>The reproductive strategy of cuckoos is based on deceit, quite fundamentally. Is that deception, though? Lying? It might look like deception as far as humans

>The reproductive strategy of cuckoos is based on deceit, quite fundamentally. Is that deception, though? Lying? It might look like deception as far as humans are concerned, but the cuckoos just want other birds to raise their chicks. >I'm sorry that you've had such terrible experience with other people. It's not so much that as it is all humans are two-faced to some degree of non-zero value. Human society is also structured in a way that honest, one-faced people finish dead last. It's tiresome, downright exhausting even when there are no negatives involved. I never so much as have to care about that if I deal with animals, they are honest to a fault including when they "lie". What you see is what you get; animals are a breath of fresh air compared to humans.