new JURASSIC PARK sequel

[CrypticPrism]

I dunno, it went from animal rights to feminism to if animals have emotions.

[Keaton64]

You never hear of a lion giving up on hunting and becoming a vegetarian. Humans are the only animals that defy instincts and do things that don't align with any sort of survivalist behavior.

I remember reading about two different cases where a lioness wouldn't eat meat and lived strictly on a vegetarian lifestyle.  Their names were Little Tyke and Lea.  There's another article somewhere that shows that crocodiles actually eat fruit.  The opposite happens sometimes as well, like the case where they discovered a deer eating a bird, or the vampire ground finch that drinks the blood of other birds.  It's pretty cool stuff.

[BlueKrono]

Snapping turtles, while generally thought of as carnivorous, have been reported to raid people's vegetable gardens for tomatoes and orchards for fallen peaches. And sometimes if a white tailed deer comes across a nest of baby rabbits it will eat them all up like a Maurice Sendak book. But these animals don't switch completely to a non-typical diet. The lioness story, if true, would surprise me.

[Neosodon]

I'm looking at this thread for the first time...

The closest thing my puppy eats to sand is roots.

What is even happening?

This whole thread is an April fools joke so it just kind of goes were ever.

My opinion is based off of life experience because I've lived on a farm so I'm just speaking from my personal experience with animals. I do not know much about the incidents you speak of but I do know that animals may display irrational behavior because of mental problems. I had a chicken that had  mental problems and did not have fear. All the other chickens would run from danger while it would just stand there looking clueless. Even though I think that animals run off instincts I still believe they have feelings. I can understand and make sense of pretty much everything animals do but nothing humans do really makes any sense. Humans have more bizarre behavior unlike any other animal and that is why I sort lump humans into a whole different category from just any other animal.

[HD-man]

Advanced predatory animals like lions are probably the best at thinking but most of their life is still controlled by instincts. They raise cubs instinctively, they instinctively participate in packs, they instinctively protect their territory.

Not exactly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqNY7wOTRg

The second part of my answer is that humans are altricial animals, which means that they are helpless at birth. Some animals are precocial, meaning that they are fully capable of functioning at birth.

Not exactly (See "Precocial" & "Semi-precocial"): http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Precocial_and_Altricial.html

[PumperKrickel]

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[HD-man]

I think you posted the wrong link.

Nope, it's the correct link.

[PumperKrickel]

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[HD-man]

Okay, but I can´t see any of the books contents...

My bad. Forgot that Google Books doesn't work for everyone. I've since changed the link.