I think the problem with feeding wildlife is not them begin "lazy" but the familiarity they now have with humans thst they shouldn't have (for their and our safety)
There weren't many pack killings of tourists until they started to get fed regularly, now decisions have to be made ablout whether to cull the dingoes or the tourists.
> Delgado said the food puzzles used in the study may not have stimulated their natural hunting behavior, which usually involves ambushing their prey.
I'm curious what "work" the contrafreeloading animals were doing, in making the comparison. Because yeah, domestic cats are lazy as hell but when a mouse got into our house, our cat was more interested in finding it than getting free treats.
She played with it and killed it when she finally caught it. But no, she didn't eat it. But it flips the observation of the study: she preferred to work for non-food (but I suspect there's a latent food-instinct driving this) rather than get a free meal.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 27.6 ms ] threadWhile feeding wildlife is probably still unwise, does it change behaviour as much as people claim it does then?
https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/kgari-fraser/about/wongar...
There weren't many pack killings of tourists until they started to get fed regularly, now decisions have to be made ablout whether to cull the dingoes or the tourists.
I'm curious what "work" the contrafreeloading animals were doing, in making the comparison. Because yeah, domestic cats are lazy as hell but when a mouse got into our house, our cat was more interested in finding it than getting free treats.
Want about humans? are humans contrafreeloading animals or not?