Another Quiz

 

Another Quiz

Match the behavior to the species.

A mature adult male is limping through the jungle hungry, tired and wounded. It is anxious to find shelter before nightfall when ten feet away it sees an unrelated, abandoned infant of its own species.

If it moves off its path to kill the infant is it a tiger, deer or human?

If it walks past the infant barely noting its presence is it a tiger, deer or human?

If it stops to help the infant, even at the risk to its own life, is it a tiger, deer or human?

These behaviors are genetic, not learned. I can’t think of any species other than Homo sapiens that would rescue an unrelated infant. I believe this behavior is an important key as to how our species survives.

Nancy Sherer

 

 


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