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I've seen a hawk take down a rabbit, it's buddy right next to him ran around in circles for a bit because it was worried, and then started eating grass again as
by soperj 2y ago
I've seen a hawk take down a rabbit, it's buddy right next to him ran around in circles for a bit because it was worried, and then started eating grass again as the hawk was pulling out the entrails that it didn't want right next to it. Definitely no mourning.
- mrkramer 2y agoI think that rabbit would be scared to death and run away for his life(instinct of survival) and not run in circles confused. Emotions probably get amplified in group and btw small rabbit can't do anything physically to large strong hawk. I again remember watching documentary when hyenas surrounded young lion and his older buddy came to help him and pushed off hyenas. So animal mammals defiantly have an emotional binding to the members of their specie, some more and some less.
- SoftTalker 2y agoAnimals like rabbits are prey animals. The reproduce prodigiously as a species-survival mechanism. Individual deaths are common and while a predator is going to alarm them for a while, they will quickly get back to their primary business of eating and fucking. Mourning doesn't serve much of a purpose.
- mrkramer 2y agoI'm not a biologist or a zoologist, these were just my observations and assumptions but I get it that animals "only" forage and reproduce. Mourning is primarily ephemeral/short act but humans and to some extent animal mammals still do it.