7 deadly sins in nature.

[sibridge]

Hi,

 

I have to complie a list of examples in nature (non human) of the '7 deadly sins' to try to link with some human behaviour.

 

For example

 

Gluttony: The ornate horned frog. It will eat anything in their path. Even if it is larger/unmanagable.

 

Envy: recent study into capuchin monkeys suggest they display envy when another monkey is seen to be fed 'better' food

 

I have more but I was wondering if any others spring to mind?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

 

Simon

[Phi for All]

Peacocks, badgers, bonobos. Greed is hard to distinguish from gluttony in animals other than human, since they don't have many other possessions than food.

 

Sloth, sloth, sloth... hmm, no, nothing comes to mind....

[imatfaal]

if you can get hold of a replay of the fishing programme shown on ITV4 in UK over the weekend - there was a fish in the amazon that they found floating half dead; it had eaten another fish that was so big it could not physically be swallowed and as a result the predator was suffocating. They pulled the food out of the gullet with some pliers and it looks as if they rescued the predator.

[CaptainPanic]

Lust: The spiders who eat the male spider after mating?
Gluttony: was covered above
Greed: the squirrel that did this (youtube)
Sloth: Tricky one. Eeh... I give up.
Wrath: this elephant is pretty angry, although it isn't a deadly sin...
Envy: was covered in the OP
Pride: I dunno. Cats? It is easy to see when they look guilty, so maybe pride is their default look? It doesn't seem to kill them. Instead, we love them for it.

[swansont]

Pride: I dunno. Cats? It is easy to see when they look guilty, so maybe pride is their default look? It doesn't seem to kill them. Instead, we love them for it.

 

A group of lions. Not really sure why all of them getting together is a sin, though.

[EdEarl]

Lust in lion males leads to killing all the previous pride leader's offspring when new male take over a pride.