Does a particular place (country) affect people, animals and insects, who live there?

Question

I noticed, that not only people, but even animals and insects behave differently in different countries. How do you think, what affect our minds? Can it be a particular place, country?

What do you think about that?

Answer 1

Animals and plants don't care about borders except for natural borders.  The science of biogeography examines what lives where, and why.  In the case of nearly all species, species have evolved adaptations that will serve them in the particular geographic region in which they live, from where they will find shelter to what they will eat, to how they will behave.

Humans haven't been affect much by this biologically, since we are generalists who will find ways to live almost anywhere - but we certainly have been affected, culturally.  Natural borders kept peoples apart from one another historically, preventing their mixing, and allowing the cultivation of distinct languages, traditions, and other elements of culture.