gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 170 The Magnificent Night
Fang Hong put his feet up on the vine: "Nash Warbiander once said that when sleeping in the rainforest, what you should pay attention to is not the beast, but the flood."

"Wait a minute, Brother Gun, who is this, is he famous?"

"I made that up? The name is creative."

"This is obviously really made up by Brother Gun."

"I'll go. Once bitten by a snake for ten years, I'm afraid of well ropes. Brother Qiang probably doesn't want to sleep on the ground after he entered the forest because he was flooded last time."

Fang Hong waved his hand: "Goodbye!"

Yu Tan: "Wait a minute!"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

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"Damn, get out."

In the morning, the live broadcast started again.

The first thing to cut into was not Fang Hong's big face, but the quiet river surface.

At dusk, the sunlight cuts through a gap between the two dense forests on the river, and the light divides the river in two.

"Buzzing..." The picture slowed down, and the occasional ripples on the water surface seemed to be frozen.

The lens zooms in and is fixed in front of a flower.

A small bird hovers in front of the flower, sucking honey with its long beak.

Under such a slow motion camera, the bird's wings appear extremely fast, and it is impossible to see clearly, only the wings are shaking.

"The hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world, is only found in the Americas. Its wings are fast enough to hover in the air."

"In China, there is a similar but different bird called hummingbird. In the world, there are hummingbirds in the Americas and only kingfishers in Ecuador, while other continents in the world have only kingfishers and no hummingbirds. It seems to be careful about the field of birds. Not compatible."

In other words, they were the same species before the continents separated, and gradually evolved to become more and more different until they were completely different.

"In the process of evolution, hummingbirds chose a faster wing-beating speed. The speed of wing-beating per second exceeds the per-second cycle interaction speed of our country's alternating current, so they can levitate in front of flowers to collect honey. This is the only bird that can do this. A little bit. And the kingfisher has chosen the speed of flight in the course of evolution. When the kingfisher paddles across the water to catch fish, the speed is as high as [-] kilometers per hour, which is fast enough to pick up the fish before the fish on the surface can react."

"Next time I have a chance, I can show you the kingfisher."

The motion shot speeds up to normal speed, the hummingbird stays in front of the flower for three seconds, then flutters its wings and disappears into the frame.

The sunlight dividing line on the river slowly disappears from west to east.

Night falls.

On the river bank, a lizard cautiously appeared under a tree, then rushed out and onto the river.

It didn't swim in the water, but spread its hind legs and ran on the water.

"Jesus lizard, floats on the water lightly. These lizards are also called basilisk lizards. There are scales on their feet, which can form bubbles on the water, and use their wide feet and the strength of the bubbles to step on the water."

Under the sports lens, the Jesus lizard lifts its legs and falls, with its horns kicking to the sides: "This running method is the reason why they can stand upright on the water. And go forward."

"In the Amazon, speed is king, especially nocturnal animals, one is faster than the other, and even birds and reptiles are leading to the evolutionary route of miniaturization and rapidity."

Biologically speaking, speed in birds and reptiles is inherently defective.

Birds need strong pectoral muscles to flap their wings. Flying is far more strenuous than running on the ground. Therefore, most birds evolved from dinosaurs but chose to be miniaturized because there is not so much food to provide the huge energy needed by the pectoral muscles.

The muscle strength and bone strength of reptiles are inherently inferior to mammals, and it is very rare to be able to evolve to this stage.

Most of them chose miniaturization in pursuit of speed.

"The natural world is magical and magnificent. Every species, after encountering a natural enemy, will have two evolutionary routes. One is to go head-on and grow bigger and bigger until it can fight against the natural enemy. For example, the Canglong was once preyed on by sharks, so It began to evolve toward large size, and finally became the top sea overlord for hunting sharks. The other is miniaturization, and speed is king."

"However, nature is fair. It doesn't mean that if they are big, they can exist forever. Once they encounter climate change, the blow to them will be destructive, because large-scale means that their adaptability will be infinitely weakened. And miniaturization is not the same. Representatives can do whatever they want, because the opponents are also getting smaller. In South America, large animals have been extinct, and large carnivores have also begun to evolve into cautious carnivores and used to be out at night, such as tiger cats."

In just a moment, a black shadow ran through the forest: "That is the tiger cat. It is almost impossible to take pictures of their true faces, unless a camera is left in their habitat for a year or so. "

The last of the species of night footage emerged.

At the water's edge, under a stone, the water was gurgling, and a dark brown animal crouched, just under the stone.

"bloodsucking bat."

Vampire bats have a head that looks like a pig's head, a nose that resembles a pig's, and ears that are big, but vertical.

"It's listening to the surface of the water."

The next moment, the vampire bat spread its wings and crossed the water.

"Bats are mammals and the only flying mammals. In our homeland, they are called salt mice."

They look a lot like mice, but they're not rodents at all, they're chiropteras.

"This kind of bat is very dangerous because they carry rabies virus. Once they are bitten, they need to be vaccinated immediately. The rabies virus will lurk in the nerve veins and continue to move towards the brain stem. Once it enters the brain stem, it will immediately become ill and die after the onset. [-] percent."

When bitten by a dog, it is usually a leg, and the incubation period is very long, which may reach several years or even ten years at the longest.But when bats attack people, they must attack the face and torso, and the disease will occur within a few days.

"It has detected the fluctuation of the water pattern and determined the position of the prey."

Bats emit ultrasonic waves, and then receive the reflected ripples, forming a three-dimensional picture in the brain.In other words, bats can see sound, their own voice. "

On the lake, the bat suddenly spread its wings while gliding, the upper part of its body stopped abruptly, its legs rushed forward, and it changed from flying in the water to standing on its own in the air.

The two claws scooped up a fish once in the water, then threw the fish into the air, caught it for the second time, turned around and flew away: "It didn't catch well the first time, so it performed acrobatics in the air."

"Different subspecies of vampire bats attack different targets. In South America, they mainly eat fish and occasionally attack animals. However, they are very small, and Brazil has only recorded vampire bats attacking children, and they will not attack adults. of."

The bats disappeared, and the night shots were sorted out.

The scene cuts back, and Fang Hong is squatting in front of a flower, holding a wooden stick in his hand.

"Brother Gun, what is this?"

Fang Hong smiled: "I don't know if this thing is called a flytrap or a pitcher plant, but it is a carnivorous plant anyway."

"There are more than 500 species of carnivorous plants in the world, and I don't know this one."

The plant in front of me looks like a pitcher plant, with a trumpet-shaped flower.

However, its flower mouth is not smooth, but has the same spikes as the flytrap, with both sides, which looks like an open mouth.

"Brother Gun, if you poke it like this, it won't move, so what kind of fly catcher!"

"General carnivorous plants have two mechanisms. One is like the pitcher plant, which emits a foul smell and drives away large animals but attracts mosquitoes. Its flower wall is very slippery, and it is unstable. Don't even think about coming out once it goes up. When it reaches the bottom, it will be stuck by a very viscous mucus. The other is the Venus flytrap mechanism, which will shrink when touched by mosquitoes and trap the mosquitoes to death. This one seems to have two mechanisms at the same time."

Fang Hong held the stick: "Look, next time I poke it, it will bite the stick."

The stick went down, and it didn't move.

"Mistake, mistake." Fang Hong poked again, this time, the carnivorous plant's canine-toothed mouth suddenly tightened, but nothing was eaten.

"Touch a thorn alone, it will not respond, it must touch two thorns before it closes, this kind of physiological movement mechanism, scientists have not yet figured out. The function is to prevent the prey from touching the outside. It was a waste of effort. It should take a few hours to open after closing the mouth, and the real mosquito has been killed in these few hours. But this time, it bites the air."

"Brother Gun, is it really okay for you to disturb people's hunting like this?"

Fang Hong nodded: "That's right, I still have breakfast, I don't care about it."

(End of this chapter)