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Sure, but those situations probably wouldn't arise without human guidance.
by etaioinshrdlu 7y ago
Sure, but those situations probably wouldn't arise without human guidance.
- bsdz 7y agoPerhaps for those situations I mentioned one could argue that human guidance had a hand. However, there many other examples of cross species altruism where humans play no role (other than observational).
- ses1984 7y agoI believe similar situations have been observed rarely in nature, although I wonder if they were indirectly influenced by humans.
- sooheon 7y agohttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/08/humpback-whales-save-animals-killer-whales-explained/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/08/humpback-wha... I don't think empathy is uniquely human. That would be very unusual for a trait to have emerged fully formed for only one species in all animal kingdom--I think most things are on a gradient.
- marci 7y agoWould you call torture human guidance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcs-H5p-MYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcs-H5p-MYw It's an extreme situation that created this, but I think if you take species in which empathy has been observed, and put them in a secure environment, where they are all well fed, I don't think it's crazy to imagine that they too will have the luxury of inter species empathy, without any human involve in that regard. In general, "That's actually why people keeps mammals in the home and not turtles or snake or something like that who don't have that kind of empathy." (Moral Behaviors in animals | Franz de Waal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJxRqTs5nk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJxRqTs5nk)