Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms race with humans?

Re:Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms... by onion2k on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:11AM (#32821771)

I was mostly suggesting putting the deckchair and bag down rather than the child. But if you did put the child down and it ate some trash, started crying, and ran off in to the woods to get eaten by a bear, I think that's just Darwinism at work. You can't fight evolution.

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Re:Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms... by cycomanic on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:58AM (#32822701)

Thank you this made me laugh quite a bit.

I would also add that if your child managed to eat trash, started crying and ran off into the woods within the 20s that it might take to put things into a rubbish bin, then you shouldn't be too worried because it seems to have the survival skills to live in the forest and outrun the meanest predators.

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Re:Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms... by Ygg2 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:48AM (#32821976)

I bet you as a child had been born with full knowledge of world. And not for heroic effort of your parents and sheer dumb luck.

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Re:Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:25AM (#32822487)

> You can't fight evolution

Oh, so you are unvaccinated, don't wear clothes for warmth, have survived the plague and only eat what you've killed yourself?

A true self-sufficient specimen of survival?

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