External predators exploit internal division by merely waiting
Evidence
The hunter waited for the quails to quarrel. He did not need to do anything else. He knew that any group, given enough time, will fight over something. When they do, the hunter catches them. — , A Year of World Stories, 5935
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Patience can outlast an opponent’s brief advantage — , A Year of World Stories, 3392; The human homing-to-herd instinct becomes fatal against engineered predators — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1486; A predator’s mere potential presence shapes the behavior of an entire ecosystem. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 507