2007-08-29 12:23:18 · 5 answers · asked by danz2289 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
All animals have their own flight zone and level of anxiety of having another animal breach that zone. Some animals simply by nature are not tolerant of animals breaching that zone. One example i can provide is that many of the small antelope we fostered at the zoo were pulled from their mothers and bottle fed. We got a lot of these and the thompsons gazelles were always runninig to a person and poking you with their noses within about two days of being started on a bottle. The blackbucks we got, however, never tolerated a person being close to them and had to be physically restrained in order to bottle feed them. Efforts were made to not pull these babies because they never tolerated people within their flight zone well despite the fact that we demonstrated that we were not there to harm them. Interestingly both tommies and blackbuck are similar in size and appearance when young but in tolerance of people near them, acted very differently.
2007-08-30 02:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by SC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some animals are more used to people than others.
2007-08-31 12:42:32 · answer #2 · answered by Akatsuki 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because some animals that have been in the wild for a long time without any interactions from humans become very afraid of you because you are something foreign to their habitat while others like in city parks like squrills will allow you to get quite close to them. like cararys or any other domesticated animal.
2007-08-29 19:46:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mammals that have rabies will let you get close to them or they will get close to you. However at some point they get aggressive enough to bite and there comes that series of painful rabies shots.
2007-08-29 22:38:26 · answer #4 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they want to check you out before they eat you....
Sorry - couldn't resist.
2007-09-01 05:04:08 · answer #5 · answered by Amar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋