Some people say that mankind is different from animal in that people have rationality, thus they argue the there is no need to study the nature of animal in order to learn human nature. However I strongly believe that by examinging behavioral patterns of animal, we can get to know human nature better. This is mainly because mankind and animal are same in that they all have basic intincts. In addition, both endeavor to achieve what they want.
To start with, human, as well as animal behave according to their intrinsic. In other words, animal, including human have basic need of eating, sleeping, and proliferation and these makes their master behave in a way that suffices them. To illustrate this point, anthropologists have indicated that people mostly behave according to the order of their instinction rather than their intellect. According to a study, about 70 percent of the decision made by people is to meet basic instinction. Therefore, by studying animals we can get to know how peple cope with in a certain situation.
In addition, animal give efforts to achieve what they want and so does mankind. For example, male birds tries to mate with female birds. In order to achieve this goal, they sometimes make their nest tidy or make themselves look attractive. Scientist have indicated that male bower birds decorate thier nests, dress up, and even dance to attract female. Likewise people wanting entice female or male endeavor to mate, such as dressing up, or even go under plastic surgery to be attractive.
To sum up, since people is the same as animal in that both have instinct and make an effort to obtain certain goal. It is helpful to study the pattern of behavior of animal. |