Posted on 09/30/2016 8:28:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Ape shall never kill ape. The primate society in the 1973 film Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the fifth installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise, was governed by this central rule. It was a pleasant sentiment even when chanted from beneath a rubber mask. But such niceties never seem to last, particularly not in post-apocalyptic fiction.
We hate to rock Dr. Zaiuss world, but that rule does not exist in real-life mammal societies, either.
As a new study published in the journal Nature demonstrated, not only does ape kill ape, but the mammalian world is full of murder.
Monkeys kill their own kind, as do lions, a few bat species and long-tailed chinchillas. But the bloodiest, most homicidal of more than 1,000 species surveyed is the meerkat.
The team of Spanish biologists and geneticists behind the study did not set out to point a bloody paw at the meerkat, however. They were more interested in plumbing the evolutionary history of lethal violence, comparing murder rates for 1,024 different types of mammals. The University of Granada researchers combed scientific studies to create a database of lethal aggression, totaling 4 million mammal-on-mammal deaths.
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Just image the carnage they could cause if they had guns.........yikes!
I noticed Cripplecreek is there too.........Well that's good, I thought he had left us due to health reasons.
American Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon during his long-term ethnographic field studies of the Yanomamö, a society of indigenous tribal Amazonians, showed a strong positive correlation between homicide and reproductive success. The more men you kill, the more grandchildren you have.
Bigfoot was a robot. Who gave us aspirin, the miracle drug
Dolphins were washing up on shore dead... I suspect war with a rival pod over tuna reserves... Biologists looked for a man made reason
It seems that war is not the worst thing.
Professor Rudolf Rummel studied government murder, such as the German-Jewish Holocaust, and mass murder under Stalin and Mao. He found that for everyone person who died in war between governments, 6 died at the hand of their own government.
He is reported to have said something like:
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species.
Well! What happened to the common house cat? The envirowakos always claim house cats kill billions of furry and feathered creatures, for fun, every year. Did the researchers forget them??
I war that wiped out 20% of the population is rare and devastating. We would have to be at that rate continuously to match the meerkat in this study.
Man is not included on thet list which lists proportion of deaths from same species vs all other species. We are the ultimate Apex predator. I am sure all the snake bites, spider bites, shark attacks and pit bull maulings are small in total number compared with man killing man.
LoL ... I wonder if they factored life span in the calculations ... as the species obtains a longer life span, can the stats be adjusted to reflect lethality per years of existence of the individual members? LOL
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