Are there any animals which kill for fun rather than just food?
The ONLY animal that kills purely for fun is humans. Other animals kill for food, to protect themselves or their young, for a mate or for territory, to eliminate competition, etc. They certainly do not always eat the animal they’ve killed – if they’re killing to protect themselves or win a mate, they’re not doing it for food – but there is ALWAYS a reason for the killing. Some people are confused about the habits of animals like foxes that will kill every hen in a hen house. They are not killing for fun, they are thinking ahead. A wild animal doesn’t know where its next meal is coming from, and if it finds a glut of prey in one place, it makes sense to kill as many as it can while they’re available. Given enough time, it would carry off and cache every chicken it killed. There’s also reason for lions, hyenas and so on attacking and killing each other – they are competitors. The more predators there are, the less prey there is to go around, so a lion killing a hyena is removing an obsta
