Animals imitate human fights!Has your dog imitated you?

Review expert: Li Weiyang

Well -known science writer

I do n’t know if everyone has found their magical imitation skills when raising pets. Looking at the small pets synchronized with themselves, it is simply cute!

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The imitation behavior of animals shouted that the cats and dogs who raised cats and dogs shouted, but this behavior seemed to have caused embarrassing incidents. Previously, the Beijing Wildlife Park caused a hot search due to the dramatic scene.

According to Weibo heat search, two tourists at that time had disputes over trivial matters and beat each other, attracting a large number of tourists and nearby animals. Later, according to the Beijing Wildlife Park Weibo statement stated, "This is the first time that the animals have witnessed the scene of human fighting, so that some animals that night were fighting with each other, and the scene was out of control. Finally, under the patient teaching of the breeder, I realized that fighting was known. Not good, especially not good. "

Source 丨 Beijing Wildlife Park public account

Some netizens teased that "humans made animals laugh."

Beijing Wildlife Park Fighting List

Source | Guangming Daily

Animal fighting is really because of imitating humans?

How big is this statement in Beijing Zoo? Will animals really imitate human fighting? Perhaps as CCTV News commented on Weibo, the statement of the Beijing Zoo "Yizhuang and Harmony" not only expressed the condemnation of fighting, but also reflected the expectations of civilized order. Later, some netizens found a place where two tourists were fighting and found that there were ostrich halls, museums, and gorillas and other rare animals next to them.

In response to this incident, the Hangzhou Zoo Deputy Park Yangtze River mentioned in an interview that fighting between gorillas and other animals is normal. Food and spouses will cause animal fighting, but it may not imitate human beings Behavior.

However, the behavior of animals to imitate human beings does exist, especially as the "mother -in -law" chimpanzee, which is extremely similar to humans, has strong imitation ability. In particular, if the zoom animal battle chimpanzee is also played, the dissuasion of the breeder alone is likely to be difficult to close, because chimpanzee fights often cause the other side to suffer heavy injuries.

Gorilla fight

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In addition, the noise at the scene of tourists' quarrel may stimulate the emotions of animals, leading to their mental tension, which is more likely to cause each other's fighting. Animal imitation behavior can be divided into intentional imitation and unintentional imitation. Circus wildlife performances are to make conditional reflexes through rewards and punishment to induce animals to actively imitate. Some high IQs can even achieve unlocking, smoking and other actions, but these are learned after long -term learning and imitation, and they cannot learn through a "performance" of human beings.

How strong is animal imitation?

Although many people think that this statement in Beijing Wildlife Park has more persuasion factors, it is undeniable that some animals do have high imitation capabilities. Imitation refers to the ability of animals to learn new skills or improve their own skills by observing the behavior of other individuals. The frequency of learning ability in social animals is much higher than living animals, so it is also called social learning. Mimic behavior can make animals master a skill faster and more directly, which is more effective and the smallest of learning.

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Among all animals with imitation capabilities, the imitation ability of chimpanzees can be said to be "first -class". Chongqing Yongchuan Yonghe Ledu theme park "Yuhui" has been rated as "animal model workers". The reason is that this chimpanzee is excited every time the breeder was washed, so the breeder placed clothes next to the pool to put clothes on the pool. Observing the reaction of "Yu Hui", "Yu Hui" took the initiative to pick up his clothes and start scrubbing. The degree of proficiency made the editor ashamed. "Yu Hui" also imitated the breeder after washing his hands, but he couldn't wear a lot of netizens because his face was too big.

Chimp orangutan laundering

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But even if chimpanzees are strong in their learning ability, they cannot become exactly the same as humans.

In 1931, Dr. Kelloig, a foreign psychologist, performed a controversial experiment. He took the seven -month -old chimpanzee Guya home with his ten -month -old son Donald. Put in the same room to raise it in a mankind, to be taught by human skills, language, etc., and even the kisses owned by Donald, Guya will also have it.

Slowly, Guya showed a super -learning imitation ability. His expression was exactly the same as humans in the infant, and he would express his emotions and needs with behavior. But soon after, Guya's learning ability no longer improved or even stagnated, and what made it even more unimaginable is that Donald began to show the behavior and animal nature of chimpanzees. For example Essence

Guya and Donald

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In the end, this experiment stopped. The chimpanzee Guya was sent to the long -term center, because it grew up according to the human lifestyle, it can no longer be integrated into the chimpanzee group, and finally lived only three years old. In the end, he failed to change his animal nature as a chimpanzee. He still likes to crawl and learn human language. It can be seen that the imitation ability of chimpanzees is also limited, and this experiment has also triggered discussions on scientific ethics.

Pets also imitate the owner?

The answer is yes.As a cat's "shoveling officer", you have noticed that your cat has strong imitation behavior.On September 29, 2020, the China Science News made a post saying that the researchers discovered that a Japanese kitten imitated the behavior of the owner.Cat ebisu replicated the owner Fumi Higaki's behavior in the training of "I did it"

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In people's impression, cats have always been a representative of high -cold, and some even say that cats regard themselves as masters, but this report explains the opposite view that cats are observing imitating humans.

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In addition to cats, parrots, alpaca and other animals have imitated human behavior. Researchers have shown that under artificial breeding conditions, they often use the breeders as imitation objects.There are even dogs who deliberately imitate their leg injuries. If they encounter such a pet, I don't know if they are so angry or funny.

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