@SmudgeTheInsultCat @briellebouquet one of my favorite categories of human centric science is when scientists assume animals will display intelligence by fighting with each other but they end up working together instead, much to the shock of (surely) cis het white male scientists.
@secant2 @SmudgeTheInsultCat i think most people default to cooperative behaviour too outside of corrupted systems like the one we live in.
but yea, lol at the researchers' cynical prediction and lack of imagination