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The rat bastards are better than us (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Couldn't this be explained by the "tit-for-tat" hypothesis? That selfless behaviour is learned in communal animals, and that its implied it will be you who need help next time?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

There is a bat species that I think feeds on blood, and they share the food they managed to get in a night, if a bat refuses to share one night then the next time they get left out of the sharing.