r/AnimalsBeingStrange • u/DarkfireEclipse • 6d ago

Funny animal The turtle get scare.

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u/AUREL-FOR 5d ago

If it is an aquatic tortoise should have ancestral memory of it enemies

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u/ForeHand101 5d ago edited 5d ago

Not saying you're wrong, but calling it "ancestral memory" makes it sound like some sort of mystical thing when in reality their brain is just programmed to fear the general look and shape of sharks because those that didn't got killed by said sharks.

Literally the same reasons and ways humans have fear of things without usually having had a traumatizing encounter with said thing, yet we don't typically say humans have "ancestral memory". Sorry for the mini rant, just felt like I wanted to say it, so I did lol

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u/cryptic-coyote 3d ago

What is an instinct developed through millions of years of evolution if not the phantom touch of long-gone ancestors?