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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 04:47 PM
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If human are better than animals,
how come we don't see groups of gerbils team up into groups and systematically try to kill each other; often for the maudlin of reasons excuses?

Or any other form of animal either? Except humanity.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 04:48 PM
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1. we are animals.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 04:52 PM
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3. I think animals are better than humanity.
After all, you don't see two flocks of birds pecking each other to death over a plot of land.

Humans do that all the time.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 06:46 PM
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12. Yeah, but birds shit on cars.
And humans don't typically do that until we're really fucking pissed.
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 06:55 PM
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14. hummingbirds have been found locked in death
...because the two birds speared each other over a feeder. It's all about the territory, folks. Got one sitting outside my window right now looking around and it isn't so he can throw flowers at the next guy to come along.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 04:51 PM
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2. You've obviously never been to a rock concert with a herd of wildebeests.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 05:01 PM
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5. or in a cat fight
in a dog eat dog world
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 04:57 PM
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4. Your view of humanity has been corrupted

by the fact that you're only comparing them to Gerbils.

Apparently you've never been around blood-thirsty hamsters much.
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 05:02 PM
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6. Hamsters eat their babies! They're the lowest form of hammanity.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 05:27 PM
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10. or conservative talk show hosts...
Edited on Sun Mar-13-05 05:28 PM by ret5hd
on edit: damn post was deleted befor i could finish my reply!!!

good work mods!!!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 05:21 PM
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9. Hate to say, but male chimp troops do go into other camps
take on the males, kill the infants, seize the females.

Maybe it's an ape thing.

:(
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 06:43 PM
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11. Packs of dogs and wolves fight. and insects... What about them Army Ants!
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InvisibleTouch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 06:55 PM
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13. They're not. n/t
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 06:57 PM
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15. animals aren't better than humans...
...they're just better-looking! :-)

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72
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DestyNova Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 06:59 PM
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16. Ants
Don't ants actively mobilize and attack other ants, termites, etc...?
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Baclava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 06:59 PM
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17. Cats and dogs have been at war for centuries...
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 07:00 PM
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18. Actually, rodents will form such teams to systematically kill each other
I read studies of rat populations where colonies of rats were allowed to grow beyond the means of the resources to take care of all rats. They ended up having gangs of juvenile rats roaming the colony killing off other rats.
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