Life's teachers are first those nearest and dearest, your protective mother giving warmth, reassuring cuddles, milk; then your father, fighting off enemies and bringing home the bread; visiting grandparents and other older relatives.
Nowadays this usually works well for a baby, especially if a new mother can get advice from her mother or books. But life has brought us much more danger and information than 100 years ago. Then old wives tales worked. Now we have the internet and grandchildren are teaching grandparents.
You can see how cats and dogs and other animals learn from the nearest teacher or trainer. If you are lucky you can watch and learn from others - the oldest, who have survived by skill or chance. Then from the group. Lastly from the wide world if you are human, through books, TV and the internet.
Museum of Sex - Animal Behaviour In Zoos
You learn to eat, protect yourself from weather. avoid danger, seek new experiences. I was shocked when I went to the Museum of Sex in New York and saw videos of animals from zoos and safari parks. Without guidance or restraint, as I knew from childhood, a cuckoo puts its own egg in the nest of others. Many animals like lions fight their own families.
Anthropology & Animals In Cages
Anthropologists found from experiments with small rodents which breed fast, probably rats, that when animals are crowded together they fight. Within each group there are the majority who follow each other, the leader, or leaders, and the weakest who are either protected or abandoned or attacked.
Farms and Cows
I was shocked when I went to a farm and learned that when cows give birth, the male offspring have to be moved to another field. Otherwise they breed with the mother, producing cows which are malformed physically, and mentally unbalanced, erratic behaviour, aggressive and uncontrollable. So the rules about incest are not just about not preventing jealousy between siblings as to which one is favoured, and between mother and daughter, or father and son, but also to prevent breeding unstable offspring who cannot look after themselves and attack others.
Amusing Meerkats
Modern TV programmes show us movements of large groups out in the wild. For example, meerkats.
Human History
Let's look at what happened in America, Australia, Nazi Germany and other countries. A group has a shortage of food so they either fight anybody who has resources go gain more for themselves. or they emigrate. Then they are either welcomed by the other groups they encounter, or they fight, or cause the original inhabitants to move.
Life makes more sense when you see patterns. Knowledge is the first step towards controlling events. If you can foresee trouble, you can evade it or prepare to protect yourself and your family and country.
Avoid trouble. Protect yourself. Read on.
Nowadays this usually works well for a baby, especially if a new mother can get advice from her mother or books. But life has brought us much more danger and information than 100 years ago. Then old wives tales worked. Now we have the internet and grandchildren are teaching grandparents.
You can see how cats and dogs and other animals learn from the nearest teacher or trainer. If you are lucky you can watch and learn from others - the oldest, who have survived by skill or chance. Then from the group. Lastly from the wide world if you are human, through books, TV and the internet.
Museum of Sex - Animal Behaviour In Zoos
You learn to eat, protect yourself from weather. avoid danger, seek new experiences. I was shocked when I went to the Museum of Sex in New York and saw videos of animals from zoos and safari parks. Without guidance or restraint, as I knew from childhood, a cuckoo puts its own egg in the nest of others. Many animals like lions fight their own families.
Anthropology & Animals In Cages
Anthropologists found from experiments with small rodents which breed fast, probably rats, that when animals are crowded together they fight. Within each group there are the majority who follow each other, the leader, or leaders, and the weakest who are either protected or abandoned or attacked.
Farms and Cows
I was shocked when I went to a farm and learned that when cows give birth, the male offspring have to be moved to another field. Otherwise they breed with the mother, producing cows which are malformed physically, and mentally unbalanced, erratic behaviour, aggressive and uncontrollable. So the rules about incest are not just about not preventing jealousy between siblings as to which one is favoured, and between mother and daughter, or father and son, but also to prevent breeding unstable offspring who cannot look after themselves and attack others.
Amusing Meerkats
Modern TV programmes show us movements of large groups out in the wild. For example, meerkats.
Human History
Let's look at what happened in America, Australia, Nazi Germany and other countries. A group has a shortage of food so they either fight anybody who has resources go gain more for themselves. or they emigrate. Then they are either welcomed by the other groups they encounter, or they fight, or cause the original inhabitants to move.
Life makes more sense when you see patterns. Knowledge is the first step towards controlling events. If you can foresee trouble, you can evade it or prepare to protect yourself and your family and country.
Avoid trouble. Protect yourself. Read on.
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