| ▲ | estearum an hour ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Most intra-species fighting is not designed to end in murder, so this seems like a pretty bold claim. Got any research to back it up? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hermitcrab an hour ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
>Most intra-species fighting is not designed to end in murder That depends a lot on scarcity. If you are a male and you only get one chance at mating, you will probably fight to the death. If you will get plenty of other chances, then you might accept the results of a ritualised non-lethal combat (e.g. giraffes headbutting each other, rather than kicking). Its just evolution + game theory. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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