骗子动物的生物地理分布
Shota Shibasaki1,2, Ryosuke Nakadai3,4,5, Yo Nakawake6,7
1Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 27412, USA.
Royal Society open science
|May 9, 2024
概括
民间传说中的动物分布受到真正动物的存在和地理接近的限制. 气候条件通过影响真正的动物息地间接地影响这些文化模式.
科学领域:
- 文化生态学文化生态学
- 民族动物学 民族动物学
- 生物地理学 生物地理学 生物地理学
背景情况:
- 民间风俗主题虽然可能具有普遍性,但往往表现出受约束的分布.
- 限制动物学民间传说的全球传播的因素,特别是骗子动物的原型,尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 调查生态和生物地理因素限制了全球民间传说中骗子动物的分布.
- 了解气候对特定动物原型的文化普遍性的间接影响.
主要方法:
- 应用生物地理学方法来分析16个分类类别中的455个骗子动物条目数据集.
- 将骗子动物数据与包含93,090,848个真实动物条目的大数据集进行了比较.
- 检查了动物存在,地理分布和气候变量 (平均年温度,降水) 之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- 在民间传说中,骗子动物的分布与其现实世界的同类的地理存在有显著的相关性.
- 靠近真正动物的息地是他们骗子原型传播的关键限制.
- 气候因素,特别是年平均温度和降水,通过影响真实动物范围来间接塑造骗子动物的分布.
结论:
- 生态因素,特别是真实动物的分布,在塑造动物民间传说等文化叙事方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 生物地理学的方法为环境条件和文化现象之间的相互作用提供了宝贵的见解.
- 这项研究强调了生态现实与人类文化中发现的象征性表征之间的深厚联系.
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