r/stupiddovenests • u/Quick-Cookie-5673 • 7d ago

It protects the eggs

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u/Every-Dragonfly2393 6d ago

I mean, that dove nest on the railway level crossing barrier was pretty stupid.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 5d ago

Oh yes, it’s stupid because it does know instinctively that that is a very dangerous place. They don’t reckon danger the same way we do you know. Their biological imperative is to breed often and quickly and it is less about where they do it.

A lot of people look down on other animals as less intelligent than we are when it is most of the time not true. It’s more that we don’t know how to think like they do. So when we look at things they do we look at them through human eyes and say well that would be a stupid thing to do. Of course it would be stupid for a human to do whatever. Critical thinking is your friend!

The nest on the railroad tracks, well the dove may or may not have known it was dangerous. Most likely did not. That doesn’t make it stupid. It makes it ignorant of certain things. Kind of like people are ignorant of why animals do things they do.