11-22-2017, 03:02 AM
I think that any creature who is in a fear mode of behaviour is not able to act as it would if it were relaxed and secure. We can see that in ourselves. How many times when bad news has come one way or another, we may lose our appetite temporarily because, I guess, there are stress hormones in the system? And how many times when we are scared it's hard to concentrate on anything else, or succeed at an unrelated task?
It's good to have some level of fear response. That's natural and a necessity for survival. But when the fear over-rides everything else in a chronic sense, is when it works against survival.
I just do hope that if studies are made, they are made compassionately and intelligently, and aren't going to deliberately subject animals to manufactured stress situations in order to study their responses!
It's good to have some level of fear response. That's natural and a necessity for survival. But when the fear over-rides everything else in a chronic sense, is when it works against survival.
I just do hope that if studies are made, they are made compassionately and intelligently, and aren't going to deliberately subject animals to manufactured stress situations in order to study their responses!
