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Human Activities VS Animal Activities
I conducted a google search with the key word "human activities", and I got the results describing human activities. But when I searched with the key word "animal activities", I got the results describing animal activities for kids. Why?

Does the noun phrase "animal acitives" normally mean activities belonging to animals?
29 авг. 2020 г., 17:37
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Yes I got the same results.
Google thought you meant activities for kids involving animals.
Animas do not usually become involved in activities.
You have to search for animal behaviour/behaviours.
It is not the noun phrase, it is explained in all dictionaries.
activity the state of a thing done, or in the process of being done.
the thing done by a single person or group of people.

The English language allows humans to be active to have activities and also behaviours.
But the English language in the dictionaries does not allow animals to have activities only behaviours.

Except in odd situations like this.

"The river bank has been severely eroded by the activities of moles digging tunnels and the water course has been badly clogged by the activities of beavers building dams" .

If you google search for 'animal name activities" you still get activities for kids.
"Elephant activities" "Beaver activities"

If you search google for "difference between activities and behaviour" you get many very advanced scholarly articles covering many disciplines.

In a nut shell humans and especially the English language, does not think animals are capable of performing an action or activity only a behaviour. The English Language applies high and mighty intelligence to doing an activity, but the activities of animals it regards as lowly instinctive baseline behaviour only.

29 августа 2020 г.
If we consider "activities" exclusively from the scienetific aspect, the logical definition of it can be systmatically denoted by numbers, the form of logic. We estimate what percentage of mental power Bonobo apes possess comparing to humans'. In this case, the reference of reason does not exclusively belong to humans; it is outside of our minds. Animals reason with a certain percentage depending on some conditions.

If we consider "activities" exclusively from the philosophical aspect, the theoretical defintion of it exists in our consciousness. Clarity is what we seek for. "Animals don't reason." is understood as "Pure animals don't reason."
30 августа 2020 г.
Yes true. But the dictionaries define the word activity has being human only. That's why google searches will only provide "animal actives" for kids. = activities that humans do involving animals.
There are bonobo apes that think much faster than humans, and can speak by clicking on sign language symbols to give answers much faster than humans. And some chimp paintings have sold for a lot of money.

Activity is only human and s star of something in science etc, molecules showing heightened activity, as a simplistic example.
30 августа 2020 г.
Animals don't reason, but some of them are able to create arts.

Puffer Fish Creates This Blue Water Art ~: }

Suda - The Painting Elephant

My conclusion is that arts are not the products of reasoning. Thus, these two phenomena are still animal behaviours, not animal activites.

"The sole function of reason is to construct concepts."

Animals don't have the will to conquer nature, but humans do with their knowledge.
Activties are characterized by the human will to conquer nature.
30 августа 2020 г.
Yes you will find that phrase occasionally in rare academic type writings. some of the sources in that link were finding phrases in articles. where it refers to animal activities for human children, the most common scenario and usage. the rest were quoting phrases from academic articles. But as a general rule we consider animals cannot reason and cannot do activities singularly by themselves, like painting animals in an art class at a primary, first year school etc. Except when they act in groups or herds when they are said to exhibiting behaviour and animal instincts.

Painting animals. Visiting animals at/in a zoo. Watching animals. Bird watching etc these are the activities that only humans can do singularly or in groups. the activity of painting animals in a kids art class and so on.
30 августа 2020 г.
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