animals have one thing we dont. common sense. stupidity is the number one killer of humans. animals lack that quality. they don't stare at your truck carreening toward them because they're stupid... nature tells them to freeze, not to draw attention to themselves.
but thats what im saying, animals don't have common sense, they do what nature tells them. standing in front of a truck while its comming at you is not common sense, its instinct. animals don't have logic, otherwise they would have learned that if they see something with unnatural light coming at them theyd move. now dogs and such can learn a command or a trick because you reward or punish for not doing what you tell them repeatedly and repeatedly, hundreds of times untill they get it. for instance, if you, not knowing what a gun was, saw somebody pick it up and shoot themself with it and die, would you pick it up and point it at yourself? you wouldnt, because you have logic and reasoning abilities. but a deer can see their fellow deer get hit by a car, and might do the same thing a day later. which is a terrible thought, but its how it works