lostonearth35 wrote:
I really envy animals because they've survived for thousands or even millions of years in the wild mainly because they have the instinct to do so, and nobody had to teach them.
Humans need to be taught how to do almost everything, and they learn mainly by making a ton of stupid mistakes first, if they learn at all. And all too often their human teachers need to learn a thing or two.
Many wild animals need to be taught how to survive as well. That's why animals from zoos and similar can't be released into the wild. Animals learn how to survive as they grow up, just like we do. Further, in some species like bottlenose dolphins it's known that some groups engage in a behaviour that's passed on generationally that other's don't (look up dolphins using sponges as tools for an example).
Certainly, some animals like insects appear to largely function off of built-in instinct, but birds and mammals require significant parental input early on and that includes being taught the behaviours they need to survive day-to-day.
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