Why do some animals (like spiders or lizards) spend so much time just doing nothing? What is happening and why?
In: Biology
Most animals spend as much time as possible doing nothing, including humans.
Doing* nothing is a great way to not get injured, or killed.
Once you have all your immediate needs taken care of (food, shelter, warmth, water,) then there really isn’t much to do except mate. That’s all most animals ever really do, with some exceptions for playing.
Humans are a bit different in as much as we seem to like to create art, write books, study, talk to one another, etc. but you could really probably lump all that into, “playing,” and I believe all of the social animals do this to some extent… which is why they’re considered social animals.
Even still humans tend to gravitate towards doing nothing once immediate needs are met.
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