lions and hyenas and cobras, oh my!

I think it is safe to infer that humans are a lot like the lions and hyenas in “Eternal Enemies”. In terms of warfare, at one point in time humans were very much like the violent animals we witnessed from the movie. The barbaric actions of humans paralleled those of the lions and hyenas; humans would fight each other for territory, leader roles, and sometimes even necessities such as food. In the past, humans would do gruesome things to each other and were very much like animals. Nowadays, we represent the ongoing fight between lions and hyenas not necessarily physically, but in other ways. The aspects from our surrounding environments, such as money and other materialistic things, create greed, jealousy, and the drive to want more, which in turn causes humans to act like animals as well. Not everyone might be going around killing other people for their money, although this does tend to happen sometimes, but humans seem to have an innate feeling of greed that drives them to do unspeakable things for what they desire.
What we shouldn’t infer is that humans don’t fight within their own species to get a higher ranking, like the hyenas. And they certainly do not eat each other; at least, it isn’t a norm in most of the world. And I can’t say that humans live by Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” idea. Fitness, meaning ability to reproduce, doesn’t really apply to us. If someone doesn’t reproduce as many offspring as their neighbor does, that doesn’t mean their family is going to die off right away.
There are a few differences between humans’ lives and the lives of hyenas and lion; in many ways, though, the animal world is a lot like the human world, judging from what the film depicted. I guess we aren’t that much different after all.