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長期以來,人們一直將月亮歸咎於引發人類的奇怪行為。但是,菲多(狗狗的名字)也可能感受到同樣的影響嗎?答案似乎取決於你問誰。《英國醫學雜誌》(BMJ) 今天發表的兩項研究得出了截然不同的結論。在第一項研究中,錢查爾·巴塔查吉及其同事確定了 1997 年至 1999 年間因被動物咬傷(狗咬傷佔 95%)而入住英國醫院的 1,621 名患者。然後,他們將每天的動物咬傷次數與每個月的月相進行了比較。有趣的是,他們發現,滿月期間,這些動物咬傷的發生率增加了一倍以上。悉尼大學的西蒙·查普曼和斯蒂芬·莫雷爾進行了第二項研究,該研究的重點是狗。他們調查了 1997 年至 1998 年間 1,671 例與狗咬傷相關的住院病例。但是,當他們將入院日期與滿月日期進行比較時,他們未能找到規律。事實上,在 18 個高峰日中,沒有一天與滿月重合,最大高峰出現在新年左右。“他們寫道:“在聖誕節期間,尤其是在新年期間,應該對狗更加小心”,而這與滿月無關。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 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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