Abstract
Reptiles have many morphological and physiological characteristics similar to those found in mammals and birds; others are seemingly only modestly modified (e.g., functional organization of the circulatory, endocrine, visual, and central nervous systems). Yet behaviorally, endotherms are often perceived to be (in effect) qualitatively different from ectotherms. This chapter explores this issue, focusing on development. Lurking in the background are questions such as: What are the phenomena that have led to the perceived distinction? If any such behavioral differences are genuine, are they profound or superficial? To what extent may any behavioral differences be due to a lack of cognitive and emotional capacities in reptiles, or may other factors be involved? Recent studies have shed light on these questions, and the answers coming in have potentially important consequences for our views of the behavior of “higher” vertebrates.
The truth lies directly before us in the reality surrounding us. However, we can not use it as is. An unbroken description of reality would be simultaneously the truest and most useless thing in the world, and it certainly would not be science. If we want to make reality and therefore truth useful to science, we must do violence to reality. We must introduce the distinction, which does not exist in nature, between essential and inessential. By seeking out the relationships that seem essential to us, we order the material in a surveyable way at the same time. Then we are doing science.
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Environment [Umwelt] and the inner world of animals.
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Burghardt, G.M. (1988). Precocity, Play, and the Ectotherm-Endotherm Transition. In: Blass, E.M. (eds) Developmental Psychobiology and Behavioral Ecology. Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, vol 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5421-5_4
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