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. Zaius‘s 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Merkats, not humans?
I heard that a mod removed one of his normal threads and he was left flummoxed.
That's racist!
ER... I mean Mamalist
Amazing, isn’t it? I don’t know if they took war into account. Because if that is counted as murder, it seems like it should make man the most murderous mammal.
I feel better hearing that. I was fearing the worst. Come back SunkenCiv! You weren’t banned as far as we can tell, and your friends miss you.
Thanks. Diademed sifaka and caracal... Wow, had to look those up.
Republicans specialize in killing their own...
This belies a lot of misanthropic leftist tropes.
I just killed some intruders in my kitchen.
The secret is fresh D cells in my electric flyswatter. Fruit flies don’t stand a chance.
Why has 0bama not put white people at the top of that list?
Yup.
Do some rough math.
Because that would be privileged for white men who can read and understand logic.
Both, by the way, being current snowflake complaints in the news right now.
Sunken Civ Bump!
Yep. Did do that right after I posted. Unbelievable! These animals kill far more of their own kind than humans, even if war is counted as murder. Don’t count us out, though; we’re working on that!
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