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Re:The Vietnam War Was Already Lost, but I Had to Go Anyway by emiliobumachar on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:22PM (#20446205)
I would think most fights in the animal kingdom are predation, where the prey faces death and the predator, starvation. Perhaps you had just dominance fights within the same species in mind?
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Re:The Vietnam War Was Already Lost, but I Had to Go Anyway by dondawest on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @08:50AM (#20449518)
Predation is an example of a fight that is NOT avoided. I have all species in mind. I am almost directly quoting Dawkins’ “The Selfish Gene.” A raccoon does not attack a grizzly bear because of a simple size comparison. Thus, the lives of both animals are spared and a fight is avoided.
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