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If you really want to be terrified, consider the possibility that most animals have no idea what a food chain is. So by extension - if in fact we weren't at th
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
If you really want to be terrified, consider the possibility that most animals have no idea what a food chain is.
So by extension - if in fact we weren't at the top of the food chain, would we even know?
- systemvoltage 5y agoExtending it further – what are the things that we currently do not understand well but its understanding would lead to panic of the scale we've never seen?
- frutiger 5y agoCancer?
- nomorecommas 5y agoOkay HP Lovecraft. Hey you should write a story about that!
- pontifier 5y agoIt writes itself... You could almost take the original study and just change the subject to people. It was very difficult for me to read.
- jjk166 5y agoI think most animals are aware of their predators even if they don't have some complex understanding of ecosystems. Anything that may once have considered humans a part of its natural diet has long since been hunted to extinction, save for maybe some remote patches of wild at the various edges of the human inhabited world.
- patmcc 5y agoBacteria, fungi
- pontifier 5y agoI'm guessing that just about every animal thinks it's immortal until it starts being eaten.