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OMG! NOT NOW SNAKES! j/k that is really cool, though the following quote made me a little sad: “We may not have observed the behavior in the wild because we’r
by checkyoursudo 6y ago
OMG! NOT NOW SNAKES!
j/k that is really cool, though the following quote made me a little sad:
“We may not have observed the behavior in the wild because we’re barely observing the animals in the wild.”
That reminds me of Attenborough talking about how there aren't really many truly wild places left in the world.
That makes me wonder, how much of even, for example, Goodall's study of the chimpanzees just 60 years ago was really studying them in the "wild"?
Maybe this is why I am drawn to videos of extreme deep see creatures, because that does seem to be still wild (for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDIlMVgNwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDIlMVgNwk ).
Edit: I just wanted to point out that I realize that part of the motivation for the quote is just because of the difficulty of observing the secretive snakes in the wild and not because they don't exist in wild places anymore -- it just sent me down a little tangential rollercoaster of emotion. That's all.
- oh_sigh 6y agoAs I understand it Goodall's studies were never in the wild, because she attracted the troop with piles of fruit to observe their behavior. So it's possible their behavior changes when they receive a windfall of fruit(happier?), or can keep going back to the same spot for fruit (as opposed to foraging over their range), or when they have caloric excess (more hunting, mating, or war?)