21st March 2006, 5:45 PM
no they wouldn't, all animals instinctively take care of infants regardless of species. there's thousands of cases of alligators, lions, tigers, wolves, etc rasing different species. the only time any animal, including humans, eat anything is when they're in a hunting pattern bevavior, ie: hungry and on the look out for food, adopting the 'chase' mentality. if the prey cant run away, wild animals tend to either ignore it or try to get it to run. their morality wont allow them to eat something they think might be an infant, but if it can run it's fair game. if the animal lives close to human beings, it may gain odd thinking patterns and lose alot of its instinctual grasp of the world, such as bears in a park who litteraly turn vans over because they want Tostitos really, really bad and develop specific tastes (some like beef jerky, some like ham sandwiches, etc) and since all living things are inherently food, if people hand food to a wild animal logic says the wild animal will regard the human being as food or as a source of food usually leading to man-eating animals.
but yeah, wolves will not eat a infant of any species unless starving, corrupted, etc. think of wild animals as human beings that run completely on situational logic, tomorrow doesn't exist, the past is irrelevant unless you learned something you should retain (dont eat those berries, dont sleep in the field, dont eat porcupines, etc) and all you think about is the now and how you will live for now, creating safety in numbers, being highly aggresive to any percievable threat and protecting infants especially of your own species at all costs. nothing else matters, and that's why all wild animals are stronger than human beings, we didn't want to live so simply, we enjoy sophistication in societal regimes and classes, like every other greater hominid who only has super human strength to support its weight when fleeing predators in to the trees, mostly they lay around in their society and get fat and have arguments about who gets to microwave dinner.
but yeah, wolves will not eat a infant of any species unless starving, corrupted, etc. think of wild animals as human beings that run completely on situational logic, tomorrow doesn't exist, the past is irrelevant unless you learned something you should retain (dont eat those berries, dont sleep in the field, dont eat porcupines, etc) and all you think about is the now and how you will live for now, creating safety in numbers, being highly aggresive to any percievable threat and protecting infants especially of your own species at all costs. nothing else matters, and that's why all wild animals are stronger than human beings, we didn't want to live so simply, we enjoy sophistication in societal regimes and classes, like every other greater hominid who only has super human strength to support its weight when fleeing predators in to the trees, mostly they lay around in their society and get fat and have arguments about who gets to microwave dinner.