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PuzzleMeDo t1_it7qwm2 wrote

Reply to comment by 404errorabortmistake in Is building dams a learned behaviour for beavers? by Snoo-82132

"Evidence suggests beavers don’t build dams because they enjoy it, but because running water precipitates the influx of potential predators in their environments."

Those things aren't mutually exclusive. Is there really evidence beavers don't enjoy building dams? Because that sounds like saying, "Humans don't eat because they enjoy it, they eat because they need food to survive." When in fact we eat because we enjoy it, and we enjoy it because any people who didn't like eating would have died out.

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404errorabortmistake t1_it7r9eq wrote

Yeh you’re right. Maybe they do enjoy building dams - i don’t know. But there’s certainly a reason for it beyond enjoyment alone

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