In fact, researchers have been studying this phenomenon for a long time. After research, this phenomenon is called "clipnosis", which is synthesized by the words "clip" and "hypnosis". Many scientists have conducted in-depth research on this phenomenon, so let's know what is magical behind the "neck of fate"!
( 1)? Magic clip hypnosis solution
Professor of Clinical Veterinary Medicine of Ohio State University led a special group to study this magical phenomenon in cats. The group spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, not only to satisfy the curiosity of the public, but also to explore whether this magical hypnosis method can be put into the medical field after improvement and to study the feasibility of medical diagnosis of this phenomenon.
In this group experiment, 3 1 cats of different sexes and breeds, aged from 3/kloc-0 to 5 years old, were invited to participate. When the kitten is put on the phoenix tail clip, an acupuncture artifact specially purchased by the research group, it will immediately stop all activities, arch its back and put its tail between its legs, becoming very clever!
The members of the group expressed great shock and passed the tests of various physiological indexes of the cat? The task force soon found out? This behavior of cats is not because of fear or pain. The cat's pupils are not dilated, its heart rate is not accelerated, and its breathing frequency is normal-the physiological reaction that frightened animals usually have does not appear in cats. The research team concluded that this behavior of cats is related to "facilitating cats to move kittens".
In this paper, a more appropriate phrase is used to describe this behavior of cats: "Pinch-induced behavior inhibition". In fact, the phenomenon that young animals are "pricked" after being picked up by their mothers exists in many species, including mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, Dutch pigs and so on.
(2)? "Editing hypnosis" is a patent for mammals.
According to the body structure of most mammals, we can find that the limbs and tails of most animals are not easy to grasp, so only the back and neck can be used as stress points, and usually the size of the neck is appropriate. What's more worth mentioning is that "clamp hypnotic solution" is a patent of mammals, because other animals except mammals either have no soft skin or teeth, so this action can't be realized in the first time. Of course, if the child is very young, it is ok to bite the back. Of course, except for anteaters and pangolins that can't open their mouths.
Small animals will get a magical signal after being bitten, "mom is going to bite me!" " "Therefore, it will continue to be very cooperative. What's even more funny is that even adult cats will immediately enter childhood. However, if the animal is heavy enough, it will feel pain when it is lifted by its neck, and then it will resist. For specific examples, when a lion or tiger mates, the male will bite the female's back neck in a fixed position. But the female is very uncomfortable with being bitten, and will bite back immediately after biting.
(3)? Editing hypnosis is as effective as human babies.
In 20 13, a special team of Japanese neurobiologists conducted a long-term follow-up study on a series of physiological reactions of animals when they were picked up by their mothers. In the experiment, they anesthetized the motor sensory nerves in the neck of young rats? After that, the "calming effect" caused by "being picked up" weakened. At the same time, surgical removal of a part of the brain to interfere with the afferent signals of the cerebellar cortex will also prolong the time for the mother mouse to calm down the young mouse. If you can't feel the back of your neck pinched? Young rats don't curl up; If the cerebellum can't receive the signal, the young rats won't obey. The weakening of heartbeat and the change of posture are directly realized by parasympathetic nerve and efferent nerve of cerebellum. This series of physiological reactions makes the young mice quiet, obedient and curled up, which is convenient for the mother mice to take them to a safe place.
And in the study, they unexpectedly found that the "calming effect" of "clip hypnosis" exists not only in mammals such as cats and mice, but also in human babies. Among them, the most typical "sedation" and three physiological reactions similar to those of humans and mice are: stop crying, obey and slow down the heartbeat.
(4)? Hypnosis of other non-mammals
We can often see that in many performances, lizards, chickens, frogs and other animals can stay still and enter a hypnotic state when they fall on their backs, but this hypnosis is actually a self-protection of playing dead, not a truly safe migration behavior.
But there is another kind of mammal that has no neck, such as dolphins. How can you hypnotize it? The answer is that dolphins can't be hypnotized, because the corpus callosum between their left and right brains is very special, and the left and right brains can sleep in turn, so they don't have the function of self-hypnosis.
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