Power Struggles in the Peaceable Kingdom, Part I
There's plenty of warfare in animal kingdom, even within a species: battalions of mongooses square off against each other, hermit crabs evict each other in the quest for the perfect shell, ravens rally their brothers to back them up in a rumble. Sounds almost like West Side Story. But all of this conflict actually leads to more peace and harmony, not less.
Guest: Lee Alan Dugatkin, author of "Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others"
Explore Lee's other writing: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/D/L/au8005058.html
Photo courtesy of Harry Marshall/Banded Mongoose Research Project
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There's plenty of warfare in animal kingdom, even within a species: battalions of mongooses square off against each other, hermit crabs evict each other in the quest for the perfect shell, ravens rally their brothers to back them up in a rumble. Sounds almost like West Side Story. But all of this conflict actually leads to more peace and harmony, not less.
Guest: Lee Alan Dugatkin, author of "Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others"
Explore Lee's other writing: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/D/L/au8005058.html
Photo courtesy of Harry Marshall/Banded Mongoose Research Project
2022-07-06
23 min
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