一舞定情

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when you are walking down the street, in a shop or at a party, how do you act when you

meet a perfect partner for you. Do you start to get nervous and shy, are you up

front and tell them you are interested or do you try to make casual

conversation? What if you couldn』t talk and had to find a perfect partner with

your body language. Maybe at a party doing a dance would be fine but it would

look strange in the streets or at the shops.

In all of history and cultures people have used dancing as a seductive way of finding a

mate, although we have evolved to find other traits more attractive. In the

animal kingdom dancing is still used to find a perfect mate. While dancing

rituals looks strange for us to witness and we see them as beautiful and

perfect, its only animals of the same species will be able to see the fault in

the dance.

Take the peacock for an example when they display the tail to the mate it is very large

and hide to miss, the tail feathers have many beautiful eyes and are full of

bright colours that anyone would love to watch the display, research on this displayhas

shown the peafowls that the peacocks are displaying to are not interested in

the bright colours and the many eyes, they are only interested in the base of

the tail.

There is one bird species that finds it perfect mate by dancing that we can observe

and when we do it makes an amazing sight to see, that is the dance of the

western grebes. The dance is so tricky that if the bird does not have the

ability to walk on water, the bird might as well give up because it won』t ever

find a mate. As these doing a move called rushing where the birds will sprint

across 20 meters for up to 2 to 7 seconds.

The dance starts off by the male providing the female with a fish, if the female

accepts the fish this means the female has acknowledged that the make is a goof

provider. While the male passes the fish, the beaks touch each other like in a

romantic movie. Once the fish has been taken the dance will start, they will

start by copying each other』smovements, until it looks like one of them are

next to a mirror, as soon as the dance starts to be in sync then they will

start the running on water. For the dance to be successful they both must run

on the water and land in the water at the same time.

This dance allows them to find out if they are a perfect match to each other, if

there was a test that would help you find the perfect mate would you take the

test or do you think it would take the away the experience people need in life

to grow into an adult.

中文翻譯

當你在街道、商場、舞會上閑庭信步時，如若突然遇到心儀之人，你會作何表現？緊張？害羞？又或是衝到對方面前，告訴對方你對他（她）是多麼感興趣？這固然好，但是如果你不能用語言表達，只能通過肢體語言來尋找MR right ，你又會如何表現呢？如果場所設定在舞會上，那來支舞蹈一定完美，可是如果發生在街道或商店，跳舞似乎就不那麼合時宜了。

儘管現如今我們會用其他更有吸引力的方式去吸引異性，但在所有歷史和文化中，人類都曾運用跳舞來作為一種暗示，從而找到自己的伴侶。在動物界中，跳舞仍然是一種幫助找到完美伴侶的的方式。我們對於動物界，在求愛時所表演的跳舞儀式是陌生的，在我們看來可能是無與倫比的美麗，但是在同類動物眼中卻能夠發現舞蹈中的不足之處，畢竟能否傳宗接代，一舞定勝負了。

就拿孔雀來舉例，孔雀的羽毛上有美麗的眼睛圖案，充滿了明亮的顏色，我們總是樂此不疲得欣賞著它的開屏。但是研究顯示，當雄孔雀在那邊搔首弄姿時，雌孔雀根本就不關注尾巴上羽毛的顏色與圖案，它僅僅只對尾巴靠近身體根部的部位感興趣。

有一種西方的水鳥也是運用跳舞的方式來求偶，這種舞姿令觀察者嘆為觀止。該舞姿需要相當得技術含量，如果水鳥不能在水面上行走得話，它通常會面臨求偶失敗。這種水上舞姿被稱作為一種社交活動，要求水鳥在水面上快速奔跑20米以上，持續時間2秒到7秒。

這段舞蹈是以雄性向雌性提供美食——一條魚，作為開端。如果雌性接受了這條魚，就意味著雌性承認雄性是一個好獵手。當雄性水鳥遞過魚後，它們彼此會碰一下對方的嘴巴，類似人類戴完戒指後，就擁吻。緊接著，舞蹈就開始了，雙方會以模仿彼此的動作作為開端，直到一方看起來就像是另一方在照鏡子一樣，一旦同步後，它們就會開始在水面上跑起來，只有它們同時奔跑與著陸在水面時，該段舞蹈才算成功。

這類舞蹈能夠檢驗彼此是否有默契。如果這個世界上真的存在一種測驗能夠幫助我們人類找到mr right,你會去參加測試么？又或者你覺得這個測驗剝奪了人類體驗一同成長的經歷？

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