The decorative pattern in Dunhuang art can be classified into three categories: plant pattern, animal pattern, and geometry pattern.

敦煌艺术中的装饰纹样分为植物纹样、动物纹样和几何纹样三大类。

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This is the Green glazed vase in Han Dynasty quite common but yellow glazed vase with animal pattern round the middle is very rare. Because yellow glazed was restricted to the use of the royal family.

汉绿釉瓶并不罕见，但黄釉及有环形兽纹则非常罕见，因为黄釉属于皇家用品。

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The team identified 39 of these traditions that are practiced by some communities but not others. This is a pattern that, at the time, hadn't been seen in any animal except humans.

该研究小组找出了39个传统行为，一些群体有这些行为，但另一个群体却没有。当时，这种模式只存在于人类之中。

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What is more, by analysing this pattern the team demonstrated that in a living animal the lenses would focus light on to bundles of nerves found in the skeleton.

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While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry.

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