Do You Think Animals Worry About Things?

One parakeet has said many times “What will we do?” after overhearing us talk about what we will do for the day. Like I left them out of our plans. The youngest one, Boo-Boo, said “What am I supposed to do?” Yesterday like he was worried about something. We stayed home with him. I wonder if birds and other animals worry about the future, even if only the day, when they wake up in the morning the way humans worry about things.

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Animals have the luxury of living in the moment. I envy them that. Even nest building and pack behaviours like hunting are driven by instinct, a form of learned survival behaviour. Its easy to believe those bahaviours are thought out as they are quite sophisticated. But the truth is that in the wild, those who dont perform those behaviours just dont make it. Where we humans differ is that we actively seek to teach and spread those behaviours outside the group and expand that knockledge beyond what is immediately useful.😷