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No matter artists or students who study animal behavior, they seldom combine animal posture and behavior with animal inner activities for research. Therefore, we have a broad research space in this field. ?

In the morning, when you carefully step into the big cat area of the zoo, you will see a peaceful scene. The "king of beasts" Bengal tiger is sleeping, lying on the ground with its limbs upside down, completely relaxing its lazy posture. After a while, the "King of Animals" slept "naturally", yawned and stretched, staring at the front lazily like an owl. In the morning, it has no spirit of "the king of beasts". A leopard paced back and forth in the cage. A lioness is cleaning up her fur. In the morning, cats are in their "toilet time", and a smell like a cowshed or a sheepfold permeates the whole cat area. ?

However, before long, the behavior of these cats changed. One by one, they stood up and walked back and forth in the cage. Occasionally there was a low roar from the tiger cage, and the striped fur beast "took off" its sheepskin to reveal its true colors, and once again became a "killer" in the Indian jungle. Lions, whether male or female, keep making dull and frightening roars, as if they were collectively hunting prey that came to the pond to drink water on the African grassland. Now, leopards, cougars and leopards all slow down. If you observe them carefully enough, you will find that they are hungry. ?

When you visit the zoo, when you observe animals, you may ask: What are they thinking? To answer this question, you need to do some preliminary work, such as observing the feeding of animals, fighting and defending against the enemy, and understanding the different "body language" of different animals, and so on. And these works will show us a colorful animal world from another angle. ? Observe how animals eat.

At noon, the constant agitation infected every member of the big cat area, and the roar came and went. The hungry cat seems to know that in a few minutes, the door at the end of the corridor will open and the breeder and the trolley full of fresh meat will appear. It is time for them to eat. ?

These carnivores are so familiar with the taste of bloody fresh meat. The smell constantly irritates their nostrils and the whole cage is stirred up. Bengal tigers don't seem to be awake, and they are tamed as easily as before. At this time, it jumps back and forth in the narrow cage, its golden eyes seem to be breathing fire, and its powerful front paws and eagle claws eagerly press the fresh meat that the breeder will put on the platform in front of the cage together with the feeding steel fork. Then, it grabbed a large piece of fresh meat from the steel fork, picked it up with long canine teeth like pliers, and growled and thanked the breeder. In the whole process, its expression (non-anatomical) symbolizing determination and strength made us deeply afraid as human beings. ?

After getting the food, the monster quickly retreated to the farthest corner of the cage, bent his knees to protect the food under him, growled, and eagerly tore off pieces of meat and swallowed it into his stomach. In the blink of an eye, a large piece of meat was left with an irregular bone like a shoulder blade. That's not all, and then it licked the remaining bones with its barbed tongue like a file. After eating, sleepiness attacked the big cat's strong and soft body again ...?

After the tiger finished eating, the breeder poured the water into a shallow basin specially prepared for it. Unlike when feeding, the tiger just licked and drank, without growling or being so angry when feeding. For the tiger, the day's work has been finished except practicing and sleeping, and the rest is waiting for another big meal after 24 hours. ?

The above is a clip showing the nature of cats. When watching this scene, did you notice how the tiger bent down to catch its prey? Can you understand what kind of emotion it expresses? How should this emotion be explained anatomically? Unfortunately, animal expressions are usually fleeting, and it is difficult for animals to observe them. In order to observe the tiger's expression, zoologists usually take some specific stimuli and then repeatedly analyze the tiger's nerve and muscle reactions. ?

Obviously, the strong desire for food has caused some strange changes in tigers' minds, changed their previous indifference to the outside world, and made them suddenly become as terrible as the devil: round ears droop backwards, close to their heads, their eyes are wide open, flashing green light, their scary mouths are wide open, their lips are retracted, their beards are forward, their canine teeth are exposed, and their tongues are rolled up ...?

Under the same conditions, horses have different responses to food stimuli. Horse is a fast-running herbivore, which is different from carnivores in evolution and behavior. Horses usually don't show emotions related to determination and strength, and they don't behave violently because of eating, causing unnecessary sacrifices. ? Observe how animals fight.

Although horses usually don't cause unnecessary sacrifices to individuals because of eating, in some specific situations, horses will also show anger and even take violent actions. For example, the first horse in the breeding herd will fight with other stallions. They use their hind legs as support, jump with their front legs, attack each other with their front feet, or bite each other with powerful teeth. The mare's anger is manifested by turning around and kicking the real or imaginary enemy with her hind legs. Under this almost barbaric attack, the weak side will be defeated and even injured and disabled. In fact, in this case, no matter how fierce the horse is, it is as terrible as the tiger, especially in captivity, which is not so scary. ?

Generally speaking, it is quite difficult to understand the internal activities behind animal behavior, but the thinking of animals is relatively simple, and animal behavior is more or less continuous, which saves us a lot of trouble. Different animals have different reactions to the same emotion. ?

When a bear is angry because of fear, it will stand upright, showing its teeth and its front paws ready to attack. Unlike the bear, in this case, the cow does not stand, but lowers its head, lets its sharp corner move forward, and then rushes forward at full speed. Other horned animals attack in a similar way to cattle, but for adult bucks, they can only attack with their feet in the season of changing horns, which is what bucks call the "seasonal disability" period. As for horses, as mentioned above, male horses are more fierce when they are angry, jumping up, attacking with their front feet, or biting their opponents with their teeth; The mare will turn around and kick her opponent with her hind legs. ? Observe the "body language" of animals?

To know what animals are thinking, you need to carefully observe the "body language" of animals, because this is the fear, anger, anxiety, attraction or rejection of the opposite sex that animals show to the outside world. ?

Tigers are carnivores, with soft body, flexible movements, bright colors and cruel nature. This is a real killing machine. Compared with tigers, herbivorous horses run fast and are not aggressive. Because different animals have different fighting tools and attack methods, tigers and horses will react differently under specific external stimuli. Similarly, we can infer that cows, dogs or deer have different reactions to the same stimulus. If animals find that they have advantages (such as horns on the heads of cattle, deer and goats), they will take advantage of this advantage and adopt corresponding offensive and defensive strategies. Taking the bull as an example, we can imagine how an adult bull will immediately lower his head when he is afraid or angry, show a provocative posture, and how he will attack his opponent at full speed when he reaches the excitement point. Take the buck as an example. Their horns are almost perfect self-defense tools-they need to be replaced regularly. Without horns, they can only fight with hard hooves. Similarly, animals are well aware of their weaknesses. It was once witnessed that an elephant lifted its relatively fragile nose high to avoid an angry tiger's attack, and it also tried to step on the tiger with its thick front foot. ?

If we don't observe the posture of elephants, camels, bears, cats, horses and dogs when they walk, stand and sit down,

It is difficult to distinguish their respective characteristics. For example, among all mammals, only the elephant has a real kneeling posture when lying down. Elephant joints can be called real knee joints. The joints are bent and the hind legs are extended backward, so that the hips touch the ground. When a camel lies down, its knees can touch the ground, but its long hind legs bend backwards, which is a strange and confusing posture. When the bear sits down, his lower abdomen touches the ground, his hind legs are bent, his knees are up, and his feet are on the ground like human feet. When cats, dogs and animals like them sit and rest, their knees are tilted and their paws are on the ground. When horses, cows, sheep, antelopes, deer and goats lie down, the back half twists, one leg is pressed down, and the cat and dog stretch out one leg. For an elephant, in the process of its huge body from lying down to standing up, every point of the body strictly follows its own anatomical structure characteristics, and the muscles and bones move in a specific direction, so that the whole body moves in harmony. Psychologically speaking, the elephant is a very interesting animal. It is huge, intelligent and easy to domesticate. Its huge and clumsy body can make a series of actions with people's instructions. Elephant's gait is very special: it moves fast but walks slowly, and its stride is very small. When stepping, the front and rear soles are always under the body. Of course, the most incredible thing is the elephant's nose. The elephant's nose is soft and unique, which is different from any existing animal. This is the main feature that distinguishes it from other animals. The nose is not only the respiratory, olfactory and tactile organs of elephants, but also can be used for feeding, drinking, carrying things and attacking, and even for information transmission and emotional communication between individuals. The elephant's nose is very powerful. As the largest mammal on the earth, the elephant is so huge but so flexible, which is due to its extraordinary intelligence, which enables it to control its huge body freely. Huge bodies and strong limbs move with extraordinary skills-all of which require amazing balance, strength and brain. In order to deeply understand the inner world of animals, we should persistently explore and discover the knowledge behind various interesting phenomena, which are often fascinating and fascinating.