Cross-Species Communication: An Exploration to Reduce Anxiety and Stress among Modern Youth

Yibo Meng

doi:10.5281/zenodo.15534313

Authors

Yibo Meng Art and Design Academy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15534313

Keywords:

cross-species, perceptual channels, communication, emotional values

Abstract

Cross-species communication is a very complex and interesting area of research, which refers to the communication behavior that occurs between different species, and is generally common in humans and other species, because it may imply high ideological and social values. Since the transcendental perception channels of different species are different, it seems that the vast majority of species only have a good perception of the "language" and "emotion" of the same species, and it is very difficult to achieve real communication between species, at least until now, there is still no sufficient scientific research to fully communicate between humans and animals. But this does not affect our curiosity and exploration, and we believe that there are many personal and social values for such behavior, such as we can try to take more care of the physical and mental health of animals, so as to better protect them, and of course, perhaps more importantly, we get emotional relaxation and mental relaxation from this process, as we all know, comfort is mutual.

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