Do wild animals ever get bored?
Yes. At least the more intelligent ones. You can see it with mammals such as tigers and bears in zoo cages. They pace endlessly back and forth trying to find something interesign in their lives. After sufficient time in captivity, they show the same psychotic symptoms as humans kept in prison cells for a long time. And apes kept in unstimulating environments go mad quite quickly. Zoos with apes in have to work hard to keep providing interest. Dolphins also show signs of boredom. Smaller and simpler animals have lesser needs. Tigers need square miles of terrritory, rats square inches. Nonetheless, a rat can get bored in an empty cage. People have done experiments comparing rats in stimulating and unstimulating environments, and the unstimulate ones lose weight, get ill, get diseases, and die earlier than the stimulated ones.
