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Are there serial killers in other species?
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cats seemingly kill birds and other wildlife for fun
(i love cats, before anyone gets upset)
Cats killing birds for fun is more a symptom of humans feeding them, but the cat still having the instinct to hunt. In nature they would probably just kill for food 99% of the time, not do it for sport or play.
Yeah, it's actually ecological terrorism to let a cat roam outside. "Domestic" cats have made several bird species go extinct. It's funny because I was going to post about cats being little sociopaths.
But that's hunting for sport. Those are it's natural prey.
Do cats kill other cats outside of a perceived threat to their life?
The cat my family had went through a phase where he would organize dismembered body parts. Organs arranged in a line on a rock, heads collected in the sandbox, it was very macabre