Would multiple sapient species with similar diets cooperate or compete?

This is connected to a previous question, found here: Realism of a setting with several sapient anthropomorphic animal species

Presume that due to outside interference with evolution, a planet has developed hundreds of sapient furry species all at the same time. Since these species are based directly on Earth animals, logically their diets follow suit. However, they adapt to a broader sort of potential diet to support living on other locations of the planet (ex. aardvarks adapt to eat insects that aren't ants/termites in order to expand out of their initial biomes).

If you have two or more sapient species which life off of the same food sources (those food sources being either plants, fish, insects, or animals), would they end up clashing and eventually driving all but one out of extinction per food source? Or, is it possible for these species, while being in the same location and eating the same things, to cooperate (ex. the aardvarks and aardwolves, while subsiding on the same diet of insects, do not drive one another to extinction)?

posted about 8 years ago

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