It’s “nature’s” way of pairing the best together, enabling long-term survival of the species & hopefully favouring the best genetic traits being passed along for future generations, hopefully ending in a permanent adaptation or evolutionary change.
This is how I ended up with an entire army of genetically superior crows that sing musicals about how messed up it is that I did that to them with forced selective breeding.
If animals are aware of the apex predator and their habits, it’s not that far of a stretch to have “celebrity” status.
Like distinguishing between “they’re hyper-aggressive” and “they’re chill if you leave them alone” is straight forward.
Forgive me for anthromorphising(?) but pushing it to “holy shit, watch out for that guy I’ve seem him take out a crocodiles regularly” and “he’s been around longer than ANY of us - like how??” is just an elevated version of that. I can’t imagine “forgetting” who’s who is an effective trait in any ecosystem.
The closest thing I can recall is bears and komodo dragons within a species
It’s prob not anthropomorphism, our brainholes are too similar (same parts, but different parts are beefed up or shrunken down) & I think if we can feel something so are animals capable of a form of it (comparing feelings & thoughts between humans is already impossible).
So yes, different entities are famous for different things. A human that is nice to birbs can get a cool status. One pack of wild dogs can defend a human from another.
Fuck of Mat, that is a legit question, and they prob do.
Just sleep bro you probably had a long
day
Fuck of Zac, that is a legit observation, and they prob do.
Just sleep bro you probably had a long
day
Fuck of Doh, that is a legit observation, and they prob do.
Just sleep bro you probably had a long
day
(Sir) Fuck of Far, that is a legit question, and they prob do.
They do.
It’s “nature’s” way of pairing the best together, enabling long-term survival of the species & hopefully favouring the best genetic traits being passed along for future generations, hopefully ending in a permanent adaptation or evolutionary change.
This is how I ended up with an entire army of genetically superior crows that sing musicals about how messed up it is that I did that to them with forced selective breeding.
If animals are aware of the apex predator and their habits, it’s not that far of a stretch to have “celebrity” status.
Like distinguishing between “they’re hyper-aggressive” and “they’re chill if you leave them alone” is straight forward.
Forgive me for anthromorphising(?) but pushing it to “holy shit, watch out for that guy I’ve seem him take out a crocodiles regularly” and “he’s been around longer than ANY of us - like how??” is just an elevated version of that. I can’t imagine “forgetting” who’s who is an effective trait in any ecosystem.
The closest thing I can recall is bears and komodo dragons within a species
It’s prob not anthropomorphism, our brainholes are too similar (same parts, but different parts are beefed up or shrunken down) & I think if we can feel something so are animals capable of a form of it (comparing feelings & thoughts between humans is already impossible).
So yes, different entities are famous for different things. A human that is nice to birbs can get a cool status. One pack of wild dogs can defend a human from another.