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> "If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great," he joked. Karisoke's Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the cen
by hirundo 7y ago
> "If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great," he joked. Karisoke's Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the center's ethos. "No we can't teach them," she said. "We try as much as we can to not interfere with the gorillas. We don't want to affect their natural behavior."
I would think that the main danger is in habituating the gorillas to humans, teaching them that we're safe when we're not. It may be better if any human interaction with them is aversive but not damaging, like pepper spray.
- darth_skywalker 7y agoPepper spray is actually quite damaging.
- 3martron 7y agoIt was an example, captain pedantic.
- savant_penguin 7y agoHe is actually not a captain.
- weirdo89 7y agoThis comment is way underappreciated.
- leoc 7y agoI'd also think that there's a good chance that it would be damaging mostly to the human on the other end of the spray cannister.
- irjustin 7y agoDefinitely this moral grey area where ethics arguments on both sides are completely valid. - Messing with natural behavior vs - Not being able to adequately defend oneself because we're stuck debating an ethics question While it is a bit of a straw man attack - if this were humans, the answer would be clear.