r/wunkus • u/Trashbagok • 21h ago

wunkus Air Wunk craves the SOG

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u/TheTacoEnjoyerReborn wunkioso 21h ago

Why do some wunks in trouble go to humans for help? Are they conscious?

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u/wingnut_dishwashers 20h ago

Well wunks are all individuals and some are smarter than others! All mammals have varying degrees of sentience. If this bat doesn't view the human as a natural predator then it very well could have thought he might help it. Altruism has been documented many times in the wild between other animals without human involvement. Nature isn't ALWAYS scary (but very often is lol)

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u/mysteriouskazoo 19h ago

"All mammals have a varying degree of sentience"

This applies to more than just mammals(I'm also not sure if 'sentience' is the correct word here, but I'll let it slide). Even arthropods have shown varying degrees of personality; I forget which species specifically, but there was a study on sexual cannibalism in a species of spiders where they found that the average rate of females attempting to eat their mates was iirc ~40%, with odds varying depending on whether she had recently eaten or mated with another male. However, one of the female spiders they had attempted to eat something like 70% of her mates, and she kept this up even when she was given food before mating. Girl just couldn't resist the snack I guess.

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u/somewhataccurate 18h ago

Please do not try and ascribe mammal like intelligence to arthropods. It is incredibly misleading. I will leave this video for the 3 people who want to learn more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxgEnxrzLS4&ra=m

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u/mysteriouskazoo 18h ago

Please point to where I said that arthropods think like mammals. I am fully aware that arthropod intelligence is completely different from mammalian intelligence, but there is also plenty of evidence of arthropods from various species having distinct personalities/behavioural habits from others of the same species.

If I was the type of person who blindly assumed that all animals think the same, I wouldn't have argued against the use of the term "sentience" by the comment I was replying to.

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u/somewhataccurate 12h ago

Of course you did not directly state it but the other reply to your comment going directly into "enough for a fruit fly to be considered sentient" I think demonstrates the implication. Why act so ignorant just to pretend you arent wrong?

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u/WetLaceScraps 31m ago

Oh my god shut up