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Why do animals from the same family attack each other?

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So the other day I was watching funny pet cat videos and I started thinking. If one of these cats approached a tiger or lion I am assuming that the altercation would not go well. They are both from the same family so why would they not become friends? But then I asked myself why?

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Generally the large family herds of buffalo are peaceful, but the old bulls (called “dagga” boys, “dagga” being a Zulu word for “mud” since they are often covered with the substance after their long wallows) who have left the herds tend to be furious with life in general and anyone they can smash in particular.

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Awkward Fostering

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One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012. One can only imagine how adorable and lovely the picture of shepherd and three little tigers is! Puma rejected her children and they were given to Mary.

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On Stanley and Family Commitments

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The neighborhood kids love her because she's beautiful ("Where's the tiger? We want to see the tiger!" Violet's a member of our family. There were 15 greyhounds in the small pet food store, and Violet and Stanley were equally uninterested in the event. Sky petted Stanley and he just stood there. He had spent 3.5

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