狗吠,狗咬?

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长期以来,人们一直将月亮归咎于引发人类的奇怪行为。但是,菲多(狗狗的名字)也可能感受到同样的影响吗?答案似乎取决于你问谁。《英国医学杂志》(BMJ) 今天发表的两项研究得出了截然不同的结论。在第一项研究中,钱查尔·巴塔查吉及其同事确定了 1997 年至 1999 年间因被动物咬伤(狗咬伤占 95%)而入住英国医院的 1,621 名患者。然后,他们将每天的动物咬伤次数与每个月的月相进行了比较。有趣的是,他们发现,满月期间,这些动物咬伤的发生率增加了一倍以上。悉尼大学的西蒙·查普曼和斯蒂芬·莫雷尔进行了第二项研究,该研究的重点是狗。他们调查了 1997 年至 1998 年间 1,671 例与狗咬伤相关的住院病例。但是,当他们将入院日期与满月日期进行比较时,他们未能找到规律。事实上,在 18 个高峰日中,没有一天与满月重合,最大高峰出现在新年左右。“他们写道:“在圣诞节期间,尤其是在新年期间,应该对狗更加小心”,而这与满月无关。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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