>>anything not us, is them. Them is not us. Therefore they are fair game to eat. how do snakes know who US is? they bond with eachothers pheromones(scent) upon hatching/birth.

Frank, you present a lot of provocative ideas, which sometimes raise questions for me.

In this instance, if we accept that inbreeding is not in an animal's best interest, what you're describing seems the exact opposite of evolutionary behavior that rewards animals with the best survival strategies. (In other words, if some species "bonded" and bred with their siblings, and others didn't, evolutionary theory would seem to predict the species which, by its nature, inbred, would eventually die out, while the others thrived.) I know I'm oversimplifying. But it doesn't seem like a good survival strategy. Could you elaborate?

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