In the animal world, most animals will not live with their parents for a long time, so of course there is no question of taking care of their elderly parents. Why is this happening to
? Why don’t children in the animal world live with their parents for a long time?
For the animal world, competition is very cruel and energy is limited. Every day, we have to face the cruel survival of the fittest. Most animals have to run back and forth to get food.
So, once children have the ability to survive independently, they will be kicked out of the population, or their parents will leave alone, leaving their children to face nature independently and live independently. If this is not the case, there will be only one result in the end, and everyone will starve to death.
This is the result of natural selection. Most animals will choose this way of continuing race, so children and parents in the animal world basically have no long-term family affection. However, before children grow up, parents care for them meticulously, even better than humans.
After growing up, children must go to nature to test themselves, establish their own group independently, and continue their genes.
Due to the cruelty of nature, it will cause some scenes that seem incredible to us. For example, when a daughter grows up and owns her own territory, which happens to be next to her mother's territory, there is a possibility of conflict. The daughter may invade her mother's territory and even drive her out of the territory. It is even more impossible to talk about supporting the elderly at this time.
Of course, there are exceptions in everything, and there will be situations in which children and parents get along for a long time in the animal world.
For example, baboons , they formed a complex and complete social model in the evolution process, one side of their children will stay in the population, while the other side will be expelled and have to leave the population.
Which party was expelled depends on whether the population is a matriarchal society or a patriarchal society. Take humans as an analogy. The current human beings are a patriarchal society. When a daughter gets married, she usually does not stay at home, while the son will stay at home to inherit her father's business.
In addition to baboons, there are also groups such as elephants. So in these groups, will children support their parents?
still won't. In these groups, older parents usually leave the group and find a place to die alone. I believe everyone has heard stories about elephant groups. The so-called " Elephant Tomb ", the grave of an elephant, means that when the elephant is old, it will leave the group, look for the Elephant Tomb, and then die there.
However, Elephant Tomb does not actually exist, but it is a fact that the elephant leaves alone after aging. Why is this happening to
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Simply put, nature is too cruel. Even elephants and lions are basically the top of the food chain in the animal world, and it is difficult for them to have enough time and energy to take care of their elderly parents.
What’s more cruel is that for most animals, aging is actually a luxury. To put it bluntly, most animals will not live on the day of aging and will die due to various factors. In the animal world, we often see scenes of hunters capturing their prey. Hunters are very smart. They can spot old and weak prey at a glance and then capture them, so that the capture success rate will be very high!
The same goes for the other way around, parents cannot take care of their children who are too weak. Whether it is animals or humans, parents' love for their children is the same, and they are all a genetic instinct, engraved in their bones.
But in the face of cruel nature, once the animals' children are too weak or are seriously injured, parents can only abandon them, because they know that even if they do not abandon them, they may be captured and killed by hunters at any time!
