![]() ![]() Even our species is starting to show some limited respect for our environment and we have (mostly) stopped killing some animals which we consider to have above-average levels of intelligence although there are plenty more we continue to prey on which have proven significant levels of intelligence (eg, octopus). However, given they have, I'd like to think that eventually the predators would stop preying on the prey species and feed themselves using alternative sources. For this to happen there must be some way for the bulk of the prey species to be safe from the predator species such as geographic separation, otherwise I doubt the pressure of predation would allow their society to progress that far. In your example, let's say instead of stone-age, the predator-and-prey species have each managed to evolve beyond that and each has started to realise that the other is intelligent, and perhaps have even managed to work out some way of communicating with each other. So what makes a creature "intelligent"? Having progressed beyond stone tools to forming cooperative societies? We are now starting to realise that animals can also have significant levels of "intelligence" and display human traits such as empathy and sorrow etc. Looking at Earth, humans are preying on pretty much everything even if we don't actively eat the animals, we destroy their habitats. Stone tools and tech is not limited to species which have formed societies critically, societies in which members can communicate complex ideas. I realise none of this answers the question but im no story teller and this is something you might want to consider before posting your "in an ideal world" post stories *cough* Edited Octoby guesswho2778 a lot of us) hide or freeze by instinct when we feel fear.īut thats just my opinion i look forward to see other opinions emerge as i find this quite interesting and hope that i am incorrect our instinct to eat overrides our mind when we are too hungry. you can say that they evolved beyond instinct but. and thats just because they felt like it or believed they weren't doing anything wrong. a predetor/prey species interactions (in my opinion) would be fairly similar, except it wouldn't be greed that drives it but hunger and instinct. ![]() we arent technically predator/prey but look at how a lot of "strong" people treat the "weak" people, not necessarily right now but in the past people would enslave others for being different or "weaker" than them. ![]()
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