For example, tigers attack other prey or us. It doesn't matter how well the animals are treated and taken care of.
If not possible, then explain how?Is it impossible to get an animal to eliminate its natural instincts?
You can train animals to behave as they have been trained by humans instead of responding to instinct, but there's a limit.
Dogs can be trained to leave cats alone even though they are instinctively going to want to chase them. Dogs can be trained to walk on their front legs even though they instinctively want to use all four legs. Dogs are extremely trainable, which is why they make such good pets.
Cats, on the other hand, are more difficult to train, which matters little with housecats but matters LOTS with the great cats. Look at Siegfried and Roy--they were terrific trainers, but the tiger who bit Roy responded to instinct (after years of following its human training) in a near-fatal fashion.
Humans are probably savages instinctively, but we are taught by our parents and society to behave in a certain way and most of us comply.
Training is overcoming instinct, but it isn't ELIMINATING it. You don't eliminate that with which an animal is born through training, you just cover it up.Is it impossible to get an animal to eliminate its natural instincts?
Why.....would we want to do this??? Are we trying to make them human? First of all, tigers, bears, etc, DO NOT prey on us. We kill far, far more of them than they do to us that the comparison is really quite obscene. We as a society have absolutely no tolerance for the very rare fatality caused by these animals. On the average for example, one person per year is killed by a black/grizzly bear, and we slaughter many thousands. Your odds of being killed even visiting a national park where there are many of them is comparable to winning the lottery, i.e one out of millions. Maybe your question should be why can't we coexist more peacefully with these great animals, and not slaughter them wholesale and take away their habitats until there is nothing left, for fear, that someone out of millions may die from them sometime. You are many many times safer in the woods with bears, etc, than you would be walking down a street of the average large city at night.
Bottom line is: even if we could eliminate their natural instincts, what is the creature then? Is it still a tiger or bear? Arent instincts an innate part of the bear/tiger's true identity?
This very question was asked and answered in a lab in Japan. The researchers there have developed a strain of mice that have no fear of cats. They created a defect in the mouse so that its brain has no receptor for the odor of cat. The cat smell is what a normal mouse reacts to and is afraid of. These modified mice essentially cannot smell cat so it does not respond in the normal fashion. This animal, through genetic manipulation, has had its natural instinct to be afraid of cats eliminated.
It is not possible in my opinion, nor should it be attempted. It would be cruel. Maybe you should lose yours and start eating live flesh and walking on all fours. Could you get used to that?
No i dont believe it is possible. In a way we are animals, and years and years later we still have our natural instincts complete as they were when our race began. Instincts like ';fight or flight'; and fear are necessary for our survival, so i do not think they will ever dissapear completely or even partially. If we had no instincts, society would bifurcate into a place of chaos and the human race would suffer. The same goes for any living animal, their instincts are there for them to survive, and without them they would not be able to.
The reason lions attack us is because of fear, but also because they need to eat. The need to eat is an instinct, if you have ever seen an animal with hydrophobia (rabies), some of its insticts are gone and eventually it dies.
%26gt; get an animal to eliminate its natural instincts?
To a certain extent, through long term selective breeding. This is why your pet dog isn't totally like a wolf, behaviorally.
its like the collars that they put on dogs to stop barking. every time they bark, they get electrocuted.
do the collars work? look it up.
by looking it up youll find many other people that have asked your same question and many articles, which im sure one could satisfy your question 100%
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