Tourists' fall fighting is seen by animals, and animals fight together at night, imitation or ridicule?

On August 7, Beijing Axing District Wildlife Park was surrounded by two groups of people, many people were curious about what happened there, close look, the original two groups of tourists fighting together, and even fell to the ground, but also attracted a lot of tourists and zoo animals around, in fact, just because of trivial matters caused by the dispute, and eventually, the two sides completed the reconciliation under the mediation of the public security organs.

Theoretically, this is just a usual dispute, but the Beijing Zoo issued a notice saying that because the animals are first-time to see tourists fighting, the animals followed suit that night, the scene even once out of control, and finally, the zoo keeper's patient persuasion, the animals realize their mistakes, fighting is not good, especially not good.

Of course, this official statement of Beijing Safari Park, both to introduce what happened, but also in a tongue-in-cheek tone that the behavior is inappropriate. Indeed, the animals were made to laugh in front of a large audience.

In life, it is not uncommon for animals to imitate humans, especially primates such as monkeys and orangutans imitating human behavior, but it is the first time that animals imitate human quarrels and still learn it after watching it only once.

The animal's ability to imitate how strong, there was a gorilla named "Coco", performance is unexpected, and once caused widespread concern around the world.

In 1971, the gorilla Coco was born in the San Francisco Zoo, due to his mother's serious illness, Coco had to be separated from his mother at an early age, but he was lucky to meet Patterson, a graduate student at the time, and thus began Patterson's life with Coco for four decades.

Coco is very intelligent and has a great ability to mimic. It is known that Coco has learned more than 1,000 human gestures and can communicate with humans through these gestures, and can understand up to 2,000 English words. Patterson believes that Coco has been able to express joy, anger, and sadness, including complex emotions through gestures.

However, primate researcher Herbert Tracy believes that Coco these so-called gestures, can not express anything, just apes are imitating human behavior and is not the real meaning of emotional expression and communication, and even that Patterson is just a surrogate mother and will be proud of any behavior of Coco just.

Whether, Coco will use human gestures to express emotions or not, at least one thing is certain, the learning ability of primates is truly extraordinary.

The first of these is the first of its kind.

The imitation ability of primates is indeed very strong, but there is one thing they will never imitate, and that is speaking, why parrots can imitate human speech, more intelligently and the imitation ability of apes can not do it?

Spoken language is one of the important differences that distinguish humans from other species. Spoken language carries human intelligence and complex higher learning abilities.

The idiom "parrots learn to speak" makes us subconsciously believe that all parrots can learn to speak like humans, but it is not true.

Generally speaking, talking birds have a specific area of the brain dedicated to controlling sound learning, also known as the core, and parrots have a more advanced core, with a "shell" outside the core, surrounding the brain area at the center of these sounds. Parrots learn to speak only by copying human language; they do not create it.

Why don't primates have the ability to speak?

For a long time, zoologists believed that the reason primates do not speak is that they are physically defective and do not have a full vocal tract; in other words, if their physiology were further upgraded, they would likely speak.

However, Darwin did not agree with the above view and argued in his book "Origin of Species" that the ape brain did not undergo the necessary evolution to acquire the ability to speak.

Indeed, with the use of high-tech equipment, scientists have reconstructed the vocal tracts of humans and macaques through 3RD technology via X-ray technology, and after comparing them, found that the throat area of macaques, can produce language, which is why the sound of monkeys screaming and barking can be heard, without language coming out.

Write at the end

Humans claim to be advanced civilized animals, however, the act of fighting on the ground in the zoo, really letting the animals see and laugh, and not knowing the behavior of the animals fighting at night, is to imitate the behavior of humans, or deliberately ridicule humans.