Human being have learnt a lot from the animals and nature from the begining, have the animals done the same ?

Question

By doing so the humans beings have become a lot smarter. Is the same evident from various species of animals - who do you think they tend to follow or copy - after all they all have brain, thinking and analytical powers. Give real convincing examples.

Answer 1

It is hard to say if animals copied humans a million years ago using a twig "as a tool" to grab grubs from a hole, or if humans saw birds or a chimp doing it first and followed. This new learned skill would be passed down to the offspring.

However, we do know that several animals use tools. Not just Chimps but birds too.

Alex is a parrot that is pretty amazing when it comes to what he has learned. He knows colors and shapes of objects and can count.

I think both animals (and really aren't humans animals too) and "humans'' learn from each other.

Answer 2

The smarter you are less humane in nature. The instinct in animals and birds help to protect their offspring. They do not have any brain excep few mammals like rat, rabbit which the human is experimenting for scientific analytical ways of knowing the theory of darwine. Always animals and birds have even guided the people Eg: Pancha Tantra stories Know that man is selfish whereas the species guide the humane to becomne smarter.

Answer 3

Well, first and foremost, you seem to draw a line between human and non-human animals. We are in fact, just as animal as any wild creature.

There are many examples of animals learning behaviors and adaptations from each other. This is not exclusively the purview of humans.

Memetics is a scientific discipline which deals in part with the way certain kinds of behaviors are learned and transmitted. It's been a while since I read it, but you should read Dr. Susan Blackmore's book, The Meme Machine. It talks a lot about humans and learned behaviors. I'm pretty sure there's a good deal about animals in there as well.

Answer 4

Aninmals certainly are able to adapt to their environment. For example, in some species of monkey, when fighting against a species of ape, some monkeys started wielding sticks and swinging them at their enemies. The apes, having never seen something like this, were scared off even by child monkeys swinging pieces of grass. Also, in the monkey tribes, some monkeys tried to use their intelligence to dominate over the rest of the tribe and become the alpha male.

A very interesting thing to note, however is a recent case of lesbianism in Austrailian koalas, where female koalas even engaged in sex with 5 to 10 of them at once. I'm not kidding. I put the link to the article in my sources. The Australians apparently were shocked. The interesting thing to note is, is this learned behavior or is this just one strange, isolated case? Humans certainly populate enough of the world for animals to witness most of our activities and behaviors.

There been cases of other human behavior in animals as well, this one just stuck in my mind because it was pretty recent and was also more strange than the rest.

Answer 5

Man is the supreme living being on this earth.He has the matured and analytical brain.By this he can learn,analyse and correlate and solve his problems.If the animal kingdom had the same matured brain they could have overtaken this entire earth.

Answer 6

I watched a show on animal planet where chimpanzees have learned to hunt with weapons just like their human counterparts.

Answer 7

Animals don't think or analyze like humans do so they don't try to copy us. We have reversed that kind of thinking by personifying our domestic pets (dogs and cats) and giving them lives and training them to adjust to our way of life. This is our doing not our pets.

Answer 8

Animals have learned many things from nature and are living accordingly. But we (humans) yet to learn from nature!

Answer 9

of course they have learnt too!!! they have learnt to keep themselves away from selfish cruel humans.classic example is the case of sparrow birds in bangalore.they have completely disappeared from bangalore because of the hostile conditions provided by we humans.these birds have learnt a lesson or two from humans!!

Answer 10

yes of course animals also learn from the human beings as you can see the monkys learn by copying a man and also see at the dog community they also learn from man.