mk30 on Nostr: I get grumpy when people talk about the "law of the jungle", as if animals don't live ...

I get grumpy when people talk about the "law of the jungle", as if animals don't live in complex multi-species communities.

I've seen ducks rush in to break up rooster fights at nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqsplrzd6hx7vqctcrwudd46455399xg9emskfq8fmmfc0ft4umd3qnc4mp2 (nprofile…4mp2) 's farm , and here's a video where a duck alerts the farmer that one of the other farm birds is stuck in the bird house:
https://youtu.be/84ZA7GIyEM4

Yes there's aggression, violence, and hierarchy among animals, but it's far from a "war of all vs all where only the strong survive", which is implied by the phrase "law of the jungle".

i just feel like anyone who's actually lived in a jungle would never use "law of the jungle" the way it's commonly used. There might be laws of the jungle, but they're not "only the strong survive, and that's it."

#animals #nature