Knight of the Blue Lagoon (The Past of Tao v)

The classmate came back:"Leaving the city? Do you need to go out of the city?""

"Yes"

"Where outside the city?"

"Go back to my hometown"

"Where is your hometown?"The classmate continued to ask, is it not someone from over there? The classmate was a little confused.

"In Haotian Mountain."The young man replied

"In the mountains!"The pink girl sighed, as if sensing something, the scene of Bella and Edward in the mountains appeared in her mind

"Haotian Mountain? Very far away. After a while, the classmate asked again:"Is it far from the fairy bathing pool?"

The young man hummed and then replied:"It's not far from there.""

The classmates have heard the rumors about the fairy bath. Girls have a special feeling for the fairy bath. Internet celebrities and starlets especially like it. They think that bathing in it can bring good luck. The classmates and the boy looked at the pink girl. Pink The girl stood aside, as if she was thinking about it but she felt like she was distracted. A cleaning aunt suddenly appeared at the elevator exit. They turned around and the aunt looked at them. The classmate said to the pink girl:"Why don't we go to the fairy bath to play in the mountain? not hot."

The pink girl quickly stepped forward and opened the car door. The classmate got into the back seat first. The car slowly drove out of the parking space and turned a few corners. The pink girl stepped on the accelerator and rushed out.

After leaving the parking lot, the pink girl looked slightly confused. Asked affectionately:"When do you plan to come back?""

"I'm not sure, maybe I won't come back"

"not coming back?"

The pink girl looked regretful. She didn't understand. Countless young people want to stay in this enchanted city. This is a place that exudes magic and gathers young people from all directions. However, the young man in front of him came in but wanted to leave. Go. There are opportunities everywhere, scenery everywhere, and challenges everywhere. He is still very young, and even if he is temporarily unsatisfied, he still has a chance. It is a pity to leave like this. As soon as the pink girl got her driver's license, her mother gave her a Choosing a suitable car means that she is 18 years old and is about to enter the adult world and start a new journey in a different world. As long as she has a direction, she can fly. The shopping mall building gradually fades away in the rearview mirror. The city is no longer quiet at noon, but there is no vitality in the pedestrian street next to it. The scorching sun has arrived, and people have already hid in high-rise buildings. Cars merge into the out-of-city avenue, which is the main artery of the city and is always running. Compared with rushing The trees on both sides of the car were leisurely and contented, and the flowers and plants beneath them always maintained their true colors. They never escape the cold winter heat, and people seem to be used to escaping. Going outside the city to escape the heat is one way.

When people from the police station arrived , they had disappeared, the old man was sent to the hospital, and other old men and women excitedly told what happened.

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08. The paradox of domestication

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In the study of animal domestication, the purpose of humans domesticating animals is for food. In the early days, they trapped some live prey that they could not finish eating, and then ate it when they did not catch prey next time. If they caught it, humans would trap it. Throw some food into the prey, and if you continue to catch it, keep it in captivity. Occasionally, the prey reproduced during the captive breeding process, and humans raised the young ones before eating them. The offspring of the prey born in the enclosure had food and drink in the enclosure, and naturally considered the enclosure to be their home, and their desire to escape gradually weakened. , and then slowly became domesticated. Scholars usually call this method of domestication forced domestication. After all, it was passive captivity at first, and the purpose was always to prepare for future emergencies.

Animals all have one thing in common. When something comes a little closer to it, it moves farther away. If it gets closer to it again, it moves farther away. If it enters a certain range, they will run away. It is the nature of animals to keep a safe distance. The same is true for people in modern society, but with a different word we call it social distance. Wolves have very strong senses and can sense the presence of other animals dozens of meters away. Usually, the wolf has disappeared before the more ferocious animals find it. Therefore, it is more difficult for humans to capture wolves than pigs, sheep and cattle. many.

The ancestors of dogs are a type of wolf, and of course they also have a keen sense of race. So how were dogs domesticated?

A British scientific research team has found some answers. They believe that the domestication of dogs is not mandatory. The emergence of dogs is the self-domestication of some wolves who want to obtain food from ancient humans. According to their research, this type of wolf that can become a dog is weaker than other wolves in hunting food in nature, because humans discard food remains near their habitat, attracting other small animals to come for food, and this type of wolf Feeding on these small animals, they choose to live close to human habitats in order to survive. Because it has a keen sense of perception, it is not afraid of being captured by humans. Over time, it gradually settled near human habitats. Gradually, this type of wolf became familiar with humans, gradually relaxed its vigilance, and the safe distance began to shorten. When small animals are eaten by them, they eat the remains of food discarded by humans and even incompletely digested feces. Humans know that their keen senses mean that as long as they are nearby, it means that there are no other more ferocious animals around, and then they take the initiative to feed them, and the two parties form a dependence. They would even follow humans when they moved their habitats. Later, they would follow humans when they went hunting. They understood that when humans hunted prey, they would have food for themselves. Humans also discovered that they could play a role in detection during hunting. In this way, these wolves lived together with humans and gradually became domesticated into dogs.

So they believe that dogs were not forced to be domesticated but voluntarily domesticated. The purpose of domestication was to obtain food from humans. For food, they run around to help humans hunt other animals and become human minions. Therefore, the"dog legs" we now call actually have a certain basis for historical evolution.

The domestication process of cats is similar. During the farming era, there were many rats in human settlements, and cats squatted near human settlements to catch food. Humans found that they could help them deal with pesky rats, and they gradually integrated into human life. Therefore, Cats and dogs are generally not kept for food.

If you think about it from another angle, it can be said that they chose humans. In the beginning, they only got food from humans. In the past, they had to do at least something. Now, most of them can live a comfortable life without doing anything, and even get all kinds of love. So It’s hard to tell whether people domesticated dogs or whether some people were domesticated by dogs.