I saw an interesting bit about raccoons near human habitation being smarter than those that live in the wilderness because they have to solve the problems we present to them (e.g. how to unfasten the trash can to get at our lovely food waste).
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Dogs do the same. I adopted a stray who live on the street. He was super-smart. My other beloved dog, adopted at 10 weeks and loved every day, is dumber than a box of hammers
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That certainly could be a factor. I've known some extremely intelligent dogs who were always cared for as well.
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You seem to love these stories, like a few animals adapting to live on human refuse makes up for the anthropocene extinction event. It's like a climate change denialist posting gleefully about an unexpected snow day.
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We are currently in the sixth mass extinction. The jet stream is out of kilter, together with the loss of the air conditioning effect of the ice in the Arctic - will mean massive crop failures and the end of civilisation.
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Yes. Species disappear from a habitat because all its members decided to move to a city. And criticizing growth of cities is therefor perverse. Simple evolutions dumbass. Science bitch.
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Social darwinism thinly veiled. Implication is rich people are adapting well to the concrete world, while poor are not. But without wellfare state, what's the incentive for the poor to not just burn it all down? And that wd be a different environment, so social darwinism is wrongpic.twitter.com/0SrpsZkqlI
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Fascinating.
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speciation ?
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I'll believe that when birds learn not to kill themselves by flying into windows.
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