Having a body which changes over time that interacts with a world that changes over time makes animal learning not statistical (call it, say, experimental). That animals fall into skinner-box irrational behaviour can be modelled as a kind of statistical learning, but it actually isnt.
It's a failure of ecological salience mechanisms in regulating the "experimental learning" that animals engage in. Eg., with the cargo cults the reason they adopted that view was because their society had a "big man" value system based on material acquisition and western waring powers seemed Very Big and so were humiliating. In order to retain their status they adopted (apparently irrational) theories of how the world worked (gods, etc).
From the outside this process might seem statistical, but it's the opposite. Their value system made material wealth have a different causal salience which was useful in their original ecology (a small island with small resources), but it went haywire when faced with the whole world.
Eventually these mechanisms update with this new information, or the tribe dies off -- but what's going wrong here is that the very very non-statistical learning ends up describable that way.
This is indeed, why we should be very concerned about people skinner-boxing themsleves with LLMs
