Do you think Animals keep a record of there history | Like tell stories to there young ?

[NaturesWhistle]

Ive always pondered whether animals can share stories with each other i hear the birds chirping all day long so it makes me wonder ?
like is there possibility that they talk about things like why is natureswhistle whistling or Even telling moral like stories to there young about the dangers of the wild or about mankind ?

i mean it might explain why some animals know to come to humans for help?

What are you thoughts on that ?

 

[pes]

What are you thoughts on that ?

In my opinion most animal species do not have a evolved enough language and abstract thinking to do that. The exception might be apes, dolphins and other highly evolved animals like that. I think most of the knowledge is passed by observation and the limited language (vocal and body) is used for more simple purposes.
There is a theory of genetic memory passed from parents to offspring but I do not know what is the current status of that.

 

[d3bbievictor]

yes, but not the way we do, bull skills and traits like birdsong, are passsed on and are a history in a sense.

 

[Pillar]

Ive always pondered whether animals can share stories with each other i hear the birds chirping all day long so it makes me wonder ?
like is there possibility that they talk about things like why is natureswhistle whistling or Even telling moral like stories to there young about the dangers of the wild or about mankind ?

i mean it might explain why some animals know to come to humans for help?

What are you thoughts on that ?

Yes, through genetics. Animals that survive pass on their story of survival to the next generation after surviving predators and the natural elements. Hence why adaptation and evolutionary mechanisms exist. Now, in a verbal manner, obviously not. It may be a possiblity through nonverbal communication but you might want to use a search engine for that kind of info. (Use DuckDuckGo, Google is just itching to get its hands on your searches.)

 

[HoundDogRuffDog]

I'm sure a lot of birds can covey pretty complex ideas to each other.
If you wrong one crow, they tell the rest of them. There's studies done on this one where scientists wore masks and bullied caught crows and when released they would antagonize the scientists whenever they walked trough their territory, they recognized the masks and even those who had not seen them before knew to beware and chase them off.

Animals we don't consider very "highly intelligent" have surprised us - prairie dogs have a language and they even have accents that are so far from each other that a prairie dog from another colony cannot understand the other far-off colony.
Why it's so hard to crack their language is because they have concepts and words we cannot understand and only make sense to the prairie dogs, we might just be too stupid to understand their highly evolved language

Honestly, I'd like to see this whole idea of human superior intelligence thrown into the trash. Even if an animal conveyed information in a way that to us is simplistic or unrefined, it works for them and we should not think less of them because of it.

 

[Pillar]

I'm sure a lot of birds can covey pretty complex ideas to each other.
If you wrong one crow, they tell the rest of them. There's studies done on this one where scientists wore masks and bullied caught crows and when released they would antagonize the scientists whenever they walked trough their territory, they recognized the masks and even those who had not seen them before knew to beware and chase them off.

Animals we don't consider very "highly intelligent" have surprised us - prairie dogs have a language and they even have accents that are so far from each other that a prairie dog from another colony cannot understand the other far-off colony.
Why it's so hard to crack their language is because they have concepts and words we cannot understand and only make sense to the prairie dogs, we might just be too stupid to understand their highly evolved language

Honestly, I'd like to see this whole idea of human superior intelligence thrown into the trash. Even if an animal conveyed information in a way that to us is simplistic or unrefined, it works for them and we should not think less of them because of it.

The only aspect that could be considered superior is that we can use tools, erect buildings, progress technologically, etc. Doesn't make other living beings our less than us though.

 

[HoundDogRuffDog]

Yeah. It's just such a usual thing to measure animals by our standards. Like "dogs are just as smart as a 3-year old human child!" it should be stopped altogether. We can't smell scents like a dog, fly like a bird (aeroplanes don't count here, we can't just jump up and flap ourselves into the sky) or change our skin colour and pattern like the sepia or chameleon does. To their standards we must be trash.

 

[pes]

Yeah. It's just such a usual thing to measure animals by our standards. Like "dogs are just as smart as a 3-year old human child!" it should be stopped altogether. We can't smell scents like a dog, fly like a bird (aeroplanes don't count here, we can't just jump up and flap ourselves into the sky) or change our skin colour and pattern like the sepia or chameleon does. To their standards we must be trash.

A 3 years old child does not have a clue about how to mate, while a 3 years old dog is fully mature and able to function in the dog society on its own.

 

[HoundDogRuffDog]

A 3 years old child does not have a clue about how to mate, while a 3 years old dog is fully mature and able to function in the dog society on its own.

Exactly. But this kind of "animals are comparable to humans by-" kind of bullshit enforces the idea that animals are stupid and exactly like human children. Which they are not.

 

[Kristy]

Thank-you for an interesting question. I think they do have a way of communicating such things.
I have a fantasy in which my stallion brags to the other stallions, in a language unknown to me, about his hot woman who takes care of all his sexual needs, with me standing there naked and caressing him.