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Jul. 27th, 2009 07:23 amYes I'm link whoring, but I hope you enjoy:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106826971
Crows carry grudges, and other crows learn to carry grudges by seeing other crows squawking at you. After picking up young from their nests (setting the parents aflame, who identified the men as "bad men," who then squawked at the "bad men," who were then joined by other crows squawking) researchers found they were squawked at by crows everywhere they went! The word was out on them - other crows had gotten the word from their pissed-off brethren and carried the word to others, so these individuals were hated by crows they had never met.
Can we apply this to our lives? Should we? Once someone has identified someone as a "bad man," they tell their friends who then identify this as an identified bad man. Evolutionarily this is a good idea - you avoid the douchebag identified by others. Now, is drama a bad thing? It's good to rely on others to find out someone is a "bad man," but what controls do crows have for bad bad-man-identifiers? Do humans need controls that crows don't?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106826971
Crows carry grudges, and other crows learn to carry grudges by seeing other crows squawking at you. After picking up young from their nests (setting the parents aflame, who identified the men as "bad men," who then squawked at the "bad men," who were then joined by other crows squawking) researchers found they were squawked at by crows everywhere they went! The word was out on them - other crows had gotten the word from their pissed-off brethren and carried the word to others, so these individuals were hated by crows they had never met.
Can we apply this to our lives? Should we? Once someone has identified someone as a "bad man," they tell their friends who then identify this as an identified bad man. Evolutionarily this is a good idea - you avoid the douchebag identified by others. Now, is drama a bad thing? It's good to rely on others to find out someone is a "bad man," but what controls do crows have for bad bad-man-identifiers? Do humans need controls that crows don't?
