Chapter 1768: Flat-Headed Grasshopper

Chapter 1768 Flat-headed Grasshopper

The ferocity of these animals is well known in nature, and even some cheetahs or lions will be killed by honey badgers in a fight with honey badgers. Honey badgers are highly resistant to snake venom and are one of the few animals in the world that are resistant to snake venom.

He is fierce and aggressive when dealing with heterogeneous characters. The character is brave, resolute and tenacious. The hunting efficiency is very high. The difference from other predators is that the honey badger always hunts non-stop to meet the energy consumed by its constant movement. Other predators often rest after preying once. Honey badgers eat about 60 species of prey, ranging from small insects to small rabbits. A male honey badger can easily run 9.6 kilometers per hour, and its range exceeds 200 square miles or more.

Honey badgers often hunt at night and sleep in holes or rock crevices during the day. The honey badger living in the Sahara Desert of Africa also forages during the day and is good at digging holes. The powerful weapons of the honey badger are its claws and teeth. Because it is very ferocious, it is almost not afraid of anything. It takes an hour for the African leopard to catch it. It is subdued, because its fur is smooth and tough, and it is difficult to hurt the body. Honey badgers of the same kind have self-mutilation, especially for cubs, only half of which can grow to adults.

The honey badger's favorite food is honey. It formed a very interesting "partnership" with the black-throated honeybee. As soon as the honeybee sees the honey badger, it will keep calling to attract the attention of the honey badger. The honey badger will follow the sound of the honeybee and follow it, and at the same time, it will make a series of echoing sounds. Honey badgers use their strong and powerful claws to break open the beehives because they cannot break the beehive by themselves, and the honey badgers can also share a delicious meal.

The honey badger is best known for its symbiotic partner, the intelligent honeybee, as a guide to honey sources. The ringing honeybird called the honey badger to follow him, and brought the honey badger to the bee's home. The honeybee relied on the mammal's strong claws to break through the hive it had previously found. This strange partnership has yet to be scientifically proven. Because the honey hunters have witnessed this cooperation with their own eyes, they also regularly follow the guidance of the honeybee. Under the call of the birds flying around, people are guided to the hive several kilometers away. Studies have shown that honeybees know the location of every hive within a radius of 250 square kilometers. The nectar hunters depend on honeybees for their livelihood, and they always leave some hives in return.

Zhao Zhongyao told his wife and children some stories about the badger. After hearing this, everyone was very curious. I don't understand how there are such ferocious little animals on the African grasslands.

'Dad, that's really good of you. This little animal is so cute. If I have a chance, I must go to the African prairie to see Brother Pingtou, this legendary magical little animal. Feifei looked at Zhao Zhongyao and said.

'Dad, look, this place is similar to the African prairie, will there be animals like Pingtouge in this place! ’ Tiantian suddenly had such an idea.

Fei Fei glared at Tian Tian after hearing what his sister said, and said, "Sister, are you kidding me, this is Mercury, how could there be such a magical animal as a badger." '

‘Although this is Mercury, isn’t the climate and environment here very similar to that of the African savannah? Since the environment is the same, will there be the same animals? ’ Seeing that her brother didn’t believe what she said every day, she pouted again.

After hearing what Feifei and Tiantian said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, 'This place on Mercury really looks the same as the African savannah. Since the environment is similar, will there be some magical little animals here too! '

'Yes, Dad is right. There must be some amazing critters in here. ’ Seeing her father supporting her every day, she said proudly.

At this moment, Feifei looked at Zhao Zhongyao again and said, 'Dad, why do you think there is such a prairie in this place! Here is Mercury. How could there be life in such a place. And it's a prairie. '

After hearing Feifei's words, Zhao Zhongyao thought for a while and said, 'That's right, look at the environment here. This is a huge sinkhole. Outside the tiankeng, it is a barren land. Because the temperature outside is very high. Not suitable for life at all.

But in this tiankeng, it is different. You can see that the sun cannot directly shine the sunlight into this tiankeng. In this case, the temperature in this tiankeng will be much lower than that outside.

Also, this sinkhole was originally at the junction of the front and back of Mercury. The temperature at this junction is not very high. In addition, this tiankeng is still several hundred meters away from the ground. In this way, the place forms a natural greenhouse.

The temperature outside may raise the temperature inside this sinkhole. But the temperature inside this tiankeng can be preserved for a long time.

I have measured it just now, and the temperature here is only over 20 degrees. Just the right temperature for survival. Also, the oxygen content in this place is also very high. It is similar to our earth. Because of this, this place can produce all kinds of life. '

After hearing what Zhao Zhongyao said, Feifei said puzzled again, 'But this place is Mercury. Isn't there no air on Mercury! How can there be air in this place. And there will be oxygen too! ’ Regarding this question, Feifei still couldn’t figure it out.

After Zhao Zhongyao heard Feifei's words, he thought about it again and said,'The reason why there is life in this place. It is because this place is a very special place on Mercury. I think, on Mercury, except for this place, it is impossible to have that place where life exists. '

'Yeah! So what's so special about this place! ’ After listening to what Dad said, Feifei still didn’t quite understand.

'Son, look at this place, it's surrounded by cliffs. If this place can generate some air, the air can be kept here for a long time.

Of course, air alone is unlikely to give birth to life. Want to give birth to life. Then there must be oxygen. It can be said that oxygen is the fundamental condition for the existence of life. It can also be said that oxygen creates life.

When there is no oxygen on the earth, there is no life. But once there is oxygen, life begins to appear slowly. Oxygen is the key ingredient for life to exist.

Oxygen is the key substance for the human body to carry out metabolism, and is the first need of human life activities. Breathing oxygen is converted into available oxygen in the human body, which is called blood oxygen. , The working state of the brain is closely related. The stronger the heart pumping ability, the higher the blood oxygen content; the stronger the coronary blood transfusion ability of the heart, the higher the concentration of blood oxygen transported to the heart, brain and whole body. The better the operating condition is.

Oxygen is a key substance to maintain the vitality of the body's immune function. When people get enough oxygen, the nutrients they eat will be oxidized before they can be used by cells, converted into energy, and supplied to various tissues and organs, so as to ensure the normal work of the immune system. When a person is hypoxic, the function and immunity of various organs will decline, which will promote the ability to resist viruses.

Excessive oxygen uptake can also promote life aging. The oxygen entering the human body reacts with the oxidase in the cells to generate hydrogen peroxide, which then becomes lipofuscin. This lipofuscin is a harmful substance that accelerates cell aging. It accumulates in the myocardium, causing myocardial cells to age and heart function to decline; it accumulates on the blood vessel wall, causing aging and hardening of blood vessels; it accumulates in the liver, weakening liver function; it accumulates in the brain , cause mental decline, memory loss, and people become dementia; accumulate on the skin to form senile plaques. Researchers analyzing sedimentary rocks found high nickel concentrations in oceans on early Earth 3.8 billion years ago.

But between 2.7 billion and 2.5 billion years ago, when the "Great Oxidation Event" began, the amount of nickel dropped dramatically. The reduction of nickel laid a solid foundation for the "Great Oxidation Event". Because, the reduction of nickel content effectively reduces the generation of methane. This prompted the rapid increase of oxygen on the earth and the slow formation of life.

And 2.7 billion years ago was the time when single-celled organisms appeared on the earth, and it was also when the oxygen in the early atmosphere suddenly increased. Therefore, this relationship can be inferred as follows: nickel reduction→methane-producing bacteria died→methane production decreased→oxygen destruction decreased → Microorganisms that produce oxygen increase → Oxygen is produced in large quantities ("Great Oxygenation Event" begins) → Single-celled organisms appear in large numbers → Life develops from single-celled to multi-cellularized → Low-level organisms → High-level organisms.

So how did nickel decrease? The researchers believe that the cooling of the Earth's crust 2.7 billion years ago contributed to the decline in nickel levels, because the cooling of the crust meant that very little nickel entered the ocean through volcanic eruptions. At the same time, due to the large amount of oxygen, the changes in the earth's topography and landforms have also played a role in promoting.

For example, the corrosive action of oxygen contributed to the erosion of rocks, which also formed rivers and shaped coastlines, and even shaped the earth into a round shape. However, before Connhauser came to the conclusion of the "Great Oxygenation Event", some paleontologists believed that the mineralized deposits of the simplest single-celled organisms on Earth were found on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. These primitive creatures lived about 560 million years ago.

Although early life on earth may not need oxygen. But the life forms at that time were basically some simple bacteria. Only when oxygen was produced in large quantities, did life on earth continue to appear in bursts.

Oxygen is the key factor for the continuous evolution and development of life on earth, and it is also the basic substance that supports the entire life activity. Most life on Earth cannot exist without oxygen.

The relationship between humans and oxygen is a very good proof. We humans cannot do without oxygen for a moment. Human beings cannot survive without oxygen.

Not only humans cannot survive, but many small animals cannot survive. The relationship between human beings and oxygen is the relationship between you and me. Without oxygen, there would be no human beings. All life on earth is based on the consumption of oxygen.

In this sinkhole of Mercury, there must also be some mechanism for producing oxygen. Of course, it seems that there is oxygen here because of these grasses. With oxygen, there will be all kinds of animals.

This place was previously created by the explosion of an asteroid. The material elements of this asteroid may contain a large amount of oxygen. In this way, when the asteroid exploded, it radiated a large amount of oxygen into the sinkhole.

In this way, a favorable condition is created for the existence of life here. With a large amount of oxygen and an appropriate temperature, this place has become a hotbed for a large amount of life.

I feel like we were lucky this time around. We found this big tiankeng. If we hadn't found this big tiankeng, we probably haven't found any signs of life on Mercury until now. '

Zhao Zhongyao looked at Feifei, and then said some of his views on this big tiankeng. After Feifei heard it, she felt it made sense. After all, it is really incredible that there is such a magical place on Mercury.

‘Dad, then should we continue to explore the valley below? I don't know what kind of magical animals exist in this valley. ’ Feifei looked at Dad again and said.

'If you don't go, how will you know! I thought, since there are little grasshoppers and big grasshoppers, there are also some other magical animals. 'Zhao Zhongyao also felt that in such an underground world, not only

There are a few small insects, and there must be other animals.

So, Zhao Zhongyao took Feifei, Qu Yuqian and Tiantian, and continued to walk deep into this small valley.

They were walking down the road, and it felt like they were walking into a deep valley. I don't know what is in this deep valley.

Zhao Zhongyao, Feifei, Qu Yuqian and Tiantian walked slowly towards the depths of this valley. They felt that there seemed to be nothing special in this valley. In addition to some grass, there are some small insects such as small grasshoppers.

Feifei looked at the little grasshoppers flying around them and said, 'Dad, this place seems to have the most animals like this kind of grasshoppers! You see, no matter where we go, we can see such little grasshoppers. '

After hearing Feifei's words, Zhao Zhongyao said again,'Yes, this kind of small grasshopper must be at the lowest end of the food chain in this prairie, and they must be the main food for other large insects. '

Zhao Zhongyao thought of the big grasshopper they saw attacking them just now, and he felt that these little grasshoppers were the main food for other large insects like that big grasshopper.