I wonder why a bird flies away when a human being walks close to it while the same bird doesn’t fly away when a cow or buffalo is close by. Would they not want to remain steady for once (test-drive) and see what humans would do to them?
Is the fear in the bird instilled by its earlier in life experience with humans? Or is it that there has been some communication between parent-birds and baby-birds to stay away from humans?
The answer may just never be known.
Why do some of us human beings afraid of a cockroach? Cockroaches are not known to bite. We weigh more than thousand times a cockroach, are many times bigger in size. However, we are more afraid of cockroach than they are afraid of humans. Why can’t we let them crowl over us (test-drive) and find out that they donot harm us in any way?
This clearly explains that not all things in the world can be result of previous experience (test-driving). Intuition (an inner voice) guides most of such situations. The above are probably the examples of intuitional response rather than a logical or reasoned response.
Taste of the pudding may be in eating it. However, we can not taste a material to find out whether it is a poison or not. An intuitional guess could take us away from such dangers many a times. A test-drive could be dangerous in such circumstances.
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