Is defending your turf natural?

Question

I have a pair of blue jays nesting in my back yard. When the robins tried to build a nest in a nearby tree, the blue jays kept destroying the robin's nest. Sad but natural? Or do we hold out hope for a higher consciousness?

Answer 1

Yes. It's perfectly natural. Jays are very territorial during nesting season, and they will challenge any birds that encroach upon their territory. I've seen them attack cats too.

Answer 2

The natural part isn't that they defend their turf, but that they fight for survival. The Blue jays destroy the other nest because it threatens (or they perceive it as a threat) to their exsitence.

Answer 3

Yes it is natural. Also acting socially (like a mother protecting their young, or how people get together in times of major disasters).  This collectiveness and individuality is what makes us humans and this constant debate wether we should be together or protecting ourselves makes us really human.  Laws, ethics, justice, etc tries to regulate this duality and we, philosophically, try to understand it constantly.

We do not live in peace because we lack the understanding of the "other".

Do not give up.

Answer 4

So, your saying the jays should have allowed the robins to move in on their resources and destroy the jay's reproductive fitness? The highest conciseness is genetic immortality for jays. People can learn to cooperate; to compete. I suggest you may have a better time in the humanities section, considering your unrealistic expectations of evolutions products.

Answer 5

Defending your turf is as natural as not defending it.  Nature is reality defend it or not.  Either way it is nature.  And it is natural that we hold out hope for a higher consciousness.  It is even natural for us to blow ourselves right out of existence.  Nature will go on.  We hope we will be there to go on with it. But if not, would that be unnatural?

Answer 6

Yes defending one's turf is natural... u r talking about the animal kingdom where it is all about the survival of the fittest. The jays were just doing what they were 'wired' to do. They were ensuring the continuous existence of their species..

Answer 7

Yep.....I'm sure you'd get huffy if some other girl sat on your BF's lap and started flirting....likewise with turf(basically possesion of land).