💀 death to the seals ☠

I'm reading Play by Stuart Brown, and he talks about a study of a group of seals. Of the 26 young seals that were killed by predators over a certain period of time, 24 of those seals were playing beyond the vicinity of their parents.

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In evolutionary terms, playing had a huge cost.

A seal pup that played was more likely to be killed than a seal pup that didn't. ☠

In that case, we'd expect seals not to play - unless of course, playing had an evolutionary advantage that outweighed the costs.

Which it clearly does, since seals still play.

🎭🦦🎴🧸

When you look all across the animal kingdom, you see so many examples of animals playing.

Humans are no different.

We all play (at least until it's taught, frightened, or beaten out of us).

Now, we don't need to worry about being killed by predators while we play. So maybe next time you have the urge to play and you don't indulge, ask yourself what predator you're afraid of...

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