It is clear that animals understand modern human stuff

[skOsH♥]

Cars have only been around for a couple hundred years or so

I've seen animals run quickly across paved roads

I see no reason why they would do this unless they knew that there was a threat of death.

Now, is this:

Memory imprinted into DNA?

or,

Animals somehow informing their offspring about the fast moving metal objects?

What is this......this has perplexed me since I had seen an animal run across a road.

How did they pass on the information so quickly?

[kbiz]

Survival of the fittest. Scared cautious genes propagate.

Experience. They are learning animals.

Cars have been around 100 years. Maybe 140 if you stretch it.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Animals can grasp concepts and observe behavior. Some recognize human words and objects. Thank goodness they never developed opposable thumbs else they would have taken over long ago.

[Candyy]

Animals have brain too ,they are not stupid

The same thing as humans, they learn with experience, just that for humans is much simpler v:

[Issen Nox]

''Big fast moving object making lots of noise - scary. Better run away and hide asap.'' I can imagine this is a train of thought for most cats and dogs.

[Zero, Dark Knight]

Originalmente postado por Candyy ♡:

Animals have brain too ,they are not stupid

The same thing as humans, they learn with experience, just that for humans becuase is much simpler v:

... well the turkeys keep voting for christmas.

[Xero_Daxter]

I’m sure a lot of animals know “as long as I’m not on this black rock (road) I’ll be okay. And if I must cross I probably have to do it quickly before I get ran over by a giant piece of metal”.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originalmente postado por Xero_Daxter:

I’m sure a lot of animals know “as long as I’m not on this black rock (road) I’ll be okay. And if I must cross I probably have to do it quickly before I get ran over by a giant piece of metal”.

Until you meet deer.

[Candyy]

Originalmente postado por Zero, Dark Knight:

Originalmente postado por Candyy ♡:

Animals have brain too ,they are not stupid

The same thing as humans, they learn with experience, just that for humans becuase is much simpler v:

... well the turkeys keep voting for christmas.

??

[skOsH♥]

Originalmente postado por kbiz:

Survival of the fittest. Scared cautious genes propagate.

Experience. They are learning animals.

Cars have been around 100 years. Maybe 140 if you stretch it.

Oh yeah, I guess. I don't know why I wrote "a couple hundred"

Originalmente postado por DarkCrystalMethod:

Animals can grasp concepts and observe behavior. Some recognize human words and objects. Thank goodness they never developed opposable thumbs else they would have taken over long ago.

Lol. Agreed. Very worried about a planet of the apes situation where humanity is overtaken by other primates

[DarkCrystalMethod]

We even fear AI because it would be designed to be superior and then at some point it would realize it and eliminate the smelly humans. Fortunately programming an AI is tricky.

[Yarr]

There isn't a huge gap in intelligence between humans and other animals as acudummies want you to believe.

[Irene ❤]

Maybe they can sense that road vibration with their naked foot. In many cases the deer was curious of the car noise, run across the road to be killed.

[skOsH♥]

Originalmente postado por Yarr:

There isn't a huge gap in intelligence between humans and other animals as acudummies want you to believe.

See yeah, that's what I was kind of leaning towards, usually they go, oh, well, a fish is more conscious than a rock. A cat is more conscious than a fish, a dog more than a cat, a chimp more than a dog, and so on

But they certainly like to let people know, "oh, the most conscious animals are humans, dolphins, and octopi and that's it"

[Devsman]

Nice try Abstergo data miner

[Ice Robertson]

Well you can train dogs to do a lot of things like search and rescue, You can even train some animals to search out land mines.

Cats and dogs can sometimes tell when you're sad and be sympathetic.

So yeah, Some animals might well understand more than some of us think.