#i think a lot of animal society media usually just does the herbivore vs carnivore dynamic i've noticed.
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thinking more about the social dynamics of this world (furry earth of whatever i’m calling it).. not only is there the predator-prey dynamic, but also the dynamics both predator and prey people have with preyed-upon herbivores (not granted sympathy for (once) eating people, or if they are the ones they (once) preyed upon, seen as dangerous), and with people who were or are their predators (they would likely be seen as food or as lesser by their predators, and so they would fear them, and even if they are not eaten by them currently, there would still likely be that fear). there are also herbivores who were hardly preyed upon, like aurochs or rhinos, and their relationship with often preyed-upon fellow herbivores, and prey in general. they cannot exactly relate to the struggles of the rest of the herbivores, y’know? i’m not too sure how well i explained all of this, but, yeh. the point is, there are lots of different possible social dynamics with a world where the people are anthropomorphic animals.
#world info#my posts#sorry for any followers of mine who have this post show up on their dash without context#this is a world building project i'm working on#i think a lot of animal society media usually just does the herbivore vs carnivore dynamic i've noticed.#anyway#there's this auroch-boar-lynx-eagle society based around strength. its kind of like furry sparta.#and this is my first example i've created of an inter-diet society and the way this particular one works is that the carnivores who joined#have a mutual respect (and fear which really is what caused the respect) of the aurochs#and so these particular lynx and eagle groups ended up allying with then joining because of the benefits aurochs promised them#like food (fish bugs and prisoners of war)#and POWER#there's this cultural philosophy that these carnivores were convinced of#about rather than it being about predator and prey it was the strong and the weak. and aurochs boars lynxes and eagles were the strong#while chamois and foxes and such were the weak ones
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