Word: instinctive
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...almost 55 years after the ascent that made him and Tenzing two of the heroes of the 20th century. For one who had reached such heights, he was a strange mix of confidence and modesty, bravado and reticence. He had the killer instinct needed to conquer Everest, and the unassuming nobility to serve the Nepalese people who helped...
...late that the cubs were no longer making any noises. Only after they heard the mother banging against the bars did they investigate, finding no sign of the young. Polar bears often eat their cubs if they believe they are ill, though zookeepers have no clear picture if that instinct is what motivated the mother bear...
...latent veteran instinct kicked in for the Crimson after halftime, when the defensive intensity increased to the tune of an 18-percent decrease in the Big Green’s field-goal percentage...
...merely summons us to witness, asks us to do what we can to prevent similar atrocities. Chang did a little better in her book, suggesting that ordinary Japanese soldiers were so miserably treated by their officers that when they were given the opportunity, they simply surrendered to animalistic instinct. That seems likely - but it also seems somehow inadequate. It occurs to one that this is a story that requires more thoughtful, even theoretical, probing...
...science of animal sentience is far from a firm one; there's no way of knowing exactly what any animal is feeling. But it's conceivable that something in Tatiana's life, beyond her instinct, could have impelled her to attack. She may have been simply behaving like a tiger - but, perhaps, behaving like a tiger is not so psychologically distinct from behaving like a human...