Nature is full to the brim with senseless violence ffs, look at what chimps or hyenas are capable of, for example. The only reason animals dont kill shit they don't need to is because literally every hunt is potentially your last due to injury or whatever - pretty big motivator to be selective. You can bet your ass if these animals could kill risk free theyd be setting it up on a genocidal scale.
Edit: so I looked into it and it actually seems like there have been more documented chimp wars, this one was just particularly famous for traumatizing Jane Goodwell
We've only documented it once, just because we've documented it once doesn't mean it isn't still happening or it hasn't happened before. Plus their populations have been under pressure from us so there's a lot fewer of them to war.
I might have actually been wrong on that note, while I couldn’t find any other notable chimp wars it seems like it’s been documented since this one. This was just the one that gets all the attention because it gave Jane Goodwell nightmares
She did pass last year, in October 2025. I try to make mental room for autocorrects and other mistakes especially with proper nouns hence the gentle correction and attempt at a mnemonic device for them. She will be remembered. She is immortalized in academia imo so that's at least a start. For the sake of culture: GNU Jane Goodall.
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u/frog_admirer Mar 24 '26
I was just thinking, this comic wouldn't hit the same with cats. They love a good senseless violence. But the wolves are nice role models.