Just curious
2007-06-21 17:27:42 · 10 answers · asked by Via_Crucis 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
if you are standing on the sidewalk and a car veers off the road toward you do you think "my goodness itd be best if i moved out of the way or i could possibly die" or do you just think "HOLY CRAP CAR!" and then move out of the way?
right...its most likely the latter...if anything at all
thats because its alll instincts
has nothing to do with thoughts of death its just built in
now afterwords you think "wow i could have died from that" but whos to say that when the gazelle gets away he doesnt do a little leap to celebrate his victory, and then go about his way. we cant know for sure
2007-06-21 17:51:04 · answer #1 · answered by bandicoot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Survival instinct.
Animals that *don't* run away eventually end up dead, thus they quickly disappear from the gene pool....The animals that survive are the ones that have an overwhelming urge to run from anything remotely resembling a predator.
They may not have a refined concept of death, but they know that lions are bad news.
2007-06-21 17:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by WOMBAT, Manliness Expert 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GREETINGS, we don't really know if they understand death or not, some of them give indication that they do. I had a cat that fought hard to live because he knew I didn't want him to die, he should have been dead from renal failure but he lived 10 months past the time he should have, he fought. He only gave up when I told him to basically let go, he was in such bad shape that I took him to be put to sleep but he died before that happened. I believe he knew it was time to let go.
Animals have built in instincts like the elephants went uphill when the tsunami was going to hit, they know and sense danger, danger is fearful and fear causes them to run or hide.
2007-06-21 17:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by Tina of Lymphland.com 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't understand death as we do but they do have instincts. And those instincts tell them that that lion is going to eat them. If they get eaten they can't survive to reproduce and pass on their genes which is the ultimate goal of all animals (even us to a lesser degree).
2007-06-21 17:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't understand the concept of 'death' but they certainly know about being trapped and harmed. This is instinctive to every creature or the animals would not be around long enough to reproduce.
2007-06-22 01:06:44 · answer #5 · answered by SC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think about it. Animals don't sit and contemplate death. They stand there and eat or sleep and occasionally they play around. Then out of nowhere a huge hairy roaring beast pops out at them and their instincts say to run! Just because they don't understand death, doesn't mean they have no fear. Everything alive has fear.
2007-06-21 17:37:14 · answer #6 · answered by Marie Jane 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fear, induced by evolution. You can refer to Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" where he points out that animals not exposed to predators are not afraid (dodo bird, penguins) but animals that evolved in a place with predators have had natural selection produce a fear instinct.
2007-06-21 17:35:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animals have survival instincts and definitely feel feer. Even animals as simple as a spider sense fear and cower down when they are about to be squished.
2007-06-21 18:37:05 · answer #8 · answered by michelle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If something big, that you have never seen befor, starts coming after you, do you stick around to ask if it's intentions are good?
2007-06-21 17:37:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
instinct
2007-06-21 17:35:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋