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Why Tasmanian devils bite each other at dinner

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Dining etiquette simply does not exist for these notoriously cranky marsupials. Whenever a group gathers around a fresh carcass, they engage in loud, vicious bickering that frequently escalates to directly biting each other right on the face. This spectacular display of aggression is essentially just their way of establishing a strict pecking order around the dinner table.

Why Tasmanian devils bite each other at dinner
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