Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Difference between revisions

** You think dolphins are cute? You think they're the smartest animal, possibly morally superior to humans? Y'know that adult dolphins will sometimes bludgeon baby dolphins (sometimes their own offspring) to death, right? They also kill porpoises for no obvious reason. It's worth noting that this isn't particularly common behaviour, however, so these could just be the occasional dolphin [[Serial Killer]]. Still, rethinking that [[Slasher Smile|little smile of theirs]]?

*** Also dolphins can be pretty mean by human standards. Dolphin rape isn't uncommon and there's at least one observed instance of a group of dolphin males killing the offspring of a dolphin female because she wouldn't submit.

** [[Tom Waits|It is commonly known that ants keep slaves]]. After a war (which ant colonies have all the time), the victors will kill the losing queen and enslave all of the survivors from the losing side. Not just absorb them into the drone workforce, either, but coerce them (under threat of violence) to perform the especially menial stuff.

** Chimps. Dear God, chimps. A male chimp will kill a baby chimp (as long as he's sure it's not his, so it's not a total aversion of this trope) just to put the mother back in heat. The really effed-up part is that she will be a-okay with that and gladly have sex with the killer of her children. (Bonobos, which have sex with pretty much everyone as a means of resolving social disputes, are much less violent.)