I mean, most humans aren’t going to fully clean off all the small particles. Brush enough so that they aren’t in the way/aren’t immediately visible and move on with life.
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ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months agoI’ve seen them play with small objects or push things off counters but never seen them fully clean an area of small particles.
Maybe I just never really paid attention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Cinner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To add the opposite of this, cats do cover up their feces in the wild very well, and housecats will in a litterbox too instinctually. To hide their scent so they don’t get eaten.
It’s all about needs. Humans became the top of the food chain and stopped needing as much, so we started doing other things. Also in the wild if there’s wind then there won’t be as much on things, dust really only starts to gather once walls are built (or in caves I suppose.)