What is an example that nature can be so cruel?

A photographer named Igor Altuna was watching a leopard kill a vervet monkey. It was a mother and had a young baby monkey still clinging to her, unaware his mother was now dead… the leopard carried both the carcass and the attached infant to her own baby.

The cheetah placed the dead monkey down. Before the eyes of the baby monkey, mother and child leopard consumed the dead creature. And then, the young leopard cub toyed around with the baby monkey who by now was well aware of the fact his mother was dead and gone, seeing as though the predators just ate her flesh in front of him. For over an hour, the big cats played a cruel game with the little monkey, the mother using it as “hunting practice” for the cub… then, they finally killed the tiny creature to put it out of it’s misery…

I’m not sure if I would call nature cruel, necessarily. It is cold and detached, if anything. Murder, torture, even psychological torture, is inflicted freely and generously without a care in the world — the weak get eaten, and they suffer. The strong eat, and cause suffering. There is no compassion for any creature not of your species, tribe or family.

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1. Bears (polar bears, brown bears, black bears) will attack cubs of the same kind, sometimes to mate with females with cubs, sometimes because of hunger.

After the cub is killed by the male, the female will also eat the carcass of her cub. To them, dead animal carcasses are nothing but energy and nutrition.

Sometimes in a population, in order to ensure that their status is not threatened by young males, the males will also kill their offspring to ensure their status.

2. Male deer will use antlers to fight for mating during the estrus period, sometimes the antlers will get stuck and cannot be broken down.

Predators such as coyotes will take the opportunity to hunt them. Sometimes there was one that survived but still couldn’t get rid of the shackles of the antlers, and watched the other side being eaten by predators, and then dragged half of the other side’s body to survive.

3. The new mandrill leader will immediately kill all the un weaned baby mandrills, let the female mandrills enter the estrus period, and mate with them.

4. Sometimes when the sea dog catches a penguin, it will not eat it directly, but will pat or rape it, and then eat it a little bit.

5. Large animals will trample many small animals when they walk around every day.

6. Meat is a precious nutrient. In order to obtain meat, chimpanzees sometimes catch monkeys collectively.

Once the monkey is caught, the chimpanzee will throw the monkey on the tree trunk, or hit it with a rock, and then a group of chimpanzees will tear the half-dead monkey with their hands and eat it. Another interesting thing here is that female chimpanzees will “prostitute” themselves for meat, that is, they will use the opportunity of mating in exchange for meat from strong male chimpanzees.

Finally, I want to say: Human cruelty is not independent of nature. All the horrible things that have happened in human society can find their prototypes in chimpanzee society. This cruelty has been written in our genes, and unless we evolve, we can never get rid of it.

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