Sentences with phrase «how social these creatures»
«We wanted to know how social these creatures were, if they were social at all.»
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John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.
Research published in the June special issue of SAGE journal, Social Science Information (SSI), delves deeper into our relationship with other creatures, critically examining our own animal nature, and looking at how animals profoundly influence our culture — perhaps more so than we had initially thought.
How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart?
He explains how our brains have been evolving for millions of years to turn us into the social creatures we are today.
They don't pine over their missed opportunities like humans do; they don't wallow in self - pity; they don't hold grudges against the people and forces that kept them down for so long; and they don't have egos that keep them from settling down and becoming just normal, calm, happy social creatures, as soon as they're shown how and given the chance to be.
For instance, dogs are social creatures, but we must teach them how to be alone to avoid separation anxiety.