On: Swansea Uni study: African wild dogs 'sneeze to vote' (2017)

[emiliobumachar]

I wonder if flu or cold epidemics cause strategic damage as well as regular damage to packs, by making them sneeze en mass and mistake it for group consensus.

[fifnir → emiliobumachar]

I strongly suspect that the sneezing goes with a whole package of body language, you won't send the dogs hunting by hidding a recording of sneezes in the bush nearby

[thaumasiotes → emiliobumachar]

This is pretty unlikely, given that diseases have been around for a while.

Most existing systems are robust to a failure case that's been happening regularly for tens of thousands of years.

[crummy → emiliobumachar]

By increasing likeliness of moving around it could potentially help in spreading the disease, too.