Recently, Zhou Guoxing, a researcher, thought, "Since you are human, you must have some human characteristics, such as walking upright, having your own language, and being able to use and manufacture production tools. In addition, it should not and cannot be an isolated individual, but a group. Theoretically speaking, savages are a group that stays at a certain stage in the process of human development. In this sense, savages do not exist. If there is an unknown animal, even a humanoid animal, the possibility of existence is only 5%, and the possibility of 95% does not exist. My judgment coincides with that of an American scientist. "
So, in people's minds, what kind of animal is this? Are the views of researchers at home and abroad consistent?
There are many stories about "savage" all over the world, and China is no exception. In addition to the records of "savage" in ancient books and local magazines, news of witnessing or encountering "savage" can be heard from time to time in real life.
There is a view that "savage" was once a member of human society. For some reason, he wandered in nature. Because he was isolated from human society for a long time, human nature gradually disappeared and became a "beast-like creature". When they return to human society, it is quite difficult to restore their humanity. This is the so-called "savage", that is, savage. During the French Revolution, a hunter found it in the forest of Aviron. /kloc-teenagers around 0/7 years old. The child who was abandoned in the forest since childhood has become a "beast-like child" when he was found. After more than 20 years of domestication and training, he lost all animal behavior. In the future, the so-called "wolf children", "leopard children" and "monkey children" who were once raised by animals were all called "savages".
There is another saying about what is a "savage" in science, that is, "savage" is the remaining representative of primitive people, that is, the group that stayed at a certain stage in the process of human development. For example, some scholars in the former Soviet Union regarded the "Almas Savage" circulating in Mongolia and Caucasus as Neanderthals in the Stone Age.
But now the meaning of "savage" is quite mixed, and almost all those "humanoid animals" that have not been scientifically clarified are called "savages". Even some known humanoid animals were called "savages" before being scientifically clarified, such as Asian orangutans, and even some very backward savage peoples hidden in the primitive jungle were also called "savages" at the beginning of their discovery. Now the rumors about "savage" that we see in various media do not refer to "savage" in a strict scientific sense, but an unknown "humanoid animal" that needs scientific exploration, which is also a popular and intuitive explanation of "savage" now.
1953, after New Zealand explorer Hillary Clinton successfully climbed Mount Everest, rumors of the existence of a "snowman" in the Himalayas began to appear in newspapers at that time. Among the numerous snowman news, Pronin, the captain of the hydrological team of the joint expedition of Leningrad University and Uzbek Academy of Sciences, saw "humanoid animals in fur" twice in August 1957. After the news was disclosed, whether there was a "snowman" in Pamirs caused controversy.
The former Soviet Academy of Sciences organized a "snowman special committee" to collect information about the "snowman" and sent an investigation team to Pamir for investigation. At this time, China cinematographer Bai Xin published an article in the newspaper, claiming that he happened to meet two inexplicable people walking on the snow peak while shooting at the Muztag Iceberg in Pamir, Xinjiang, which left him an impression similar to Pronin's hunchback and short stature, that is to say, he also met a snowman. Scholars in China began to discuss in newspapers that the so-called "snowman" is probably a Himalayan brown bear, but the possibility that a special primate lives in the Himalayan region is not ruled out.
1959 1, Deputy Secretary-General of China Academy of Sciences wrote to a person concerned in the former Soviet Academy of Sciences, saying, "An anthropological research room should be set up in the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology of China Academy of Sciences to be responsible for the study of snowman. Professor Pei Wenzhong is responsible for studying the snowman problem. " At that time, China was organizing the first climb of Mount Everest, so "Snowman" was included in the investigation. Researchers and mountaineering teams from China Academy of Sciences and Peking University conducted a survey in Zakaqu Valley, the largest valley in Mount Everest, from May to July in 1959, but found nothing important except that a hair with a length of 16 cm was obtained near Kama River in the southeast of Mount Everest, which is said to be a "snowman". Laboratory tests show that the hair is not similar to that of yak, orangutan, monkey and brown bear, but it cannot be proved to be a "savage".
Jolewas, director of the Cultural Bureau of Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, once captured a man named Kasang in 1995. "Cakal Bella Moore" (meaning "the person who smashed the wok") is a "savage". According to Jolewas's description, this "savage" turned out to be a person living in the wilderness!
In the early 1960s, news came from Yunnan Province, the western border of China, that there were two encounters with "savages" in the original dense forest of Xishuangbanna. One is that during the construction of Lila-Monbang Highway in June, 1960, 1 1, the captain and squad leader of the bridge-bridging team found two "savages". They shot at the "savage", one escaped after being injured, and the other was killed. They dragged the body of the "savage" back to have a good meal, but when they saw that the "savage" was so similar to people, the soldiers dared not eat it. The second thing is 196 1. At the end of February, a primary school teacher in Lila County went hunting in the local jungle at night, and he met the "savage" mother and son. He was afraid that the teacher wouldn't dare to shoot, so he ran away. Yunnan Simao Bureau of Culture and Education reported these two incidents to the Provincial Bureau of Culture and contacted the Institute of Zoology, Southwest Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences. According to the report, the director of the institute thinks that the situation of "savage" is similar to that of gibbon, but it is difficult to determine because there is no field investigation.
In the 1980s, the savage named "Gu" in Wa language came from Cangyuan and Ximeng in the southwestern border of Yunnan, but these "Gu" all had tails. One of them, Gu, about 2.2 meters high, was killed by a Wa primary school teacher in Lemmon commune during the Spring Festival of 1980. He preserved a left paw of Gu and a skull specimen of Gu that was hunted by 1982 in Banyan commune. These two objects were once identified as the soles of the feet of the "syndactylus" and the skulls of the "largest primate" or "ape". The characteristics of barbarians
Regrettably, there are still no living "savages" to meet us today, and there are no living savages or entities for scientists to identify. Therefore, if there is such a so-called savage on the earth, scientists can only treat it as an unclassified animal.
This book can only analyze the related characteristics of savage according to the savage stories collected at all times and at all times.
Whether it is a "savage" in Shennongjia, a "snowman" in Himalaya or a "bigfoot" in America, there is a common feature, that is, this kind of animal is both human and inhuman.
The reason why it looks like a human is that it has many human characteristics: First, all witnesses say that savages walk upright, and most of them have no tail, which is the most obvious feature of human beings. Second, limbs are also like human upper limbs, with arms, palms, fingers and nails; The lower limbs are divided into big calves and toenails. Its upper limbs can also use tools, killing tigers with "savage stones", hitting people with sticks or fishing in the water. Third, its five senses are like people, and it can make the same sound as people. Fourth, savages, like humans, have different races, 3 meters high and 1 meter short; Human skin color is different, savage hair color is different.
It is inhuman because it has many animal characteristics: First, it has long hair all over its body, more like an ape. The second is that savages eat raw food and live a life of eating raw food, while the main food of modern people is cooked food. The third is that savage action is mysterious, usually a single action, unlike human beings who like group activities.
The life habits of savages, like wild animals, all have unpleasant smells. They all live in mountains, forests and caves. They are so powerful that even tigers are no match for them. They walk like flies and run faster than rabbits, which makes human beings far behind.