Why Do Animals Don't Have WORLD WARS While Humans Do Have?

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Phoebe MadHat answered
We have globalization and world awareness; we have the ability to plot for resources available in other regions, which many animals do, but don't have the awareness or capability of taking over long distances. We have the ability to justify pointless or selfish means to an end; animals take what they believe is necessary specifically for that reason and for no other lies or stories. They don't have the luxury of pointless domination. They live for survival and tomorrow. Chimps can wage war, which makes sense since they are our closest cousin in the animal kingdom. Their wars can mimick ours; carefully concealed, plotted attacks that can seem horrific and genocidal, but it always comes back to food or something tangible. Even territory, which is not a luxury for them, but a survival advantage. We are not the only ones to wage war, but we do practice the extraordinary ability to reach out and snatch whatever comes within our vast field of vision, whether or not it is necessary for our survival.
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Anonymous answered
I'm not sure why we fight wars. I know that only humans and monkeys have the capacity to wage war so far. But it seems that as long as humans have been on Earth, there have been wars. It's just a practice that we do. Although it is destructive and hurt us as a species, it is mostly nessesary to gaining things we want. If you can get it from asking politely, try pointing a gun at them. >XD
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Anonymous answered
Animals don't have world wars because THEY'RE MORE VIOLENT THAN HUMANS.  War is a struggle between two groups of a single species over control or territory and resources.  Wolves kill members of other wolf packs to control territory, lions kill members of other prides, and chimps kill members of other families.  The only difference is the size of the two opposing social groups and the amount of territory/resources they're fighting to control.  Humans being less violent by nature develop huge social groups compared to other animals, because of this when our territorial clashes do degenerate into violence they are much larger in scale.  Animals on the other hand, being more violent attack with less provocation and thus never develop the large social groups that humans do and so their "war" casualties are fewer (though not by much when compared to their populations) and more spread out over time.
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summer baker answered
Because humans fight over stupid stuff and animals don't bomb each other over believing in god

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