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|u/Commercial-East4069 - 19 hours
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|Poor bastard just wants some peace and quiet
|u/Buck_Thorn - 19 hours
|
|**STOP THAT DAM NOISE!!!**
|u/PancakeParty98 - 18 hours
|
|Wait no, I mean MORE dam noise, less damn noise!
|u/DookieShoez - 15 hours
|
|He’s not making any sense. He’s lost it. Just look at the pretty
|sunset bud! 🤪🔫😞
|u/RockstarAgent - 15 hours
|
|Let it be the last sunset cause another noisy sunrise is
|bullshit
|u/GraveRobberX - 15 hours
|
|*Water Noises* Beaver: “Absolutely the Fuck not!”
|u/A-Game-Of-Fate - 16 hours
|
|“DAMN THAT INFERNAL NOISE!” “…Dam it, you say?”
|u/missionbeach - 16 hours
|
|Will somebody answer that damn phone!
|u/PaPerm24 - 15 hours
|
|WHERES THE HAMMERING, STOP THE HAMMERING
|u/BigLittleSlof - 15 hours
|
|... Say that again
|u/bazmonkey - 14 hours
|
|They’re in their den eating dinner. The baby beaver is like: “and
|then I was playing with the field mouse living downstairs and there
|was a rock and—“ Dad beaver: “—Does no one else hear that fucking
|leak?!” He storms off into the other room and reappears with his
|tool belt, marching out the door mumbling to himself.
|u/monsieur_noirs - 10 hours
|
|It’s causing a headache lodged in my brain!
|u/Jisto_ - 14 hours
|
|That dam stop noise!
|u/Original_Sedawk - 14 hours
|
|**THAT DAM STOPS NOISE!!!**
|u/Thx4AllTheFish - 17 hours
|
|Keystone species. They create wetland habitat, which then supports
|countless other species that all coevolved around those wetlands. In
|the western part of the Americas, where Wildfires rage, they act as
|natural firebreaks and safe havens for animals fleeing the flames.
|Beaver complexes also act as filters following the fires, reducing
|erosion and downstream flooding. Beaver complexes also raise the
|water table and help store water in the ground like a sponge, which
|then is naturally released slowly during drier periods. In the
|rockies, snow packs are diminishing, and the melt out is faster than
|ever due to climate change. All of that water is now running through
|the system too fast, causing erosion and worsening droughts.
|Reintroducing beavers, or humans building beaver dam analogs (BDAs),
|in the high alpine watersheds could slow the meltout, store water in
|the ground to be released later, and improve the ecosystem for
|wildlife. Beavers are rad.
|u/Hulkbuster_v2 - 16 hours
|
|Can we, for a minute, appreciate how fucking awesome this is? The
|fact that a single species of animal can affect a whole ass
|ecosystem is amazing. Same with the wolves of Yellowstone. They
|literally changed how the rivers in the park flow! Fucking
|incredible
|u/idiotsecant - 15 hours
|
|I mean, I can think of another animal that affects it's
|ecosystem even more. And i'm not sure we'd describe it as
|awesome, other than maybe in the original definition of the word
|as inspiring fear or dread.
|u/flyinhighaskmeY - 12 hours
|
|That's because we are it. Your experience of existence is
|relative. If we were an outside observer, we would classify
|it the same way. A beaver dam and a skyscraper are the same
|thing. Remember, humans made up the concept of
|"intelligence". We made up the concept of "intelligent life"
|to define ourselves specifically as different/above the other
|life here. So we could justify exterminating it at will.
|Zoom out. Look at what humans have done. Look at how our
|population swelled as our access to resources increased.
|Appreciate for a moment, how we can discuss this process, but
|we cannot control it. Because we aren't "intelligent". We're
|just another animal, living on earth. And everything we do as
|an animal, living on earth, is therefore "natural". Which
|means the house/condo/school/apartment you are sitting in is
|entirely natural. To understand why most people cannot see
|this, you have to understand what the Humans are. And you
|have to accept reality, instead of chasing the lie. Which is
|hard. I joke that we're liar monkeys.
|u/hoheppaklol - 14 hours
|
|Wolves in Yellowstone have also rebounded the population of
|beavers in Yellowstone since with fewer elk grazing near the
|rivers, the beavers now have more willow to use during the
|winter. All really cool stuff.
|u/krullbob888 - 14 hours
|
|I just backpacked Dolly Sods in WV and hands down the best part
|were the Beaver Dams. I got a bit off trail at this creek
|crossing, and had to just follow the creek a bit to where I knew
|the trail should be, and found the most magnificent beaver dam
|I've ever seen, and two gigantic mansions of beaver homes.
|Then on the 2nd night, my camp was right next to another
|ridiculous dam, surrounded by the wetlands the post above
|describes. It was lovely.
|u/ruthie_imogene - 13 hours
|
|There is a huge beaverdam in Northern Ontario (def Canada, maybe
|not Ont?) And you can see it from space. You really gotta give
|them credit. EDIT: in Alberta! Lac St Clair Beaverdam
|u/wowaddict71 - 9 hours
|
|Wolves are also a keystone species ( I just learned this
|recently) "Wolves are what’s referred to as a “keystone
|species”, which is any species that other plants and animals
|within an ecosystem largely depend on. If a keystone species is
|removed, the ecosystem would drastically change, and in some
|cases, collapse."
|https://www.californiawolfcenter.org/biodiversity
|u/unWildBill - 16 hours
|
|Hey, nice beavers
|u/cerberus00 - 14 hours
|
|Thank you, I just had them stuffed
|u/Mczern - 15 hours
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|It's a shame they started shaving them for their pelts.
|u/ADHD-Fens - 16 hours
|
|I always knew beavers were the solution to my problems.
|u/kndyone - 14 hours
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|I think its funny that you bothered to define BDAs but you only
|used it once which means you didnt need to define it.
|u/Thx4AllTheFish - 13 hours
|
|Lol, I figured I would use it again 🤣
|u/bluesmaker - 17 hours
|
|Is this from a book?
|u/gwaydms - 11 hours
|
|We call them beaver meadows. Marshy areas caused by beaver activity.
|u/UmbertoEcoTheDolphin - 19 hours
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|He thought your legs was trees.
|u/Liveitup1999 - 19 hours
|
|Maybe he's autistic and can't stand the noise.
|u/Taipers_4_days - 18 hours
|
|I mean…they aren’t good with noises, love repetitive actions and
|I’ve never seen one make eye contact.
|u/Pogue_Mahone_ - 18 hours
|
|I even keep my hands in the exact position of the beaver in the
|thumbnail... either beavers are autistic or I am a beaver
|u/Das_Mime - 18 hours
|
|Special interest: hydrological engineering
|u/Thismyrealnameisit - 18 hours
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|Nice beaver!
|u/Pogue_Mahone_ - 18 hours
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|Thanks! I just had it stuffed!
|u/masterofn0n3 - 18 hours
|
|Unless we consciously position our hands otherwise, this is also
|mine and my son's natural hand state.
|u/ElJamoquio - 17 hours
|
|por que no los dos
|u/talencia - 18 hours
|
|👀
|u/sitting-duck - 15 hours
|
|You've just not met the right
|[beaver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekLEG8xsOs)
|u/Goodgoditsgrowing - 17 hours
|
|Alright if they do T. rex arms I’m fully convinced
|u/LEGTZSE - 17 hours
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|Or he isn’t autistic and can’t stand the noise
|u/Justanothrcrazybroad - 15 hours
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|Beavers with misophonia, huh?
|u/Thx4AllTheFish - 17 hours
|
|OCD about running water.
|u/Linkdoctor_who - 18 hours
|
|I have heard that theory
|u/daabilge - 16 hours
|
|"There's a brook somewhere that won't stop babbling. Shut up!"
|u/Shentar - 14 hours
|
| A whole species of dads.
|u/BarracudaDelicious49 - 19 hours
|
|Maybe the beaver was just annoyed by the tape player
|u/DariusIV - 17 hours
|
|I mean it's not beyond possibility that beavers simply evolved to find
|the sound of running water annoying, like humans do with crying
|babies. They could understand it's not actually running water, but
|cover it up to stop the sound.
|u/Pormock - 16 hours
|
|Its like cats instinct making them chase moving toys Beavers are
|made to build dam where they hear water
|u/greycubed - 6 hours
|
|And I am made to play League of Legends.
|u/Additional-Ad-1644 - 5 hours
|
|We all have our roles.
|u/Fantastic-Name- - 3 hours
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|Feeding the enemy
|u/Stew_Pedaso - 3 hours
|
|I don't know, do you tend to rage out and tell people to kys?
|u/waiver - 15 hours
|
|But when I try to cover crying babies with branches and mud, people
|complain.
|u/Ducksaucenem - 14 hours
|
|Again, that wasn’t your baby and you’re not supposed to have
|phones in prison!
|u/Pl170ji71 - 13 hours
|
|If you cover one baby with another baby you get a twofer.
|u/RiverJumper84 - 13 hours
|
|*Octomom has entered the chat.*
|u/eEatAdmin - 10 hours
|
|That's called "Gaetz-Delight."
|u/NNoeoNN - 8 hours
|
|... That's enough internet for me for tonight. The intrusive
|thoughts spawned from this thread, and especially this
|comment, does not belong in my brain. I blame you,
|especially, and therefore expect my compensation for the
|mental anguish to be paid out in ultraviolet m&m's. Bill
|should arrive in about two to three blue moons. (P.S. Will
|also accept infrared ones at double the ultraviolet rate. I'm
|nice that way.)
|u/Pl170ji71 - 8 hours
|
|I complete all transactions in penis units. Extra gay. Spoke
|to my finance director and he said you should receive a
|truck load of penii next Thursday. They are fed before
|shipping but they most often arrive quite hungry. I’d
|suggest that you have food and nesting grounds ready before
|the package arrives. They get feisty.
|u/NNoeoNN - 7 hours
|
|Wonderful! I have a few aquintances who trade in penii,
|and while the exchange fees will be steep, I'm fairly sure
|we'll all walk away quite satisfied. My people will
|contact your people early next week to coordinate.
|u/Pl170ji71 - 7 hours
|
|Cheers mate. Speak then.
|u/TyrewMylock1047 - 9 hours
|
|Some prisons allow monitored social media usage for good
|behavior, IIRC.
|u/Fookyu_315 - 12 hours
|
|I've got a baby guy if you're serious about burying one. No
|judgement.
|u/ihvnnm - 11 hours
|
|As long as you stop hearing the crying, it's a win.
|u/TyrewMylock1047 - 9 hours
|
|Once they reach the toddler age, they will do that by themselves.
|u/southernwx - 13 hours
|
|“I know what game you are playing, human. And I understand that
|doing this will cause you to think less of me. But it’s goddamn
|annoying and life’s too short for me to tolerate that just to
|improve your flawed perception of my intellect. You are a cruel,
|simple animal and I hope you find similar treatment in your own
|life. Good day, sir. “
|u/nolan1971 - 16 hours
|
|https://www.elachee.org/2022/04/22/beaver-behaviors/ > According
|to the Greater Yellowstone Resource Guide, “In the wild,
|scientists have observed beavers making repairs and additions to
|human-made dams. Beavers hate the sound of running water. It makes
|them think there could be a leak in their dam. If they hear
|running water, they will often work all day and night to find the
|leak and repair it.”
|u/RiverJumper84 - 13 hours
|
|Oh man, they would **HATE** water parks.
|u/APacketOfWildeBees - 9 hours
|
|Six Flags used to be called Beaver Torture Co but that didn't
|play well with focus groups.
|u/sennbat - 16 hours
|
|... what? They literally do dam the whole river until it stops
|flowing, that it is literally what they do
|u/gwaydms - 11 hours
|
|Unless the pond gets too high. Then the beavers start making
|openings for some of the water to flow out. So they do modify
|the dam to meet their needs. But sometimes they take out too
|much material, and wreck the dam. They're very dedicated, but
|engineers they ain't.
|u/thehomeyskater - 16 hours
|
|Wow that’s a good point
|u/zimreapers - 14 hours
|
|Or they covered it up so they could hear the actual water running.
|u/amateurbreditor - 8 hours
|
|I know its late but thats impossible. Theres no way it evolved like
|that because a dam always has running water. If it didnt it would
|spill over the top. So beavers absolutely are not building to stop
|the sound. They probably instinctually hear the sound and
|genetically it tells them to build a dam where I assume they have
|kids in.
|u/Small-Breakfast903 - 11 hours
|
|we thought pattern recognition was an amazing human skill, but when
|we put the jumbled pieces of an image on a table in front of them,
|they started compulsively assembling the fragments to try and
|recreate the picture.
|u/AirierWitch1066 - 11 hours
|
|I’m pretty sure this is exactly what the prevailing theory is
|u/bobconan - 9 hours
|
|We need deaf beavers to test this out.
|u/secretfolo154 - 3 hours
|
|This is actually one of the leading theories for this! You can do
|this to a baby beaver that's never been in the wild and they'll
|cover it with blankets until they cant hear it! (Worked in zoos and
|heard about it there)
|u/AgentCirceLuna - 13 hours
|
|https://voca.ro/175Zq4itjqdk This is what beavers hear when they
|hear running water.
|u/OldeFortran77 - 19 hours
|
|Is it live, or is it Memorex?
|u/BarracudaDelicious49 - 19 hours
|
|Hello fellow old person
|u/OldeFortran77 - 19 hours
|
|... and we tied an onion to our belts, as was the style at the
|time ...
|u/TropicalGrackle - 15 hours
|
|Even this reference about being old is old, that’s how old you
|are!
|u/Drone30389 - 12 hours
|
|Memorex commercials: 50 years ago. Abe Simpson ramble: 31
|years ago. Well damn.
|u/kbrook_ - 9 hours
|
|Ah, shit. I keep forgetting that I'm closer to fifty than
|forty. I am an Old.
|u/creggieb - 15 hours
|
|Old enough to take the autogyro to Siam
|u/BarnyardCoral - 14 hours
|
|I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was.
|Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems
|weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
|u/goj1ra - 15 hours
|
|> Fortran77 I miss punch cards
|u/RetiredEelCatcher - 16 hours
|
|Back then nickels had a picture of a bee on them…
|u/COV3RTSM - 16 hours
|
|Give me 5 bees for a quarter you’d say
|u/Cutter9792 - 15 hours
|
|This reminded me that the DVD for Borat was made to look like a
|bootleg DVD with 'Borat' Sharpied onto it, except the labeling said:
|'Demorez. Is life? No. Demorez.'
|u/Snakes_have_legs - 14 hours
|
|Is life? No, Demorez.
|u/mrblacklabel71 - 16 hours
|
|Blame it on the rain
|u/StevelandCleamer - 15 hours
|
|Is life? No. Demorez.
|u/MonstrousVoices - 19 hours
|
|Do you have a newsletter or something?
|u/greywolfau - 18 hours
|
|Perhaps a bi-weekly email blast?
|u/WaltMitty - 18 hours
|
|A regular beaver blast would be great.
|u/MoonlightOnSunflower - 18 hours
|
|Subscribing for more tales. One of my favorite pieces by the BBC was
|talking about how some places are using beavers to combat flooding
|in low lying areas by allowing them to build dams. I love beaver
|stories.
|u/cortmanbencortman - 19 hours
|
|more please
|u/zipcodelove - 18 hours
|
|Subscribe
|u/Sh00ter80 - 18 hours
|
|Is it possible they were now living in the dam and the lodge was
|difficult to spot?
|u/robulus153 - 18 hours
|
|Click the link below for me dam beaver stories. *click
|u/eutectic_h8r - 16 hours
|
|The beaver knew their plans to overthrow humanity could be at risk if
|we knew their true intelligence
|u/Childoftheway - 15 hours
|
|Nature's hardest workers. Respect.
|u/ExpectedEggs - 16 hours
|
|I think it was discovered that beavers simply hate the sound of
|running water
|u/a_printer_daemon - 15 hours
|
|Jeez, will this thing ever shut up? -Beaver, as he cakes on mud with
|his adorable little hands
|u/New_Doug - 15 hours
|
|The ecologists meant to bring their "Babbling Brook" tape, but
|accidentally brought "Best of Garth Brooks". When they realized, they
|all agreed that by covering the tape player with mud, the beaver
|demonstrated the highest intelligence.
|u/TylerBlozak - 10 hours
|
|>Best of Garth Brooks That’s a weird way to spell *Chris Gaines
|Greatest Hits*
|u/StoppableHulk - 14 hours
|
|All I see are jokes in the comments, but this is literally true.
|That's what is happening. Beavers have evolved to find the sound of
|running water irritating. And so they will dam up the sound of running
|water.
|u/AbleObject13 - 11 hours
|
|Happens because it creates an environment beneficial for themselves,
|encourages the food they like, allows them to make an underwater den
|and store food for winter.
|u/StoppableHulk - 10 hours
|
|The specific trait has evolved with respect to those evironmental
|forces, yes, but the trait itself compels the behavior thorugh the
|irritation to the sound.
|u/AbleObject13 - 10 hours
|
|Yeah, I didn't mean to imply it was a conscious decision by the
|beavers if I did lol
|u/DystopianAdvocate - 18 hours
|
|They were playing Nickelback
|u/FlemPlays - 16 hours
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|“Listen to this phonograph.” Beaver: “No”
|u/Mephisteemo - 16 hours
|
|Silver Side Up is a very good album and I will die on that hill.
|u/SmokedBeef - 15 hours
|
|Or they’re autistic and have extreme noise sensitivity
|u/dont_shoot_jr - 14 hours
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|He prefers streaming
|u/hossjr1997 - 13 hours
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|Could he just hit the stop button???
|u/SpcK - 12 hours
|
|Or it is actually true, beavers hear running water and think
|"Absolutely not!"
|u/HappyxHatti - 9 hours
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|So they really do just see a stream of running water and think
|"absolutely not!"
|u/kndyone - 14 hours
|
|Yep a lot of people don't realize that emotions are a huge driver of
|behavior, sure people will say yes but when pressed they wont connect
|the dots. For instance humans are intelligent right? Yet we have
|emotions to want to eat food that taste good. We are already too fat
|so why are we constantly eating more and getting fatter? Maybe we
|aren't so much more intelligent than beavers after all. I actually
|see people like this all the time. For instance at work you got those
|personalities that hate things being disorganized to the point they
|are trying to force other people in other cubicles to clean up spaces
|that have nothing to do with them. All their intelligence and logic
|they simply use to try to argue why someone else should clean up
|something that they care about which has absolutely no effect on them.
|u/Kidd_Funkadelic - 12 hours
|
|Turns out they just have mesophonia!
|u/adrianipopescu - 9 hours
|
|literally my first thought, maybe beavers hate the sound of water
|u/kangareddit - 3 hours
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|Nice beaver!
|u/Eggplantosaur - 19 hours
|
|"Running water? No man we don't do that here" - Beavers, probably
|u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam - 19 hours
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|"Shut it down, boys!"
|u/dan_dares - 18 hours
|
|>and Pepsi ate it. And poor Pepsi went rocketing around your
|house..
|u/dobar_dan_ - 16 hours
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|Pepsi really took it personally lol. I love the names btw.
|u/Phormitago - 18 hours
|
|Plumbers natural enemy
|u/The_Fax_Machine - 12 hours
|
|“Do beavers even know what they’re doing or do they just see water
|flowing down a river and think “absolutely not””
|u/JellyPast1522 - 15 hours
|
|Note to self: Don't piss around beavers!
|u/AdAffectionate3898 - 9 hours
|
|Is your water running? Well dam.
|u/ADHD-Fens - 16 hours
|
|"WATER, PLEASE WALK"
|u/cranbeery - 19 hours
|
|Ability to distinguish real water flow from a recording isn't exactly a
|skill I'd expect them to have evolved in nature for any reason.
|u/shouldco - 18 hours
|
|I think the point is more they don't so much "engineer" large dams.
|They are able to construct large dams by repeadaly reacting to the
|sound of water flow. Which itself is pretty cool.
|u/StoicallyGay - 17 hours
|
|Makes me wonder if humans have any instincts like that that are
|difficult to shake even if we understand the instinct itself. I
|think simulated horror is sort of close. Being aware we are not in
|danger but still inciting a fear response.
|u/Mavian23 - 16 hours
|
|The sound of a crying baby.
|u/StoicallyGay - 16 hours
|
|I mean if we hear a crying baby sound coming from a computer we
|won’t feel the need to cradle the computer.
|u/tee2green - 16 hours
|
|The baby cry sound is innately designed to get us to want to
|MAKE IT STOP. I know of exactly zero people who think that
|the baby cry sound is pleasant and want it to keep going.
|u/Even_Cardiologist810 - 14 hours
|
|But my Will to make it stop makes me wanna insult the person
|carrying their damn baby in the plane
|u/Mavian23 - 16 hours
|
|No, but you might feel an instinctual need to do something,
|even if there's nothing you can do.
|u/HaloGuy381 - 16 hours
|
|It would probably drive us to anger in short order, the same
|way people tend to become very annoyed by a screaming baby
|in a store or restaurant when the parent isn’t even
|reacting. Notably, even domestic cats adapted to sound
|like them. The “meow” is a noise they make -only- toward
|humans, not each other or in the wild, because it hits the
|same instinct that baby cries do. We can’t help but respond
|and we can’t readily tune it out.
|u/lunagirlmagic - 15 hours
|
|I always hear the "cats don't meow to each other" claim
|but if you watch those videos where they put cameras on
|the cat collars, the cats clearly meow to each other, and
|not in a way that's different to humans
|u/darlingstamp - 14 hours
|
|Domestic cats meow much more; feral cats don’t really
|meow as adults very often. Some do, but it’s sort of a
|retained trait from kittenhood. If we’re thinking of
|the same videos, I also think that kitty just is very
|chatty, too lol.
|u/NoPoet3982 - 13 hours
|
|Oh, c'mon. Humans meow to each other in a completely
|different tone and pitch.
|u/maddogracer161 - 15 hours
|
|My instinct is to turn off the sound, ASAP ...
|u/timpkmn89 - 15 hours
|
|Cover it with branches and mud?
|u/OutsideOwl5892 - 15 hours
|
|Some of the most popular children’s videos online are just
|monkeys with music full of baby laughing sounds Kids will go
|nuts for that shit. Porn is another example. The lady on the
|video isn’t actually sucking your dick you know that right?
|It’s just an image on a screen Yet add some manual
|stimulation and an orgasm follows. Even though there’s not
|real sex. And people get addicted to this, like lots of
|people. So yeah we can be tricked by computers and sounds and
|images. We just don’t think of it that way. We like to believe
|we are in control
|u/killerv22 - 5 hours
|
|>The lady on the video isn’t actually sucking your dick you
|know that right? Big if true
|u/soundsliketone - 15 hours
|
|Kinda strange pivot to immediately go from talking about
|kids watching videos to talking about porn lmao
|u/OutsideOwl5892 - 14 hours
|
|They are just disparate examples I can see how the
|transition is sharp But if you see some connection maybe
|youre the strange one
|u/soundsliketone - 14 hours
|
|I was clearly making a joke, but your defensiveness is
|now giving me some pause as to why you actually made
|that sharp transition...
|u/OutsideOwl5892 - 14 hours
|
|You making such a big deal about this is a little
|concerning chief No but unfunny pedo jacketing jokes
|back and forth aside thanks for coming in and trying
|to derail actual discussion to be unfunny and lame.
|u/ieatalphabets - 15 hours
|
|*pulls nipple out of USB port* Huh? Right, of course not.
|u/hotsoupcoldsoup - 15 hours
|
|I'd end up covering the computer with sticks and mud.
|u/pape14 - 15 hours
|
|I would think about it more like: what if you were on a walk
|and heard a crying baby off the path in the woods a bit. The
|baby isn’t whining, it’s crying crying. Would you go
|investigate? You can’t put yourself in a scenario you know is
|fake, that’s not a fair comparison. Beavers have no concept of
|fake. Edit: and before anyone says anything, yes this is also
|how you get jumped or eaten by a witch. Leave the forest path
|at your own peril. I think the point stands though.
|u/mall_ninja42 - 14 hours
|
|Best case scenario: you find an abandoned baby, but it's
|still in the middle of nowhere, meaning you have no capacity
|to care for it. Middle of the road scenario: it also
|happens to be next to the dead body of its mother. Worst
|case: it was a wendigo and you fell for the oldest trick in
|the book. Sorry random baby in the woods, I don't want none
|of that shit.
|u/pape14 - 14 hours
|
|Sorry but your best case seems weird. What do you mean you
|have no capacity to care for it lmao?! Do you not have
|cell service? Have you hiked several days into the
|wilderness? Pick the baby up and walk back to wherever you
|came from. A baby with enough energy to be crying will
|probably survive a few more hours, especially if it’s not
|suffering heat stroke.
|u/mall_ninja42 - 14 hours
|
|Yeah, that's what I meant. Hence "the middle of nowhere"
|A baby crying when there's the expectation of people
|around (with babies) doesn't get a reaction at all.
|u/Hightower_March - 12 hours
|
|The sound of a crying baby (even just a recording) can induce
|lactation in new mothers.
|u/bobconan - 9 hours
|
|Nah, just shake the computer.
|u/ForceOfAHorse - 36 minutes
|
|Oh boy, I surely hit that mute button and fast forward. Not
|many things annoy me more than sound of a crying baby. If
|only it was socially acceptable to just *mute* a baby in real
|life, that would be great.
|u/BillyBean11111 - 14 hours
|
|yea that ingrained instinct to firmly hold a pillow over ones
|face, years of evolution at work.
|u/themedicd - 14 hours
|
|I normally sleep like I've gone to another dimension but I have
|*zero* problem waking up for a crying baby. Maybe I should try
|that as an alarm sound...
|u/jwwxtnlgb - 14 hours
|
|Thanks for reminding me of my last flight. I pictured throwing
|that baby out of the window just to make it stop
|u/secretworkaccount1 - 5 hours
|
|Keep that damn chicken quiet!
|u/blackkettle - 16 hours
|
|Overeating is a pretty damn obvious one.
|u/Buntschatten - 9 hours
|
|Yup. We see energy rich food, we want to eat. Even if we're on a
|diet.
|u/fireduck - 15 hours
|
|The smell of baking bread makes people calm down and try not to
|fuck it up. I think the instinct is "civilization is happening
|here, don't break anything"
|u/zanzebar - 15 hours
|
|The sound of a lions roar awakes a primal fear that even the
|most urbanised human would go "I'm in danger". Like bone
|chilling, hair standing on the back of one's neck kind of fear
|u/Rapithree - 46 minutes
|
|The sound of cracking ice is one of the most bone chilling
|fear triggers I have experienced. I was walking on a riverbank
|in winter when they turned on the hydropowerplant upstream and
|all the ice started cracking at once, felt like the ground was
|going to give out under me and I jumped higher up on the bank
|and then nothing happened.
|u/alpacaapicnic - 14 hours
|
|And the smell of baking cookies sells houses!
|u/fireduck - 14 hours
|
|Yeah, but I feel like that one is too well known. I smell
|cookies at an open house and I know the agent is trying to
|play me (possibly more than usual). Just like if a sales
|person says my name in every sentence or tries to get me to
|say "yes" to something innocuous. Yes yes, I know you have my
|identified as the mark, keep it low key.
|u/alpacaapicnic - 14 hours
|
|They also pump that smell onto Main Street at Disneyland
|u/RottenMilquetoast - 15 hours
|
|Probably most of what we do. We certainly seem to repeat history
|over long periods of time despite having new toys and options.
|We might just be large language models, with the illusory
|sensation of choice, vs the traditional programming of other
|animals.
|u/binkerfluid - 15 hours
|
|Probably a lot of things about sexual selection
|u/c3534l - 15 hours
|
|I mean, I don't want kids. And yet I'm constantly horny, want to
|hang out with women, get them to stay around me, live in my home
|and provide for them, protect them, and I think about decorating
|our place with them, and think about long-term relationship stuff,
|but then... then there's no baby I'm planning. Maybe just a cat to
|take care of. I'm just driven to engage in a series of social
|interactions required to raise a human child. And despite knowing
|this is what this is... I still want to date women.
|u/WantonKerfuffle - 52 minutes
|
|I feel a constant need to keep my GF warm. The issue: I feel
|cold way quicker than she does. So I just turn her into an
|annoyed burrito.
|u/sennbat - 15 hours
|
|Have someone run something that feels like legs along you are arm
|but dont look. See how long you can stand a mosquito buzz.
|u/ZestycloseStandard80 - 15 hours
|
|I’ve often thought and said that when I drive a car a feel more
|like a bug reacting to stimuli than I do making conscious
|decisions.
|u/Buntschatten - 9 hours
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|Sometimes I do become aware while driving. It feels dangerous as
|fuck.
|u/Yourwanker - 15 hours
|
|>Makes me wonder if humans have any instincts like that that are
|difficult to shake even if we understand the instinct itself.
|Yes, humans are also born with natural instincts. Flinching is a
|natural instinct for most humans and it isn't taught. It protects
|you from being injured by something.
|u/Versaiteis - 15 hours
|
|Jump scares Works both in real life and in digital media and the
|anticipation only makes it worse
|u/TheLuminary - 14 hours
|
|Lots of our instincts around food and eating could fall into that
|category.
|u/Globalboy70 - 14 hours
|
|Unexpected sight of snakes and spiders, for most humans will cause
|pupil dialation. I'd say it's instinctual and requires conscious
|thought to bring under control. This isn't a fear response but a
|better pay attention response, which will prime learning....Here's
|the research... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/
|pii/S0022096515002179?via%3Dihub
|u/GivesCredit - 14 hours
|
|Food hoarding. Even without food scarcity, we’re driven to store
|as much fat as possible and keep as much food stored in the house
|as possible.
|u/Berkyjay - 13 hours
|
|I shall point you to the reaction that large breasts have on
|straight men.
|u/pineappleshnapps - 2 hours
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|I don’t think large breast’s on straight men usually get a great
|reaction.
|u/YourJr - 14 hours
|
|Colorful screen makes fast motions, I must watch
|u/physedka - 15 hours
|
|There's a theory that the uncanny valley is an instinct resulting
|from early humans coexisting with neanderthals and other branches
|of human development. We're here because of the instinct to
|intensely dislike not-quite-humans.
|u/Buntschatten - 9 hours
|
|Why would it be beneficial to avoid Neanderthals? To me it makes
|more sense to be an indicator of illnesses or other
|deficiencies.
|u/physedka - 8 hours
|
|Could be. I think that theory basically boils down to "we
|killed off the competition". The uncanny valley is how we were
|able to recognize the difference in other humanoid species
|like neanderthals and instinctively dislike them (i.e. hunt
|and kill them). I don't think it's a question that can be
|answered, but it's interesting to think about.
|u/WarAndGeese - 15 hours
|
|Buying expensive clothes to show off to friends. Also buying
|expensive cars, and spending a lot of money on home renovations.
|Basically all conspicuous consumption. If an alien species came to
|see us they would think we were incredibly wasteful in that people
|prefer to spend an extra ten years working to make things to show
|off to friends and get social status, rather than not spend that
|money and relax for the same period of time. In that case it's
|not the car or the clothes that are the instinct because them and
|money didn't exist back when we developed these instincts, maybe
|they made a lot more sense when we were just trying to wear
|cleanly groomed animal hides and plant fibre tunics. Nevertheless
|the instict that drives the action today is hard to shake for
|people even if they are conscious of it.
|u/shouldco - 14 hours
|
|Cute things. You can basicaly "cutify" any object. Here's a cute
|hammer https://images.app.goo.gl/FGY1ydBqfVAgpPdr9
|u/Ver_Void - 14 hours
|
|It's basically what we're building AI to do. A ton of the time
|when you teach a neural network to do something it's drawing
|connections completely different to the ones you're trying to
|show, but if the result is the same then it still succeeds
|u/Striking_Adeptness17 - 14 hours
|
|Sex, porn hits that response
|u/Corey307 - 12 hours
|
|A woman shrieking provokes a visceral response that’s for sure.
|u/wet_walnut - 10 hours
|
|That's actually a really common topic in modern
|philosophy/biology/psychology- How much free will do people
|actually have, and can we punish people if they do not have
|agency? I think the bulk of human decisions are unconscious. We
|are rational, but we eat junk food because our lizard brains like
|glucose. We know we have to take out the trash, but we doomscroll
|reddit for dopamine. We can modify our behaviors. It's always
|going to be a fight with the reward system of the brain.
|u/Power_baby - 5 hours
|
|A bird flies over you and you get a glimpse of the shadow. Most
|people instinctively look up because our ancestors were small apes
|that would be eaten by birds of prey
|u/Zipa7 - 2 hours
|
|> Makes me wonder if humans have any instincts like that that are
|difficult to shake Humans definitely do. It's why you notice
|stuff like a spider so much as twitch a leg from across the room,
|your brain is drawing your attention to it because of some
|holdover in our instincts.
|u/WantonKerfuffle - 54 minutes
|
|I recently realized that people have a very good memory of where a
|certain object came from. I found a random 5Gum wrapper and
|instantly remembered it came from a friend who had imported 5Gum
|from Alaska like a decade ago. Prolly has something to do with
|ressource gatharing.
|u/Yourwanker - 15 hours
|
|>I think the point is more they don't so much "engineer" large dams.
|They are able to construct large dams by repeadaly reacting to the
|sound of water flow. Which itself is pretty cool. I used to do
|nuisance beaver removal and you are correct. I've seen beavers that
|are really good at building dams and I've seen beavers that aren't
|very good at building dams and everything in between. Young beavers
|usually struggle with their first dams and the older beavers usually
|have the technique down. But it's just instinctual for beavers to
|want to stop moving water and the beavers that are better at that
|have a higher survival rate and reproduction rate.
|u/AlexithymicAlien - 15 hours
|
|Awe... baby beaver's first dam 🥹
|u/PunnyBanana - 14 hours
|
|Growing up a friend of mine had a river in her backyard. Baby
|beavers do indeed make little, useless, adorable practice dams.
|u/NothingButTheTruthy - 14 hours
|
|> Water: flows Beaver: Absolutely fucking not
|u/Muunilinst1 - 15 hours
|
|I think measuring animal intelligence using methods we'd use to
|measure human intelligence is always tenuous.
|u/DSAlgorythms - 13 hours
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|>repeadaly
|u/WeTheSalty - 15 hours
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|Mission accomplished.
|u/cubgerish - 9 hours
|
|It also makes sense for them. If you can't build your house in
|many places, every opportunity is pretty important. Especially
|since your house occasionally just disappears for some reason you
|don't quite understand.
|u/Aggressive_Sky8492 - 5 hours
|
|It’s not just repetitive though, they build entrances and “rooms”
|that are above the water but that you need to enter water to get to,
|to keep predators out. So there is some “engineering” or design
|going on, even if it’s just based on instinct
|u/cylordcenturion - 4 hours
|
|Im pretty sure that's just what engineers do anyways
|u/Viva_la_Ferenginar - 18 hours
|
|Honestly if you play a tape recorder to a neolithic man their reaction
|might probably be similar. They have literally no frame of reference
|to the concept of a sound recording.
|u/NoExplanation734 - 18 hours
|
|Neolithic humans had the same intelligence as modern humans. They
|would be smart enough to figure out that it wasn't actually running
|water. Just because they wouldn't know what it was doesn't mean
|they'd be fooled.
|u/Thismyrealnameisit - 18 hours
|
|They were but simple cave men and the modern world would confuse
|and frighten them.
|u/Bshaw95 - 18 hours
|
|Frankly it would confuse and frighten folks from the 18th and
|hell even 19th century.
|u/Das_Mime - 18 hours
|
|Frankly I think it confuses and frightens most people today
|u/Smoke-alarm - 18 hours
|
|gonna be honest we just live in intimidating times
|u/Das_Mime - 17 hours
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|It's important to make the times more scared of you than
|your are of them. Stand up big and growl at the clock
|u/Smoke-alarm - 16 hours
|
|i tried that but my doctor prescribed me lithium
|u/Das_Mime - 16 hours
|
|That is a common fear response among doctors, keep
|going you're going great
|u/p8ntslinger - 14 hours
|
|precisely because we're the same as Neolithic humans.
|u/HongChongDong - 15 hours
|
|*TECHNOLOGY* "Ah my gawd"
|u/Fabulous-Basis-6240 - 17 hours
|
|Frankly I think it confuses
|u/Ziegelphilie - 17 hours
|
|I get scared just thinking about tomorrow
|u/riverphoenixdays - 17 hours
|
|My guy makin a sweet ass reference to Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
|yall
|u/memento22mori - 16 hours
|
|Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
|magic. Imagine if we were suddenly transported a 100 years
|into the future, the sex robots alone would be terrifying. I
|mean, I'd still give them a go but those first few minutes
|would be a bit much.
|u/nedoweh - 18 hours
|
|The first gramophone was patented in 1887. A tape player is
|just a more sophisticated record player, so it's very doubtful
|they would be "frightened" in the 19th century. For sure they
|would have been shocked, but frightened might be a stretch. (I
|understand that 1887 is the end of the century, but the point
|is the technology of the era was booming)
|u/Bshaw95 - 17 hours
|
|I meant if you brought 18th and 19th century folks into the
|present
|u/Rock540 - 8 hours
|
|I think modern day humans would also be confused and
|frightened if transformed back to the 18th or 19th centuries.
|u/Televisions_Frank - 18 hours
|
|But they'd still become lawyers.
|u/ExZowieAgent - 17 hours
|
|But only if they were frozen from falling into a glacial
|crevice and then unfrozen by scientists in the year 1988.
|u/TheSkiGeek - 18 hours
|
|At least someone got the joke.
|u/Televisions_Frank - 18 hours
|
|Well, it was a '90s SNL reference. We may just be old now.
|u/TheSkiGeek - 17 hours
|
|I DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT Y2K WAS MAYBE FIVE
|YEARS AGO RIGHT???
|u/Zelcron - 17 hours
|
|It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.
|u/SchrodingersCatPics - 14 hours
|
|RIP Phil :(
|u/Senninha27 - 15 hours
|
|In the documentary Encino Man, he learned an awful lot in about
|90 minutes including how to wheeze the juice. They were very
|intelligent.
|u/perenniallandscapist - 18 hours
|
|People come out of prison after a decade and the world has
|transformed around them so much they can hardly adapt, let alone
|catch up. This modern world would freak our cave relatives out
|so much.
|u/CoconutBangerzBaller - 18 hours
|
|They would probably hear the honking horns of our cars and get
|out of their BMWs to run off into the hills or whatever
|u/RSmeep13 - 15 hours
|
|If you aren't confused and frightened by the modern world,
|you've grown numb to its horrors.
|u/oracleofnonsense - 15 hours
|
|Once the communication (and violence) issue was solved — I bet I
|could teach a caveman to drive in under a week.
|u/MonsterEnergyTPN - 18 hours
|
|But would a human who has never been exposed to technology be able
|to tell you that a phone playing water sounds didn’t contain
|water? Probably not. And if the sound was more ominous, like the
|rattle of a snake or the growling of a wolf, they probably
|wouldn’t stick around long enough to investigate any further. The
|north sentinelese are the last remaining tribe of humans who have
|never been exposed to the modern world and they kill or destroy
|everything “foreign” that enters their territory. We have very
|few case studies of human who grew up in total isolation but the
|evidence points towards a huge component of ourselves including
|critical thinking skills being learned at a very early age and
|that we have critical windows after which it is difficult or
|impossible to pick up certain cognitive functions.
|u/Defiant-Plantain1873 - 16 hours
|
|They have definitely been exposed to the modern world. They
|have had safe contact with explorers before, there are videos of
|them handing them coconuts and shit from boats. There is a
|shipwreck near by the island that they have been seen harvesting
|iron from for tools. People have flown over them in planes and
|helicopters. They are aware that an outside world exists, they
|just don’t seem to want to partake
|u/AverageWarm6662 - 6 hours
|
|They haven’t been in total isolation… their current isolation is
|actually in response to unfavourable contact with explorers
|years and years ago who gave them diseases and kidnapped them
|u/rich1051414 - 17 hours
|
|Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
|They may think you are a god or a demon with magical items, but
|they wouldn't think it was actual water.
|u/wonderfullyignorant - 16 hours
|
|Any technology, regardless of how advance or simple it is, is
|magic to those who don't understand it.
|u/Plastic-Ad-5033 - 17 hours
|
|I could absolutely see them believing there was water inside it
|somehow and damming it just to be sure.
|u/sack-o-matic - 15 hours
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|I'd imagine they would throw it on the ground to break it open
|and see
|u/sevseg_decoder - 17 hours
|
|Yeah if I had no exposure to any man made creations whatsoever
|and found something like this I don’t think it’s hard to imagine
|myself thinking that somehow it was some form of running water
|rather than that something else had figured out how to make a
|metal cube replicate the sound of running water.
|u/Trick-Variety2496 - 16 hours
|
|Sounds like you're a dummy then
|u/veggie151 - 16 hours
|
|>Neolithic humans had the same intelligence as modern humans. A
|truly terrifying fact
|u/dobar_dan_ - 16 hours
|
|I guess you haven't seen one of those prank videos where people
|are hearing sound effects of their movements. Most took a while
|to realise what's up and who's doing it.
|u/awoeoc - 16 hours
|
|I'm pretty sure I could convince a flat earther that it was real
|water.
|u/Ctowncreek - 16 hours
|
|[Just because they are intelligent, doesn't mean they are
|smart.](https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/smart-vs-intelligent/)
|Early humans created myths and legends and created religion. They
|have no frame of reference on what is making the sound, and would
|probably conclude that this magic item has a river trapped inside
|it.
|u/Firm_Part_5419 - 16 hours
|
|dont confuse “intelligence” with “capability for intelligence”.
|they had little language and complexity relative to us, and their
|brains never developed to the extent that modern humans have.
|u/NoExplanation734 - 14 hours
|
|Neolithic people built Stonehenge and Chichén Itzá. Yes, they
|had magical beliefs but they were plenty smart, and they
|absolutely had complex language. They were modern people in
|every sense except for technological advancement.
|u/Viva_la_Ferenginar - 14 hours
|
|Neolithic humans are pretty much us. They were stone age
|agriculturalists. They had farming villages, market settlements,
|and long-distance trade.
|u/Firm_Part_5419 - 14 hours
|
|they didn’t have written language let alone concepts of
|physics, mathematics and chemistry. We are way more exposed to
|complex concepts from an early age and it influences how our
|brains work in adulthood - specifically the degree of
|complexity we are capable of comprehending. we are much more
|capable of solving problems entirely in our head instead of
|having to brute force our options in real life and see what
|happens, like our ancestors did.
|u/battlefield2001 - 16 hours
|
|This is not true. Neolithic humans had similar limits on
|intelligence biologically, but would not be as intelligent as
|modern humans. The modern human intelligence is CREATED by
|education. A human child without any form of education will be as
|simple as any animal.
|u/Pacdoo - 17 hours
|
|My friend has a speaker that loudly says “waiting for pairing” every
|few minutes when it’s on but nothing is connected. Every single time
|it goes off I think for a second that there is another person
|somewhere in the room.
|u/mrlbi18 - 16 hours
|
|Tell your friend that they can probably turn that setting off. My
|BOSE speaker did the same thing for 2 years before I lost it and
|spent 3 hours trying to find the manual for it.
|u/Pacdoo - 14 hours
|
|Oh I’m well aware I’m just pointing it out to show that the
|above wouldn’t just trick a Neolithic man when I get tricked by
|this speaker thing all the time.
|u/RotrickP - 16 hours
|
|There's a Marx brother's bit about them having a portable
|phonograph/record player and playing it to fool someone into
|thinking he's Maurice Chevalier. I think it was Harpo. I always
|wondered if it was an over the top joke or if there were people who
|believed it could have been the singer since this was a relatively
|new and developing technology.
|u/whirlpool_galaxy - 14 hours
|
|They'd know the concept of mimicking animal noises, and potentially
|know of birds that can mimic human voice. So they'd probably think
|there's an animal trapped inside the recorder, not an actual flowing
|river. EDIT: Some cultures actually manufactured instruments to
|mimic specific sounds, so in those cases they might have a pretty
|good concept of what a recorder playing sound is. They'd just be
|somewhat baffled by the whole recording part.
|u/Danominator - 18 hours
|
|But they can tell it isn't actual water
|u/Viva_la_Ferenginar - 17 hours
|
|Would they? They would interpret it as a magical pot with ever
|flowing water inside that won't ever spill out. Remember that this
|person has no frame of reference to the concept that sound can
|actually be divorced from its source.
|u/FiveAPointedStar - 16 hours
|
|I feel that at that point though a human would have the brains
|to conclude the magic pot isn't useful and discard it rather
|than continue to futilely extract said water.
|u/Danominator - 17 hours
|
|They use more than one sense at a time. Just because they hear
|water they can still know they don't see it. Hell a cat or a dog
|would look around and know that it's not there because they
|can't see or feel it. They might be confused but they would know
|it's not right
|u/Viva_la_Ferenginar - 17 hours
|
|A pot of water can be swished around and heard without seeing
|the contents. That would be their frame of reference. I mean
|go to YouTube on your phone and play flowing water and put it
|to your ear. Without knowing what a phone or speaker is, you
|could easily might as well interpret it as a portal to a
|flowing river. And that the river could gush out if you angle
|it wrong. My point is, it's not a good test to judge
|intelligence either human or beaver.
|u/poopoopooyttgv - 16 hours
|
|You don’t even need to go back that far. The first video ever made
|spooked people. There was a recording of a train moving towards the
|camera and the audience thought it was really gonna burst through
|the screen
|u/NotReallyJohnDoe - 17 hours
|
|Just like how we could never comprehend the three seashells.
|u/JohnsonJohnilyJohn - 18 hours
|
|If the dams were a result of careful planning, they would have to
|consider the shape of the riverbed and how water interacts with it,
|and that analysis should tip them off that it's not an actual river.
|The way it reacted suggests however that the plan amounts to "put wood
|where sound"
|u/ThePretzul - 14 hours
|
|Anybody who has ever regularly seen beaver dams in person knows that
|“hear sound/see water, put wood” is exactly how they get made.
|They will happily decimate a surprisingly large area of forest to
|dam up even small streams. Some beaver dams are better than other in
|terms of size required to stop the flow or the amount of leaks, but
|in the end they’re all just big piles of dirt and wood thrown at the
|water until it stops flowing.
|u/Worth-A-Googol - 17 hours
|
|Honestly though, can it not be that they are intelligent and driven by
|biological responses? Like, humans get very annoyed at the sound of
|a mosquito buzzing. If you were to play a recording of a buzzing
|mosquito in my room I’d try to make it stop just as much as a real
|mosquito. That doesn’t mean I can’t tell there’s a difference. Maybe
|beavers just get really annoyed and stressed by the sound of running
|water
|u/Flumphry - 16 hours
|
|You likely would recognize that it's not an actual mosquito and try
|not to swat it like a bug but instead find a different solution.
|That's the point being made in the post. Intelligent problem solving
|vs biological "programming"
|u/merc08 - 15 hours
|
|But what other options do beavers have? Smothering it in mud and
|branches is about all they're physically capable of.
|u/Flumphry - 15 hours
|
|They eat wood. They can definitely destroy a device that plays
|audio. The whole point is that they didn't figure that out.
|u/merc08 - 14 hours
|
|Kinda depends on how the audio player was built. If it was in
|a metal case then they would be kinda screwed. But also, did
|covering it in mud *work* to stop the sound?
|u/Flumphry - 14 hours
|
|I had a thought just now. The sound of water is not a
|problem that needs to be solved. It's not moving water. It
|doesn't need to be covered up. It could just be left alone.
|We're arguing beside the point.
|u/Adlach - 15 hours
|
|I mean, burying it *did* solve the problem.
|u/LordofSandvich - 16 hours
|
|The hypothesis was that beavers were doing this out of higher thinking
|rather than instinct. If true, the beaver would notice the lack of
|water and wouldn’t dam it; this was proven false as the beaver would
|continue to dam as long as it could hear the sound, no matter how
|obvious the absence of water was The beaver doesn’t have a real
|logical reason for damming, nor does it try to have one.
|u/sawyouoverthere - 15 hours
|
|Why assume there’s no water when water can be heard? Plumbers
|wouldn’t exist.
|u/AldiaWasRight - 16 hours
|
|There's something very funny about gauging an animal's intelligence by
|human standards.
|u/DonnieMoistX - 9 hours
|
|You’ve missed the point entirely to be honest with you
|u/bisforbenis - 5 hours
|
|I think the point is distinguishing exactly what makes them want to
|build dams, like is it actually intelligence and planning or just
|responding to an urge to put sticks and mud on things that make
|constant noise? It turns out it’s the latter
|u/Classic-Exchange-511 - 17 hours
|
|Yeah shit when you put it like that this is obviously a terrible test
|of their intelligence
|u/BoredBoredBoard - 18 hours
|
|There could be more to this. My son’s dog will not recognize you
|through the telephone or any other audio device. The way we perceive
|recorded sounds may not be in hifi for other animals and just sound
|strange. Instead of running water, maybe it sounds like garbled
|garbage.
|u/cranbeery - 18 hours
|
|Is it true that different animals perceive or process sounds
|differently? Sure! But this experiment as summarized seems to
|indicate to me that the beavers are processing "actual water" sounds
|and "recorded water sounds" in either the same way, or as a
|sufficiently similar stimuli anyway, provoking the same response.
|u/at_least_be_human - 15 hours
|
|Intelligence is the ability to learn given new information. You're
|poking at the idea that the beaver didn't have the instincts to
|understand a tape player - which, yes, is true, but the underlying
|point is that it didn't have the intelligence to figure out that a
|tape player isn't water.
|u/cranbeery - 15 hours
|
|I think you've misunderstood my point.
|u/at_least_be_human - 15 hours
|
|How, exactly? I reread it and I think I addressed it pretty
|directly.
|u/jleonardbc - 19 hours
|
|The fact that it can be misguided doesn't disprove the idea that it's an
|amazing feat of planning and intellect.
|u/mattgran - 19 hours
|
|That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me
|u/missionbeach - 16 hours
|
|I think you're best friends now.
|u/PennStateFan221 - 19 hours
|
|yeah I mean humans do dumb shit all the time
|u/CrossP - 16 hours
|
|They're on a similar intelligence plane as cats, rats, and elephants.
|The study doesn't disprove it in any way. Just shows that they use
|hearing when identifying leak locations which is unsurprising because
|they're nocturnal and also their vision is kinda crappy. They're known
|for especially good 3D mental mapping abilities.
|u/DevelopmentSad2303 - 9 hours
|
|I feel like one of those animals is not like the other in your list
|u/pnkxz - 16 hours
|
|"Humans aren't intelligent. See, we placed a speaker system here that
|played an annoying sound, and they just covered it in dirt. Clearly,
|their cities aren't amazing feats of planning and engineering, they're
|just the instinctive reaction to environmental stimuli."
|u/-Nicolai - 14 hours
|
|What’s more likely: * Beavers choose to construct dams thanks to
|higher abstract reasoning abilities, and coincidentally also dam
|anything that makes the sound of running water * Beavers dam anything
|that makes the sound of running water
|u/NortheastStar - 15 hours
|
|r/atbge
|u/Ralath1n - 16 hours
|
|> it's an amazing feat of planning and intellect. But, its not tho.
|The beavers aren't doing any thinking for their dam construction. They
|aren't engineering the dam to have big strong logs on the bottom, or
|planning ahead to account for flow changes as the dam gets bigger.
|They just constantly keep dumping stuff wherever they hear flowing
|water and eventually that pile of junk grows to become a dam. There is
|no planning or intellect here, its a very simple stimulus --> response
|loop.
|u/yodel_anyone - 15 hours
|
|Spoken like someone who's never watched a beaver build a dam. It's
|similar to a bird building a nest, they don't just randomly pile
|things up, they actually place sticks in specific places to weave
|together. Also take a look at a beaver hut. They can be quite
|complex, and many last for decades. I'd like to see you try to do
|that just by dumping sticks at random.
|u/2ears_1_mouth - 15 hours
|
|"heh stupid Beaver" \*Puts on headphones to listen to sounds
|imitating other humans playing music live.
|u/awkward_replies_2 - 17 hours
|
|Yeah next time I'll just say the neighbours son isn't intellectually
|disabled, I'll just say he's "misguided".
|u/DJ33 - 14 hours
|
|Imagine being the ecologist who heard all the other ecologists talking
|about how smart beavers are--that they're creatures of "high intellect"
|and capable of planning and forethought--and saying "no, those little
|water-rats are dumb as fuck. I'll prove it." And a couple weeks later
|you've got them building a dam in the middle of a field while you sit
|there going "see? Look at those fucking idiots. God, I hate them so
|much."
|u/hornplayerKC - 13 hours
|
|Reminds me of [this Onion
|video](https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk?si=cd9DMyHpXlkwSjcb) about the
|world's foremost expert on anteaters.
|u/Prudent_Thought_360 - 13 hours
|
|Lmao frl
|u/Mwanasasa - 19 hours
|
|beavers of all mammals have the smallest brain by weight. Don't let
|engineers tell you otherwise
|u/orbesomebodysfool - 18 hours
|
|Next time I see my Oregon State buddy, I’m dropping this.
|u/Mwanasasa - 18 hours
|
|Yet they are the best mammal by my judgement. I love the little
|buggers. I've had to manage their projects for years and they
|endlessly surprise me. I'd love to have a beer with them if I
|could.
|u/Fetlocks_Glistening - 18 hours
|
|We'll call that a beerver party
|u/Finsfan909 - 11 hours
|
|“Manage their projects”? Are you a beaver too? Or an otter
|perchance?
|u/vinhluanluu - 13 hours
|
|Odd way to talk about Oregon State Alumni.
|u/deltr0nzero - 16 hours
|
|[Ouch](https://imgur.com/a/kMlWJkc)
|u/mkdz - 16 hours
|
|Better yet, drop it on an MIT grad
|u/ScrofessorLongHair - 16 hours
|
|Problem is that with their rival's mascot, ducks do a lot of raping.
|They rape so much, ducks evolved corkscrew vaginas, which led
|corkscrew duck dicks. So when I see a duck mascot without any
|pants, i get kinda nervous.
|u/Bear_Caulk - 17 hours
|
|As far as I know all that you might be telling us with that fact is
|that beavers have incredibly efficient brains.
|u/crashtestpilot - 18 hours
|
|Sounds like something an architect would say. This is a timberborners
|reference.
|u/Kyloben4848 - 14 hours
|
|I mean, "don't let engineers tell you otherwise" is an architect
|quote even outside of the TCU (timberborners cinematic universe)
|u/crashtestpilot - 13 hours
|
|I see you are a person of great taste and vision.
|u/Pormock - 16 hours
|
|All their brain power are focused on building dam where they hear
|water. Thats all they have
|u/Mydogsblackasshole - 18 hours
|
|No it’s a shrew or manatee
|u/BlinkyBillTNG - 17 hours
|
|No it's Kanye
|u/tuigger - 8 hours
|
|No this is Patrick.
|u/Mwanasasa - 18 hours
|
|Just quoting secret life of beavers I haven't dissected them I just
|love waking up every morning to see what they did
|u/voicefulspace - 15 hours
|
|brain to body weight being important is a myth. it was only "invented"
|to make humans top of the chain, any other way of "checking"
|intelligence like how many active neurons brains have would put humans
|somewhere in the middle.
|u/NaraFox257 - 15 hours
|
|That is factually incorrect. Beavers rank low, but certainly aren't
|the bottom. Koalas, for example, rank lower. A type of shrew is at the
|bottom.
|u/ptjunkie - 3 hours
|
|So efficient!
|u/Sh00ter80 - 18 hours
|
|Really? TIL.
|u/PostsNDPStuff - 19 hours
|
|I feel like doing that too when some songs come on
|u/nedoweh - 18 hours
|
|The new KSI song has me wanting to bury my phone
|u/BandDirector17 - 19 hours
|
|They stopped the noise because it made them have to pee.
|u/RegulusMagnus - 6 hours
|
|Fun fact if the sound of running water makes you feel the need to pee,
|it's probably because you've built up a pavlovian response after
|peeing in the shower repeatedly.
|u/BandDirector17 - 6 hours
|
|Well, I can’t argue with that!
|u/LiamTheHuman - 19 hours
|
|I thought humans showed impressive intellect because of all the
|elaborate things they would do for sex and human interaction. That was
|until I put a box with flashing lights in front of one and it sexually
|gratified itself and acted like it was socializing.
|u/nedoweh - 18 hours
|
|(They're talking about computers, which I don't understand as a human
|with my low intellect or whatever)
|u/Fit-Engineer8778 - 13 hours
|
|I thought it was a Christmas box
|u/flyinhighaskmeY - 12 hours
|
|>They're talking about computers, which I don't understand as a
|human with my low intellect or whatever but "they" are humans...
|I'm lost. Why would a human not be able to understand a human?
|Everyone realizes it's entirely possible alien life is trying to
|communicate with us right now, and we, as humans with low intellect,
|can't see it, right? We all understand that our ability to define
|"intelligence" is inherently limited by what we've seen on our own
|planet. And that we have no way to know if we are intelligent or
|not?
|u/PM-me-in-100-years - 10 hours
|
|The beaver most have been pretty clever to design that box though.
|u/Federal-Biscotti - 16 hours
|
|Rescue beavers use plungers and all kinds of things to “get their fix”
|of dam building. It seems just ingrained in them, to the point of
|obsession.
|u/0thethethe0 - 12 hours
|
|Yup, they either love it, or are just very well prepared for any
|floods! [Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in
|house](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImdlZtOU80) #
|u/jackdaw_t_robot - 9 hours
|
|I dunno. I saw this documentary beavers were stealing ethanol from
|local distillers to use as fuel for a fledging rocket program. They
|can be quite industrialized, especially when there’s hundreds of ‘em.
|u/lolas_coffee - 16 hours
|
|"...and it fucking worked. Didn't it??" -- beaver
|u/emar2021 - 15 hours
|
|Beaver:(Hears some water) Beaver: “absolutely no”
|u/woodcookiee - 16 hours
|
|Not saying beavers are geniuses, but I think this is on the researchers.
|Beaver thinks: Thing makes noise and won’t go away, cover it up.
|u/Laura-ly - 14 hours
|
|Along the same lines, the world's largest beaver dam was discovered via
|satellite on google maps in Canada in 2007. It was previously unknown.
|It's a half a mile long and creates a 17 acre lake. [Deep in the
|Wilderness, the World’s Largest Beaver Dam Endures - Yale
|E360](https://e360.yale.edu/features/worlds-largest-beaver-dam)
|u/SomeDumRedditor - 7 hours
|
|That was a great read, thanks for the link!
|u/ibelieveindogs - 18 hours
|
|I mean, I like music, but if I'm chilling and you start playing loud
|music, I'll cover it up with whatever on hand too!
|u/CrossP - 16 hours
|
|The rehab baby beaver in my facility opened a pull latch door on a baby
|gate to get into a room with an aquarium and chewed through electrical
|cords until she stopped the waterfall filter from running. Then dragged
|some blankets in there and had a nap.
|u/Sh00ter80 - 15 hours
|
|Wow. Adorable.
|u/fantasyfootball1234 - 16 hours
|
|“I hate the sound of water… this is a topic I give a dam about” -every
|beaver ever
|u/hedgehog_dragon - 11 hours
|
|They hear the noise and think Absolutely Not
|u/ExtraordinaryBeaver - 15 hours
|
|Because it's goddamn annoying and it has to stop.
|u/TrustMeImHumanWink - 12 hours
|
|TIL Aliens once thought human home-building was an amazing feat of
|planning, indicative of the high intellect. This was tested when a life
|like holographic projection of homes was played in a field near a
|homeless population. Although lifelike holograms, the humans packed up
|and attempted to move into the homes.
|u/Goatwhorre - 18 hours
|
|TIL beavers are autistic
|u/Ti47_867 - 14 hours
|
|Also acoustic
|u/BoltActionGearbox - 16 hours
|
|So they really do just see a stream of running water and think
|"absolutely not!"
|u/Sh00ter80 - 15 hours
|
|Is this a reference to something like a comedian perhaps? Im seeing a
|few people comment something very similar :)
|u/BoltActionGearbox - 15 hours
|
|I think this was the original that became the meme:
|https://x.com/socomplikatied/status/1380660959807733762?lang=en
|u/----JZ---- - 15 hours
|
|Beavers don't even need the sound of water, they just love building
|stuff. Check out this rescue beaver putting in work.
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImdlZtOU80
|u/BlackBricklyBear - 15 hours
|
|That's a very cute video. It's amazing how genes can code for these
|kinds of instincts in animals, isn't it?
|u/Sh00ter80 - 8 hours
|
|Such a good boy. I’d start wondering if i should play water sounds for
|him to feel the feels better.
|u/TyrewMylock1047 - 9 hours
|
|So beavers are just cute little dumbasses like we are.
|u/cbelt3 - 17 hours
|
|Evolution does interesting things! Canadian researchers learned that
|they can install water flow quieting channels to keep beavers from
|damming drainage systems.
|u/Sh00ter80 - 17 hours
|
|Interesting! their Achilles heel? Laminar flow.
|u/GarysCrispLettuce - 18 hours
|
|Beavers see free flowing water and think "absolutely not."
|u/dobar_dan_ - 16 hours
|
|Not on my watch!
|u/Andreas1120 - 18 hours
|
|They hate the sound or running water
|u/You_Yew_Ewe - 17 hours
|
|Not sure why anyone ever thought they were smart: they don't even know
|how to make caisons, and even if they did, they wouldn't know how to
|make a proper concrete mix for piers. Their dams are weak.
|u/Sh00ter80 - 17 hours
|
|Beaver’s Caisons would be a good name for a company that makes
|caisons.
|u/AliensAteMyAMC - 16 hours
|
|Running water compels them to build.
|u/firstbreathOOC - 16 hours
|
|This… proves nothing
|u/Reload86 - 15 hours
|
|Yet for all the big brain power humans have, some of us can’t build a
|dam thing.
|u/CheezeLoueez08 - 15 hours
|
|Well done sir/ma’am 👏
|u/Dom_Telong - 15 hours
|
|TLDR Beaver is an idiot because he doesn't know how to operate a radio
|apparently. Grandma is an idiot too I guess.
|u/Atomicmooseofcheese - 14 hours
|
|Beavers HATE this one weird trick
|u/vid_icarus - 14 hours
|
|If anything, this confirms their intelligence to me.
|u/ElectronicActuary784 - 13 hours
|
|I see 2 uses for this. If you have property that has tree limbs spread
|everywhere. Get a large open trash bin and put a speaker playing
|running water sounds not stop. Your beaver workforce will pick up all
|tree branches from the ground and deposit them in trash haul off. Or
|let’s say you need to build a wall, get a bunch of Bluetooth speakers a
|lay them out in the design of the wall you need. Your eager beaver
|workforce will build a wall for you.
|u/Sh00ter80 - 6 hours
|
|An army of beavers…
|u/BillTowne - 12 hours
|
|I learned about this in a psych class in the 70s. But I think that
|conclusion is faulty. When I work with water, I can often hear a leak
|I can't see it. But I still assume the leak is there.
|u/himmmmmmmmmmmmmm - 12 hours
|
|Oof, maybe we should have used TDK
|u/raytracer38 - 17 hours
|
|Beaver: *hears water running* Abso-fucking-lutely not!
|u/supremedalek925 - 19 hours
|
|Just because it’s performed out of purse instinct, I don’t see why the
|precision and skill involved in dam building wouldn’t be indicative of
|intellect.
|u/concentrated-amazing - 18 hours
|
|>purse instinct I know that was an autocorrect, but it still made me
|chuckle. And then it got a little dark when I remembered beavers were
|extensively hunted for their fur for European fashion trends. (Still
|hunted, but to a much lesser degree.)
|u/Karlore9292 - 14 hours
|
|The difference would be beavers figured out damming running water made
|a pond which made them a nice environment. This would possibly have to
|be taught to offspring etc. showing an extreme amount of intelligence.
|Instead we’ve learned beavers just instinctively dam near running
|water. Even beavers raised by humans will dam near water sounds. It
|would be an unusually high degree of intelligence if beavers were
|doing it that way tbh.
|u/Bee-Aromatic - 16 hours
|
|So, beavers are just hardwired such that they hear running water and
|think “absolutely not.”
|u/Any-Inspection6859 - 16 hours
|
|A beaver determines the best place within the water to build a dam and
|has figured out that this best place is always the place where there is
|the most sound. Just because a human, the most intelligent creature on
|earth, invents a way to trick the beaver, doesn't make the beaver is any
|less intelligent. A beaver solved the problem it wanted to solve.
|u/Ctowncreek - 16 hours
|
|Humans: Wow these animals must be really smart! This must take alot of
|planning! Beavers: *"There's that FUCKING NOISE AGAIN!"*
|u/Sh00ter80 - 17 hours
|
|“I have come here to chew beech bark and plug holes with sticks. And
|I'm all out of beech bark”
|u/ADrunkEevee - 16 hours
|
|So they really DO see a river flowing and think 'absolutely not.'
|u/thelegendofcarrottop - 19 hours
|
|That dammed noise had been bothering him all day.
|u/BoredBoredBoard - 18 hours
|
|They need to build a tiny beaver village ala MythBusters so that we can
|see if any of it is true.
|u/CitizenKing1001 - 17 hours
|
|They haven't proved the beaver just wanted to stop the noise, not dam
|water.
|u/actuallyapossom - 17 hours
|
|What did the fish say when it swam into a log? Dam.
|u/Wareve - 17 hours
|
|I wonder if beavers are annoyed at the sound of running water, or if it
|feels neutral but still compels this behavior.
|u/DreiKatzenVater - 17 hours
|
|The original crotchety old man: “it’s too loud! Stop that racket!”
|u/MoNastri - 16 hours
|
|Maybe it was just that beaver
|u/0x7E7-02 - 16 hours
|
|Imagine thousands of years of "natural instinct" all caused by annoying
|sounds.
|u/BlondesBlonde - 16 hours
|
|We the scientist dressed up as water to see if they could cover us.
|u/cubicle_adventurer - 15 hours
|
|Beavers were terraformers long before Homo Sapiens was.
|u/Colosseros - 15 hours
|
|Wait, I just wrote all of this out in a comment on that video of a guy
|clearing beaver dams, earlier today.
|u/Sh00ter80 - 8 hours
|
|I didn’t see your comment specifically but that post is the reason for
|my post. It reminded me of this factoid i read on this wiki yesterday.
|I got interested after spotting some beaver gnaw marks in a park near
|me. Still never seen one IRL tho.
|u/Isaac96969696 - 15 hours
|
|Doesn’t mean it’s any less intelligent. Humans do the same thing in many
|cases. For example many anxieties are responses to something non
|threatening. We just dont have control over it because our rationality
|cant override our primitive brain. Thats my theory anyway, I cant back
|it up with anything other than my experiences
|u/Frosty-Date7054 - 15 hours
|
|They are incredibly intelligent, it's just that their intelligence is
|limited to beaver specific things. I couldn't build a beaver dam.
|u/Sh00ter80 - 8 hours
|
|Not w that attitude.
|u/mothzilla - 15 hours
|
|Hur hur stupid dumdum beaver doesn't understand magnetic tape.
|u/TheOneBrew - 13 hours
|
|If it was on dry ground where did it get the mud?
|u/DankDungeonDelver - 13 hours
|
|The nearby pond.
|u/TheFightingImp - 11 hours
|
|🎵Welcome back to Timberborners!🎵
|u/tvieno - 10 hours
|
|Beavers cant stand the sound of running water. It compels them to build!
|https://youtu.be/tSzIezumsps
|u/seattlereign001 - 10 hours
|
|He hates these cans!
|u/OgreJehosephatt - 5 hours
|
|I dunno. This feels similar to saying, "humans are very caring and
|intelligent because they have to take care of vulnerable babies for
|years", and then someone puts a recording of a crying baby that humans
|are compelled to silence, then doing a smug troll face. The analogy
|might be a tad strained, but just because a creature is biologically
|wired to respond to certain sounds that improve the survival of the
|species, it doesn't mean how they go about it isn't clever.
|u/intrsurfer6 - 18 hours
|
|Was it a god dam?
|u/BrandoSandoFanTho - 16 hours
|
|Damn, beavers really DO just hear running water and say, "I think the
|fuck not"
|u/bazmonkey - 14 hours
|
|Evolution at its finest! You don’t need high intellect to make a dam:
|you just need rodents programmed to dislike the sound of moving water.
|The algorithm here is simply “if you hear water, put anything you can
|find on top of it that makes it quieter”. Easy to implement. It’s
|still impressive how they drag trees through the forest to accomplish
|it, but the “code” here isn’t super-complicated.
|u/dabigchina - 11 hours
|
|What if we're just rodents who don't like to starve and sleep outside.
|u/bazmonkey - 10 hours
|
|A huge factor in our species favoring very large brains is that we
|started walking upright and it made our arms available to hold
|things. So yeah I suppose we’re just… monkeys without trees and
|nothing better to do with our front legs.
|u/concentrated-amazing - 18 hours
|
|Be honest, did you see the dam clearing video on r/interesting and then
|look it up? Because I got these two posts back-to-back in my feed and it
|is very satisfying!
|u/Sh00ter80 - 17 hours
|
|Lol I actually was reading this just yesterday because I saw some
|beaver evidence at a local park and got curious and then I saw the
|post this morning that you’re talking about and yeah I figured I could
|cash in on the karma :-)
|u/concentrated-amazing - 17 hours
|
|Haha funny how life has those coincidences like that sometimes! I
|actually saw beavers mentioned, deep in the comments on a third post
|from a third different sub.
|u/I_might_be_weasel - 18 hours
|
|https://youtube.com/shorts/tSzIezumsps?si=Ogc2zZxLX1f0sA09
|u/Spiritual-Hornet-658 - 17 hours
|
|Bil lepp
|u/Rosebunse - 17 hours
|
|The Narrator: It turns out they just like to build dams
|u/Pormock - 16 hours
|
|I would compare that to cats. Moving a rodent looking toy near them
|make them want to chase it no matter what. Beavers are like that but
|with water sounds and dam building
|u/Friendly_Signature - 17 hours
|
|What do humans have like this, environmental reactive firmware I guess…?
|u/CertifiedBiogirl - 16 hours
|
|I mean beavers have no concept of tape players or anything like that
|u/PQbutterfat - 16 hours
|
|I wonder what aspect of natural selection caused them to have this
|behavior hardwired into them.
|u/sawyouoverthere - 15 hours
|
|Being semi aquatic and prey
|u/IsaystoImIsays - 15 hours
|
|So they're autistic and genetically made to hate the sound of running
|water as a noise sensitivity. Not sure how it helps survival, but the
|water, the change in ecosystems, the safe dens that can be made. Maybe
|an accidental win.
|u/Benbot2000 - 15 hours
|
|Suckers.
|u/Simayi78 - 15 hours
|
|"indicative of the high intellect" - wtf?
|u/bestby18102020 - 15 hours
|
|This fucking AI generated title is hurting my brain.
|u/Sh00ter80 - 8 hours
|
|Oh stop. Im not AI. Im barely I. But it was adapted from a similar
|post title 10 years ago.
|u/Hefty-Revenue5547 - 15 hours
|
|Honestly, they probably can hear water under water, and if it’s at a
|high enough sound wave their instincts kick in to block the water from
|their ponds.
|u/Erubadhron89 - 14 hours
|
|TIL Beavers are Autistic
|u/Sh00ter80 - 8 hours
|
|Seeing a lot of similar jokes — is running water sound a thing for
|people on the spectrum?
|u/veni_vedi_vinnie - 14 hours
|
|Does that explain this guy?
|https://youtu.be/-ImdlZtOU80?si=AE3C3OOIaN6O9rLS
|u/monkyduigs - 14 hours
|
|I've been saying it for years; beavers are absolute fools
|u/ItsOnlyaFewBucks - 14 hours
|
|Are you trying to tell me the only reason a beaver makes a dam is top
|stop the sound of running water?
|u/marssaxman - 13 hours
|
|From this Forest Service document about [techniques for preventing
|beavers from plugging culverts](https://www.fs.usda.gov/t-d/pubs/htmlp
|ubs/htm05772830/page05.htm): > When beavers hear running water, they
|add debris to block the flow. Any opening in a manmade or natural
|structure that produces the sound, appearance, or feel of escaping
|water will cause beavers to make repairs. Daily efforts to unclog
|manmade structures (such as culverts) or to make openings in beaver
|dams simply inspire beavers to make nightly repairs.
|u/SolRedinIT - 14 hours
|
|Always wanted to see beavers near where I lived. Mini lumberjacks!
|u/AClifton0 - 12 hours
|
|Genius-They plan WAY in advance.... From experience they know,If you can
|hear water coming, it must be coming soon
|u/cassimiro04 - 16 hours
|
|Sound of running water, makes me have to pee.
|u/mrkruk - 19 hours
|
|Nice beaver!
|u/OreoSpeedwaggon - 17 hours
|
|Thanks! I just had it stuffed.
|u/halocyn - 19 hours
|
|Welcome to Canada
|u/mrkruk - 18 hours
|
|Oh, Canada!
|u/ageownage - 18 hours
|
|So beavers just hear the sound of running water and say "Absolutely not!
|We ain't having any of that!"
|u/HuyFongFood - 18 hours
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|“Gorram Beavers” - Jayne, probably.
|u/917caitlin - 17 hours
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|Seriously though what a weird evolutionary outcome. Beavers don’t even
|sound real.
|u/BernieTheDachshund - 15 hours
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|The BBC did a good little video about it [(2) Busy Beavers Build Dam
|Ahead of Winter | Yellowstone | BBC Earth -
|YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAPqQFWEoKg)
|u/chatongie - 14 hours
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|And give people fake information about how good or bad some stocks are,
|how the climate is not changing, or stage a fake coup, and they will
|start burning bridges with their social groups, sell their houses or
|take whatever measures they believe they need to take. Human
|intelligence is not that much different than beaver intelligence.
|Don't overestimate yourselves.
|u/Own_Conclusion7255 - 16 hours
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|Animal doesn't know what human machines are, more at 11
|u/GlennSeaborg - 5 hours
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|Go Beavs!! 🦫 🟠⚫️🟠⚫️
|u/PhoenixBlack79 - 2 hours
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|Miss Beaver told him to dam it up and being a wise beaver that avoids
|conflict he chose happiness over being right.
|u/latemodelusedcar - 1 hour
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|Still high intellect to me :(
|u/littlebighenk - 10 minutes
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|Beavers dont always build dams. Here in the netherlands they building
|mostly on the side of lakes. The are more like beaver piles, where they
|live in
|u/Jimbo_The_Prince - 17 hours
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|They're just water rats with a muddy wood fetish, that's all.
|u/generalmandrake - 8 hours
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|So they’re like Trump. Dumb as hell but incredible instincts.
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