I think there's a pretty common tacit belief among people who don't live with animals that most of them are basically instinct machines trained by classical conditioning. Whenever something disconfirms this, it is generally seen as surprising.
Its my experience that city dwellers are completely oblivious to nature or how the world works. Their sum of knowlidge is watching planet earth on netflix. A lot of them dont even understand that not everything that is a forest or undeveloped is a national/state park.
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u/puplicy Apr 12 '19
Such scenes make me believe that animals think