什么动物最无怜悯之心？（一）
What animal has the lowest preference for mercy?
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相信我，伯劳鸟是鸟界的开膛手杰克。它以最令人毛骨悚然和恐怖的方式杀死猎物。
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What animal has the lowest preference for mercy?
什么动物最无怜悯之心？
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This is called the shrike.
Cute, isn’t it?
Believe me, the shrike is the Jack the Ripper of the bird world. It kills its prey in the most spine-chilling and gruesome way possible.
They impale their prey on a sharp obxt like a thorn or a barbed wire. This makes it easier for them to devour their victims bit by bit.
They have also been observed to hunt relatively large vertebrates like mice and lizards.
On larger vertebrates, they induce paralysis by a bite to the neck and vigorously shake their immobilized victim so as to snap the vertebrae of the victim prior to impaling it on a thorn.
They don’t always impale their victims to eat them. It’s also used as a method of food storage. They can leave a mouse impaled for days before they come and make a snack out of it.
The shrike, also known as the butcherbird, is the ultimate embodiment of mercilessness.
Now imagine this: what if the shrike were the size of an ostrich and it could somehow fly.
There would be human kebabs everywhere.
这是伯劳鸟。很可爱，对吗？
相信我，伯劳鸟是鸟界的开膛手杰克。它以最令人毛骨悚然和恐怖的方式杀死猎物。
它们把猎物刺在尖锐的物体上，比如刺或带刺的铁丝。这使得它们更容易一点一点地吞噬猎物。它们也被观察到捕食相对大型的脊椎动物，如老鼠和蜥蜴。
在较大的脊椎动物身上，它们会咬断其脖子，使其瘫痪，并用力摇晃无法动弹的受害者，以便折断受害者的脊椎骨，然后将其刺穿在刺上。
它们并不总是刺穿猎物来吃掉它们。它也被用作储存食物的方法。它们可以把老鼠挂在刺上好几天，然后再来把它当零食吃。
伯劳鸟，是无情的终极化身。
现在想象一下:如果伯劳鸟有鸵鸟那么大，而且还能飞？
届时将到处都是人形“烤肉串”。
All animals that hunted humans are extinct or are now leery of coming anywhere near us. We are psychotic, vindictive critters. Kill a few of us, especially our children, we’ll harass you at every opportunity. We’ll find your burrow, kill your cubs, and set it on fire.
Edit: Have you seen the news about a guy who weighs 140 pounds, strangling a mountain lion, admittedly a small one, with no weapons? It had his arm in its mouth and would not let go, he finally got his foot on its throat and choked it to death.
所有猎杀人类的动物都灭绝了，或者现在不敢靠近我们。我们是有精神病、有报复心的生物。杀了我们几个人，尤其是我们的孩子，我们会抓住一切机会骚扰你。我们会找到你的洞穴，杀死你的幼崽，然后放火烧了它。
编辑:你看过新闻吗，一个140磅重的人，没有武器，勒死了一头美洲狮，当然，那是头小美洲狮。它咬住那人的胳膊不放，最后他用脚踩住它的喉咙，把它掐死了。
Except for the mosquitos and Tse-tse flies. I hope that the CRISPR gene drive will soon finish them off!
除了文字和苍蝇。我希望基因工程能很快解决它们！
We were the hunted, but became the hunters and we brought down the wrath of hell upon them and turned them to their extinction or evolution.
我们曾是被追捕的对象，但却成为了猎人，我们让地狱的愤怒降临到他们身上，让他们走向要么灭绝要么进化。
The most vicious vengence of all is how we dealt with the wolves, or rather, are dealing with them. We caught their cubs, (in)bred them through generations to weak, infirm, ridicolous, harmless freaks that we parade around in slave-ropes or even handbags. Just wiping them out wasn’t enough. Utter humiliation was needed.
最恶毒的报复是我们对付狼的方式，或者更确切地说，是我们正在对付他们的方式。我们抓住它们的幼崽，把它们一代一代地培育成虚弱、无能、可笑、无害的怪物，以便我们牵着奴隶绳甚至装在手提包里到处炫耀。
仅仅消灭它们是不够的。彻底的羞辱是必要的。
Joe Blow
The wolf was gradually tamed in ancient times due to them going near human settlements to gather our food scraps. The wolfs that were less afraid of and more friendly towards people did better than the more scared aggressive wolves due to the food from their relation ship with us.
As the wolves became more tame they started to provide us with benefits such as protection and help hunting. Eventually we started to breed the wolves/dogs for desired traits.
We did not kidnap wolf pups to “enslave and humiliate” them our relationship with dogs today is based of evolution.
在古代，由于狼经常接近人类的居住地，收集人类的食物残渣，所以它们逐渐被驯服。那些不那么害怕人类、对人类更友好的狼比那些更害怕人类、攻击性更强的狼表现得更好，因为它们与人类的关系为它们提供了食物。
随着狼变得越来越温顺，它们开始为我们提供保护和协助狩猎等好处。最终，我们开始根据我们想要的特征来繁殖狼/狗。
我们并没有绑架小狼来“奴役和羞辱”它们，我们与狗的关系是基于进化的。
You are probably the most fun person to be around at parties. Too bad I live in Norway and can't experience the comedic and entertainment thrill it must be.
你可能是聚会上最有趣的人。真遗憾，我住在挪威，不能体验喜剧和娱乐的刺激。
I agree with him. The whole inbreeding to create handicapped monstrosities thing only happened in the past 100 to 200 years. Well, except for China breeding those short-legged dogs to fit in the sleeves of members of the imperial court.
我同意他的观点。近亲繁殖制造残疾怪物的事情只发生在过去的100到200年。好吧，除了中国培育那些短腿狗（培育的时间更久远）（注：京巴？），以适应朝廷成员的袖子。
So, human is the real animal with lowest mercy.
所以，人类才是真正最没有怜悯之心的生物。
“Now imagine this: what if the shrike was the size of an ostrich and it could somehow fly.”
There have been dedicated human-hunting animals before, and most of them were either wiped out or brought close to extinction.
“现在想象一下:如果伯劳鸟有鸵鸟那么大，还能飞?”
以前也有专门捕猎人类的动物，但大多数不是灭绝了就是濒临灭绝。
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Yes, people always speak of animals that hunted humans as if no animal has tried it before.
The animals who have, died. Or learned better.
是的，人们总是说到猎杀人类的动物，好像从来没有动物这样做过。
猎杀人类的动物都死了，或者，学习变得更好。
Dude, I remember seeing a shrike kill a house finch in my neighbors tree when I was 13. The poor finch made the most awful squealing noises before stopping suddenly, I assume when it had its neck snapped.
I'm 22 now and it's still one of the most brutal things I've ever witnessed in nature.
伙计，我记得我13岁的时候看到一只伯劳鸟在邻居家的树上杀死了一只家雀。可怜的雀发出最可怕的尖叫声，然后突然停止，我猜是在它的脖子被折断的时候。
我现在22岁了，但这仍然是我在自然界中所见过的最残酷的事情之一。
Mercy - ot lack thereof - is not the point here. The bird impales its preys because it is unable to tear them apart with its small beak and talons, unlike, say, a hawk. It must wait for the prey to tenderize spontaneously. It is worth noting that this is exactly what humans do, too!
仁慈与否不是这里的重点。
这种鸟刺穿它的猎物是因为它不能用它的小喙和爪子把猎物撕碎，不像鹰。它必须等待猎物自动变软。
值得注意的是，人类也是这样做的!
This son of a fuckCassowaries are badass.
This right here is 7 feet of pure, unadulterated assholery. A cassowary can run at speeds up to 50 km/h and will freaking bulldoze anything that gets in its way. Happily. See that dinosaur helmet she’s got going? That thing will mess you up. Also, she can jump high enough to kick you right in the tit.
Oh, and she has a 13 cm claw on each foot. Did you hear that? 13 cm. 5 inches. Go measure that. I’ll wait.
Yeah. YEAH, DID YOU SEE THE LENGTH OF THAT THING? That thing can take off limbs. It can disembowel a grown human. It can do these things, and it will. Happily.
It even swims. IT SWIMS. Okay? Yeah, that’s right. Like you needed another reason not to go in the water. Nobody wants to swim with a leaping dinosaursharkbird.
It has been named the deadliest bird in the world and has the aggression of a PMSing dragon.
If confronted by a cassowary, you need to stand tall, look it in the eye, hold your ground, and die like a little bitch.
这个鬼东西。
食火鸡是个混蛋。
这只有7英尺高，纯粹的混蛋。食火鸡的奔跑速度可达每小时50公里，它会愉快地铲平任何挡道的东西。看到她戴的恐龙头盔了吗?那东西会把你弄得狼狈不堪。而且，她能跳得足够高，正好踢到你的乳头。
对了，它的每只脚上都有13厘米长的爪子。你听到了吗?13厘米，你自己掂量掂量。
是啊，你看到那东西有多长了吗?那东西能卸下人的四肢。它能把一个成年人的内脏掏出来。它能做这些事，也一定会，而且非常乐意这样做。
它甚至会游泳，……没人想和一只会跳跃的、恐龙和鲨鱼一样的鸟一起游泳。
它被称为世界上最致命的鸟类，具有PMSing龙的攻击性。如果遇到食火鸡，你需要站得高高的，直视它的眼睛，坚守阵地，然后有尊严地死去。
Excerpt taken from Wiki:
As for eating the cassowary, it is supposed to be quite tough. Australian administrative officers stationed in New Guinea were advised that it "should be cooked with a stone in the pot: when the stone is ready to eat so is the Cassow
ary".
节选自Wiki:
至于吃食火鸡，据说相当难吃。驻新几内亚的澳大利亚行政官员被建议“烹饪它的时候锅里应该放一块石头:当石头可以吃的时候，食火鸡也可以吃了”。
Hahahaha that's the funniest thing I've read today
哈哈哈，这是我今天读到的最有趣的事情
Looks like you might need some Indian influence. Spices and currying will make anything go tender. : )
看起来你需要一点印度的调料，香料和咖喱会让任何东西都变得更嫩。:)
The writer of the answer is so scared that he/she chose to remain anonymous lest the Cassowary will hunt him/her down!
答案的作者是如此的害怕，以至于他/她选择匿名，以免食火鸡会追捕他/她!
Probably for fear of the elite Cassowary Strike Teams that have recently adopted snorkel technology to expand their underwater operational range.
可能是害怕精英食火鸡突击队，他们最近采用了通气管技术，以扩大他们的水下行动范围。
Are you familiar with the reptilian brain?
No? Well let me aquaint you. The reptilian brain understands only four commands: Fight, Flight, Feed and Fu… make love.
The observant person will notice that mercy did not figure in the reptilian brain.
Does that crocodile care that it is killing a small impala? Does it care a mother could be grieving or a baby is snatched to death before its time?
No. Reptiles don’t care for niceties like that.
They have no mercy. They’re not built for mercy. They’re unable to conceive of mercy and you know what? They have lived for hundreds of millions of years longer than primates. Go figure.
你熟悉爬行动物的大脑吗?
不?好吧，让我来教你。爬行动物的大脑只理解四种指令：战斗、逃跑、进食和做爱。
细心的人会注意到，爬行动物的大脑里没有仁慈的概念。
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那只鳄鱼在意它正在杀死一只小黑斑羚吗?它会在意一位母亲的悲伤或一个婴儿被早产夺走吗?
不。爬行动物不喜欢这样的细节。他们毫无怜悯之心。他们不是为仁慈而生的。他们无法想象仁慈，你知道吗?它们比灵长类动物多活了数亿年。图。
Yet, this primate could easily drive them to extinction if we really set ourselves to do so.
Now WHO’s boss?
然而，灵长类动物很容易将它们推向灭绝, 如果我们真的这么做的话。
现在的谁才是主宰?
What's admirable about crocodilians is that despite them being actively hunted for most of human history, and humans encroaching on their land as much as any other animal, they continue to thrive despite it all.
They really are a remarkable species. They may yet outlive us lol.
令人钦佩的是，尽管鳄目动物在人类历史的大部分时间里都被积极猎杀，人类也像其他动物一样蚕食它们的土地，但它们仍然继续繁衍不断。
它们真的是一个了不起的物种。它们可能比我们活得更久，哈哈。
This is not true. Crocodile and Alligator species all over the world have been driven to extinction or endangerment because of habitat loss and poaching. For instance, the Siamese Crocodile has roughly 150 adults still alive in the wild. Philippine Crocodile had less than 100. Just because they are thriving in florida doesn’t mean it’s the same elsewhere.
这是不对的。由于栖息地的丧失和偷猎，世界各地的鳄鱼和短吻鳄物种已经濒临灭绝或濒危。例如，野生暹罗鳄大约有150只成年鳄鱼。菲律宾鳄鱼的数量不到100只。它们在佛罗里达蓬勃发展并不意味着在其他地方也一样。
Yes and no. Crcodiles have been known to prey on human beings. Wild animals tend to avoid human beings in general but a few seem to enjoy the idea of hunting human beings. Its very hard to drive crocodiles into extinction just by our selves and its even harder for them to kill us to extinction. But the fact remains that Crocodiles survived the dinosaurs and one massive extinction, so by probabilities and history, crocodiles can easily outlive human beings. The fact that modern crocodiles survived for tens of milions of years with minor changes through their evolution and human beings only came to existence at best 200k years ago on continually living the verge of oblitareting each other, shows that crocodiles will outlive us.
是也不是。众所周知，鳄鱼会捕食人类。一般来说，野生动物倾向于避开人类，但一些动物似乎喜欢捕猎人类。仅凭我们自己的力量是很难将鳄鱼灭绝的，当然让它们来灭绝我们就更难了。
但事实是，鳄鱼在恐龙和一次大灭绝中幸存了下来，所以从概率和历史来看，鳄鱼很容易活得比人类长。现代鳄鱼在进化过程中发生了微小的变化，存活了数千万年，而人类在20万年前才出现，一直生活在灭绝的边缘，这说明鳄鱼的寿命会比我们长。
You’re kidding yourself if you think it would be difficult to drive crocodilians to extinction.
If you set our human militaries to the task of driving crocodiles extinct, they could do it without losing a single soldier, just by having the helicopters do the work.
There are still currently multiple species of crocodilian that we have sent to the verge of extinction practically accidentally as a natural consequence of our own normal behaviors, things like land clearance and agriculture: Endangered Crocodilians
The reason why the others aren’t extinct yet, is because we don’t want them to be.
如果你认为很难让鳄鱼灭绝，那你是在自欺欺人。
如果你让我们的人类军队去消灭鳄鱼，他们可以在不损失一名士兵的情况下完成任务，只需要让直升机来完成这项工作。
目前仍有多种鳄目动物被我们意外地送到了灭绝的边缘，这是我们自身正常行为的自然结果，比如土地开垦和农业。链接：《濒危鳄目动物》
物种之所以还没有灭绝，是因为我们不希望它们灭绝。
Ofcourse . As far as destructive tendencies and cruelties are concerned humans have no parallel. We have already destroyed the environment without even caring for future generations. Atleast the reptile does what it does due to hunger and its biology and can be considered much merciful than most humans.
当然。就破坏性倾向和残忍而言，人类是无与伦比的。我们已经破坏了环境，甚至不关心子孙后代。至少这种爬行动物会因为饥饿和它的生理特性驱使它做事，可以被认为比大多数人类仁慈得多。
It's very hard to drive crocodiles into extinction just by ourselves because we now have mercy towards other animals, after driving countless mega fauna into extinction. Some of us, e.g. animal rights groups, will try their best to prevent us from doing that.
仅凭我们自己的力量很难使鳄鱼灭绝，因为在使无数大型动物灭绝之后，我们现在对其他动物很仁慈。我们中的一些人，例如动物权利组织，会尽最大努力阻止我们这样做。
Nature is the boss. Can’t you see how people are dying due to Covid 19? We can’t control the spreading of a small virus, still you are in doubt, who is the Boss?
大自然才是主宰。难道你看不出人们是如何因新冠疫情而死亡的吗?
我们无法控制一个小病毒的传播，你还在怀疑，谁是主宰?
In the grand scheme of things, Covid has barely left a dent in the overall human population. It did cause enough panic to jumpstart research on a vaccine and soon it will either be eradicated or no worse than an annual flu shot. Still going with humans as the boss on this one.
从大局来看，新冠病毒几乎没有对总人口造成影响。它确实引起了足够的恐慌，从而启动了疫苗的研究，很快它要么将被根除，要么不会比每年注射一次流感疫苗更糟糕。
这次，人还还是主宰。
It’s thoughts like this that make me want to leave this planet.
就是这样的想法让我想离开这个星球。
We are the masters of this world. You can use that power for good or for evil. But you cannot deny that fact.
我们是这个世界的主人。你可以用那力量做好事，也可以作恶。但你不能否认这一事实。
Are we really the masters of this world? Yes we have dominion over our less intelligent earthly coinhabitants. However natural disasters have the potential to cause destruction on a scale that can bring our fragile society crumbling to dust. Even the smallest cosmic events could cause extinction of all life on earth. We are far from the masters of this earth. It is our own hubris and pride that will lead to our destruction.
我们真的是这个世界的主人吗?是的，我们可以统治我们不那么聪明的地球上的居民。然而，自然灾害可能造成的破坏，其规模足以使我们脆弱的社会化为灰烬。
即使是最小的宇宙事件也可能导致地球上所有生命的灭绝。我们远不是地球的主人。我们自己的傲慢和骄傲会导致我们的毁灭。
Thanks. It reminded me of this:
“I realized some time ago that I’m not separate from nature just because I have a primate brain - an upper brain - because underneath the primate brain, there’s a mammalian brain, and beneath the mammalian brain, there’s a reptilian brain; and it’s those two lower brains that made the upper brain possible in the first place. Here’s the way it works: The primate brain says, “Give peace a chance.” The mammalian brain says, “Give peace a chance, but first let’s kill this motherf***er.” And the reptilian brain says, “Let’s just kill the motherf***er, go to the peace rally and get laid.”George Carlin
这个答案让我想到了另外一个事情：
“不久前我意识到，我与自然并不是分开的，因为我有一个灵长类动物的大脑，一个优越的大脑。因为在灵长类动物的大脑下面，是一个哺乳动物的大脑。而在哺乳动物的大脑下面，是一个爬行动物的大脑。正是这两个较低级别的大脑使优越的脑成为可能。”
它是这样运作的：
灵长类动物的大脑会说，“给和平一个机会。”
哺乳动物的大脑会说，“给和平一个机会，但首先让我们杀了这个狗娘养的。”
爬行动物的大脑说，“让我们杀了这个狗娘养的，去参加和平集会，上床吧。”
Матија Митровић
No predators/carnivores in the animal kingdom understand the concept of mercy, be they mammals, reptiles, birds or fish. There are videos of wolves, hyenas and lions eating animals alive. Just like the crocs they don't exactly care if someone will be sad for that. Humans alone understand mercy because they are the ones who conceived it as the only free willed beings in this world.
动物王国里没有任何掠食者/食肉动物能理解仁慈这一概念，无论是哺乳动物、爬行动物、鸟类还是鱼类。还有狼、鬣狗和狮子生吃动物的视频。
就像鳄鱼一样，它们并不在乎是否有人会因此而悲伤。只有人类才懂得仁慈，因为他们认为自己是这个世界上唯一有自由意志的生物。
Whether they conceive of it as mercy or not, when they practice it, the outcome is the same for the one that is shown it.
Whales are intelligent, sentient beings, who have helped save seals from other whales for no obvious reason except altruism.
不管人类是否认为这是一种仁慈，但当它们实践它时，对被施与者来说，结果是一样的。
鲸鱼是聪明的、有感情的生物，它们帮助海豹从其他鲸鱼手中拯救出来，没有明显的原因，除了利他主义。链接：《为什么座头鲸救了这只海豹的命?》
There are lots of assumptions in what you wrote. Free will is just the ability to think in abstract instead of as programmed. Higher mammals including our next of kin chimps, gorillas… show degrees of abstract thinking, so do many marine mammals.
Even in lesser mammals there are recorded instances of abstraction. Like the following story in which the lioness felt depressed after recognizing she had killed a pregnant antelope.
你写的东西里有很多假设。自由意志是抽象思维的能力，而不是程序化思维的能力。
高等哺乳动物，包括我们的近亲黑猩猩、大猩猩，都表现出不同程度的抽象思维，许多海洋哺乳动物也是如此。甚至在较小的哺乳动物中也有抽象思维的记录。就像下面这个故事，母狮子意识到自己杀死了一只怀孕的羚羊后感到很沮丧。
链接：《母狮子发现她吃的鹿怀孕了，她的下一步行动令人难以置信》
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They have outlived primates by hundreds of millions of years.
This is called present-bias. Just because we are younger does not make them superior. Us being a more-recent model than them does not imply that they are superior to us in any way, for the same reason why wheelbarrows, which have been around a lot longer than Ferraris, are not necessarily superior to Ferraris.
“它们比灵长类动物长寿数亿年。”
这被称为“当前偏差”。仅仅因为我们更年轻并不意味着他们就更优越。我们是比他们更新的种类，并不意味着他们在任何方面优于我们，这与独轮车存在的时间比法拉利长得多，并不一定优于法拉利的原因是一样的。
Humans are first and worst in this list. Even after knowing and understanding what mercy is, humans kill and breed to kill lots of animals.
在这个列表中，人类排在第一位，也是最糟糕的。
即使在知道和理解了仁慈是什么之后，人类仍然杀死大量动物。