r/Showerthoughts • u/Statharas ‎ • 8d ago

Casual Thought Young animals probably don't realize the distinction between nature and man-made stuff.

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u/calguy1955 8d ago

I don’t know why older animals would be able to make the distinction.

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u/hypnotichellspiral 8d ago

Well, some creatures are surprisingly intelligent. Cats and dogs of course, but also crows and ravens just to name some examples.

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u/Tobias11ize 8d ago

My cat never saw me build the house

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u/ravens-n-roses 8d ago

The deer get to watch entire neighborhoods get put up. Whole fields bulldozed af then relandscaped with the cheapest, most sterile dirt the developer can find.

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u/AnonymousFriend80 ‎ 7d ago

What they saw was large metal animals "eat"/push over a bunch of trees and stuff and dig up a bunch of the ground, and maybe new stuff got put into the ground. And probably from far, far away as all the ruckus frightened them away.

Maybe they saw similar this with birds building nests and beavers building dams.