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Thousands of Afghans fled their homes when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021.

The UK government promised to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year,

only 22 Afghans had been approved for asylum in the UK.

So what happened?

And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?

For that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.

How does a spider know how to spin a web?

How does a bird know how to fly?

How does a beaver know how to build a dam?

By instinct.

For a long time, scientists have looked at fascinating, complex animal behaviors like

spiders spinning a web, birds migrating, beavers building a dam, and used the term instinct.

Something that an animal seems to do without being taught, something it just knows.

The term comes up a lot, from animal trainers, the animal is born with this instinct to nature

documentaries, the instinct to have the right type of food is very powerful.

To scientists.

And then you might call it an instinct.

The idea is that a lot of these behaviors are somehow genetically hard coded.

Each individual is born with built-in behavioral patterns.

And it's a pretty compelling idea, like how else would honeybees know how to honeybe?

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