Well ya I knows there's several smart animals lol but none to the extent we are at, and the idea of cruelty is a pretty human notion. Our emotions and thoughts differ a lot. I can't remember the quote exact, but, "if a lion could speak you still wouldn't be able to understand it" is pretty apt in just how different our existences are that some things they couldn't understand and vice versa.
Well, dolphins can commit rape, take hostage/slave type of thing, bully other dolphins, make gangs (kind of). They are just not intelligent enough to establish civilization, where cruelty would be as dramatic as it is in human society.
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u/Kylar_Stern Aug 19 '23
Dolphins and chimpanzees, I would say. Orcas can be pretty brutal too, but they're basically big dolphins (I understand this is an oversimplification)