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Originally Posted by whswhs
Yes, but a lot of them wouldn't kill them. One of my players likes to tell the story of being at the zoo when the tiger cubs were being fed—live rats—and a mother had brought her young children to see it, apparently not realizing what the meal would be.
Bill Stoddard
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That has far more to do with modern people being squeamish about their meat coming from formerly living animals, in my opinion.
I doubt those people would feel any differently if they saw what happens in a slaughterhouse every day.
Besides, wild animals have been known to adopt juveniles of other species even of food animals. Rarely, but it does happen.
I have no problem believing that human level intelligence mammals would exhibit similar love of the cute as we do.