Animals Fight to Survive! They Devour Their Siblings
Sea, because it looks like a giant version of a yellow, and lives in the sea, is named sea. Even though it swims around all day, at a glance, it looks a little like a flexible seaweed, in fact, it is a fierce beast in the ocean, its fierceness lies in its mouth.
Sea's mouth is very big, and its teeth are exaggerated, which can be described as 'grotesque'. These dense teeth are curved inward. Once they bite a prey, there is almost no chance of escape. However, they have an unexpected defect, they can't like most fish, directly suck food into their mouths.
Maybe sea's mouth is already optimized to bite and hold prey, so it can't take care of sucking. So they found another way, and grew another mouth in their throats. Two mouths cooperate to send food into their stomachs.
How powerful is this strange equipment? Let's take a real case. In Thailand, there is a star sea that is 2 meters long, unlike other shy creatures that like to hide in coral crevices, it is very hospitable and often interacts with snorkelers. As a result, during one of the dives, a diver named Matt fed it a hot dog. It turned out that sea's vision is very poor, it can't distinguish between the color of the hot dog and fingers, Matt's thumb was mistaken for a hot dog, the other mouth of the sea immediately extended out, before he could react, the whole thumb was gone.
If it's just bitten by other sharp-toothed fish, it's at most a skin wound. It's seen the power of 'mouth-in-mouth'. Confirmed the mouth, this is the 'weird' prototype. Sea's mouth is like a character in a horror movie, but it's not the only animal that solves problems in the way of horror movies. In the Pacific Ocean, there is a bird species on a small island that is similar to a vampire—the sharp-beaked ground.
When it comes to animals that rely on sucking blood, people usually think of water fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes as suspects. Before mosquitoes and ticks suck blood, they first anesthetize your skin; water fleas use cold water to cause numbness. In short, these sucking guys don't make it easy to be discovered, they are quite polite.
But the cute-looking sharp-beaked ground is constantly pecking open the skin of seabirds with sharp beaks, until blood pours out. Once the blood vessels are pecked open, more sharp-beaked ground will come, just like The scene where vampires commit crimes. Of course, this doesn't mean they were born to do this. It's because in their living environment, the environment is harsh, and there is almost no fresh water, in order to quench their thirst, they learned to drink blood.
There are animals that dominate with sophisticated equipment and individual strength, and there are animals that survive by collective strength. Bees and ants are the most familiar social insects to us, they are actually related, and without exaggeration, ants abandoned the flying ability of bees. We can find many similarities between them, first, they all build nests, and the nest structure is complex, each nest is ruled by a queen bee or ant, and their social division of labor is clear. However, there are exceptions, namely marching ants, they completely abandoned the habit of building nests, and all their survival depends on moving.
The marching ant's dominance is like a flood, when large ant groups move out, they can form ant rivers with a width of about 20 meters and a length of 100 meters. Wherever they go, there is no one left, and they can quickly eat away a python. But marching ants also have their difficulties, this survival method requires a large number of individuals to support, and these rapidly developing ant equipment are not so good. If a product needs to sell in large quantities, it must abandon a certain quality. Ants are the same, so they abandoned the eyes, which is a high-cost organ.
The marching ant's eyesight is probably only left to feel the light. To control the marching process, they developed a pattern based on odor recognition, each marching ant leaves a specific pheromone, and the following marching ants will follow the pheromone to move forward. Although this method is clever and efficient, it has defects. If there are a few marching ants that follow each other, then one marching ant black hole is created.
The marching ant black hole may have existed for thousands of years, but the first time it was observed was in 1936. At that time, a bee biologist accidentally encountered hundreds of ants forming a dead circle. This phenomenon lasted for a whole day, and a heavy rain couldn't stop them. By the second day, most of the ants had died, but some ants were still weak and circling, which may be a bug in the marching ant's high-performance program.
If the above three animals' weirdness is still glorious, some animals' weirdness is really helpless. For example, scorpions living in the desert are hot and need to hide from the scorching sun during the day, and hunting becomes a difficult thing.
However, fortunately, they don't picky, these scorpions will eat anything they can sting, including themselves, and even children. This self-cannibalism behavior seems particularly cruel, but it is a secret in the impoverished desert area, starting from reproduction, they have already arranged it.
Scorpions will breed massively in food-rich seasons, and those baby scorpions are 'walking protein'. When the food is scarce, they become a high-nutrient food for mothers. In fact, this weirdness is not difficult to understand, humans store energy through fat, scorpions have no subcutaneous fat, so they use offspring to store energy, which is a wonderful wisdom.
Children may be eaten by mothers or brothers. The sand tiger shark is a large group of sharks, it looks fierce but is quite docile, compared to its adult personality, it is the most ferocious period is in the womb.
First, sharks are essentially egg-laying animals, but many sharks use live birth to directly give birth to baby sharks. The sand tiger shark is one of them. So the problem arises, the sand tiger shark's recipe also includes small baby sharks, just born sand tiger sharks may be eaten by their siblings, so they also evolved a ruthless and weird way to respond.
Small sand tiger sharks, just born, can grow up to 1 meter, and their nourishment comes from their brothers and sisters. Biologists say this cannibalistic behavior is actually like breastfeeding, but mammals drink with milk, and sharks eat living creatures.
Survival of the fittest. When animals' lives encounter challenges, they must try their best to fight, and come up with various ways to survive, otherwise, they will only accept the fate of being extinct. So there is no weirdness or weirdness, everyone is just trying to make a living.
