Besides humans, other animals also exist cross-species friendships, coyotes and badgers play and hunt together
Cross-species cooperation has always been a specialty of humans, using hunting dogs to capture prey, using cormorants to catch fish, and using pigeons to send messages. This mutually beneficial cooperation relationship, we have always believed is beyond the control of ordinary animals.
Are the wolf and the in 'wolf and as accomplices' actually a real cross-species collaboration?
The is said to be a beast with short front legs, needing to crawl on the back of the wolf otherwise unable to take a step; and the wolf can capture more prey with the's cunning, therefore this idiom is a derogatory term, describing bad guys working together.
From the meaning of the idiom alone, they are indeed a cooperative relationship, but in reality, this is not the case, because the existence of the is controversial, it only exists in folklore, and it does not exist in the scientific category.
For the first time, a wolf and a badger were filmed in close proximity
It has been proven that animals not only can cooperate, but also can form cross-species friendships.
Wolf: Short legs, hurry up, there's no room left.
Wildlife cameras captured footage of a coyote and a badger working together in San Francisco, this is the first time a fun relationship between these two animals was captured.
In the video, the coyote excitedly entered the culvert, frequently looking back to see if its companion the badger was keeping up, the badger walked slowly, perhaps because its legs were short, but the badger looked happy, wagging its tail and trying to keep up, and finally the two companions walked through the culvert one after the other.
The video went viral on the internet, and people liked this cross-species friendship very much, after all, we can usually only see such intimate relationships between animals in Disney animated films.
Win-win situation
In some places, coyotes and badgers have been cooperating, they cooperate to hunt small mammals, and it has also appeared in Native American myths.
Scientists have always considered this relationship to be a purely self-interest exchange, but the video shown to us, in addition to interests, also has their friendship, and these two animals are known to be very irritable.
Research has confirmed that this combination can more effectively obtain prey.
In areas with relatively high densities of carnivores and prey, badgers can dig holes to drive underground animals out of their burrows, and the ground coyotes can catch prey; if the coyote finds prey first, the prey will also hide into the burrow, at this time, the badger can feast, so the hunting methods of the two are complementary.
Finally
Currently, how this relationship began is not known, and it is also unknown whether it is learned behavior from parents.
Through this study, we can more confidently affirm the wisdom of the wolf.
Wolves are often considered despicable and cunning animals, but they are very intelligent and interact with other animals, the most common combination is a wolf and a badger, although sometimes two wolves are also seen, but no two badgers have been observed.
This also raises a problem: cooperation is not just a human thing, all animals can cooperate, perhaps Simba and other animals in 'The Lion King' really existed.
