lets you acclimate to your surroundings.

The fact that we do it over and over again lets you acclimate to your surroundings.

So, the more you can learn, the easier it is for you to learn new things, to acclimate to changing environments and adapt, the better you'll be.

But the idea is, we were there for a month and I wanted to acclimate the animals to us so that we could see behaviors without disturbing them.