What are the *simplest* animals capable of a disgust reaction? I assume apes are? cc: @sarahdoingthing @KevinSimler
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Other animals will find things nauseating, but won't be rewarded for alerting their peers. They'll just move along.
(IOW, what we usually think of as disgust — the "eww, gross!" reaction — is uniquely human... I suspect.)
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it's not just the 'eww, gross. Context too. A fart is disgusting *in* a given "poop doesn't smell" abs layer
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I only kind of get what you're saying. But what about the simplest case: feeling disgust at milk that's gone sour?
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your prickly/squishy is connected somehow. Maybe prickly protects fragile leak boundary of active abstraction
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maybe it's a learned reaction and you could teach chimps to disgust too.
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Certainly possible. But non-human apes do surprisingly little "info donation."pic.twitter.com/Xl5OmECT8i
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Disgust has an adaptive social function but that could be based on an exaptation present in other animals
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Very easy to see how spitting out something that taste rotten is adaptive prior to a social display.
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hm, I have anecdotal evidence that either this is untrue or our pets have learned it from us
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