In my last programme I talked about the discovery that although a lot of behaviour, of animals and humans, may be wired in, often it has to be triggered by a parent etc before it starts to operate. One instance of this that I talked about in the last programme is cats that are taken off their mothers too soon – they will never learn how to climb down from a tree.
Then there were Susan Minetka’s tame monkeys, wild monkeys and a snake. The tame monkeys didn’t know what a snake was and that they had to be afraid of it - for good reason – like if a snake bites, then the monkey will die. After a brief time with wild monkeys that were shown a snake and went berserk at the sight of it, the tame monkeys learned to match the behaviour of the wild monkeys forever after. After that brief exposure to how wild monkeys behave, the tame monkeys were immediately and totally equipped to deal with snakes.
Then there are the male snakes of the #MeToo controversy. It turned out that many of the men and women involved in that controversy were both like the tame monkeys. The women hadn’t been socialised to deal with the behaviour of that kind by men and many of the men weren’t equipped to deal with those women who didn’t want that sort of attention.
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