At 03:43 PM 2/27/2002, Gordon Hempton wrote:
>Walt,
>
>This is the second comment regarding the illegitimacy of attributing human
>emotions to wildlife behavior, and that's just today!
>
>I listen to the birds all the time, and they give pretty good advice. (As=
k
>any soldier that has been on patrol in a foreign country and he will likel=
y
>know of stories about how an ambush was avoided, lives saved, because the
>wildlife alarm calls tipped them off.) I think we should honor our 'bias'
>when it comes to nature recording--it will guide us towards better set-ups=
.
>Science can catch up later.
I never regret being anthropomorphic - I know that birds (frogs, mammals,
insects) are animals and that I am an animal and that our motivations are
99% the same - sex, food, sex, shelter, sex, companionship, sex...
I think that if you want to know why an animal is behaving the way it is,
look to your motivations, you will very often be right on the mark. We're
not as different as our hubris leads us to believe...
Doug.
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Doug Von Gausig
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Clarkdale, Central Arizona, USA
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