It's wonderful they DID arrive there.

They were raised together so it makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is assigning human priorities to them about color or differences - that's silly.

We assume wild animals in the predator species are natural enemies because we've observed them fighting each other in the wild.

If you have an adult cat in your home and you bring in a new adult cat or a dog - there will be arguments, growling, hissing, fighting, etc. In most cases, after a few weeks they'll get along.

Under the right circumstances (introduced when young with interaction over years) the same may be true of wild species. What a neat trio they are!

Animals don't just attack each other because of dislike - they attack because they have to eat, and they protect their young. When an animal is well fed without hunting they are much less likely to keep aggressive tendencies....other than when they have kids to watch out for. If the food was cut off in that shelter - those little guys wouldn't be so kewl with each other.

It IS wonderful they arrived there.

I adopted a 5 year old very, very gentle female
sheperd/husky/possible wolf mix and brought her home
to my 15 year old male cat. They never cuddled or played,
but never fought - even from day one. They did get to the
point where they would greet each other by sniffing noses
when I came home with the dog. When the cat died, the dog
definitely knew something was up and Sasha looked around
for ET for several days after he was put down.

The Liger and Tiglon phenomena was not in my mind when I posted.
Liger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not that it's a love thing, but it means lions and tigers don't
automatically try to kill each other?

As an animal lover and layperson, I believe higher animals think and
have emotions. It's hard for me to think it's not obvious.

Science is only fairly recently (past ten or fifteen years or so?)
accepting and studying that view. Crows and monkeys using
"tools" to build stuff or get food... Tigers (or lions maybe)
methodically hunting down prey by forming a triangle around it.
Animals showing affection to each other or humans...

One of my psychology professors (Temple University PhD)
told our History of Psychology class that Skinner and many
of his contemporaries did not think dogs had emotions or physical
feelings. When Skinner gathered the saliva for his famous
stimulus/response experiments, he would just stick that needle
through their cheeks and did not think the cries meant anything.

Now I wonder what is in Claude's fridge. hmmm

Dan