This morning I watched a flock of eared doves feed from piles of feed laid out daily by a street vendor.
Even though there were three heaping piles of food set apart, one jerkwad in the flock would not let *anyone else* get close to any of them, while he was feeding from one.
He'd rather stop feeding and drive them away from other food than just enjoy his own take.
🙃 Even in our worst tendencies as humans, we still aren't exceptional, eh?
We're just better at being selfish at scale.
Oh, great example! Thank you so much for sharing this. It's awful, but I snort-laughed all the same! What strange creatures we all are.
@MLClark yeah, there's a lot to be learned from watching a fairly stable herd of mares with a handful of geldings. Good thing that pony is a pony...full-sized, she'd be a real pain.