Yes, but the word 'murder' which is invented by us, is not applied to animal species and who knows how animals interpret killing each other. My guess (and it is a guess) is they do not regard it as a 'crime'. Animals do seem to get annoyed with others of their kind, and some have social hierarchies. That dolphin probably tried another form of meditation.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "anartaxius@..." <anartaxius@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 10:16 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Research Shows Absence of People Reduces Crime How could I have missed that? I had to look twice at your Subject line before I got your joke, but as it turns out, even a total absence of people might not reduce crime at all. Crime -- as we know it, such as murder -- exists in animal species. For example, a little-known fact about all those peaceable, New Age-loving dolphins is that every so often a group of them will just decide to gang up on another dolphin, seemingly at random, and punch him to death with their snouts. Go figure. Maybe the offending dolphin wasn't saying "So long and thanks for all the fish" properly. :-)
