It’s OK. I’ve been wrong before, and I no doubt, will be wrong again.
I agree that “fight or flight” is an instinct, but over the eons, we have learned from that instinct. And although animals must be taught how to hunt, and they have learned how to adapt, we are the only ones in the animal kingdom to take our knowledge to the next level.
Not just with animals, but with survival, period. We’ve learned to cultivate crops, to improve the domesticated animals that provide us with so much, and even to find new and better ways to adapt. We’ve even learned how to tame certain animals as “pets.”
I suspect, with most “wild” animals, they can only go so far in their progression. And I doubt very much that I’ll see a wild animal with a “pet.”
And Koko doesn’t count...she was a domesticated gorilla in a research center.
Well, we agree on a couple of points....thanks for the interesting posting to this thread...have a great day.:O)