When animals deal with conflict it usually tends to be highly ritualised so there need be no bloodshed. Birds are very good at dealing with conflict without having to kill each other. Think of two male peacocks in competition for example, it's all about who can put on the best show - there's never any violence. Almost every species has its own set of rules by which it sorts things out without too much bloodshed. Apes are the big exception to that - there have been several cases of genocide discovered between monkey "tribes", for example.
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Date: 2006-09-23 09:37 am (UTC)Birds are very good at dealing with conflict without having to kill each other. Think of two male peacocks in competition for example, it's all about who can put on the best show - there's never any violence. Almost every species has its own set of rules by which it sorts things out without too much bloodshed. Apes are the big exception to that - there have been several cases of genocide discovered between monkey "tribes", for example.