Chapter 1744: Saber-Toothed Tiger Preying on Giant-Toothed Pig

Chapter 1744 The saber-toothed tiger preys on the giant-toothed pig

A wild boar drinks from a watering hole in the African savannah. Suddenly a huge crocodile jumped out of the water, bit the wild boar's head, and dragged it into the water.

Of course, that's not always the case. In fact, most of the time, the big crocodile just scuttled and didn't bite anything at all.

Because those animals who go to the river to drink water are also very careful. They knew the dangers in the water. Therefore, their awareness of prevention is also very strong. It is not to say that all crocodiles can prey successfully if they want to prey on them. In fact, the success rate of this kind of ambush by crocodiles is not very high.

Whether it is Zhao Zhongyao or Feifei, both of them have seen such a shot. The current situation made such a scene immediately appear in the minds of both of them.

Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei felt that what they saw next was that some monster suddenly jumped out of the water, bit the wild boar's head at once, and then dragged it into the water .

Of course, there is another situation, even if there are some monsters in the water. But this big wild boar can still escape successfully. Because it already has a high awareness of prevention, it will not be easily caught by monsters in the water.

Now this wild boar is drinking water by the lake, watching the water carefully while drinking. It takes two sips to lift up again to see what's going on around it. Obviously, it is very careful. It's exactly like a thief stealing something.

Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei also thought it was very fun looking at this animal. Just thinking that there will be a huge monster jumping out of the water below. It's just that what kind of monster it will be, and what kind of result it will have, is unknown.

But just when Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei were thinking this way, another bush by the lake suddenly shook again.

Then, I saw a huge yellow figure rushing towards the big wild boar drinking water by the lake at lightning speed. Obviously this guy has been waiting by the side for a long time, just wanting to ambush this big wild boar.

Although the speed of this figure is very fast, the reaction speed of this big wild boar is also very amazing. Originally, when it was drinking water just now, it looked up and looked around, just to guard against the movement around it.

When this huge yellow figure rushed towards this big wild boar. This big wild boar also jumped up at an extremely fast speed.

But no matter what, the yellow figure was not very far away from the big wild boar at that time, only seven or eight meters away. In such a short distance, a large ferocious beast can completely catch the opponent by surprise.

This big wild boar is like this, although its reaction speed is also very fast. But that beast attacked it faster. Just as it was about to turn around and run away, it was bitten by this beast again.

At the moment, the two beasts staged a tug-of-war there. This big wild boar wants to run away. But this beast held on to its hind legs.

All this happened too fast just now, within a second or two. Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei didn't react for a while. When the two of them reacted, they saw these two beasts tug of war there!

At this moment, Feifei could clearly see the appearance of this other sneak attacking beast. When he saw it, he exclaimed in a low voice, 'Saber-toothed tiger! '

Zhao Zhongyao also saw clearly the appearance of another sneak attacking beast, which was clearly a saber-toothed tiger.

This is a huge adult saber-toothed tiger, with golden hair all over its body, and it is bigger than this giant-toothed pig. It just doesn't look as strong as this giant toothed pig. The shape of the entire saber-toothed tiger is more like a big leopard on the African savannah.

It's just that the saber-toothed tiger is still stronger than the big leopard. And the head is also very special. The most obvious ones are the two pointed and long dagger-like saber teeth. This is the real reason why it was named saber-toothed tiger.

The reason why the saber-toothed tiger has this strange appearance seems to be because it has two saber teeth, which can be used when hunting. Because of these two long saber teeth, when it bites the prey, it is not so easy for the prey to escape.

Because these two long saber teeth penetrate into the prey, it will cause a lot of damage to the prey, and can make it impossible for the prey to escape. Because the two long saber teeth penetrated too deeply into the prey, it would of course be very difficult for the prey to break free.

Also like the current situation. The saber-toothed tiger bit the hind leg of the giant-toothed pig. Although the two saber teeth of the saber-toothed tiger did not penetrate into the flesh of the giant-toothed pig's hind legs. But these two saber teeth are like two locks, firmly locking the giant toothed pig's hind leg. No matter how the giant-toothed pig struggled, it still couldn't escape.

Of course Zhao Zhongyao heard Feifei's exclamation. He carefully looked at this ferocious beast, and it turned out to be a saber-toothed tiger, a prehistoric giant on earth.

Feifei saw that there was a saber-toothed tiger, so he looked at Zhao Zhongyao and asked, 'Dad, there really is a saber-toothed tiger here. We seem to have returned to prehistoric times. '

After hearing Feifei's words, Zhao Zhongyao said, 'Yes, I also feel that we have returned to the prehistoric era. '

‘Dad, do you know this saber-toothed tiger very well, can you tell me another story about this saber-toothed tiger. ’ As soon as Feifei saw this saber-toothed tiger, he wanted to hear the story about this saber-toothed tiger again.

After hearing what his son said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, 'Okay, then I will tell you some more stories about this saber-toothed tiger!

After finishing speaking, Zhao Zhongyao thought for a while, and gave

Feifei told some stories about the prehistoric giant saber-toothed tiger.

Saber-toothed cats refer to a variety of different species that were an offshoot of the evolution of big cats that lived during the Miocene-Pleistocene epoch. It is mainly classified under the cat family Saber-toothed tiger subfamily, hyenadontidae and cat hunting family, and includes two families of marsupials, which survived in different periods of the Cenozoic Era, and each evolved sword-like canine teeth. Their upper canines can reach up to 120 mm in length, and canines are still clearly visible even with the mouth closed.

Saber-toothed cats were generally thicker and bear-like than today's cats. Most members of the Saber-toothed subfamily preyed on large herbivores. Saber-toothed cats evolved into saber-toothed cats after their extinction in the early Pleistocene. The labria farm in the urban area of ​​Luoshanji in the country m is one of the most unusual fossil sites in the world. More than 2,000 fossils of saber-toothed cats, relatives of saber-toothed cats, have been found here, making people have a good understanding of saber-toothed cats With a deeper understanding.

Saber-toothed tigers and tigers are "brothers", that is to say, the "big brother" of tigers. Although saber-toothed tigers are far away from us, their "brothers" still exist. Saber-toothed tigers lived about 3 million to 10,000 years ago. The body is very large, and its teeth are about 120 mm.

Saber-toothed cats lived in North America or Africa, and their prey preyed on the same species on the African continent. At that time, the number of similar species was more than twice that of modern times. No matter how big it is, it can subdue it. The forelimbs of the saber-toothed tiger are muscular and extremely powerful. When they are pouncing on the prey, they only rely on the strength of the forelimbs to knock it down. It has a deadly weapon which is its teeth. The 120 mm teeth pierced the throat of the animal, and the prey died immediately in less than 1 minute.

It was the largest cat in prehistoric times. The genus Saber-toothed cat became extinct in the early Pleistocene, probably because of the competition between the cousin Saber-toothed cat and the descendant Serras-toothed cat and climate change. Since then, Saber-toothed tiger and saw-toothed cat have become the main big cats in the Ice Age. Parasabre-toothed cats appeared in the early Miocene, and the later subfamily of saber-toothed cats lived until the Pleistocene 1 million years ago.

It is an offshoot of the evolution of big cats, the most famous of which is the saber-toothed cat, which lived about 3 million to 10,000 years ago in the Pleistocene - the Holocene period, and spent time with the evolving human ancestors for nearly 3 million years. The largest saber-toothed tiger was about the same size as modern tigers, and a few members of the saber-toothed cat reached the size of cave lions.

However, its upper canine teeth were much larger than those of modern tigers, and even larger than the tusks of wild boar males, like two daggers inserted upside down. The canines of carnivores are used as a killing weapon to prey on prey. Normally, the upper and lower canines should develop evenly, and when they can attack, they can bite the prey to death. However, the upper canines of saber-toothed cats evolved so huge, while the lower canines were relatively degenerated, out of proportion, so it may be specially used to deal with large thick-skinned herbivores such as elephants.

Such special and large canine teeth only need one pair to penetrate deep into the body of the prey, and can expand the wound as much as possible, causing the prey to bleed profusely and die. Corresponding to this, the skull and some muscles of the head of the saber-toothed tiger also changed accordingly, so that the mouth can be opened wider, so that the mandible and the skull can form an angle of more than 90 degrees, so that the pair of swords can be fully and effectively used. The role of teeth.

However, the development of this extreme specialization obviously also has its disadvantages, that is, the adaptability to the environment and prey is greatly reduced. With the extinction of various large thick-skinned herbivores during the Pleistocene, it is not good at running fast. The saber-toothed tiger is also gradually useless, unable to compete with those more flexible and comprehensively developed general carnivores, and it is also going extinct along with its prey.

It was replaced by the modern tiger and other large carnivores. Saber-toothed tiger subfamily is very large. The largest species of African giant saber-toothed tiger is about 1 meter high at the shoulder and weighs nearly 300kg. Although it is not tall enough, they have a strong body, especially the forelimbs. Its most striking place is undoubtedly the head - two 10 cm long saber teeth are deeply buried in the upper jaw, almost at the same level as the top of the head; the lower jaw protrudes downwards with small guards. Although such a leaf guard is good for protecting the protruding saber teeth, it also increases the risk of fracture and infection, and also causes the head to become heavier, which affects the flexibility of movement to a certain extent.

It may be because the pair of giant teeth of the saber-toothed tiger have some shortcomings in life, so that this kind of giant teeth gradually become unsuitable for life in the changing environment of the earth. Such super animals also disappeared in the long river of history.

Zhao Zhongyao looked at Feifei, and told Feifei some stories about saber-toothed tigers that he knew.

After Feifei heard this, he had a general understanding of this super animal. Looking at the huge saber-toothed tiger in front of him fighting against a big wild boar. Feifei felt that this saber-toothed tiger would definitely be able to defeat this big wild boar.

So Feifei said, 'Dad, this big wild boar can't run away now. It will definitely become the prey of this saber-toothed tiger. '

After hearing Feifei's words, Zhao Zhongyao said again, "That's not necessarily the case. Don't look at this saber-toothed tiger is bigger than this big wild boar." But wild boars are very strong and brave animals.

On the African savannah, the combat effectiveness of wild boars should not be underestimated. Although the lion and the hyena are called the big brother and the second brother on the African savannah respectively. But the fighting power of the African wild boar is definitely not lost to lions and hyenas.

An adult male boar can single out a male lion. Not to mention lionesses and hyenas.

So, on the menu of lions and hyenas, wild boars are not at the front. Although leopards often like to prey on wild boars, they can only prey on young wild boars and dare not prey on adult wild boars at all.

An adult wild boar can boldly wander around on the savannah. unless it hits a rhino

Super herbivores like cow elephants. There is no way, it has to give way. Who told someone to weigh several times its weight!

But if a predator like a leopard cheetah wants to prey on an adult wild boar, it is very dangerous. If they were not hungry, they would not dare to take the risk of preying on adult wild boars.

However, if it is a strong male lion, it is also possible to attack an adult wild boar. After all, in terms of size, an adult male lion can weigh twice as much as an adult wild boar.

In fact, the animal world is almost a world where the big bully the small. As long as people are big enough, animals smaller than you will be a little afraid of you.

Even if humans come to the African savannah, if you encounter a large beast like a lion. You don't run away immediately, but if you dare to yell at it, it is also possible to scare it away.

Because man is an erect animal. Although lying there, man is just an animal the size of a dog. But when a person stands upright, he is a very tall animal. Few animals can be taller than humans in stature.

So, if you encounter an adult lion on the African savannah, you must learn to challenge it bravely. If you turn around and run away in fright, then you will be really unlucky. Because you can't outrun a lion at all. Besides, there are weeds everywhere on the prairie, as long as you run, it is easy to stumble over the weeds.

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