General / Off-Topic The Odd Thread
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I'm happy to see you're back.
Well, I managed to stay.I'm happy to see you're back.
I have bigger problems, now than eye-hurting forum themes and this is a nice therapy.
And also Chris always has good posts in this thread.I'm happy to see you're back.
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I believe I've seen something similar with a cat.
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Not sure if you posted it or not.
It still is funny though.
Always spectacular the fractals.
Yes I believe. You or an other.
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Now I understand why wolves are afraid of men.
Yeah, they heard stories from their ancestors.Yes I believe. You or an other.
Now I understand why wolves are afraid of men.
We clearly suck at befriending wild animals.Yes I believe. You or an other.
Now I understand why wolves are afraid of men.
I beg to differ.We clearly suck at befriending wild animals.
We built our first societies on basis of "befriending" animals. And we still exploit our friendships to this day.
We evolved around our animal dependencies as well. We consider offsprings or other animals cuter than our own and we even judge our characters based on that quality.
We are masters of "befriending" and even though we do kill a lot, and I mean A LOT of animals for various reasons, we kill each other even more. Humans killed billions of other humans throughout the history, yet we don't suck at befirending one another.
That's entirely true but I meant it in a different context.
Most animals in the wild will run away when humans come near them.
They see us as a dangerous threat.
It's the effect of millennia of hunting.
Domesticated animals on the other hand trust us blindly.
Yes we are great in befriending them and there's where I contradict myself a bit but at the meantime many species fear us for obvious reasons.
Well, we are predators. The rabbit will run away from you the same way it would run from a fox and a fox will run away from you the same way it would run from a wolf.
They don't run away from us because humans were mean to them in the past. They just see something different than them and run.
Now, there are animals in certain parts of the world that don't run from humans. But that is not because "they didn't see a human before therefore they are not afraid", which is a trope that gets thrown around a lot. They don't run away because their environment is void of predators altogether.
But we humans are great at taking things personally. "It didn't run away - that must mean it senses I'm a good person" and similar nonsense.