Gordon Hempton wrote:
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> Walt,
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> This is the second comment regarding the illegitimacy of attributing huma=
n
> emotions to wildlife behavior, and that's just today!
And here I go again.
> I listen to the birds all the time, and they give pretty good advice. (A=
sk
> any soldier that has been on patrol in a foreign country and he will like=
ly
> 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-up=
s.
> Science can catch up later.
Actually the wildlife "alarm calls" were arguing over the best seats to
watch the show.
Don't forget to listen to the trees, the Druids had something going,
even though we have no idea what. I'm still trying to find that out.
Science is not really behind on this, in fact we often know a great deal
more behaviors than most folk do. And more about why it occurs. I was
once a soldier, and finding the enemy was easy, as you say almost
everything out there was pointing them out.
We should be aware of how wildlife behaves, I never said otherwise. And
we should definitely use that in our nature recording. But to do that
does not require hooking emotions to the behavior. Or knowing how they
behave thinking we know how they think on a higher level.
Walt
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