Note: No intention of starting a political conversation, as a resident of said superpower I just love the irony.
Every animal needs to survive and will do anything to get by including scavenging. That’s nature. At this very moment, millions of things are getting eaten alive. Welcome to the brutality of Mother Nature.
It’s not very charitable to say something deeply provocative and putting a note to defend. It only reflects your prejudice.
Yea, and so do nations. The descriptors they used feel conformable describing both the nation and the mascot. It's not deeply provocative. It is a comparison that is interesting to read, because it describes how nations and animals can act similarly, but on difference scales.
Every division of the universe into distinct constituents is a completely made up concept by groups of humans, including “humans” and “groups” thereof.
One can spin it whatever which way.
but even letting this opinion aside, crows, magpies, and parrots can run loops around their "intelligence"
one can spin it in any way, but some ways are more shameless then others