how come they all look the same but we dont?

Question

how come animals such as cats,dogs, and bears and animal wildlife crap all look the same but humans don't?

ok? im saying if u see a cat from like 50 ft away ur not going to notice its a cat?

Answer 1

If you want an extreme case of natural variation in animals check out wolves... er um.. DOGS!

Now to be fair, humans messed them up on purpose, but we saved the weirdest looking wolves and instead of letting them die or be killed off by the pack, we made them our domestic companions. I believe it took between 10,000 and 50,000 to create all the breads of dogs we have today... a very short drop in the bucket on an evolutionary time scale. But as I say, us humans interfered heinously in the natural selection process, and therefore encouraged traits that would normally have been selected out.

I also keep horses and they are very recognizable once you spend some time around them. Each having their own distinct appearance, movements, and of course personality.

As far as humans go, the differences you see are mostly a function of your brain trying really hard to find differences. Facial recognition (within your own species) is very useful. The ability to recognize family from stranger, friend from foe, has been naturally selected into current humans (due to the inverse trait carriers being killed by foes or non-family members). Humans don't vary from individual to individual very much in their appearance, but our brains work very hard to find unique distinctions between individuals to achieve "recognition".

I hope that helps you.... Have a nice day!

Answer 2

When I first started working with animals I thought the same thing. After many hours of staring at them you start to see individual differences.
I think humans may also look different because of genetic variation. All sorts of races mix together creating more options for a look. For example if you were to look at a pack of dogs that were all golden retrievers you would have a tough time figuring out who was who. On the other hand if you had a pack of mutts, all from different breed mixes, identifying them would be much easier.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Do they but?
I mean defining species as individuals able to mate and produce fertile offspring... poodle and doberman
burmese and persian cats...
In the breed of, say persian, humans interfere by ensuring mating to a standart.... a set of rules how they should look, so we breed selectively.
I assume wild animals look very different to each other, and smell different while to them a dark haired male human is pretty similar to the next.

Answer 5

It seems like they look the same but they don't. English, African American, and Chinese people look different. Golden retrievers, pugs, and beagles look different too. Our hair colors are different to some other people's hair colors. A lab's fur can be yellow, but maybe another lab has dark fur.
Same goes for cats, fish, monkeys, caterpillars and other animals.

Answer 6

I've always wondered that too. Look at any two dogs and you just can't tell them apart unless they have an ID tag.
I finally figured it out. The other animals are used to identifying each other by scent, so they don't need to look different. Humans are almost useless in the matter of scent; we've had to adapt visual cues to tell each other apart.
It's the same with crap. No human can tell mouse crap from cow crap, but we can always tell our own crap from our brother's or sister's crap, because they look different. Animals use their sense of smell.

Answer 7

Because you need to be able to tell different humans apart for your survival so you are 'programmed' to notice the differences between them. It is not so important for you to be able to tell animals apart - if you worked with them, you would quickly notice the differences in their markings, their face shapes, the sounds they make the way they moved etc.

Answer 8

Actually,animals may hav the same colors, but they all hav differant markings and patterns.a zebra,4 example,has strips that differ in size and place.so really,animals look differant from each other lik humans.

Answer 9

They don't all look the same. You can learn to identify individual animals if you are the least bit interested in them. They all have their own personalities too.

Answer 10

My Manx cat looks nothing like my domestic short hair.

My basset hound looks nothing like my Shih Tzu.

They have the same basic shape, like humans, but they don't look alike.

Even two purebred puppies or kittens will not look alike.