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Even if she doesn't this is still a very interesting read. Many of her anecdotes have been seen and confirmed by so many different people that they are undoubte
by hristov 11y ago
Even if she doesn't this is still a very interesting read. Many of her anecdotes have been seen and confirmed by so many different people that they are undoubtedly true. And considering these are true, they are very unusual and interesting to hear.
I am not aware of any other wild animal that behaves like this. Both in terms of friendliness, and in terms of intelligence as in knowing what people like and how and when to help us.
Obviously you cannot include domesticated animals, such as dogs or cows in this. These animals have been domesticated for so long, they must certainly have obtained some human friendly genes through natural selection. Even a "wild" dog carries genes that are the result of thousands of years of domestication.
But a dolphin has no natural selection reason to be friendly to humans. And given how cruel nature is, and how cruel humans often are, it is rather amazing, they display such inter species friendliness.
- glaberficken 11y ago"These animals have been domesticated for so long, they must certainly have obtained some human friendly genes through natural selection" Domesticated species evolve by artificial selection/selective breeding not by natural selection.
- gearhart 11y agoIt's an interesting idea - natural selection not by death before breeding, but by emigration - if only the animals that liked humans stayed near them, and those that didn't went elsewhere, then they'd end up breeding with other "friendly" individuals and you'd have genetic selection pressure that would amount to natural selection. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox (evidence for genetic influence on "friendliness") Edit: somewhat irrelevant to the point above, but interesting anyway