Originally published at: Mother wolf takes a disliking to a robot wolf cub | Boing Boing
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everyone resents surveillance on a visceral level.
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That thing is the stuff nightmares are made of. Like a Terminator was put in charge of improving an Aibo. Looking at the eyes of the real pups and then the lifeless, soulless face of the robot, with it’s mismatched camera & glass eye, I fully understand her reaction. So I’m with Momma wolf here, keep that thing far away from her pups!
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I’m imagining Mother wolf thinking…
…“There’s something wrong with that boy.”
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Like this but opposite:
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Do wolves have a concept of the uncanny valley?
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That the other cubs weren’t particularly bothered kind of makes me go back to my suspicion that The Uncanny Valley might not actually be a thing.
(If I recall the original claim was that young children, in particular, were very upset by the robot.)
I wonder what wolf mom is thinking when confronted with a sudden extra baby that appears to be a walking corpse. Other than “oh, I don’t think so”.
How much did it smell like a wolf cub, much less one of her cubs? Scent is way more important than looks in identifying wolves to other wolves.
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“He is being carried by the scruff of his neck, just like she would have carried one of her own cubs. This journey is the last thing he ever filmed.”
I dunno. Maybe more just like she would have carried off a rival’s cub.
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