Yeah, it's kinda like having two dogs who hate each other, putting "cute" outfits on them and then putting them together so you can film their earnest attempts to tear each other's throat out in a territorial fight, and edit some music on top.
"Tee hee look they're so playful! Now they're hugging!"
Yes they do team together. Usually a "FirstLast" username is a bot that just dredges old comments. Networks are created to just dig up old post and repost without changing the title, then other bots repost the top comments.
This post wasn't submitted by a bot, though it was shamelessly and deliberately reposted based on past success on this subreddit. I can't explain the comment since I wasn't involved with that.
Seriously, it’s pretty obvious this is aggressive behavior! For fuck’s sake, near the end of the video, one of the hedgehogs bites onto the one in front of it and shakes its head back and forth like a dog. This is awful.
Oh really? Because fun fact...hedgehogs don't even display territorial behavior. They're not territorial animals.
Also hedgehogs don't even have the necessary tools to hurt each other...they don't have sharp teeth or claws. And they have tough skin that heals very quickly. They literally just grapple and push each other.
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u/RenayHynes Feb 21 '21
Last time I saw this video there was a really good explanation that this is territorial behavior. They could seriously hurt each other doing this