Chapter 879: Dynasty
Whenever a variegated wolf is hungry, it will sneeze and initiate a group hunting request.
Whether or not its request goes through depends on how many sneezes it can collect.
It has even evolved into a more advanced form - different levels of motley wolves have different rights to speak when they sneeze.
If the first motley wolf to sneeze is the leader of the pack, it only needs to get three more or so sneezes, and the whole pack will gather and start hunting.
However, if the first motley wolf to sneeze is a normal motley wolf, then it must be echoed by about nine other motley wolves, that is, more than ten tickets for its hunting request to be approved.
[It's outrageous]
Is this the Earth? 】
[Nature is so big that there are no wonders. 】
[I unilaterally declare that the motley wolf has become a sperm, which is a precursor to demonization! ] 】
Animals will elect, for most of the audience, this is definitely a blind spot in the blind spot of knowledge, and the incredible facts are in front of them, directly setting off a storm in the brain.
It's hard to imagine that animals can have such a high IQ, and it's not even a simple ticket for each motley wolf.
Just one word - outrageous!
Bi Fang nodded: "The election behavior of animals is indeed quite rare in nature, as far as I know, there are no more than one hand. ”
[Hey, a one-hand index, meaning that there are other animals too?] 】
【Whisper】
[It's amazing, sure enough, there are many animals that have become sperm abroad]
[I said it at the beginning]
"If you go into detail, the African buffalo will, unlike the sneezing of the variegated wolf, they will be 'towards the vote' to determine the way forward."
"Which feeding spot is the closest, and the aquatic grass grows luxuriantly, this kind of thing is crucial for the African buffalo population, which has a total population of more than 1,000 at every turn, and it is directly related to the rise and fall of survival."
"So an hour before the group forages, the female adult buffalo in the herd will start voting."
"Each of them would stand up for a minute, staring at where they wanted to go, then they would lie down in that direction, and finally, in whichever direction there were the most buffaloes, they would graze."
[So the question is, what if there are exactly the same number of buffalo in both directions?] 】
[You can lift the bar]
[So good at raising the bar, why don't you go to the construction site]
[Buffalo: Oops, the brain is about to grow]
【Bovine brain overload】
"Hahaha, this situation is not uncommon, in fact, it is simple, just divide into two teams and forage separately."
Bi Fang was not surprised by the audience's tricky questions, and said bluntly, "African buffaloes don't count, but just roughly estimate the number, 55 and 45 will be regarded as 55, so there are often two parties 'the same number of votes', and then they will be directly divided into two teams." ”
[Smart, but not so smart (eating melons)]
【Eye-opening】
[It looks like a big smart]
"Then there's the red deer, which uses the 'standing vote' method."
Bi Fang then gave another example of an animal.
"Red deer will lie down and ruminate after eating grass, while some red deer eat fast and digest fast, so they will naturally get hungry faster, while some will be slower, and those who eat fast will want to go to other places to forage for food, but as social animals, everyone must act in unison."
"At this time, the red deer will stand up, and whoever is hungry will stand, and when the number of red deer standing exceeds 60% of the population, everyone will start a new foraging operation together."
"If there are not enough deer, even if the leading red deer stands up, this operation will not be approved."
【Emi Line】
[It's so amazing that it has had a certain impact on my worldview]
[I was surprised to hear this kind of thing, and I increased my knowledge, but compared to animals, Lao Fang's knowledge makes me admire it more]
[Isn't this Fang Shen's regular operation]
[If one day Lao Fang suddenly announced that he had proved the unified field theory, I might be surprised]
[Compared with buffalo and red deer, it feels like the voting of the variegated wolf is more complicated, and there is actually a weight of votes, which is really smart]
[I understand that Bi Fang's social behavior of the motley wolf is very complicated, how complicated is it]
Bi Fang couldn't help nodding.
"If you're just new to motley wolf packs, you might think they're not that 'social.'"
"Compared to the dogs or gray wolves that we are familiar with, the motley wolves have much less body language, especially facial expressions, and they are not as noisy as the dogs, and the sound signals are not abundant."
"From the study of sneezing votes, it is not that the motley wolves are not bad at expressing themselves, but we haven't completely cracked their communication methods yet......"
Bi Fang took Harley to lie in the grass and introduced the "Three Brothers" of the savannah to the audience in a unique low tone, making sure that the sound was not too loud to disturb the feeding animals or make the audience unable to hear what was being said.
The eldest brother lion, the second brother hyena, and the third brother variegated wolf eat together in the area of less than an acre of land.
"Many people know that the second African brother is a spotted hyena, but few people know that the variegated wolf is also the third brother on the African savannah, and even because the head looks a little similar, many animals edit videos and will introduce the variegated wolf as a hyena."
"As the third brother, with the current number of variegated wolves, the combat power is actually to surpass the leopard, but perhaps because I don't think of the conflict, an ostrich and leopard can't eat it all, so the conflict between the two sides has not broken out, and the variegated wolf doesn't want to lose on his side."
"It's rare to see a scene like the 'three brothers' gathering right now."
"There is a saying that in the earliest version of the Lion King animation, the villain that Disney artists planted next to Scar was not a spotted hyena, but a motley wolf."
"The reason for the change of actors is obvious, and the spotted hyena that barks like a wicked grin is obviously more 'dramatic' than the silent motley wolf."
"'The Lion King' is an African enlightenment for me, although the story template is the same as 'Hamlet', but on the lion is the result of decades of animal behavior research, based on many biological observations and descriptions of lions' 'infanticide'."
"It's not an exaggeration to say it's an ecological documentary."
"In a sense, the motley wolf escaped a stigmatized 'scourge', but missed a chance to become famous."
Bi Fang's tone suddenly became quite regretful.
"When the motley wolf is taken seriously by everyone, it is only a matter of the last twenty years. Because we suddenly discovered that the motley wolf, which used to be everywhere, is now endangered. ”
"At present, there are only about 6,000 variegated wolves left in the world, and even fewer have the ability to reproduce."
"From Algeria to South Africa, these variegated wolves are trapped in nearly a hundred fragmented habitats."
"In order to solve the real problem of survival, many scholars have launched an action to rename the motley wolf, striving to make their original name more widely disseminated, rather than the nickname of the wild dog."
[Name change?] 】
[No, what's the use of that?] 】
"Of course it works, 'African wild dog' is not only our Chinese name, many places are called like this, foreign is afri wild dog, this name will make many people think that they are just African pastoral dogs."
"But they're wild animals, not dogs, and the level of importance is completely different."
"Do you remember the lord who climbed Mount Everest with me before?"
"A few years ago, there was a documentary called "Dynasty", a total of five episodes, there are five protagonists in it, one episode, among which there is a variegated wolf, which is also the first time it has been the protagonist, whether it is in fiction or in ecological documentaries."
"Whether it's the starring lord, or Mike, the helmsman of the "Dynasty" series? Gunton insisted on using Painted Wolf instead of Afri Wild Dog in the film, so that the public could truly understand the name and meaning of this creature, as well as their unique survival skills and habits. ”
"When we know it, when we recognize it, when we understand it, the future of Africa's top predator may be a little brighter."