To her a neighbour is fair game, to be eaten without scruple when one has might on one's side.

Time was when, unaware of this fierce intolerance, which is more savage still at breeding time, I saw hideous orgies perpetrated in my overstocked cages.

I shall have occasion to describe those tragedies later.
Let us meanwhile consider the isolated Lycosae.

They do not touch up the dwelling which I have moulded for them with a bit of reed; at most, now and again, perhaps with the object of forming a lounge or bedroom at the bottom, they fling out a few loads of rubbish.

But all, little by little, build the kerb that is to edge the mouth.
I have given them plenty of first-rate materials, far superior to those which they use when left to their own resources.