what do titmice feel when they eat sparrows?
what do titmice feel when they eat sparrows?
what do titmice feel when they eat sparrows?
hi @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world ! I was told titmice eat sparrows. what do they feel when they're ripping out a fellow small bird? do they understand titmice and sparrows are kinda alike? do they have bad feelings about killing them for eating, then? or are they completely indifferent?
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Most wildlife isn't capable of that level of thought or empathy.
For most animals that hunt, the thought process is "I'm hungry. This looks like something I can eat. Now I'm not hungry"
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That thought process probably applies to most humans too tbh
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I was going to say that maybe elephants are intelligent enough to feel this conflict, but then I remembered that elephants only eat plants. Maybe that's why.
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Dolphins are considered very intelligent, along with chimps, and they both eat other animals. Hell, dolphins will bite a fish in half and use the head to jerk off with. That's not to say they can't feel empathy for other creatures, but can we tell? Have we observed it?
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Well yeah, dolphins are fucking assholes lol
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There are certainly some exceptions, but 90+% of species are not.
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