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No, there can't be any.
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Quite a few. There are birds, for instance, that can be observed brutalizing their siblings while the parents idly watch.
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Hyenas often eat each others ears or snouts accidentally while jostling for another dead animal. And they'll happily eat their fellows who die of other things, although I'm not sure that counts as cruelty.
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At least we don't eat our own babies, like some animals do.
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I take it you have seen the remains of a wolf when it gets too close to a rival pack. It's a very ugly sight to see an animal that has been literally ripped apart by it's own kind.
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Other species kill their own like we do, but we should know better, so that makes us much crueler. +5
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The mating rituals in the Preying Mantis are similar.
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I think female praying mantis's and black widow spiders kill and eat their males after mating!
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I'm guessing you haven't heard of any humans that have been cannibalized by their mate right after copulation? There is plenty of intra-species cruelty outside of humanity. The notion that there isn't is a pacifist myth. Humans are just cruel to each other in much more spectacular ways, such as lobbing explosives at each other...
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a praying mantis eats the head of the male while copulating.. i think thats cruel enough
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Sharks, for one. Don't they, like, eat each other if they get wounded or something? Or eat their weak and unfit to live?
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Well, chimps eat monkeys.
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I think most living organisms are at least somewhat cruel to each other. The difference is, we are verbally cruel, as well as other ways, so it tends to stand out more.
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In many ways crueler. When was the last time a human mother ate her young?
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