You know that there's a lizard (can't remember the name or what documentary I saw it on (I think it was David Attenbro)) somewhere in America that flattens itself and stands on its spiked side so it looks bigger to ward off predators (in the documentary's case it was a snake). And if that doesn't work, it falls into the predator.
But here's the thing, the snake, rather than biting its exposed underside, was actually WIERDED OUT by the action and went away.
A REPTILE can be WIERDED OUT.
He was probably thinking: "What is this stupid lizard doing?"
Then we must take into consideration that animals don't have the same intelligence as we do. They aren't irrational (as people love to say), but their data processing is inferior to ours.
So this means he probably got to the conclusion: "What if stupidity is infectious? I better not eat this."
Add that conclusion to the fact it was indeed a weird thing, the snake got to the obvious and acceptable conclusion to go away.
I don't blame the snake, sometimes I look at human stupidity and its reach and I wonder if it really isn't infectious...
In the animal world, abnormal acting is often taken as a sign of being very ill, possibly with something deadly and contagious. So some predators may avoid animals that act in certain ways wich are unknown to them even if those animals are in their natural food chain.
You know that there's a lizard (can't remember the name or what documentary I saw it on (I think it was David Attenbro)) somewhere in America that flattens itself and stands on its spiked side so it looks bigger to ward off predators (in the documentary's case it was a snake). And if that doesn't work, it falls into the predator.
But here's the thing, the snake, rather than biting its exposed underside, was actually WIERDED OUT by the action and went away.
A REPTILE can be WIERDED OUT.
He was probably thinking: "What is this stupid lizard doing?"
Then we must take into consideration that animals don't have the same intelligence as we do. They aren't irrational (as people love to say), but their data processing is inferior to ours.
So this means he probably got to the conclusion: "What if stupidity is infectious? I better not eat this."
Add that conclusion to the fact it was indeed a weird thing, the snake got to the obvious and acceptable conclusion to go away.
I don't blame the snake, sometimes I look at human stupidity and its reach and I wonder if it really isn't infectious...
In the animal world, abnormal acting is often taken as a sign of being very ill, possibly with something deadly and contagious. So some predators may avoid animals that act in certain ways wich are unknown to them even if those animals are in their natural food chain.
This is why mankind use fishing rods instead, no need to get too personal with the prey...