Chapter 879 Dynasty
Whenever a wolf feels hungry, it will initiate a group hunting request by sneezing.
Whether its request will be approved depends on how many sneezes it can collect.
It has even evolved into a more advanced form - wolves of different levels have different say when they sneeze.
If the first wolf to sneeze is the leader of the pack, it only needs three more sneezes or so before the entire pack assembles and begins hunting.
But if the first motley wolf that sneezed was an ordinary motley wolf, then there must be about nine other motley wolves to agree with it, which means there must be more than ten votes before its hunting request can be approved.
[Too outrageous]
Is this the Earth?
【Nature is so vast that nothing is impossible. 】
[I unilaterally declare that the motley wolf has become a spirit. This is a sign of its transformation into a demon! ]
Animals can all vote. For most viewers, this is definitely a blind spot within a blind spot in knowledge. The incredible facts right before their eyes directly set off a storm in their brains.
It is really hard to imagine that animals can show such high intelligence. It is not even a simple ticket for each wolf.
Just one word – outrageous!
Bifang nodded: "Animal voting behavior is indeed quite rare in nature. As far as I know, there are no more than a handful of such cases."
[Hiss, counting on one hand, does that mean there are other animals that can do it? ]
【Details】
[This is incredible! As expected, there are many animals that have become spirits abroad.]
[I said it at the beginning]
"To be more specific, the African buffalo will, unlike the sneezes of the spotted wolf, use 'directional voting' to decide the direction to move forward."
"Which foraging spot is closest and where the grass and water grow luxuriantly? This kind of thing is extremely important to the African buffalo herd, whose total number can easily exceed thousands. It is directly related to the rise and fall and survival of the herd."
"So one hour before the collective foraging, the adult female buffaloes in the group will start voting."
"Each of them will stand up for a minute, staring at where they want to go, and then lie down in that direction. Finally, everyone will go to graze in the direction where there are the most buffaloes."
[Then the question is, what if there are exactly the same number of buffaloes heading in both directions? ]
[You are good at arguing]
[If you are so good at arguing, why don’t you go to the construction site?]
[Buffalo: Oops, my brain is about to grow out]
[Cow Brain Overload]
"Hahaha, this situation is not uncommon. It's actually very simple. We just need to split into two teams and forage for food separately."
Bifang was not surprised by the tricky questions from the audience, and said frankly, "African buffaloes can't count, they just roughly estimate the number, 55, 45 will be counted as 55, so there will often be a situation where the two sides have the same 'vote number', then they will directly split into two teams."
[Smart, but not that smart (eating melon)]
【Eye-opening】
[Looks like a smart guy]
"Then there are the red deer, who use the standing vote method."
Bifang then gave another example of an animal.
"After eating grass, elk will lie down and chew the cud. Some elk eat quickly and digest quickly, so they get hungry quickly. Others eat slowly, so they want to go somewhere else to find food. But as social animals, they have to act in unison."
"At this time, the elk will stand up. Whoever is hungry will stand up. When the number of standing elk exceeds 60% of the population, they will start a new round of foraging together."
“If there aren’t enough deer, even if the leading elk stands up, the operation won’t be approved.”
【America Travel】
[It’s so magical that it has a certain impact on my worldview]
[I was surprised to hear about this kind of thing. It broadened my horizons. However, compared to animals, I admire Lao Fang’s knowledge more.]
[Isn't this Fang Shen's normal operation?]
[If one day Lao Fang suddenly announced on live broadcast that he had proved the unified field theory, I might be a little surprised]
[Compared to the buffalo and the red deer, the voting of the wolf seems to be more complicated. It actually has heavy votes. It is really smart.]
[I understand what Bifang said about the social behavior of the motley wolf being very complex. How complex is it?]
Bifang couldn't help but nodded.
"If you're new to motley wolves, you might think they're not that social."
"Compared to the dogs or gray wolves we are familiar with, motley wolves have much less body language, especially facial expressions, and they are not as noisy as dog packs, and their vocal signals are not as rich."
"But judging from the sneeze voting study, wolves are not bad at expressing themselves. It's just that we haven't completely cracked their communication method..."
Bifang and Harley lay in the grass, introducing the "three brothers" of the prairie to the audience in a unique low voice, making sure that the voice was not too loud to disturb the animals eating, and that the audience could not hear clearly what was being said.
The big brother lion, the second brother hyena, and the third brother wolf, all eat together in an area of less than an acre.
"Many people know that the spotted hyena is the second oldest dog in Africa, but few people know that the spotted wolf is also the third oldest dog on the African savannah. In fact, because their heads look a bit similar, many animal editing videos will introduce the spotted wolf as a hyena."
"As the third brother, with the current number of wolves, their combat power is actually greater than that of leopards. However, perhaps they don't want to have a conflict. Leopards can't eat an there is no conflict between the two sides. The wolves don't want to suffer losses either."
"It's not often that we see the three brothers gathered together like this."
"There is a saying that in the earliest version of The Lion King animation, the villain that Disney's artists placed next to Scar was not a spotted hyena, but a motley wolf."
"The reason for the actor change is obvious. Compared with the silent motley wolf, the spotted hyena that sounds like a sly smile is obviously more dramatic."
"The Lion King is my first introduction to Africa. Although the story template is the same as Hamlet, the lion is the result of decades of animal behavior research, based on many biological observations and descriptions of lion's 'infanticide' behavior."
“It’s no exaggeration to say it’s an ecological documentary.”
"In a sense, the motley wolf escaped a stigma, but missed an opportunity to become famous."
Bifang's tone suddenly became quite regretful.
"It's only in the last twenty years or so that the motley wolf has been taken seriously by everyone. We suddenly discovered that the motley wolf, which was once everywhere, is now endangered."
"There are only about 6,000 roe wolves left in the world, and even fewer are capable of breeding."
"From Algeria to South Africa, these motley wolves are trapped in nearly a hundred fragmented habitats."
"In order to solve the real survival problem, many scholars have launched a campaign to rename the wolves, striving to make their original names more widely rather than the nickname of wild dogs."
【Change name?】
[No, what's the use of this? ]
"Of course it is useful. 'African wild dog' is not just a name used in China. Many places call it that. In foreign countries, it is called African Wild Dog. This name makes many people think that they are just African pastoral dogs."
"But they are wild animals, not dogs, and the level of respect for the two is completely different."
"Do you remember Sir Alex who climbed Mount Everest with me before?"
"A few years ago, there was a documentary called Dynasty. It had five episodes in total, with five protagonists, one in each episode. One of them was the motley wolf. That was the first time it was the protagonist, whether in a fictional work or an ecological documentary."
"Both the lead actor Sir Alex and Mike Gunton, the director of the Dynasty series, insisted on using Painted Wolf instead of African Wild Dog in the film, allowing the public to truly understand the name and meaning of this creature, as well as its unique survival skills and habits."
"When we know it, recognize it, and understand it, the future of Africa's top predator may be a little brighter."
