How female elk adjust behaviour with age to avoid hunters

Re:How female elk adjust behaviour with age to avoid hunters by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:14PM (#14562891)

Documenting and quantifying the obvious might not be glamorous but someone's gotta do it.

Many species have similar learned adaptations to the dangers in their environment. Anyone who's fished saltwater and a range of freshwater environments will be able to vouch for this being readily observable.

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Re:How female elk adjust behaviour with age to avoid hunters by Tomte on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:18PM (#14562931)

I don't have an English-speaking article handy, but female deer in the Bohemian Forest are still walking up to where barbed wire was during the Cold War, and turn around.

They have learned that they couldn't get further and have imprinted that "knowledge" to their offspring.

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Re:How female elk adjust behaviour with age to avoid hunters by iak8god on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:44PM (#14563188)

This is fascinating. Here's an article that mentions it: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.572417

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