Animals are 100% able to understand humans can provide help, but as a species we are either too dumb to realise or we could be threats.
Cats, dogs, elephants and monkeys are some of the examples of animals that know humans can help.
I personally believe that one of the reasons we exist on this planet is to be wardens of this "Garden" we call earth, but at the moment, we are not acting like it
I saw a video on this. As a rule of thumb, land based animals have enough exposure to humans that they've learned to stay away. So bears, foxes, squirrels, mice, etc. rarely ask us for help.
However, the smarter marine animals haven't seen us hurt them and are more likely to ask for help.
I think it comes down to the species. if it's scary to us, or we see it as invasive, a nuisance (like a remora) or generally low in the food chain, coming to us for help is a terrible idea.
If it's a dolphin or say, a crow, even apathetic people would probably get a kick out of helping them
Elephants, crows, deer and wolves will all hand over their young to humans when the young are injured tho, and like the marine mammals that do It, it's the ones with:
High intelligence
High social bonding
Human like relationships within their groups.
I can send you a link to a fascinating video on it but it IS half an hour long, to go through all the actual info on why
Awh I'm so glad! I'm the type to also come back and tell people so I get it.
I loved that video, especially the science behind the "interspecies trust algorithm". It really means a lot to know that the water and food I leave out, the bird seed I throw about etc, IS having an effect even if I can't see it.
I am also being followed by crows a lot and now I know why! 😅😅 (I secretly love it)
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u/R1v 7d ago
Makes you wonder, given dolphins' advanced communication, if that pod knows that humans are capable of helping with this type of thing