For example when a gazelle is eaten by a lioness, the gazelle never spears the big cat with its horns. There is also never a group effort in defence. If all the wildbeast turned and faced a prowling leopard, the leopard will surely lose.
Sometimes the injustice makes me sad. But I like all animals, including spiders and snakes.
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If all the gazelles gang up on the lioness then the lion cubs wont have anyfink to eat and they will die and the serengeti (does it happen naturally anywhere else in the world) will be full of grass eating herbivores that will fart methane gas into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming and give Blair and Brown another reason to raise some silly tax. Is this what you want wardy??
Its sad to watch but its all part of a chain cycle and every animal feeds off another... while the lion feeds on a gazelle, a few hours earlier that same gazelle might have been lunching on a few spiders(not so sad) along with worms or ants... if it makes anyone feel better, for every animal hunted down there are probably 2 or 3 more born to replace it.
I think the herd leave the weakest one for the predator as sacrifice... the weakest would always be a liability anyway, if not the lion today it would be a hyena tomorrow, why bother, total waste of time and energy in the animal's mind.
Also a group effort on the herd's part would mean the lions would become more cunning in their plan of attack and lions being faster, stronger and at the top of the chain, the gazelles wouldn't have much of a chance and instead of losing the weakest, an entire herd may be lost.
I think the herd leave the weakest one for the predator as sacrifice... the weakest would always be a liability anyway, if not the lion today it would be a hyena tomorrow, why bother, total waste of time and energy in the animal's mind.
Also a group effort on the herd's part would mean the lions would become more cunning in their plan of attack and lions being faster, stronger and at the top of the chain, the gazelles wouldn't have much of a chance and instead of losing the weakest, an entire herd may be lost.
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