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A cat pricks it's ears to increase fidelity of it's hearing, dogs point with their nose as a learned trait they don't do it in the wild and a snakes 'sees' with
by dazzawazza 17y ago
A cat pricks it's ears to increase fidelity of it's hearing, dogs point with their nose as a learned trait they don't do it in the wild and a snakes 'sees' with it's tongue as it picks up scent trails.
None of these behaviours are naturally evolved communication methods, two are evolved traits that better adapt the animal to it's environment and the other is a learned behaviour.
If creationism ever compliments evolution it is purely by accident.
- indiejade 17y agoA cat pricks it's ears to increase fidelity of it's hearing, dogs point with their nose as a learned trait they don't do it in the wild. None of these behaviours are naturally evolved communication methods This is pure speculation. Who is to say that learned traits can or cannot evolve naturally, over time? Besides, your use of "it's" is wrong. An underlying assumption of the statement "pointing declaratively" is that there's some one or some thing to be declarative to (as in an audience, or partner, or fellow pack member). I liked the article, but it did go about assuming that humans are the only creatures who know how to be declarative. We're probably more verbally declarative than any other species, but I highly doubt we're the only "declarative" species out there.