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Post by Clue314 on Feb 24, 2012 16:16:47 GMT -5
So, I was watching some Youtube, and I heard about how the frogs for dissection are specifically bred for that purpose, and it got me thinking, we act like we think "aliens" would act on the other animals of Earth, we specifically breed them just to kill them in most cases, so we fear Alien Invasion, do animals fear Human Abductions?
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Post by scud47 on Feb 24, 2012 17:00:46 GMT -5
I think such a concept would be over the heads of animals.
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Post by Umune on Feb 24, 2012 18:40:12 GMT -5
Crows, as an example, have very good facial recognition that somehow can be transferred between individuals. They also remember people who generally make the crows angry or sad, be it stealing young or food. If a hated person approaches some crows who recognize him, they will caw to alert others and possibly scare off. So some animals could recognize people as "abductors." I'm not quite sure if they make it analogous to our extraterrestrial aliens though.
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Post by Clue314 on Feb 24, 2012 19:01:06 GMT -5
Obviously not, as they probably don't have the capabilities of imagining it, as they aren't familiar to "space" in itself, I was making the analogy, and wondering if they feared us, as we fear extra-terrestrial invasions.
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Post by catplanetcatplanet on Feb 24, 2012 20:47:24 GMT -5
Well, there is a food chain of sorts, yes?
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Post by Clue314 on Feb 24, 2012 20:51:58 GMT -5
Humans are the only animal known that specifically breeds animals for different purposes, I believe, so the food chain is less relevant.
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Post by bloberis on Feb 25, 2012 10:54:04 GMT -5
Scud is right in this case though. Animals do not fear human abduction. For example, if there a frog living in where ever dissection frogs live, he will not live in constant fear of being taken because he doesn't know he is going to be taken. When the humans finally take him out of there though, there is a good chance he will be scared out of his tiny froggy mind, not because he knows whats going to happen, but because he doesn't. We fear aliens because there are an unknown, animals fear the unknown as well, the difference is animals live entirely in the present.
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Post by demonturky on Feb 25, 2012 12:41:05 GMT -5
Humans are the only animal known that specifically breeds animals for different purposes, I believe, so the food chain is less relevant. Not necessarily. Some species of ants have been known to raise aphids as a sort of cattle. And if it follows under the same branch of breeding, most species of ants fight other colonies and take them as slaves for their work force. |
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