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You get snake-phobia and survive. You get a addictive behaviour and slowly immunize yourself with microdoses of poison. You hunt your prey in a poison dilutin
by WillReplyfFood 9y ago
You get snake-phobia and survive.
You get a addictive behaviour and slowly immunize yourself with microdoses of poison.
You hunt your prey in a poison diluting or neutralizing environment.
You set the plains on fire with dryd grass to interrupt the feeding cycle of the plague and eat the denatured poisonous creatures.
There are a lot of different strategies. One must admire the crows for eating the fugu though.
- overcast 9y agoWe're talking snakes here, and another animals that aren't really sentient. They aren't microdosing themselves with poison or setting fires.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agohttps://pickle.nine.com.au/2018/01/10/08/46/australian-birds-spreading-fire-catch-prey https://pickle.nine.com.au/2018/01/10/08/46/australian-birds... There are sources for addiction regarding animals on the web. Its quite interesting what horses and goats do for some weeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_toad#Drug_use_of_poison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_toad#Drug_use_o... The war on Horse-Drugs should have priority. Give the DEAs some hoes to whack out the danger.
- wavefunction 9y agoPretty cool link on the Colorado River toad. Apparently raccoons use the same strategy as these crows, turning the toad over on its back and eating the belly.
- wavefunction 9y agoPerhaps you mean sapient. Snakes and other animals are definitely sentient.
- toxicFork 9y agoThose actions can still be done unintentionally. For example, a particular kind of snake can prefer to eat some particular kind of fruit when they are young, which also happens to be the favourite plant for a cane toad to rub on to get rid of itchy bottoms.
- Falling3 9y agoI know sentience is an abused word, but for almost any of its practical definitions that's a false statement. Sentience is the ability for subjective experience, which applies to any of the animals being discussed here. If you're thinking of something like self-awareness (a totally separate quality), you're probably correct. But that has nothing to do with the ability to learn.