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Abstract：
Wildlife residing in cities has made encounters between humans and wild animals a common phenomenon. The perspective of the conflict-laden animal-human relationship has been over-emphasized by traditional media, which neglects the peaceful and harmonious daily encounters between residents and urban wildlife. This paper addresses the lacuna in extant literature by examining the virtual encounters between urban residents and wildlife on TikTok by sharing the living habits of Falco tinnunculus. Participatory observation, semi-structured interviews, and text analysis were adopted to explore the knowledge production process of urban wildlife as well as the emotional response of audiences. We found that displaying urban wildlife in short videos is a dynamic process involving the mutual participation of wildlife and humans. Meanwhile, audiences\' anthropocentric gaze of wildlife via TikTok attends to their desires for intimacy with nature and demonstrates the unequal and unbalanced power between wild animals and humans. These findings suggest that more efforts should be made to guide the public to pay attention to native urban wildlife species and to reflect upon the ethics and rationality of such unequal power relations between wild animals and humans.
摘要：
居住在城市的野生动物使人类和野生动物之间的相遇成为一种普遍现象。充满冲突的动物与人类关系的观点被传统媒体过分强调，忽视了居民和城市野生动物之间和平和谐的日常相遇。本文通过分享Falcotinnunculus的生活习惯，研究了TikTok上城市居民与野生动物之间的虚拟相遇，从而解决了现有文献中的空白。参与式观察,半结构化面试,通过文本分析,探讨城市野生动物的知识生产过程以及受众的情感反应。我们发现，在短视频中展示城市野生动物是一个动态的过程，涉及野生动物和人类的共同参与。同时,观众通过TikTok以人类为中心的野生动物凝视关注他们与自然亲密的愿望，并展示了野生动物和人类之间不平等和不平衡的力量。这些发现表明，应该做出更多的努力来引导公众关注本地城市野生动植物物种，并反思野生动物与人类之间这种不平等的权力关系的伦理和合理性。
