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[-] dmegatool@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I laughed. Good one.

Fucking stupid beaver :

When the sound of running water was played for them through a loudspeaker on concrete, the beavers still built their dam over the dry floor. Even when presented with a clear pipe that showed water (silently) escaping through their dam and a speaker that played them the sound of running water, they chose to build over the speaker and ignore the clearly visible leak.

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Instincts are so weird. And it's not just animals that do stupid shit based on instinct, or rather it's not just non-human animals; humans have tons of occasionally counterproductive instincts / cognitive biases too.

Edit: found this delightfully 90's-looking page on the subject of human instincts

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