>>84072509I don't think you can do 100x worse than lynchings.
Gazelle is clearly at least teasing the idea of an interspecies relationship by dancing with all those ultrabuff tigers.
Word of god says that they'll go with science to answer the question of whether Nick and Judy could have kids (i.e. NOPE), and the film is more about prejudice in general than specifically racial prejudice, so any official story that dealt with that subject matter would come across more as an allegory for homophobia than racism.
>>84072518Or some other source for highly nutritious meals that require coordination between a large group to acquire. The second point is probably as important as the first; grass could be pure sugar and you still wouldn't see grazers develop intelligence because intelligence is only an advantage on the animal level when it comes to coordinating in a large group, which is not required when your food is easy to find and doesn't move.