Nature’s Most Murderous Mammal October 1, 2016
Posted by geoff in News.trackback
Never turn your back on a meerkat.
Monkeys kill their own kind, as do lions, a few bat species and long-tailed chinchillas. But the bloodiest, most homicidal of more than 1,000 species surveyed is the meerkat.
It turned out that, at about 1 in 5 meerkat deaths due to intraspecies slaying, the little African carnivores stood at the head of the violent class.

A wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Kind of casts some doubt on the premise that humankinds’ violent tendencies can be resolved by empathetic nurture. In your face George Lakoff!
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Hakuna matata.
lol DBS
My daughter thought I was pretty terrible. 🙂
The irony is that they spend so much time guarding their nest from predators.
Weird!