In the past two years, the entertainment industry has always been confused with "sex".
single is this year, from Xu Kaicheng to Li Yifeng , plus Zhang Han In "High Gentlemen in the East Eighth District ", a series of greasy operations that "take advantage" and topics related to "sex" have frequently entered people's attention.
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The famous scene of "scared pigs" in "Gentlemen in East Eighth Districts"
Some netizens said that they usually look quite reliable, but when it comes to the issue of "sex", how can it become an animal that only thinks with the lower body?
In fact, looking back at history, we have always been unable to understand the issue of "sex".
Zhou Youwang smiled to make the beauty " Beacon to play with the princes ", Tongzhi The emperor died early because he was searching for flowers and willows everywhere. He fought for the most beautiful woman Helen The battle of Troy triggered by the Troy.
In terms of "sex", people often fail to cut and mess around.
As an expert said:
"Among many social relations, the most important, most difficult and most difficult is the 'sexual relationship'."
is not just the human world, but this sentence also applies to the animal world.
Doctor of Zoology at Oxford University . During his PhD study, Wang Yunke studied "sexual relationships between animals".
Just like she said:
"It is not only looking at the sexual relationships of animals, but also seeing the human world that reproduces from the animal world."
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Hawaiian waters, in order to gain the favor of females, male " humpback whale " strives for the first time
For humans, getting married and having children is a lifelong event; animals are no exception, and "finding a partner" is the ultimate problem they face.
There is such a documentary. The photography team traveled all over the six continents of the earth. It took three years to shoot more than 9,000 hours of material, recording courtship strategies for animals in different regions.
This is the BBC documentary "Marriage Game" with a score of up to 9.4. It not only has the BBC's always magnificent and gorgeous natural landscape, but more importantly, the reveal of 's "sexual behavior" that few animals know.
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Zambian grassland, male donkey to compete for mate, fiercely competed
In 5 episodes, in less than 5 hours, "Marrying Game" presented the audience with as many as 83 animals strange sexual behaviors.
It is hard to imagine how much courage and patience the photography team needs to face the dual threats of weather and animals, and record many scenes that have never been taken before.
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The salt lake in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa , crossing the water surface to create a moving and poetic Red Stork
Today, Pige will talk to you about this documentary and the various stories behind the birth of the "magic work".
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ans also understand romance
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East Africa Rift Valley Salt Lake, the red stork prepared for courtship
Mating-reproduction-reproduction to ensure the endless rebirth of race descendants. This is an indisrupted natural law in the animal world.
"Marrying Game" focuses on the private world of animals, and through courtship games, we can perceive the power of life hidden behind "sex".
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flying together is the desire for reproduction and survival
documentary selected four very representative ecosystems : Grassland, ocean, jungle, shallow water.
For example, the jungle, although its area accounts for only 2% of the earth, it lives 80% of the world's animals.
and the ocean, as the origin of all life on the earth, including many terrestrial creatures, have been nurtured by the ocean.
These ecological environments that we are familiar with but have never truly understood have allowed generations of creatures to reproduce and thrive.
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South Australia, a pasture
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Western United States, Pacific sea surface
Western United States, Pacific sea surface
web 1Western United States, Pacific sea surface
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Portugal, shallow water lagoons in the offshore
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Africa, Guinea jungle
Director Wilson, who has directed "Perfect Planet", this documentary tells the story of how various natural forces nurture life, and has won a high score of 9.6.
This time, the reason why he chose the theme of "Marrying Game" is largely because of People's curiosity about the "sex" of animals.
Before this, we have seen in many documentaries in order to survive, animals have "high intelligence" , , but few people know about the "high emotional intelligence" and .
For example, when it comes to playing romance, animals have done all kinds of tricks to win the other party’s favor.
McGregor gardener bird, a natural architect, its way of courting is to use thousands of branches to build a beautiful "Marriage Pavilion" to attract female birds.
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A male Gardener bird is building a "counsel"
In addition, McGregor Gardener bird oral performance is also its unique skill: The sound of insects, the barking of dogs, and even the sound of children's play, can be grasped vividly by it.
can build a house, decorate it, and use whistle to please the opposite sex . No wonder the energy source is constantly gaining favor from female birds.
The blue sea has always had romantic characteristics, and it is often staged here, with all kinds of romantic scenes of love and affection.
Male Manta ray When courting , will follow closely behind the female manta ray , , They wave their flowing bodies together, and dance the romantic War Dance in the rippling blue waves.
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A pair of male and female manta rays danced in the sea, interpreting the romantic hierarchy in the ocean
Humpback whale, known as the "Prince of Love Song", calls on her spouse with a magnetic "subwoofer". Wherever the singing reaches, the sea level is vibrated.
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Male humpback whale is using her singing voice to announce the official start of courtship
Haima During the courtship stage, we can see that the couple's bodies are closely dependent on each other, and even the movements are consistent, like a bond.
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Haima couple, sweet "dog food" daily
But to say the most romantic one is undoubtedly Firefly .
A large group of male fireflies clustered together. In the forest at night, forms a shining galaxy, directly killing the courtship scenes in various idol dramas.
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A romantic moment of fireflies
Pige has heard this sentence before: People who understand romance better are more likely to get out of singleness.
"Marrying Game" captures various romantic moments, allowing people to see the unknown "romantic genes" of animals, and also allowing people to understand the true meaning of "all things have spirits".
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deception and betrayal
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Russian desert, the big-eared sand lizard does a "warm-up exercise" for courtship
As the saying goes, "Survival of the fittest."
In the cruel environment of nature, it is actually rare to stick to the "monogamy" system like a seahorse.
cheating, love affair, and pedaling on several ships... These unbearable scenes that are frequently staged in the human world are also common in animal groups.
is different from the human "patriarchal" society. kangaroo world is female kangaroo controls the right to choose a mate and mating rights .
Not only that, female kangaroos will happily accept the "invitation" of other male kangaroos when their husbands and other competitors fight, and hides beside "incest" .
voyeuristic close-up shot, two kangaroos hide behind the rocks, making intimate actions, and the scene of lush grass. For this scene, creates a poetic ambiguity.
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Kangaroo
There are also the "playboy" male spider in the spider world. Their goal is to make more girlfriends as much as possible.
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male thief
male thief
male thief courting strategy is to use prey to gain the recognition of females, so every time you court, you need to prepare a generous gift .
But not every time you court, you can find "grace gift" . Sometimes they have to play some tricks .
For example, if you are lazy, you can wrap the leftovers of others in spider silk; sometimes it is even more excessive, disguises the "flowers" that you cannot eat as food and give them to the opposite sex, and occasionally they can succeed.
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Male spider cheated, wrapping the leftovers into gifts
Chimpanzees in Uganda area will use the name of "best friend" to approach the female, beat the other party's back and itch, and seize the opportunity after the friendship gradually heats up, and "sublimate" friendship into "love".
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male orangutan Damian tickled "girlfriend" Maya
and Finnish tssels sniper , As the bird world, the only species that can "disguise", their method of courting is really eye-opening.
When most male tassels fight to the death for their spouses, some males, but rely on their similar female appearance, become "women's clothing boss" , avoiding the struggles of other male compatriots and easily "deceive" the right to mating.
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"Men dressed up as a woman" tassel sniper
According to human thinking, the behavior of these animals is disgusting and even disgusting.
But as Dr. Wang Yunke said, we cannot use the rules of the human world to define another completely different world.
For example, the "affected" of female kangaroos, although they are unfaithful, ensures that the offspring they give birth to have the inherited diversity of and does not violate their survival rules.
What's more, in nature where the strong prey on the weak, if the relatively weak side does not seek other solutions, it will not only be unable to achieve the reproduction of future generations, but will also be eliminated by nature.
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A Russian sand dune, the battle between male big-eared sand lizards
From the perspective of anthropistism , standing on the moral high ground, is the biggest misunderstanding of nature.
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When it comes to court, take action
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A grassland in southern Australia, two male kangaroos compete for love for love
For courtship, some animals will play romance, and some animals will play tricks.
But some animals who want to find a spouse can only be "I don't have enough IQ, let's get the strength" .
Africa, Serengeti grasslands, The leader of the zebra family must use force to prevent foreign stallions from "destroying" their own family.
The leader took the initiative to attack again and again "Fight for Love" . He never ruthlessly treats such malicious pretenders. Such violent fights have become commonplace.
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leader and foreign stallions fiercely fight against
Caribbean island, Purple-throated hummingbird will do its best to protect nectar for courtship , drive away all outsiders who want to get a share of the pie, and confirm the title of "Flower Protector" .
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Purple-throated hummingbird prepares a "honey" gift for courtship
In comparison, South China Sea lion's courtship offensive and defensive battle is the most tragic . As the "beach overlord" with multiple spouses, this "muscular man" weighing more than 600 pounds does not allow other male Sea lion to occupy its wives.
This is a bloody battle. The beach overlord and several male sea lions bit each other, and finally managed to maintain their position as the overlord.
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In order to compete for the right to court, the battle of the bears and sea lions
courting has never been easy. They are well aware of the principle of "Let's take action when it's time" . Only by grasping the opportunity can you capture the heart of true love.
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The ultimate descendant of "Courtessing"
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Especially for people in contemporary society, courtship is more for love and life.
. No matter how strange the animals are, they are ultimately out of sexual instinct and for the sake of the ethnic group, they can reproduce from generation to generation.
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Male humpback whales follow the female and strive to gain recognition from females
The most typical one is termite queen . It lays an egg every 3 seconds, and can continue to produce for more than 20 years. The strong fertility has made the termite family flourish and has also established the "queen" status of queen in the family.
In order to protect the cubs to grow safely, arnado fin carp in the Amazon rainforest produces fish eggs on leaves in the posture of " carp jumping on the dragon gate" , , produces fish eggs on leaves.
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Real version of "Carp leaps the dragon gate". In order to raise offspring, Asian silk-finned carp, The secret tricks developed by
High-temperature fish waves its tail every once in a while, s sprinkle water on the eggs until the young fish successfully hatch .
and even Many animals must pay the price of their lives in order to reproduce.
For example, Monarch butterfly . In order to breed offspring in the next year, it will migrate more than 5,000 kilometers to find a suitable wintering place.
But many of them still can't survive the cold winter and were frozen to death in the bleak wind and snow.
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tangles of monarch butterflies
Pacific salmon , can only give birth once in a lifetime. They starved to the freshwater lake where they lay eggs and died shortly after giving birth to the baby salmon.
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Pacific salmon dies alone after giving birth to a child
and male strip bee , which is also shortly after binds to the female, and will find a place and quietly wait for the arrival of death.
cannot watch their children grow up, which is so sad for them as parents.
For this, humans and animals are emotionally interoperable: Parents are willing to make any sacrifices for their own children.
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survival or destruction?
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In the deep sea, the creature traveling alone
If you are just satisfied with the presentation of various courtship scenes, "Marrying Game" will undoubtedly not receive such high praise.
At the end of the documentary, the theme began to turn, and exists that cannot be ignored in the process of reproduction of animals - humans.
As the ruler of today's earth, human beings "play" an increasingly important role in the natural ecology.
Explosive population growth, The expansion of residential territory, Humans repeatedly squeezed the living environment of animals, which had a huge impact on their reproductive environment.
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The population has increased dramatically, and the earth is overwhelmed
For example, periodic cicadas, enter the community where humans live in hundreds of thousands of times. The cicadas often make residents suffer.
But it is precisely because of the expansion of human residences that cicadas have fewer and fewer trees inhabited during the cycle, so that they have to kill each other and occupy one of the few territories.
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cycle cicadas struggle to survive in human communities
wild black-footed ferrets , there are less than 400 , They live on the last grassland in North America.
live in such a narrow place, it is inevitable that "near relatives" can occur between black-footed ferrets, which also leads to health problems in offspring.
But in an era of increasing ecological concepts, humans realize that they can make some changes.
For example, frozen cells cloned black-footed ferret , let it combine with wild black-footed ferrets and can produce healthy offspring.
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"Clone Weasel"Elizabeth Ann
Especially in China, due to the enhanced environmental awareness, the number of giant pandas has been continuously expanded over the decades, and the number of wild giant pandas has increased by nearly 1,000.
Facts have proved that the development of human society may not necessarily have negative consequences for nature. In today's era, it is not too late for humans to make up for it.
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Tomorrow or accident, which one will come first?
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Photographer dived into the water and tracked the spawning Pacific salmon
In order to capture the various "secret scenes" of animal courtship, the entire production team has carefully prepared and suffered a lot during the period. even took the risk of his life to take pictures of the precious courtship lens .
For example, the humpback whale that made the photography team missed. Before that, no one had photographed them courting and mating scenes .
For this reason, they found the world's top equipment. Photographers must bear great risks, surround the humpback whale at close range, and shoot The gentle soothing of males to females .
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photographer forgets the danger and immerses in the romance of humpback whales
But the shy humpback whales will not easily capture the mating scene. Despite this, the team's reveal of the humpback whales' courtship process also satisfy the audience.
and When shooting gardener birds , the film crew specially built a shed in the attachment of the "Mourning Pavilion" to allow the photographer to hide it inside.
Because gardener birds have very sensitive hearing, Photographers must stay motionless for a few hours and cannot make any sound.
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Under the photographer's lens, the careful gardener bird
For more than ten days, the photographer's eating, drinking, defecation, and sleeping almost solved it on the spot, and finally captured the precious scene of the male gardener bird's courtship.
But no matter how meticulous the plan is, there will always be some unexpected situations.
For example, due to the epidemic, the original shooting plan, delays and even cancellations can be said to be commonplace.
Weather and seasons make it difficult to complete the shooting as planned, and many times they can only wait for the right time.
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Male Big eye spotted pheasant , spread its tail feathers, courting females
For example, in the Amazon rainforest "Ten Thousand Frogs Courting", only occurs one night between November and February.
Therefore, the photography team must stay here for the most rainy night, and wait for a heavy rain that lasted for several hours to wake up the sleeping frogs.
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Amazon , a pair of mating tree frogs
male frogs "each shows their magical powers" in small ponds
Desert grasslands of
Namibian , ostrich generally only courtesy before rain, to ensure that the baby born has sufficient food and fresh water.
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"Ostrich sister group" walking in the desert grasslands
But at that time, Namibia was experiencing a severe drought that had not been seen in 90 years. The photography team waited for several weeks without any results.
Helplessly they could only return home and wait until they come back to shoot in a whole year.
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Director and his filming team
Just as the director said, because of the need for gene reproduction, animals evolved various strange courtship strategies, and there were various love-hate entanglements in the story.
In today's era, the reproduction of animals is no longer just the self-operation within nature, but also inseparable from humans' helping hand and giving them enough space to reproduce.
This not only requires legal regulations, but also requires people's awe of nature from the bottom of their hearts.
"Marrying Game" is a study of the sexual behavior of animals, and it makes humans look back at themselves, how to love and how to live...
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