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dlcarriertoday at 1:03 AM1 replyview on HN

It's really common.

In species where a prominent male has a harem of multiple females. This usually involves killing not only rival males, but all of their offspring too. Here's a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_(zoology)

In species which keep territories, animals will kill rivals of the same species, but because it's not targeted it's not genocidal, unless the species eusocial, in which case it can result in massive genocidal wars, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_in_ants


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 1:33 AM

> usually involves killing not only rival males, but all of their offspring too

I think the distinction is between killing a line and killing a tribe. But granted, that’s valid.