Stories between animals and humans

1. The Indian Ocean tsunami was a disaster at the beginning of this century, which claimed thousands of lives. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and a touching story of animals saving mankind was staged in the disaster area. Nature severely punished human beings, but the animal kingdom extended a helping hand to innocent children. Lisa, 26, is a shop assistant in Aceh, Indonesia. She rented a house by the sea with three girlfriends. At about 8 o'clock in the morning when the tsunami broke out, she suddenly saw a huge wave wrapped in stones and branches like a wall from the window, and people ran away crying. Lisa also rushed to the second floor and hid in the store, but the waves still washed Lisa and her girlfriends out of the house. When Lisa was swimming in the flood, she found two twin girls and their mother in her neighbor's house. The child's mother was seriously injured. Lisa reached out and caught two nine-year-old girls. "The child's mother shouted:' Please help the child! Leave me alone, but you must save my child. "Lisa recalled, her eyes filled with tears. Lisa was struggling with two children in the flood when she found a python swimming nearby. She and her two children didn't care much, so they hugged the python with their hands. "I don't know how long it took before we felt our feet hit the beach and found that the water depth around us was less than 1 meter. The two children, though slightly injured, survived unharmed. " Lisa said that she would never forget the disaster. She now plans to move to North Sumatra to live with relatives. Elephants carry their children on their backs in Britain, and the story told by a surviving woman is widely circulated. She witnessed an elephant carrying several shipwrecked children on a beach in Thailand and sending them to a safe place. Laura Banert, a British female tourist, recounted that it was a tamed elephant and was deeply loved by tourists. Every morning, it is taken to the beach of Vomiting Island to play for children. When the huge waves swept the beach, several children playing by the sea climbed on the elephant's back in despair. The elephant quickly left the wrong place and sent the children to a safe area. There is also a four-year-old boy who successfully saved himself in Puke Island-he climbed a big tree by the sea. Two days later, rescuers found him in this tree. He was hungry and thirsty, but he survived in the end. Another 6-year-old girl who was on holiday with her parents in Puxi saved her life in the same way. She climbed a coconut tree and stayed there for three whole days. Later, a foreign tourist found her and gave her to her father who also survived. Italian tourists use surfboards to escape. In the catastrophe caused by the tsunami, some people's hobbies became their life-saving straws at critical moments. A group of Roman surfers who came to Sri Lanka for a holiday, with superb surfing skills, struggled in the stormy waves for nearly an hour and finally ushered in the final calm of the tsunami. "We are on an island in Sri Lanka. When the tsunami broke out, the scene was really scary, "said Kyle Tarta Ria, one of the surfers who had just returned to China. "The waves were lifted 6 meters high. Although the surfboard under our feet almost sank and took me to the bottom of the sea, we finally stood firm. Surfboard saved my life. After a while, I managed to find my girlfriend. We overcame the huge waves together. " This surfing tour group is a frequent visitor to Oscar Beach. They came on holiday this time, one is to enjoy the sunshine bath, the other is to learn surfing skills together. Unexpectedly, the surfboard they brought saved their lives. "When we got back to the coast," they told us, "everything was destroyed. There are dead bodies everywhere, which is terrible. It happened to be a market that day, but the waves washed everything away. " These Italian surfers expressed their heartfelt thanks to the local residents in Sri Lanka: "They made us poor a lot, but they did incredible things: they helped us, gave us food and put us in a safe place. We will not forget them, we should lend them a helping hand. " Biologists say that animals have a sixth sense to predict disasters, which puzzles Sri Lankan authorities and local nature experts: after this terrible natural disaster, no trace of animals has been found on the Indian Ocean coast. Rescuers found the bodies of thousands of people in Sri Lanka, but not a single animal. According to Reuters, the huge waves destroyed all the building facilities within 3 kilometers of the coast. Sri Lanka's Yala National Park is in this hardest hit area, where hundreds of wild elephants and dozens of leopards live, but none of the animals died in this disaster. The person in charge of the park claimed: "It is incredible that we didn't find a dead animal. All the elephants are still alive and all the leopards are safe. I think animals have a sixth sense: they know that disaster is coming and they run away early. "

2. Both wild animals and human beings are important members of the earth's biosphere, and they play an important role in maintaining the biodiversity of the earth, which is indispensable for maintaining a vibrant earth. SARS warns mankind that we should be kind to wild animals and should not catch and kill them indiscriminately. In fact, animals have not only provided human beings with various resources, but also helped them avoid disasters. Before the devastating earthquake in history, animals always used some strange behaviors to warn human beings.

3. For the first time, human beings used animal anomalies to predict earthquakes.

During the period of 1967, Tianjin established the Earthquake Office. When the earthquake monitoring system was established, the office set up an earthquake prediction group, especially the animal breeding group in the People's Park, and insisted on observing and recording the behavior of animals every day.

Many things happen. 1969, 18 In the early morning of July, the team found a large number of animals with abnormal phenomena. Large animals, such as Northeast Tiger, Giant Panda, Yak, and Sika Deer, are depressed, don't eat, and lie motionless on the ground. Giant pandas also scream with their paws against their heads. Sika deer ran and jumped in panic. Swan, turkey, white jade bird, parrot, etc. The number of birds is also abnormal. The swan refused to go into the water, and it was unable to lie on its back and its legs were suspended. The white jade bird and other feathers were lifted. The aquatic animals are abnormal, too. Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and turtle are tumbling up and down in the pool. Until noon, it was still abnormal. After careful analysis of this phenomenon, the prediction team believes that this is indeed an abnormal behavior of animals, which may be a precursor to the earthquake after all possible reasons have been ruled out. Therefore, at 1 1: 00, the above-mentioned animal anomalies were reported to the Tianjin Earthquake Office, saying that a major earthquake might occur. 13: 24 An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 occurred in Bohai Sea. This is the first time that China has used the abnormal behavior of animals in organized earthquake periodic monitoring and achieved a successful example. Although it is an internal experimental prediction, it has typical significance and is something that Tianjin people should be proud of.

4. The role of animal information in Haicheng earthquake prediction.

1. 975 The Haicheng earthquake on February 4th, 1975 was the first time in China and even in the world that the government officially released a definite earthquake prediction to the public and achieved success. Among them, abnormal information of animal behavior also plays an important role. The behavior of animals in Haicheng earthquake was abnormal, especially the snake "committed suicide" and went out of the hole. In the dead of winter in Haicheng area, the temperature is below-10-20 degrees. Snakes are cold-blooded animals. They hibernate in the cave in winter, the temperature rises in spring, and then come out of the cave after hibernation. However, before the earthquake, hundreds of snakes came out of their holes one after another, ending their hibernation ahead of schedule and freezing to death in the ice and snow. It was observed that a snake crawled out of the hole, with its upper body outside the hole and quickly froze, while its lower body was still in the hole and still climbing up. In addition, abnormal behaviors of large livestock and fish are also common. For example, 20 piglets raised in a village in Panjin were "crazy" before the earthquake and chased each other, resulting in 15 tail being bitten off. A tropical fish raised in Dandong suddenly jumped out of the water and made a sound. The abnormal behavior of these animals not only provides a basis for the earthquake department to put forward prediction opinions, but also many people will think of the prediction and earthquake knowledge released by the government after seeing abnormal animals, take the initiative to save themselves and quickly move from indoor to outdoor, thus avoiding the disaster of being killed when houses collapse, saving lives and reducing losses.

5. Scientific exploration

Seemingly simple animal behavior abnormalities, like other natural phenomena, also contain very complex and profound scientific connotations. It involves geophysics, biophysics and animal physiology.

On the eve of disasters such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, the earth's electric field, magnetic field, gravity field, temperature field, stress field and even the humidity of strata will change significantly. The rock will be slightly cracked and deformed, and will emit sound waves, ultrasonic waves and secondary waves, and the underground gas concentration, groundwater level and chemical composition will also change.

Animals are closer to nature than humans. In biological evolution, each animal has its own specially developed sensory organs. In a certain field, its sensitivity is much higher than that of human beings. It can be said that each animal has its own tricks and specialties.

Animals use their own tricks and specialties to perceive various changes before earthquakes. For example, snakes are sensitive to weak vibrations and smells, fish are sensitive to light, sound waves and infrasound waves, and birds have many small bodies on their legs, which are very sensitive to vibrations of 200-2000 Hz. When the sensory organs of animals perceive abnormal changes, they will have a premonition of disaster, and their lives will stagnate, showing abnormal behaviors such as irritability and panic.

These phenomena have aroused great interest of scientists all over the world and conducted rigorous scientific experiments in specialized laboratories. It can be predicted that it will be gradually realized to unveil the mystery of animal earthquake prediction, scientifically develop and utilize animal information and develop bionic detection instruments for disaster prevention.

6. Animals help people

Dolphin, a friend of human beings, has always been a mysterious animal in people's hearts. However, what people are most interested in is probably its brave and desperate behavior of saving people.

Dolphins have been closely related to human beings since ancient times, and there are many touching stories. There is a legend in Greece that dolphins save lives: About 3,200 years ago, Aleon, a famous Greek lyric poet and musician, participated in a music competition organized by a wealthy Italian businessman and won a huge prize. He returned to Corinth, Greece by boat with this wealth, only to arouse the jealousy of the crew on the way and want to kill him. Before he died, he asked to play another song. After playing, he jumped into the sea with his lyre in his arms. Who knows, a dolphin saved him and brought him safely to land. Dolphins are attracted by the wonderful music.

17.85438+0 In the summer, the coastal area of New Zealand was full of fog, and an ocean-going ship bumped in the shallow sea area with many rocks, which was in danger of hitting the rocks. At this time, a white dolphin came to lead the ship, and the captain commanded the ship to follow the dolphin, go through the fog, bypass the reef and reach the safe area smoothly. From then on, when every seagoing ship passes here, this white dolphin will come to pilot. On one occasion, this dolphin was shot and wounded by a passenger on board while piloting. But a few weeks later, this "kind" dolphin came to pilot again. In order to ensure the navigation safety of seagoing ships and protect dolphins, the New Zealand government held a special meeting and issued a decree that no one should harm this white dolphin. Since then, this white dolphin has been carrying out the "pilot mission" day and night, and has never stopped for 40 years. It was not until 19 12 that this white dolphin dedicated its life to mankind and disappeared from the ocean forever.

Because of the high intelligence and various abilities of dolphins, the United States and other countries have long trained dolphins as "underwater scouts" and "special forces" and used them to complete various underwater combat tasks many times.

8. Underwater spy

1962 during the Cuban crisis, the CIA used a disguised smuggling ship to transport the "dolphin scout" to Havana port, and then opened a special door at the bottom of the ship to let the dolphins swim out to a Soviet nuclear-powered ship moored in the port, and put the reconnaissance instrument on the hull. In this way, all the information on the Soviet ship was stolen by the US.

9. Monkeys-A Good Helper for Thai Farmers

CTV.com News (Asia Report): Monkeys play a very important role in the hearts of Thais. From lopburi Monkey City to Bangkok Monkey Hospital, Thais love monkeys. In today's program, we will take you to Thailand to watch monkeys picking coconuts. After reading it, you will understand why Thai people love this animal so much.

This is a monkey school. Monkeys here are usually 2 to 3 years old. Monkey trainer Saborn told us that these monkeys were all sent by local farmers. They will learn an important skill in this school, that is, how to pick coconuts from tall coconut trees.

Under the control of the rope, the clever monkey carefully searched for the coconut hidden under the wide leaves. After finding the right target, these monkeys will twist the coconut with their claws until it falls from the tree. And all this requires long and hard training.

The monkey trainer told us that monkeys have been a good helper for local farmers to pick coconuts for more than a century. Because it is very dangerous for humans to climb the tall coconut tree, and with the help of monkeys, it all seems so simple.

He also told us that in the coconut harvest season, he can not only let these monkeys help him pick coconuts, but also rent trained monkeys to other farmers without monkeys to get extra income. Therefore, monkeys are very important to him. He never left these monkeys alone at home in case they ran away or were stolen.

Coconut is the main cash crop in Thailand, and frozen coconut juice is the most popular drink on Thai beaches. At present, in the market, every 100 coconut can bring nearly two yuan to local farmers. Monkeys earn dollars for their owners, but they don't ask their owners for wages. The best they can do is drink delicious coconut milk. No wonder these monkeys are so popular here.

10. "Monkey Guide" in India

One of the characteristics of india tourism District is to use monkeys as tour guides. Whenever foreign tourists get lost in twists and turns or encounter other problems, monkey guides in suits and vests will appear in front of them, enthusiastically holding the hands of foreign tourists and leading them out of the predicament. Monkey guides can not only guide the lost tourists, but also guess the tourists' psychology and provide various services. When you point to your stomach, it will understand that you are hungry and will take you to a restaurant. You put your hand behind your head, which means you are sleeping. It will take you back to the hotel. After the service, the monkey guide will reach out and ask you for some money with a furry hand, and finally wave goodbye to you with a smile.

These monkey guides are specially trained. India has set up a "Monkey College" with a length of schooling of 1 year. The course is polite, considerate and loyal, and some particularly savvy "students" are added to the foreign language class. Those who pass the training can get a "certificate of qualification" issued by the school, with the name of "student" written on the front of the certificate and photos attached; On the back, the academic qualifications, academic achievements and work performance of the "trainees" are recorded. As a tour guide, monkeys have such "certificates" in their suit pockets for tourists to check.

1 1. The canary saved the owner's family in the Iranian earthquake.

According to the British "Times" 65438+February 3, 20031day report, in the Iranian earthquake, two canaries gave early warning, saving the lives of their owner, Abbas's family of five, and became the only surviving family in the street.

Abbas told reporters about the general process at that time. These two canaries are their domestic pets, and they are usually quiet at night. But early that morning, they were restless in the cage, desperately hitting the cage and screaming. Abbas's family was awakened. Because they had heard the story of abnormal birds before the earthquake, Abbas immediately jumped out of bed, opened the window on the second floor, and sent his family down from the window on the second floor one by one, and then he jumped with him. In his busy schedule, he didn't forget his beloved canary and threw down the birdcage. He was afraid that the birds would be killed, but fortunately, they were safe and sound. They jumped down the stairs, and within a few seconds, a strong earthquake leveled most buildings in Bam. They watched their house collapse in the earthquake as if they were dreaming, but they actually escaped the disaster.

However, other neighbors are not so lucky. Abbas said that all the neighbors in their street were killed in the earthquake. What he has done these days is to keep digging holes to bury their bodies.

After picking up some bread crumbs and feeding them to the canaries around him, Abbas told reporters with emotion: "If everyone in Bam keeps a canary, then maybe I won't lose all my neighbors." ▲

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18 In May, a monkey of 10 was taking out a CD from the CD player at the Monkey School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The Monkey School is run by an organization called "Helpers for the Disabled: Monkeys". The organization has domesticated more than 90 monkeys as assistants for the disabled.

18 In May, at the Monkey School in Boston, Massachusetts, a 10-year-old monkey took out a bottle from the microwave oven for Roy, a disabled person around him.

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