Appeasement Behaviors
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Appeasement Behaviors
Many animals live in social groups, and certain animals may be stronger or more powerful than other animals in the group. Since a weaker animal could be injured in a fight with a stronger animal, many animals use appeasement behaviors to avoid fighting with stronger animals. By performing appeasement behaviors, a weaker animal communicates that it does not want to fight, and is willing to submit to the more powerful individual. Because fights can be harmful to members of a group, appeasement behaviors benefit the group by preventing fights from occurring.
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Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a biology class.
Okay, so this has been observed among wolves. As you may know, wolves live in packs, groups that roam the forest and hunt prey together and within a wolf pack, some of the wolves are usually bigger and stronger than the others. When wolves find and catch prey, they usually eat it together, sharing the food among members of the wolf pack. But sometimes one wolf may try to take the food that another member of the pack is eating. Now, if the wolf with the food is bigger and stronger than the one trying to take the food, it's going to prevent the other Wolf from taking its food by threatening to attack the other Wolf. Well, the smaller wolf won't let the bigger wolf attack it, so it'll lower its head, put its head close to the ground and flatten its fur, keep its fur close to its body, and lowering its head and flattening its fur are both signs of weakness, signs that the smaller wolf will give in, and seeing this, the larger threatening wolf will let The smaller wolf go without any trouble and neither of them gets hurt.
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Explain how the example from the lecture illustrates the concept of appeasement behaviors.
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Appeasement behaviors are submissive signals displayed by weaker animals to communicate non-aggression and willingness to yield, thereby avoiding harmful conflicts with dominant group members.
The lecture uses wolves to demonstrate appeasement behaviors. In wolf packs, stronger individuals may threaten weaker ones over food. When a smaller wolf risks confrontation（对抗、冲突、正面争执）, it shows submission by lowering its head to the ground and flattening its fur against its body—clear physical signals of surrender. These actions communicate non-aggression, causing the dominant wolf to back down without violence. -
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