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It may not be instinctive, but learned behavior. They're not dumb, they're apes, not that far from the evolutionary tree from us. Hell, my cat knows when it's
by pavel_lishin 2y ago
It may not be instinctive, but learned behavior. They're not dumb, they're apes, not that far from the evolutionary tree from us.
Hell, my cat knows when it's time to eat.
- PreInternet01 2y ago"Leaned behavior" to me means that they previously saw other, non-baboon, groups rob tourists in the same way, which seems unlikely? This feels more like a situation where the baboons realized that "these humans have yummy stuff" followed by "hey, and this is how we can distract them in order to grab it" But, well, semantics...
- pavel_lishin 2y ago> "Leaned behavior" to me means that they previously saw other, non-baboon, groups rob tourists in the same way, which seems unlikely? It might mean that to you, but that's absolutely not what I meant to convey.
- PreInternet01 2y agoThanks for your detailed explanation of where I went wrong. Correcting non-native speakers on their mis-use of fringe vocabulary sure feels good, doesn't it?