How does where we come from affect our survival instincts?

Question

Just because animals look similar does that mean they look at survival the same way..

Does a polar bear look at survival the same way a grizzly bear does?

I don't think humans would survive very long being celebate.

Answer 1

I don't think the outward appearance has much, if anything, to do with survival instinct. It certainly helps with camouflaging (for many animals) and mating, but survival instinct is in all of us from birth. Our first and main instinct is to survive at all costs. It is the survival skills, based on our surrounding and experience, that are learned and that make animals methods of survival differ.

Answer 2

I think when it comes down to humans, it depends on how well you were taught survival skills to begin with. Certain areas teach more, especially in the more remote places, but their is nothing definite. I would say that the simplest way of answering this is that the more experience with nature a culture has, the better it's survival instincts will be. Obviously an African bushman is not going to survive too well in siberia, where some siberian nomads won't survive too well in Africa....

However, I assume we are talking more advanced tribes such as well, the people reading this. In which case, I would say the guy from a 300 person town in Alaska will out survive a person from new york city (in the wilderness). (Unles they are both stuck in the dessert and the guy from new york does nothing but watch discovery channel....

I really don't think temperature and climate will affect survival skills in modern civilizations, the real factor is merely how much real life experience we have. Yet, the discovery channel reference I made does changes stuff a lot... but it still comes down to the culture itself, actually, even further down to the individual family. In this world, knowledge determines survival, not necessarily being more physically adapted to the terrain.

So, take your kids hiking and camping and make them watch discovery channel and Animal planet. We should always have an understanding of how things work, from which color subway line takes you where to what color of animal or plant takes you to the land of dead.

Answer 3

Survival instincts of animals are dependent on
the environment they are accostomed to. Humans
are not. Humans are the highest of all creation.
Nearly 90% of humans can survive in any environment.

Food, sleep and sexual urge are the basic instincts
built into the genes of all living beings. It is humans who have greated control over these
instincts. Other living beings can survive on only
with a certain food. Humans can live on the
widest range of food. Only humans can survive
without sexual needs in the name of celibacy.

Answer 4

I'm a single woman, and believe me; I look at survival the same way like a coyote in the desert. My life affects every aspect of my survival instincts.

Answer 5

I am actually looking forward to reading some of this post. I have wondered the same thing through my sons issues, was he born bad, was he born good and some how I messed up so badly with him that, he turned out something quite different than I expected. Was it the world that shaped him, in to the person he has become? I was recently told by a person that is in control of my sons future (he is in a instution) that sometimes kids are born with no conscious and how can they be shaped with out this, with love, naturing ect. I wonder how if you raise say 3 kids, all the same way, why does 2 come out great kids and one come out very much different than the other two, was it enviorment, was it the parenting skill, or is there something much more deeper than we as humans can completely understand with the way the mind works. I think kids are taught many things, good and bad, but the child ultimatley has a mind too and will be who they choose to be.

Answer 6

where we come from does effect our survival instincts because the way the weather and climate it is around there and how the environment is used for your needs and how it looks.

Answer 7

I agree with Craig, but also. One has to ask, " How badly do you want to live?"