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原來(lái)動(dòng)物們的“顏值”，也跟它們的生存息息相關(guān)？
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文章轉(zhuǎn)載自 21英語(yǔ)微商城 21世紀(jì)英文報(bào)
俗話說(shuō)的好，愛(ài)美之心人皆有之。美麗的事物人人都愛(ài)，美貌是一種優(yōu)勢(shì)，不僅人類(lèi)如此，動(dòng)物界亦是如此。
前陣子“白鱘滅絕”的熱門(mén)話題引起了廣泛重視。商城君發(fā)現(xiàn)，評(píng)論區(qū)里有不少小伙伴們提出了一個(gè)“靈魂”拷問(wèn)：世界上瀕危物種有很多，到底該先幫哪個(gè)？它們看起來(lái)都一樣萌啊��！看到萌萌的北極熊頓時(shí)就想伸出援手？你真的不是一個(gè)人！
難道動(dòng)物們?cè)摬辉摫槐Ｗo(hù)還要看長(zhǎng)相不成？唔，可能還真有這方面的因素……
最近有科學(xué)家研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，動(dòng)物們的“顏值”和它們的生存息息相關(guān)！如果你也在想這件事，閱讀下面的文章吧！When we encounter advertisements encouraging us to save endangered animals, we usually see images of pandas, snow leopards (雪豹) or seals. It’s easy to feel sympathy for a baby seal with big puppy-dog eyes, but conversation efforts shouldn’t be based on how cute an animal is.
你看過(guò)瀕危動(dòng)物公益廣告嗎？它們通常都會(huì)用熊貓、雪豹或海豹——這些可愛(ài)動(dòng)物的照片。瞪著萌萌噠大眼睛的小海豹，只看一眼就讓人心生同情，但保護(hù)動(dòng)物也要看它們夠不夠萌么？
A 2020 paper published in The Royal Society Proceedings for Biological Sciences found conservation efforts are heavily focused on vertebrates (脊椎動(dòng)物) – 75 percent of budgets in Europe are focused on mammals (哺乳動(dòng)物) and birds alone. Why are other endangered species considered less important? Evidence points to a lack of cuteness.
2020年一項(xiàng)調(diào)查研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，動(dòng)物保護(hù)工作多集中在脊椎動(dòng)物身上，而歐洲保護(hù)瀕危動(dòng)物75%的預(yù)算集中在哺乳動(dòng)物和鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)上。為什么不重視其他瀕危物種？有證據(jù)指出是因?yàn)樗麄儧](méi)那么“可愛(ài)”。
Researchers from the University of Montpellier in France published a study on June 7 in PLOS Biology. They found that fish conservation efforts were biased toward the more attractive species with bright colors and graceful shapes, such as angelfish and butterfly fish.
法國(guó)蒙彼利埃大學(xué)的研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，魚(yú)類(lèi)的保護(hù)工作更偏向于那些顏色鮮艷、外形美麗的品種——如扁鯊和蝶魚(yú)。“There is a need for us to make sure that our ‘natural’ aesthetic (審美的) biases do not turn into a bias of conservation effort,”Nicolas Mouquet, one of the paper authors, told EuroNews. “Our study highlights likely important mismatches (不匹配) between potential public support for conservation and the species most in need of this support.”
