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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AKL1950" data-source="post: 10489942" data-attributes="member: 191973"><p>Possibly.  Is a baby deer instinctively afraid of humans?  Not really. It’s a learned “instinct”.  When born it has no reason to fear humans.  It’s taught that by its mother.  How, through smell and pheromones.  Mother deer alerts when she smells a human.  Baby deer senses mothers fear.  Baby deer smells human as well.  Baby deer associates mothers fear with the smell of a human.  That is then imprinted in baby deer memories/neurons for fight or flight and from then on it will fear humans.  a Lot of things we view as animal instinct are actually learned events from their elders.  It’s just done differently than we do.  Now there are other things that are truly instinctual.  Baby turtle as soon as they hatch instinctually run to the ocean so they don’t get eaten.  Don’t think anyone taught then that.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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