It is just amazing how a whole lot of people believe that animals are incapable of doing things just because they are having fun. Whenever I look at how my little Kanga-roo steals the Chinese Rat's toy, jumps up onto a sofa, out of reach, and slowly chews away on it, right on the edge, in full sight, I know that she is not only having fun, but also being profoundly mischievous.
Animals are so much more than what we can imagine or understand. We cannot realize their full being because we have fought hard to dissociate from them, and single the human race out as something very special.
But what about these penguins using an iceberg as a slide? What are they doing it for, if not simple fun and joy? Penguins are anyway hilarious, but this will make you smile for sure!
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Let's provoke a Cosmic Mouse:
I do completely agree with your second paragraph, which makes me criticize your third one. I don't have any clue why these penguins are doing what they are doing or if they experience something similar to what we define as "fun".This obsession to dress animal behavior with plain human conducts and emotions is, I insist, this "Teddy Bear Syndrome" which at the end the only that confirms is that we are anyways arrogant in our processing of the world and don't understand anything at all. Or do you think anybody is able to decipher a Cosmic Mouse? Besos
Dearest Eminencia Gris,
No need for provocation. I agree with you. We do not know why they are doing what they are doing. That is the very essence of our ignorance. Trying to explain it is just a symptom of the ignorance. It doesn't change the underlying fact that we have no clue about the whys of the vast majority of creatures that inhabit this planet.
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