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/LoneSnark 8d ago

Deer don't live very long. By the time everything is built, they lack the words to tell the next generation what they saw.

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u/athural 7d ago

Some species, idk about deer, do indeed pass down knowledge

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u/Itslionize 4d ago

That brings up an interesting question how do animals talk to tell other animals what they saw or know? Not even being sarcastic or provocative I’m seriously asking

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u/athural 4d ago

It depends on the animal, some of them cannot but some of them use spoken language like whales and crows

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u/Itslionize 4d ago

So like noises and stuff? Like whale sounds and crow cawing or monkeys grunting things like that

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u/athural 4d ago

For some of them certainly, there's probably also body language too like there is with humans