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Grizzly
11-24-2007, 08:00 PM
If a penguin could shoot a bow, it would be instinctive.

If a child could shoot a bow it would be instinctive.

Penguins are fairly good at keeping those eggs warm on their feet. Didnt get that out of a book. Could be instinctive, although they seem to loose a few eggs to the cold before they perfect their system.

Kids seem to want to shoot whoever is behind them when they first try to put an arrow on the string. A little worse than not getting that egg off the ice fast enough. I dont see any old mother penquins setting up the kids with the egg and instruction, although the penguins may have noticed what was going on as youngsters.

I watched a female angel fish who grew up in my tank without any other older angel fish. She started laying eggs, so I went looking for a breeding age male. The pet shop had one but warned me he had been returned 3 times because he was a bully. Within an hour, with him not knowing how to or wanting to, fertilize her eggs, she had him on the bottom of the tank and was beating the living snot out of him until he got the message. He became a pretty attentive father after that. Pretty instinctive I thought.

How long did it take the human race to invent the bow? Not so instinctive. I wonder how many bystanders got shot when they loaded an arrow backwards and released it?? Bet they fooled around with systems for quite a while before they killed anything they intended to.

Desert Archer
11-25-2007, 05:50 AM
LOL - I have no "instinct" for archery. The more I "learn" the more what feels comfortable (instinctive) turns out to wrong. (grin)

Dave

Joe -->
11-25-2007, 09:56 AM
Like I said before, young predators are fed by their parents until they are old enough to learn how to hunt. Maybe lions are really vegetarians and not instinctive hunters because they were taught? Nah, I wouldn't want to argue that line.

Seagull
11-26-2007, 06:53 AM
If a kitten is not instructed by the mom cat they will not see mice as food.
Young lion are taught how to hunt their various prey. Just like we humans teach our young to hunt. Seems even the things we think are instinctive are taught.

ahshoot
11-26-2007, 11:34 AM
A lot of this hard-wired. For instance, snakes have no parental care or teaching. They know how to strike and devour a mouse. They go by scent. In fact, snakes from Africa will often not recognize new world or european rodents as prey, because the scent cues are not present. Mammals have some of this too.