Nah dude, that don’t make no sense. Do animals only ever run from predators? Do they not have an instinct to avoid colliding with objects? Do they simply let 2 tons of steel smash into them just because it doesn’t look like anything they know that would want to eat them?
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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 months ago
To be fair on the deer, no natural predator is going to be chasing them at that kind of speed, so their instincts have no reason to be adapted to understanding objects moving that fast
herrvogel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
no natural predator is going to be chasing them at that kind of speed, so their instincts have no reason to be adapted
Nonsense. Deer, including wild deer, live in parts of the world where that threat exists.
Adaptation being beneficial for survival is about what IS, not only what’s natural. As far as reasons go, survival is kind of a big one for “instincts to be adapted”.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 months ago
Sure, but evolution takes a long time and cars have been a common enough threat to potentially cause selection pressure for what, a century or so maybe?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Same for primates but we still jump out of the way. Stupid fuckin artiodactyla.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 months ago
Maybe, but freeze is one of the reactions along with fight and flight.