Quote Originally Posted by Sonya610 View Post
littleindiangirl I doubt if they overanalyze it. They feel a strong need to protect, and they do. I think humans are very much the same way, but we like to think we aren't. Hormones are very powerful, humans often use their brains to "justify" their hormone induced feelings.

A couple of years ago I got the chance to watch canadian geese raise their families, they are the most monogamous devoted creatures, such incredibly protective parents. If humans displayed those traits they would be considered morally sound, loving, wonderful and devoted people and all that, but when animals display the same traits it is often just called "instinct." I tend to think hormones have a lot to do with it in either case. : )
Yeah but don't you see the difference here?? We have the capacity to "overanalyze". A snake does what its genes tell him, and is never educated by anything but what its instincts govern. We're having a discussion about an abstract concept right now. My snake is probably lounging in his own poo with tumbleweeds sailing thru his little brain.