Fighting for Life

The tranquillity of Nature is just a façade. Living means struggling and fighting. It means winning and losing many battles, both big and small. This struggle affects everyone and everything: fights over food, over territory… or for love. Nevertheless, violence in Nature is often just a ritual that follows a protocol, a set of rules and formalities that almost always prevents serious injuries. That’s… Fighting for Life.

Horns of dears, buffalos or impalas always play their role, while smallest dik dik never touch a competitor... Colourfull boxing swrimps loose a claw to avoid death and Siam battle fish has so long finns to use them as a shield in their continues fights. Thoug the most violent world is the ant battlefield…

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The tranquillity of Nature is just a façade. Living means struggling and fighting. It means winning and losing many battles, both big and small. This struggle affects everyone and everything: fights…

The most common relationship among living beings is that predator and prey. But it’s not the only one… There are non-violent relationships, and many more that we could consider to be cooperative…

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