Nearly 100 sheep in Hui County jumped off cliffs one after another. Don't the sheep know that they would die if they jumped off? Why are you still dancing?
Recently, a group of sheep jumped off a cliff more than 60 meters high in Hui County, Henan Province, causing all the sheep to die. According to the owner of the sheep, they are usually herding sheep on this mountain, and there is no problem, but that day, I don’t know what happened. No hesitation. In fact, the incident of sheep jumping off the cliff is not very rare. This kind of event happens almost every year in the world. In the past 20 years, the largest incident of sheep jumping off the cliff happened in Turkey. In 2005, there was an incident of 1,500 sheep jumping off the cliff. According to witnesses at the time, the process of the sheep jumping off the cliff was like a white waterfall. The head and tail of the sheep continued to jump off the cliff. In the end, a total of 450 sheep died in this incident. The reason why they did not all die was not because the sheep behind did not jump off the cliff, but because too many sheep died before, and the effect of a buffer airbag was played below. Let the goat in the back save his life. Why do flocks jump off cliffs?
The reason why the group jumping off the cliff is directly related to the sheep. There is a leader mechanism in the flock. Each flock has a head sheep. Under the leadership of the head sheep, a flock of three or four hundred sheep can be formed at most. A herd with a head of sheep is different from a herd of cattle and a herd of horses. The herd of sheep is like a tribe in the early days of human beings. of multiple individuals. Sheep flocks have a very significant feature, that is, it is difficult to integrate different flocks together. If several flocks are mixed together, it seems that the flock is huge and difficult to distinguish, but as long as a few leaders are found, the flock will be divided into small flocks. Therefore, when shepherds raise sheep, they will specially train a leader sheep, and when grazing, the sheep will follow behind these leaders. In this way, a lot of manpower and material resources will be saved when grazing. Generally, a seemingly huge flock can be grazing with only two people, one with the head sheep in front, and the other with the sheep left behind at the tail of the flock. If you still want to save a little effort and domesticate a shepherd dog, they will drive the sheep to pasture, and when the flock returns, they will enter the pen. Obviously not. Although the head sheep saves a lot of manpower and material resources when grazing, it also has its shortcomings, that is, the sheep will blindly follow the head sheep. When the leader falls off the cliff if his feet are not steady, the sheep will follow the leader and jump off the cliff, because this is caused by blindly following the leader for a long time. In the cognition of the sheep, only the leader is the leader. Behavior, under the inertia of thinking, will follow without thinking, even if it is to jump off a cliff and die. In the recent incident of nearly 100 sheep jumping off a cliff in Hui County, it is said that the car horn disturbed the head sheep, and the head sheep fell off the cliff in a panic, causing the entire sheep group to jump off the cliff. How does the mechanism of the head of the flock come about?
At present, the sheep that humans raise in captivity are domesticated from wild sheep, and domestication by humans is a matter of thousands of years. Therefore, although humans have changed some habits of wild goats, they are recorded in the ancestors of goats. The things in the genes cannot be changed in a short time. In the wild, wild goats, like wolves and lion rock groups, compete in the group through their own abilities, and these winning leaders, wolf kings and lion kings are all the strongest in the group. , the smartest and most experienced individuals. Unlike wolves and lions, which stand at the top of the food chain, sheep are the lowest species in the food chain. When the wolf king and the lion king make wrong judgments, they will be hungry at most, and if the leader of the herd appears A big mistake can lead to the destruction of the entire flock. Sheep generally live in grasslands or semi-desert areas. These places have a characteristic, that is, there will be seasonal changes. When the weather becomes cold and food is scarce, the wisdom and experience of the leader is needed to lead the sheep. The flock finds new pastures with food for the entire flock to survive. During the migration of the flock, they will encounter some more dangerous places, swamps, swift streams, narrow rock walls, etc. At this time, it is time to reflect the responsibility of the leader. In these dangerous places, the other goats in the flock will only follow after the leader has passed, otherwise they will wait in place. Therefore, the leader is the natural product of the flock in the process of evolution. They need the strongest in the group to lead the entire flock to survive in the harsh environment. Conclusion: To a certain extent, human beings are a bit like sheep. The progress of human beings also means that individual outstanding people find a way ahead, and then future generations follow their footsteps to promote the progress of the entire human race. For example, Einstein, like a leader among human beings, paved a way for human science in the front, and the scientists who followed him followed his footsteps to promote the development of the whole society. Of course, there are also negative examples. In Japan during World War II, because of the bad behavior of the leading sheep, the entire ethnic group almost perished, just like the sheep that jumped off a cliff.