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The bird was just goofing around on its back, perhaps aware that its companion might join it. It was more a tease than a fight. Perhaps novelty seeking behavior
by h0l0cube 2y ago
The bird was just goofing around on its back, perhaps aware that its companion might join it. It was more a tease than a fight. Perhaps novelty seeking behaviors are just of broad utility evolutionarily speaking, but there didn’t seem to be any directly obvious utility in this case
- e40 2y agoSo, they seemed to be playing? That was my point. Just like puppies play fight.
- h0l0cube 2y agoIt wasn’t a fight, it was more like trolling. It could be practicing delay tactics or entrapment or something, but still this implication of this being some kind of evolutionary driven behavior as distinguished from the novel pursuits of humans is wrong. All human behavior can also be attributed to evolutionary fitness, and this garners no distinction in terms of whether a being would be conscious or not