Episode 19: Dragons
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The Origins of Dragons
Many species of apes and monkeys have warning sounds that signal to each other when different types of danger appear. A monkey might make a particular sound that indicates a particular predator in his book an instinct for dragons David Jones mentions the calls of the Ververt Monkey native to the southeastern countries of Africa. Researchers have observed ververts using different sounds to warn each other about snakes leopards and birds of prey. Perhaps we have taken that instinctual fear of these types of predators with us Coded deep in our nervous systems after all if you mix the fiercest parts of a snake a leopard and a bird of prey the parts that make them great predators What do you get? Something that looks an
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