Post #3048362
2025-08-03 15:04 UTC
Replies (6)
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@ramsey@phpc.social 2025-08-03 16:40
@paninid@mastodon.world I think it’s interesting that one of the most significant survival traits that hominids evolved was the ability to form community, share burdens, and have empathy for others. Arguably, it’s the trait that allowed us to outcompete other homo species. Now, we’re starting to see (notice) this in other mammals, especially cetaceans, and I wonder if we’re seeing them in the middle of their own evolution to a more sapient species.
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@jbond@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 17:25
@paninid@mastodon.world So the Humpbacks are militant Antifa, right?
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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 18:55
@paninid@mastodon.world it's an interesting thing: greater intelligence induces behaviors outside of an animal's strict survival instincts, in two directions: greater cruelty, and greater compassion. proportionally according to intelligence and that's pretty much us, at the far end of the scale
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@Kjaerulv@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 19:51
@paninid@mastodon.world revenge and general anomocity against the orcas, who are preying on their calves? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423240-californian-orcas-used-specialised-tactics-for-hunting-whale-calves/
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@MercG@mindly.social 2025-08-03 20:15
@paninid@mastodon.world I vote the land dwelling apes stay right tf out of this one.
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@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 22:19
@paninid@mastodon.world I've seen a video online, where a scuba diver was filming a whale. He couldn't understand why the whale kept putting his side flipper over him. Until he saw the shark. The whale was hiding/protecting him from a shark.