Whenever a variegated wolf feels hungry, it will sneeze to initiate a group hunting request.
Whether its request can pass depends on how many sneezes it can collect.
It has even evolved into a more advanced form - wolves at different levels have different rights to speak when they sneeze.
If the first wolf to sneeze is the leader of the pack, it will only need three more sneezes for the entire pack to assemble and start hunting.
But if the first wolf that sneezes is an ordinary wolf, then about nine other wolves must agree with it, that is, more than ten votes must be received before its hunting request can be approved.
【Too outrageous】
【Is this the earth?】
【Natural is so big and full of wonders.】
[I unilaterally declare that the motley wolf has become a spirit. This is a precursor to demonization!]
Animals can vote. For most viewers, this is definitely a blind spot in the blind spot of knowledge. The incredible facts are before their eyes, which directly sets off a storm in the brain.
It is really unimaginable that animals can show such high intelligence, and it is not even a simple matter of one ticket for each motley wolf.
Just one word - outrageous!
Bi Fang nodded: "The electoral behavior of animals is indeed quite rare in nature. As far as I know, there are no more than one number."
[Hiss, counting on one finger, does that mean there are other animals that can do it? 】
【Careless】
[It’s amazing, as expected, there are many animals that become sperms in foreign countries]
【I said it back then】
"To put it into detail, African buffaloes sneeze, unlike wolves, they use a 'voting method' to decide the direction of travel."
"Which feeding spot is closest and where the water grass grows lushly is crucial to the African buffalo population, whose total number can easily exceed a thousand, and is directly related to the rise and fall of their survival."
"So one hour before the group feeds, the female adult buffalo in the group will start voting."
"Each of them will stand up for a minute and stare at where they want to go, and then lie down in this direction. Finally, whichever direction has the most buffaloes, everyone will go to graze there."
[Then the question is, what if there are exactly the same number of buffaloes in both directions?]
[You know how to argue]
[If you are so good at arguing, why don’t you go to the construction site]
[Buffalo: Oops, my brain is going to grow]
【Cow brain overload】
"Hahaha, this kind of situation is not uncommon. It's actually simple. Just divide into two teams and look for food separately."
Regarding the tricky questions from the audience, Bi Fang was not surprised. He said bluntly, "African buffaloes can't count. They just roughly estimate the number. 55 and 45 will be regarded as 55. That's why there are often two parties with the same number of votes."
situation, at this time they will be directly divided into two teams."
[Smart, but not that smart (eating melon)]
【Eye-opener】
[Looks like a very smart person]
"Then there are red deer, which use the 'stand up to vote' method."
Bi Fang then gave another example of an animal.
"Red deer will lie down and ruminate after eating grass. Some red deer eat and digest quickly, so they will naturally get hungry quickly, while others will eat more slowly. Those who eat quickly will want to look for food elsewhere. But
As social animals, everyone must act in unison.”
"At this time, the red deer will stand up. Whoever is hungry will stand. When the number of standing red deer exceeds 60% of the group, everyone will start a new foraging operation together."
"If there are not enough deer, even if the leading red deer stands up, the operation will not be approved."
【Emeixing】
[It was so magical that it had a certain impact on my world view]
[I was surprised to hear this kind of thing, and it increased my knowledge, but compared to animals, I admire Lao Fang’s knowledge more]
[Isn’t this Fang Shen’s routine operation?]
[If one day Lao Fang suddenly announces on live broadcast that he has proved the unified field theory, I may be a little surprised]
[Compared with buffalo and red deer, I feel that voting for variegated wolves is more complicated. It actually has weighted votes. It’s really smart.]
[I kind of understand what Bi Fang said about the social behavior of variegated wolves being complicated. How complicated is it?]
Bi Fang couldn't help but nodded.
"If you're new to wolves, you might think they're not that 'social'."
"Compared with dogs or gray wolves we are familiar with, body language, especially facial expressions, of variegated wolves is much less. They are not as noisy as dogs, and their vocal signals are not rich."
"But judging from the study on sneeze voting, it's not that variegated wolves are poor at expressing themselves, it's just that we haven't completely cracked their communication method yet."
Bi Fang took Harley lying down in the grass and introduced the "three brothers" on this prairie to the audience in a unique low tone, ensuring that the sound would not be too loud to disturb the eating animals, nor would it disturb the eating animals.
The audience couldn't hear clearly what was said.
The eldest brother, the lion, the second brother, the hyena, and the third brother, the wolf, all ate together in less than an acre of land.
"Many people know that the second oldest brother in Africa is the spotted hyena, but few people know that the variegated wolf is also the third eldest brother on the African savanna. In fact, because their heads look similar, many animals edit videos and introduce the variegated wolf as a hyena."
"As the third brother, with the current number of variegated wolves, their combat power actually surpasses that of leopards. However, perhaps because they do not want to think about conflict, even an ostrich and a leopard cannot be eaten, so no conflict broke out between the two sides, and the variegated wolves also
I don’t want to lose anything on my side.”
"It's rare to see the 'three brothers' gathering together like now."
"There is a saying that in the earliest version of the "Lion King" animation, the villain placed by Disney's animators next to "Scar" was not a spotted hyena, but a variegated wolf."
"The reason for changing the actors is obvious. Compared with the silent wolf, the spotted hyena that sounds like a sinister grin is obviously more interesting."
"The Lion King is an African enlightenment work for me. Although the story template is the same as that of Hamlet, its placement on lions is the result of decades of animal behavior research based on numerous biological observations and descriptions.
'Infanticide' by lions."
"It's not an exaggeration to say it's an ecological documentary."
"In a sense, the variegated wolf escaped a stigmatized 'misfortune', but missed an opportunity to become famous."
Bi Fang's tone suddenly became rather regretful.
"It has only been in the past twenty years or so that people have taken the variegated wolf seriously. Because we suddenly discovered that the variegated wolf that used to be everywhere is now endangered."
"There are currently only about 6,000 variegated wolves left in the world, and even fewer of them are capable of breeding."
"From Algeria to South Africa, these variegated wolves are trapped in nearly a hundred fragmented habitats."
"In order to solve real survival problems, many scholars have initiated actions to change the names of variegated wolves, striving to make their original names more widely known, instead of being nicknamed wild dogs."
【Name changed?】
【No, what's the use of this?】
"Of course it's useful. 'African wild dog' is not just what we call it in China, it's called that in many places. In foreign countries, it's called African Wild Dog. This name will make many people think that they are just African pastoral dogs."
"But they are wild animals, not dogs, and the importance of the two is completely different."
"Do you still remember the Sir Alex who climbed Mount Everest with me before?"
"A few years ago, there was a documentary called "Dynasty". There were five episodes in total. There were five protagonists in it, one for each episode. Among them was the motley wolf. It was also the first time that it was the protagonist, whether it was in a fictional work or in a TV series.
This is true in ecological documentaries.”
"Both the starring Sir Alex Ferguson and the helmsman of the "Dynasty" series, Mike Gunton, insisted on using the Painted Wolf instead of the African Wild Dog in the film, allowing the public to truly understand the name and meaning of this creature, as well as their unique characteristics.
Survival skills and habits.”
"When we know about it, recognize it, and understand it, the future of Africa's top predator may be a little brighter."
I’m really here to maintain peace. I would like to recommend this new book by the same author.