In nature, many animals use sound as a communication tool. Many birds have sweet and changeable sounds. They are excellent singers. It is said that there are two or three thousand bird languages in the world, which are comparable to human languages. Some zoologists have studied various languages of birds and compiled a dictionary of bird languages. This dictionary is very useful. For example, the birds in the air are a great threat to the plane, because although they are small, they can pierce the plane like bullets and crash it. At present, some airports have set up bird broadcasting stations to broadcast the frightened calls of birds, so as to disperse them and make planes take off and land safely.
The sound language of animals is ever-changing and has different meanings. The long-tailed rat will make a series of sounds when it finds strong enemies on the ground, such as foxes and wolves. If the threat comes from the air, its voice will be monotonous and lengthy; Once the Snitch lands on the ground, it will give an alarm every eight seconds. Hens can call the police with seven different sounds. Her companions knew at will who the attackers were, where they came from and how far they were from here.
However, I think "The Harmonious Heartbeat of the Holy Kirin" is an untitled poem by Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty. It means that two hearts are connected and know each other. Linxi, rhinoceros horn. It is said that rhinoceros is a supernatural animal, and its horn has a white line that goes straight to both ends. This means that when an animal gives a signal, other animals also understand its meaning. . The alarm sounds of some animals are familiar not only to family members, but also to other animals. For example, when a hunter walks into the forest, the magpie will be condescending and chirp to give an alarm. Wild deer, wild boar and other birds and animals immediately understood the danger here, so they all fled everywhere.
At present, taxonomists are studying the sound signals of animals as indicators of animal classification; Ecologists are exploring how to reveal the mystery of animal behavior through sound signals. What's even more amazing is that animals are commanded to act according to human orders by using animal voice language, and the name of "Lei Chi", which flows from Huangmei in Hubei to Susong in Anhui, is not crossed. Because the ancients had "crossing the line in one step", later generations used "crossing the line" to indicate the insurmountable boundary.
Edit this paragraph
Supersonic speech
American owl
A pest, green or brown, is good at jumping and eating crops. The male's front wing has a sounder, and flapping his wings can make a sound. Animals such as crickets, locusts and mice communicate with each other through ultrasonic waves. There are three kinds of songs: "single men" sing mostly "marriage proposal songs", and other "single men" will sing in unison when they hear it. When the female owl heard the music, she went to the meeting and chose the one that sang loudly. As soon as they met, the two males sang "battle songs", posed face to face and frequently shook their tentacles, which was very explosive. When there is danger around him, he plays "alarm song" loudly, and the listener runs away "silently"
dolphin
The ultrasonic language of dolphins is quite complicated. They can exchange information, discuss and discuss big plans. 1962, someone recorded the scene when a group of dolphins met obstacles: first, a dolphin "stepped forward" and made a reconnaissance; Then, after listening to the reconnaissance report, other dolphins had a heated discussion. After half an hour, the opinion was unified-the obstacle was not dangerous, so don't worry, they swam over.
Now, people have understood the dolphin's distress signal: at first, the tone is very high, and then it gradually drops. When dolphins can't breathe when they are injured, they will scream and call their nearby partners to come to the rescue quickly. Inspired by this, some people think that in the future, people can directly give orders to dolphins in their language, let them carry instruments into the depths of the seabed for investigation and investigation, or complete some special tasks, thus becoming human's right-hand man.
Edit this paragraph
Touching language
Some animals use gestures as contact signals. On the beach of our country, there is a small crab. The male has only one big paw. When courting, he held high his paws and waved them frequently. Once he found the mother crab coming, he waved his big paws even harder until the mother crab returned to the cave with him.
There is a kind of deer that reports by its tail. When it is safe, its tail is still hanging; The tail is half cocked, indicating that it is on alert; If danger is found, the tail is completely vertical.
The movement language of bees can be regarded as the pinnacle. It can report the direction and distance of food (honey source) to its partners with unique dance movements. The number of dances completed in a certain period of time varies with the distance between honey sources. Therefore, someone put forward an attractive idea: sending artificial electronic bees into bees to direct their activities. In this way, we can not only harvest different honey according to people's needs, but also help plants pollinate and improve crop yield. It's killing two birds with one stone.
Edit this paragraph
Sexy language
Peacocks are famous for their gorgeous feathers. The reason why male peacocks often open their screens in late spring and early summer is that they have no sweet and pleasant voice, so they have to show off their magnificent beauty to the "object" with gorgeous feathers, especially charming tail feathers.
Now it is known that animals that are good at using color language are not only birds, but also reptiles, fish, amphibians and even dragonflies, butterflies and cuttlefish.
It is very interesting to observe the change of body color of spiny-backed fish with three long spines on its back. This kind of fish is blue-gray, and its appearance is not strange. On the eve of mating, the male divides his sphere of influence, and at the same time, the abdomen appears red to warn the male next to him to avoid it quickly. When it pursues the female fish, it immediately puts on a gorgeous wedding dress-the abdomen is red and the back is blue and white, which looks great. After mating, spawning and hatching, the male fish will return to the color before marriage-the red-bellied blue-gray fish body, guarding the young fish day and night.
Edit this paragraph
Qi, taste and speech
test
An entomologist once did an experiment: a newly emerged insect changed from larva to pupa and then to adult by molting. Put the mother silkworm moth into a bag sewn with gauze and put it on the table for the night. The next morning, more than 400,000 males of the same species broke into the house and surrounded the females. Female silkworm moths have neither voice language nor color and movement language. How does it get in touch with the male moth?
It turns out that many insects communicate by releasing a trace substance with a special smell (that is, odor language). This trace substance is called a messenger. At present, people have identified the chemical structures of 100 kinds of insect pheromones, and classified them according to their functions: there are sex attractants to attract individuals of the same opposite sex, warning hormones to inform individuals of the same kind to take defensive and offensive measures against their opponents, tracer hormones to help the same kind find food or point out the way when moving, and behavior regulators to maintain normal order among social insects.
It is found that insects are not the only animals that use odor language, and fish and some mammals also have this ability. Some males (such as many deer and antelopes) can use special odor substances to "enclosure" during the breeding season to warn their companions that you must avoid me.
The discovery, separation and artificial synthesis of various messengers not only reveal the secrets of animal behavior, but also open up attractive prospects for further control and transformation of organisms. It is reported that a "fake hormone" with strong fragrance has been successfully developed recently. Mosquitoes, moths and small beetles will turn off their appetite, stop eating and excreting, interrupt the development cycle and stop breeding. Once these research results are widely used, people's worries about using pesticides can be completely relieved. trait
comment
In addition, quite a few people call brain damage bird language, which means they don't understand or understand. For details, please refer to the brain-dead entry.
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a man named Gongye Chang, who was familiar with bird language and heard a fat sheep on Nanshan from the gentle whisper of swallows. Sure enough, I carried a fat sheep that fell to death.
Edit this paragraph
Literary interpretation of bird language
bird call
"The Biography of Cai Yong in the Later Han Dynasty": "In the past, Boming sounded like a bird, and Gelu argued like an ox." Song Mei Yao Chen's "Eighteen Rhymes Ouyang Yongshu": "There is nothing to do in a single county in Jin Jun, listening to birds." Guo Moruo's "Journey to the Soviet Union on June 27th": "The green grass on the lake is towering, and the birds are ringing."
Difficult words.
In ancient times, it mostly referred to four foreign languages. "Biography of the Later Han Dynasty, Nanman Southwest Yi": "It is necessary to slow down the relationship between ears and feet, and animals live in birds."
_________________________________
Edit this paragraph
related articles
Bird language (Huang Mingshan)
Go for a walk in the park with your lover in the evening.
This is a newly-built park, which runs through the city center. Long and narrow, semi-natural, built by water, quite characteristic of water town.
Suddenly I heard birds singing, crisp and tactfully. I am surprised that this is the truest bird song I have heard this year and in recent years. I can't help being moved so close.
"What kind of bird is it?"
"orioles, two orioles sing green willows." The lover blurted out, beaming, not at all like a person who recovered from a long illness. Obviously, it is the function of bird language.
Birds talk like songs, and a bird is a singer, a singer who knows everything. Birds sing all their lives, no matter what happens, even if they groan, they don't give up until their wings turn to dirt.
Birds sing to lead the way, and a memory sky opens in front of me.
The lark, commonly known as the son of heaven, is the most local complex, also known as Yunyan. The name alone is dazzling and full of vitality. Spirit is like a sparrow, shaped like a swallow, flying to the clouds and calling for the sky. In early summer, the wheat is heading, and the cows who rest from work shake their tails and leisurely eat oats pulled by farmers from the wheat fields or grass cut from the edges of ditches and ridges. At this time, larks shoot out of the grass like cymbals and soar in the sky. With the creaking of the sky, the earth is full of looking up. Maybe the lark knows that people are watching it, but she is afraid that she will be distracted by speed. First she let out a cry from a distance, and then she stood there motionless, as if attached to something, flapping only a pair of wings. The lark's call is full of the mellow smell of wheat stuffing.
The chirping sparrow, the language is as short as a dialect. Sparrows are very small, and they drill where there is food, and they flock together, and the noise is endless. The sparrow's voice is intertwined with the girl's singing, which has become the music world of the scarecrow and also a major landscape in "Yuanye".
Birds give us illusions and confuse us. The emotion and color of bird language let us exhaust its mystery all the time.
The simulation of birdsong is probably a winding path for artists to inspire their creation. Liu Tianhua is an expert at touching the sound of birds with his fingers. His erhu song "Empty Mountain Birds" is an attempt to birdsong. Two strings, flowing out of the source of harmony between mountains and birds, sound of nature. Attracted by birdsong, feel the scenery of timbre and emotional expression. The emptiness of an empty mountain is the infinity of all things. In the dream of birdsong, everything becomes pure, elegant and quiet.
I have been to the bird language forest by the East Lake in Wuhan. That can really be called the bird language sky. Those melodious bird songs are undoubtedly the most beautiful music in the world. Colorful bird songs make people successfully complete the transition from hearing to vision. You see, the crowns, feathers and wings of so many birds complement each other with their different calls and become masterpieces of nature. With songbirds as bright colors, a grand opera house has been formed. Red-crowned cranes, green peacocks, storks, golden eagles and black hawks, as well as macaws, black swans and flamingos from other countries, all gather under the huge bird activity net, but they don't give up their freedom to fly. I really appreciate the design purpose of Bird Language Forest: not only to seek the ecological environment of birds, but also to seek exquisite gardening art. When you enter Bird Language Forest, you will involuntarily have the intention and desire to communicate with birds.
Countless bird songs, like a quiet drizzle, constitute a set of enlightenment teaching materials adapted to local conditions. Partridges pray for rain, magpies report good news, cuckoos urge farming, geese leave their voices ... The coverage and packaging capacity of bird singing far exceed our imagination. There are four seasons in the world and six rivers in the world. Birds are singing and stars are flying.
Maybe ecology is a contradiction. It is some contradictory natural ups and downs that constitute the harmony of all living things. In this sense, it has become our duty to let birds sing and let them moisten or permeate our lives.
As we walked, the moon came out, and my wife said, "Now the birds seem to sing more."
Moonlight is like water, birds are singing.
Edit this paragraph
Songs; Byrd's Twitter
Wan Xiaoli
He is the only person in the world who can understand bird language.
He has a wish in his heart.
Can become a bird after death.
No matter what bird it is.
Sparrows, swallows and eagles.
Peacock, Phoenix and Crow.
He is happy every day.
Because he knows the language of birds.
Someone once walked through his window.
I heard him sing.
Sparrows, swallows and eagles.
Peacock, Phoenix and Crow.
In the dream, he flapped his wings.
Fly to a beautiful place
In the golden sunshine after the rain
Absorb the fragrance of the earth.
Sparrows, swallows and eagles.
Peacock, Phoenix and Crow.
One day, feathers were flying all over the sky.
The setting sun dyed the earth red.
Birds turn to another language.
No one can understand it so far.
Na na na ....