Thus lessons learned at the family level need to get to the community level. The animals and plants are better adapted and they will teach you what you need to survive. Follow the flight of a bee to hidden water source. Animals recognize dangerous shifts in weather, perhaps they predict short term climatic changes also. Animals sense impending earth quakes, and perhaps other rapid soil movement like landslides.
Animals can teach.
In similar vein, plants can teach. They know where water will be during critical time scale. Or more passively, if they decided to live in the bottom of a wash that runs violently once a year they just are no longer there. Plants do know where moisture is, respond to differences in soil types - including dangerous types of uranium laden soils and water. And plants have adapted to changes and abiotic resources in the environment.