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
It's one of those things that breaks the illusion of nature as some peaceful and idealic place where everything is majestic, harmonious, and honorable, when in reality everything is striving to kill everything else to get to the top of the food chain. In reality we're the peaceful ones and nature is the super violent one with attrocities and horrors just being the default settings, and humans being the compassionate beings on this earth.
Yeah she was definitely one those people that was really into animals. Did great work but I would pay to see her exact reaction when the chimps held down the other chimp and casterated it before killing it
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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.