Coltan Scrivner

And what you find is that many prey animals will engage in predator inspection.

And in particular, those that are adolescents or sub-adults, so they're young and healthy, but don't have a lot of personal experience with a predator.

So they have the most benefit and they're at the lowest risk because they're healthy and probably able to get away.

And of course, environmental factors influence it.

So is the grass really tall or really short?

Because if it's really tall, you might get ambushed.

If it's really short and maybe you're further away, you feel a little safer, right?

Kind of like we feel when we watch a TV show.

That's all great and fine.

And predator inspection is pretty commonly observed in many different animals.

One of the explanations for it is that prey animals can learn about their predators that way.

Yeah, yeah.

All of life is one big learning experience.

And you've got to take the opportunities you get.

And when it comes to dangerous things,

In most of nature, there's a lot of danger around, but not a lot of good opportunities to learn about it because it's typically dangerous for you to witness something.

Yeah, you learn about it while you're getting chased.

And that's not a good time.

You're going to have really accurate information, but it comes at a pretty high risk, right?

Fast forward to humans.