• voracitude@lemmy.world
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    “Eyes bigger than their stomach” is not the only reason bears will kill more than they can eat. Bears have been recorded killing a fuckload of prey without consuming any of it, in a manner that was not fully explained by adaptive foraging models (https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/30/1/202/5142956?login=false). If they don’t touch it, cache it, or come back for it later they didn’t kill for food; it’s prey, so they’re not killing in self-defense. Additionally, straight-up surplus killing like that was noted as a feature of some individual bears’ predation style. Or put another way, it was noted in “SOME bears”. Which happens to be the exact qualifier I used.

    So again: if you don’t want to use “fun” as a synonym for “no practical reason”, give me an alternative word, but quit incorrecting me.