Do Other Animals Burden Themselves With the Idea That Someday They Will Inevitably Die?
Question by darkest_warfare: do other animals burden themselves with the idea that someday they will inevitably die?
entirely rejecting this idea would be absurd, animals instinctively flee before danger in order to live another day, this shows presence of some fear of death, of being devoured. But does a wolf returning from a hunt to his resting territory, does he ever lay down on the cold snow and ponder about where he came from, what will happen after he dies. There has to exist some basic concept of beginning and end, no?
Blindly agreeing with what “science” tells us is not having a grain of self thought, and the downfall of following scientific ideas has been proven again and again.
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Answer by Corvus
It has always been supposed that humans are the only animals that know that we will die. This is different from knowing death. Elephants and chimps have been seen to “grieve” members of their group but still might not know that they too will die eventually.
An animal’s instincts for survival doesn’t mean they understand why they do them either. That’s what instincts are really – an automated response that doesn’t need to be learned. Apparently babies have the innate ability to hold their breath when they’re submerged underwater, but this doesn’t mean they acknowledge that if they breathe in water they will drown.
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