Animals move in pursuit of food, mates, or refuge from predators, and this movement attracts attention and interest, particularly as it becomes apparent that the behaviour of some creatures is not so very different from human behaviour.
Instead, I have been lucky enough to make a living as a scientist, studying the ecology and behaviour of rare creatures in the wild, sometimes travelling around the world to find them.
Kelly Benoit-Bird, marine biologist She uses sophisticated sound equipment to examine the behaviour of ocean creatures and to address long-unanswered questions about how the food chain works under the waves.
This does not mean that such animals have no mental life at all, nor does it mean that we cannot usefully use mental concepts in explaining and predicting the behaviour of such creatures.
He wants to use Darwinism as the grand unifying principle that explains how you can get from the very simplest organisms, capable only of rudimentary behaviour, to creatures like us, who can theorise about the sorts of creatures we are.
Suppose a number of hares were allowed to be spectators at a modern ballroom, tango tea, or carnival, how would they describe the behaviour of these strange creatures who call them mad?
Dr O'Keefe agreed, explaining that unlike on land where nests are preserved, studying the behaviour of ancient marine creatures is very difficult.
"Even if none of your swapped snails return we'd like you to enter your results online, as the data will help ecologists understand the behaviour of these ancient creatures". This study concerned only one type of snail, but there are many others.
Simple computer models such as these are too abstract to accurately describe the behaviour of the real creatures, but they do demonstrate that even very simple rules can give rise to patterns resembling their tracks.
Caring is not a uniquely human attribute, yet the caring behaviour of language-using creatures is richer than that of other animals.
