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Because I’m European
Oh lol
I mean there are certain things that are sortof an affront to nature. Mammalian predators tend to avoid eating other predators unless they are starving for example. Apex predators don't tend to eat scavengers either.
Well hecc I don't know about Europe
Food there I mean
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So my human instincts tell me no bueno on bugs and dogs
No one:
People who eat bugs:
another word for soyboys is bugmen
Indeed
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Mammalian predators tend to avoid eating other predators unless they’re starving because they’re usually more dangerous and have less of a pay-off when compared to prey-animals. @Pelth
sure, but it's also a hardcoded instinct
I mean like you can attribute the recognition of prey animals as instructs
and the instinct is generally just to avoid these things altogether, it doesn't necessarily provide the context as to why
But if another predator is injured and available, mammalian predators don’t avoid eating it to avoid eating it
they are likely to still avoid it
unless they have an overwhelming blood scent or something
like something uncontrollable like a pitbull
humans don't have this
It’s not like you see another mammalian predators and you don’t eat it because it’s another mammalian predator
You don’t eat it because the energy expended in hunting it isn’t worth the reward
Animals don't think in those terms
they are driven by instinct
So like if it’s injured, like an injured lion, Hyenas will try to hunt it
They do basic risk-reward valuation
if that were so, they'd eat their own
It’s not just “muh instinct” most predator animals are more intelligent than prey animals because they have to be able to make those value judgements
and that's very rare
animals aren't like edgy neckbeard atheists
It entirely depends on the species
Most great apes don’t have a problem eating each other even if it’s the same species
Fucking Hippos will eat each other
That is still very rare in hippos
Again it just depends on like risk-reward valuation, and whether or not it’s safe to eat your own species. Like humans can’t eat certain parts of the human body because we can’t digest them correctly, animals are the same way. If they’re not able to digest their own species, they probably won’t engage in cannibalism outside of extraordinary circumstances, and that might become instinctual as its bred into future generations
there are only a handful accounts of cannibalism in them
it was likely due to starvation
Yeah they’re not edgy neckbeard atheist, but I think it’s incorrect to attribute avoidance of eating other mammalian predators to something inherent in us or other mammalian predators
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And like
We’re humans we can literally eat any other animal because the energy expended to kill it is minuscule comparative to how other animals hunt