Comment on Spirit animal

• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s all that rage and hatred they have towards other fish driving them to an early grave.

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  • lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    True. Anger and stress usually lead to a lower life expectancy.

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The point I was trying to make, though, is from some paper I read a couple of decades ago. Sorry, I can’t reference it, but it basically said that, once a species, such as ours, reaches a certain point of life expectancy, they can then start building what is basically considered, legacy“. That’s when they can start building empires because they stick around long enough to create culture and society and then civilization, and then the empire

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      • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Like Orcas - still not seeing their sea cities though, but they pass on knowledge and grandma stays around teaching, although she can’t produce offspring anymore

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s what I call checks and balances

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• ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or less, depending on species.

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. Some only live between six months and two years!

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