Aggressive young orphaned elephants are reported to have killed 36 rhinos, including rare black ones, in a game park in eastern South Africa.
According to conservationists, the young elephants have been provoking confrontations with the rhinos since they were introduced to Hluhluwe-Umofolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal. The elephants were orphaned when their parents were culled in the early 1990s in an effort to control the elephant population in Kruger National Park. As they have matured, so they have become more aggressive. Attacks on rhinos have been growing over the past two years, with 13 killed, including two black rhino, in the last five months of 1999, South African newspapers report.
We really do not know animal world, we guess from limited observation.
The realization that infant-killing occurs widely in nature is relatively recent. In large part this had to do with our repellence of the act. Charles Darwin set the tone when he wrote, in The Descent of Man, "Our early semi-human progenitors would not have practiced infanticide, for the instincts of the lower animals are never so perverted as to lead them regularly to destroy their own offspring." As late as the mid-1960s, classical ethology—the study of animal behavior in the wild—held that creatures rarely killed members of their own species, except in captivity or unnaturally crowded conditions.
NOVA | Killer Instinct
Yeah many animals kill for reasons beside food, Territory is one of the big reasons. Even cute animals like dolphins are known to kill small purpoises just for fun. Wolves often kill domestic dogs and vice versa just for kicks too.
I also know many raptor species will hunt and kill other animals but not eat them... often this is due to the fact that raptors like some humans get a buzz from killing big game. Goshawks for example are known to take on other bird species much larger than themselves. Many predators compete for food and often eliminate each others offspring to reduce competition. What I do know is that few if any species has managed to utilise it's surroundings the way humans have. Many predators are naturally armed with awesome weaponry but none can match the human arsenal. But sadly humans are not the only species known to hunt just for fun.
I agree with your question.
Why do the human animal cause so much harm to all other animals in the world?
