> If you’ve watched as many David Attenborough-narrated nature documentaries as I have or follow Nature is Metal, you know that many non-human animals spend the

> If you’ve watched as many David Attenborough-narrated nature documentaries as I have or follow Nature is Metal, you know that many non-human animals spend their entire existence merely surviving. First a not so nice response: Humans also spend their entire existence merely surviving. Once they stop doing that we generally don't consider them to be human. Perhaps a somewhat nicer disagreement: Lots of animals show some behavior that is not directly related to their immediate survival. Lots of young animals play, they can only do that because they do not have to be concerned with their immediate survival.