Sublime

For example, suppose long experience fishing will tend to cause anglers to prefer the blood knot to other potential knots (for connecting monofilament line) because the blood knot is objectively the best. However, individual experiences will vary, so suppose that long experience alone leads to only a 50% chance of an angler converging on the blood

No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

In zoology, it points to the behaviour of an animal that benefits another at its own expense. The survival of the species (or its youngsters) may be instinctively prioritized, as if identification as a whole race was there.

Sein Sohn sollte die Tiere und Pflanzen in ihrem eigenen Recht lieben lernen, nicht als sentimentale Vertreter seiner menschlichen Stimmungen

if you want to understand the soul of the wolf—the essence of the wolf, what the wolf is all about—then you should look at the way the wolf moves.

Every animal species possesses a repertoire of behaviours. This behavioural repertoire is dependent on structures which evolution has built into the central nervous system of the species. Ethologists call these structures innate releasing mechanisms, or IRMs.

Les homards femelles, qui n’hésitent pas non plus à se battre pour leur territoire au cours des périodes maternelles de leur existence14, identifient rapidement le grand chef et sont attirées par lui. Selon moi, il s’agit d’une excellente stratégie. Elle est également mise en œuvre par les femelles de nombreuses espèces, y compris l’espèce humaine.

and man is the only animal whom she has endowed with the gift of speech.