I kinda feel bad for animals that have to hunt so they can survive because they've got to be able to hunt, overpower and need good perception in order to stay alive. We as humans only need MONEY to eat, but a lot of animals, such as lions, tigers, etc. have to basically be savages in order to obtain a meal.
2007-11-08 05:18:53 · 14 answers · asked by Miss K 1 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
NO. The circle of life is a beautiful thing.
2007-11-08 05:35:49 · answer #1 · answered by MetalMaster4x4 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't feel sorry. Animals were made to have such traits and abilities to allow them to obtain food or evade predators. Like they say, animals with the eyes on the sides of their heads are the prey and animals with eyes on the front of their head are the predators. Each animal has its own place on the food chain and all depend on each other. It is called survival of the fittest. Also, don't think that money is the only thing humans need to get food. To get unprocessed natural fresh food, hunting, farming, and gardening are all necessary. If one animal did not fulfill its place in the food chain, it would really throw things in a whirlwind. So don't feel bad about it, it is the way of life for animals.
2007-11-08 13:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by Reagan '12 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When hunger is not an issue, most predators will generally not seek to attack prey since the costs outweigh the benefits. For instance, a large predatory fish like a shark that is well fed in an aquarium will typically ignore the smaller fish swimming around it (while the prey fish take advantage of the fact that the apex predator is apparently uninterested). Surplus killing represents a deviation from this type of behavior. The treatment of consumption in terms of cost-benefit analysis is known as optimal foraging theory, and has been quite successful in the study of animal behavior. Costs and benefits are generally considered in energy gain per unit time, though other factors are also important, such as essential nutrients that have no caloric value but are necessary for survival and health.
It has been observed that well-fed predator animals in a lax captivity (for instance, pet or farm animals) will usually differentiate between putative prey animals who are familiar co-inhabitants in the same human area from wild ones outside the area. This interaction can range from peaceful coexistence to close companionship; motivation to ignore the predatory instinct may result from mutual advantage or fear of reprisal from human masters who have made clear that harming co-inhabitants will not be tolerated. Pet cats and pet mice, for example, may live together in the same human residence without incident as companions. Pet cats and pet dogs under human mastership often depend on each other for warmth, companionship, and even protection, particularly in rural areas.
2007-11-11 18:42:50 · answer #3 · answered by River 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Miss K, the truth is, humans are predatory animals too. Just pick up a history textbook. Killing is a part of nature and that's actually not wrong or evil. It hasn't changed in a hundred thousand years and more.
Animals are animals, not savages. This is an insult to the animal kingdom and to nature.
A Savage is a human that has lost the basic rules of civilisation. A savage lives for the moment and has no moral or ethical rules by which to guide their life, they survive on momentary greed and immediate satisfaction and the concepts of personal responsibility and good and evil are foreign to them.
Just visit the ghetto in any major US city to get a glimpse of this. Animals are much more noble creatures, by far.
2007-11-08 14:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by DJ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We need only money to eat? Where do you think food comes from? A farm where it is killed. The only thing money does is pays someone to kill the animal you eat. Realize we are not above the food chain, but part of it. You really need to step outdoors and look at nature and our part in it. We are no different than bears, we are Omnivores. Your question is offensive in nature and show a complete lack of understanding of reality.
2007-11-08 16:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by Charles B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If u think about it, in a way, sometimes humans have to be savages to survive also. Sometimes woman fell thte need to have to strip or sell their bodies to make money to feed their children. So, not only animals have to be savages to survive. Humans do too so no I don't feel sorry for animals.
2007-11-08 13:30:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is their natural instinct, survival of the fittest.* It is natural & the way it is in nature. They are only doing what comes natural to them. That is as it should be. It is normal for them to exist everyday in this manner.* It is nothing unusual or unnatural for them, because they do not have to think about it, they just do it naturally & instinctively.*
2007-11-08 13:33:15 · answer #7 · answered by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Animals could care less that you go to a grocery store, stand in line & spend money to get your food and then have to go home to prepare.. why should worry about them?
The are beasts afterall and they are eating, its called the basic laws of the jungle. Our jungle just happens to look different than their's.
2007-11-08 13:23:13 · answer #8 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You feel sorry for animals doing what animals are supposed to do?
Do you feel sorry for a tree when its leaves fall off in autumn?
Do you pity the grass when you mow it?
To answer your inane question, NO I don't feel sorry for animals doing what comes natural for them.
2007-11-08 14:06:12 · answer #9 · answered by boker_magnum 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, it's called survival of the fittest. It's always been that way, and always will be. Get over it.
2007-11-08 19:36:39 · answer #10 · answered by esugrad97 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋