Whoops, I guess technically insects are in the Animalia kingdom. For some reason I forgot my high school taxonomy.
Bugs are neat, but they are more or less simple biological computers, fulfilling their simple programming before dying, making room for the next generation to repeat.
Just like I forgot insects are technically animals, humans are also animals and part of nature. Other creatures fuck with other creatures all the time, including things from harassment to death.
Like I said, I don’t really find any of this compelling, but two examples, pigs fucking, and insects and lizards eating, is what happens every day in nature, whether man put the two together or random chance did. If you have a pet lizard you feed them meal worms and crickets. If you own pigs, and they aren’t fixed, they screw with weird corkscrew dicks.
The dog presentation is a little different, because they are in some contraption arranged in a certain way. But as others pointed out, these look to be dogs trained to run on a tread mill. I didn’t view anything seen as aggression. I have seen aggressive dogs and dog fights, and they look much different.
Dogs are people pleasers, and honestly many breeds need a lot more exercise than they get. I know people who think that something like this or dog sleds or horses pulling carts or even dog dancing is some how subjecting animals to tasks against their will. But with that logic then one would never train their dog to sit, stay, fetch, or anything else because it is some sort of conditioning, vs free will.
I think people assign too much humanity to animals that isn’t there. Now, that isn’t to say that we should have free reign to abuse animals, not that animals don’t feel pain or suffer or have some base emotions, but for example dogs looking guilty are actually just reacting to your reaction. If you don’t correct a behavior as it happens, they have no idea why you are mad if it is after the fact.
