How smart is the yowie?
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:02 pm
I?ve decided to make this my first post after observing this site for a time.
I was just wondering what people?s thoughts are regarding the intelligence of the Yowie.
Here is my tentative theory. I think yowies are more than just extremely smart animals. I believe the reason that no rock-hard, conclusive, indisputable evidence of their existence has been found is that they are, in general terms, as smart as, or smarter than us.
Let me explain it this way. What is intelligence? Is it what we actually know, our IQ? No, I don?t think so. I believe our intelligence is measured by our capacity to learn and function in our various environments.
An example. Send a mathematician, who grew up in suburbia, was educated at Uni etc to the jungles of New Guinea to spend some time with a native in the jungle who knows the ways of his local environment. Who?s smarter?
Is it the mathematician, who probably has an IQ of over 150, or the native tribesperson who most likely is illiterate? If you sat them both down for a calculous test, obviously the mathematician would win. However dumped in the middle of a jungle, where survival skills are paramount, the native tribesperson would obviously prevail.
My point is this, if roles were reversed and the tribesperson grew up in suburbia and the mathematician in the New Guinea jungle, chances are both would attain a high level of proficiency in their chosen field or environment, because they both share a common, high capacity to learn. It just happens to be directed in different ways, because they grew up in different environments.
I think the same applies to the yowie. Perhaps its appearance as an overly large ape like creature leads us to think it shares comparable intelligence or capacity to learn to an Organa tang or Chimpanzee.
If yowies were as least as smart as us, maybe their capacity to learn has been directed so wholly to the environment they chose to live in, that they have become the supreme masters of their domain (dodgy Seinfeld quote I know), and understand nature and the environment to a level that some us can comprehend engines, computers or other technology.
The flesh and blood v paranormal thread on this board was fascinating. I admit, I?m a F and B man, but some of the paranormal arguments are compelling. Perhaps yowies know how to manipulate their surrounding environment to perform some of the amazing feats documented (ie seemingly disappearing on the spot), because the surrounding environment is what it has focussed its mind and learning capacity on.
I think also, as with humans, there are smart yowies, dumb yowies and those of average intelligence. I think there are yowies that are naturally gentle and placid and others that are inherently cruel and aggressive.
I know assigning human values to the yowie is dangerous, but to my original point again, I think they are at least a smart as us. I think they know when they confront us in the bush they scare us, the same way we humans know if a small child or animal is fearful of us.
Obviously this is all theoretical, and I have no time in the ?field? to back any of this evidence up. But Dean I was wondering, when you go out to hunt the yowie, do you hunt it as an extremely smart animal, or do you think of it as your equal or even better.
Maybe this theory isn?t even new, I just formulated it from the scattered case reports I?ve read on this site and in books over the years and I hope it makes some sense
Let?s hear some opinions people.
I was just wondering what people?s thoughts are regarding the intelligence of the Yowie.
Here is my tentative theory. I think yowies are more than just extremely smart animals. I believe the reason that no rock-hard, conclusive, indisputable evidence of their existence has been found is that they are, in general terms, as smart as, or smarter than us.
Let me explain it this way. What is intelligence? Is it what we actually know, our IQ? No, I don?t think so. I believe our intelligence is measured by our capacity to learn and function in our various environments.
An example. Send a mathematician, who grew up in suburbia, was educated at Uni etc to the jungles of New Guinea to spend some time with a native in the jungle who knows the ways of his local environment. Who?s smarter?
Is it the mathematician, who probably has an IQ of over 150, or the native tribesperson who most likely is illiterate? If you sat them both down for a calculous test, obviously the mathematician would win. However dumped in the middle of a jungle, where survival skills are paramount, the native tribesperson would obviously prevail.
My point is this, if roles were reversed and the tribesperson grew up in suburbia and the mathematician in the New Guinea jungle, chances are both would attain a high level of proficiency in their chosen field or environment, because they both share a common, high capacity to learn. It just happens to be directed in different ways, because they grew up in different environments.
I think the same applies to the yowie. Perhaps its appearance as an overly large ape like creature leads us to think it shares comparable intelligence or capacity to learn to an Organa tang or Chimpanzee.
If yowies were as least as smart as us, maybe their capacity to learn has been directed so wholly to the environment they chose to live in, that they have become the supreme masters of their domain (dodgy Seinfeld quote I know), and understand nature and the environment to a level that some us can comprehend engines, computers or other technology.
The flesh and blood v paranormal thread on this board was fascinating. I admit, I?m a F and B man, but some of the paranormal arguments are compelling. Perhaps yowies know how to manipulate their surrounding environment to perform some of the amazing feats documented (ie seemingly disappearing on the spot), because the surrounding environment is what it has focussed its mind and learning capacity on.
I think also, as with humans, there are smart yowies, dumb yowies and those of average intelligence. I think there are yowies that are naturally gentle and placid and others that are inherently cruel and aggressive.
I know assigning human values to the yowie is dangerous, but to my original point again, I think they are at least a smart as us. I think they know when they confront us in the bush they scare us, the same way we humans know if a small child or animal is fearful of us.
Obviously this is all theoretical, and I have no time in the ?field? to back any of this evidence up. But Dean I was wondering, when you go out to hunt the yowie, do you hunt it as an extremely smart animal, or do you think of it as your equal or even better.
Maybe this theory isn?t even new, I just formulated it from the scattered case reports I?ve read on this site and in books over the years and I hope it makes some sense
Let?s hear some opinions people.
