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I have to see vegan bears and vegan whales, I only know humans who are able to decide not to eat other animals based on their beliefs.
by ozim 8y ago
I have to see vegan bears and vegan whales, I only know humans who are able to decide not to eat other animals based on their beliefs.
- root_axis 8y agoWell, among omnivore animals it is certainly true that some individual animals would fit the literal definition of vegan. You probably wouldn't ever know about it unless it lived in a zoo, however.
- pvaldes 8y agoYou can see vegan bears in most big zoos. Panda bears. I'm not aware of any vegan whale but would ressemble manatees probably.
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- Varcht 8y agoI think you missed the point, this is more vegans by choice or conscience, as Bruce the shark would say "Fish are friends.".
- Cacti 8y agoWhen an adult chimp kills another adult chimp and doesn’t eat them, is that not because of beliefs? There are many animals that don’t eat everything that comes their way, and it is clearly a conscious decision.
- nwatson 8y agoI guess it depends on the chimp's religious beliefs. These unstaged chimps from BBC PlanetEarth clearly has no compunction about eating a rival gang's carcass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al-f_WWoHI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al-f_WWoHI4 .
- yeahitslikethat 8y agoThey'll gang up and murder or perhaps execute members of their own group.
- distant_hat 8y agoThey'll even kill the children of low ranking females just to emphasize the dominance hierarchy. Mother nature is a bitch.
- kakarot 8y agoIt's not quite what you're looking for, but animals have at least been shown to exhibit preference of what species animals they will eat. Consider a dog which has been raised around cats, which might hunt a rabbit but not another cat.
- tmh88j 8y ago>It's not quite what you're looking for, but animals have at least been shown to exhibit preference of what species animals they will eat. Occam's razor says that most wild animals exhibit preference of what species they'll eat based on taste and availability of food, not because of ethics. I said most because I'm not a wildlife biologist and there always seems to be strange outliers, but I have a hard time believing an omnivore/carnivore, such as a bear, would willingly choose vegetation 100% of the time because of ethics when there's plenty of game of its preference to eat. >Consider a dog which has been raised around cats, which might hunt a rabbit but not another cat. Most domesticated dogs that were raised alongside cats won't eat them because they've learned that they're not allowed to. The ones that do attack children and other pets are frequently euthanized.
- nearbuy 8y agoDogs raised alongside cats never even try to eat them to begin with. You don't need to teach them it's not allowed. There must be another explanation.
- tmh88j 8y ago>Dogs raised alongside cats never even try to eat them to begin with. You don't need to teach them it's not allowed. That's an absurd statement. While tempers of dogs vary from one to the next just like humans, I vehemently disagree to the extent that I'm hesitant to believe you've ever raised a puppy, or even have been exposed to many dogs for that matter. Plenty of pet dogs behave more like their wolf ancestors than others.
- kakarot 8y ago
- ddingus 8y agoWhen that belief is one of another being in the pack, or a friend, animals do make that kind of decision.