To the human eye, many edible plants have a poisonous plant look alike. We can distinguish the two after research and learning but how do animals just know the difference?
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So humans have this tendency to both over estimate and underestimate animals. Instinct doesn’t account for as much as you can. You know how some animals dig, or you know behavior animals do to indicate emotion? A lot isn’t instinct, its taught by the parents. Animals born in capitivity or orphaned don’t have the skills they need to be a flamingo or panda or what have you. Even then if released into other animals they are often out cast because they don’t know the social ques and social norms of said animal pack.
so a great deal of it is taught by parent animal, panda goes to eat poison flower and mom will smack it, much like a human. other times they learn the way we do, eat it, get sick, never touch it again.
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