Chapter 825 Defeat

Unfortunately, although the Egyptian cobra is mighty, its opponent is not easy to deal with. It is the boss of birds - the North African ostrich.

Birds are the envy of all people and animals who want to fly into the blue sky.

Only birds on the earth are animals that are truly qualified to fly freely.

However, not all birds are excellent flyers, but just like the famous chicken soup article, when God closes the door, he must open the window.

"The ostrich is the largest of all birds, but it is a pity that the ostrich only lives in Africa and its range of activities is too small, otherwise it would definitely win the title of the king of birds."

"They really can't fly, but its combat effectiveness on land is completely comparable to that of leopards!"

Bifang huddled behind a rock, watching the confrontation between a bird and a snake, and made a shocking statement before the fight started.

The audience was in an uproar.

[Fuck, is this true? Leopard? ]

[Fang Shen, are you kidding? ]

[Doesn't this thing bury its head when it encounters danger? Scratching head]

The ostrich has a large body and a thin neck, which is a huge weakness no matter how you look at it.

Think about the image of the leopard in your mind again. I'm afraid it will bite off the neck in one bite, right?

How to fight this?

In the eyes of most ordinary people, cats have always been the ceiling of the animal world. When they heard Bifang say this, they couldn't accept it for a while.

"You still don't understand. The weight of leopards is generally between 100 and 200 kilograms, and the weight of ostriches can reach more than 300 kilograms! This is already a big win."

Big is good, big is strong.

This sentence is not absolutely correct in nature, but it is absolutely universal.

The height of an ostrich can reach 1.5 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a 14-year-old boy.

And its attack means come from pecking at the rafters and long trampling and grabbing. In terms of hard power, the lethality of the ostrich is no less than that of hyenas and wolves.

At the same time, although the ostrich is heavier, its running speed is also the best in the animal world.

The fastest running speed can reach 70km/h. Only cheetahs, leopards, and gazelles can match the running speed of ostriches. Moreover, they can run so fast, and their strength is not weak. The most important thing is that their long legs can cause powerful damage to the enemy.

In addition, the ostrich has a strong personality and is often not provoked. It is a guy who will take revenge if he has a grudge. It will often launch an offensive quickly when threatened. This is different from wild animals such as antelopes and zebras. This is much stronger.

It can also be seen from this that the ostrich has its own strength to survive.

In terms of combat effectiveness on this African territory, even the younger female lions are not the opponents of ostriches.

The ostrich's condescending attitude has caused a certain degree of suppression to the corresponding lions. Therefore, the ostrich is also a member of the top of the African food chain, and its strength cannot be underestimated.

Especially for reptiles and snakes, the ostrich is a god-like existence.

Because of this, as an omnivore, the ostrich's diet contains a large number of reptiles, including snakes, but it is relatively rare to take the initiative to deal with such a large cobra.

Bifang spoke very quickly about some characteristics of ostriches. With all the facts listed, the audience had to be skeptical.

After all, the distance was far, and there was no specific reference for the ostriches photographed at this time, and there was no sense of oppression in terms of size, so it was normal to have such doubts.

[So, is the cobra sure to lose? ]

[I feel it is hard to say, maybe it will overturn]

"That's right, there is no such thing in nature." Bifang wanted to say something, but soon stopped talking and reminded the audience in a low voice, "Look, they are fighting!"

The camera automatically zoomed in and focused, and the audience immediately stopped the barrage they wanted to send.

In the canyon, the bird and the snake that were originally in confrontation have changed from confrontation to mutual probing.

The most powerful weapon of the ostrich is its feet, and probing is naturally a simple kick. Perhaps because of its excessive power, the audience could not see the moment when it kicked out, and only felt that it seemed to have passed by a few afterimages.

The Egyptian cobra is obviously a subspecies. It is pitch black and majestic. It does not lose momentum in front of the ostrich, but it is much shorter. In the face of the ostrich's temptation, it can only move back while looking for opportunities. Its snake eyes stare at the ostrich, and the frequency of spitting out its tongue is obviously much faster.

Although Zhang Le wears a pair of eyes, the cobra still cannot deny the fact that it is nearsighted.

All snakes are nearsighted. Most snakes can only see things within 1 meter clearly, and the eyeballs of snakes cannot move like the eyeballs of most animals, which leads to a very small visual range of snakes.

In addition, there is no optic fovea behind the eyeballs of snakes, which is the most sensitive area for visual perception. Therefore, snakes not only cannot see things clearly, but also have very poor ability to detect static objects.

This is only most snakes. Although the cobra is a big myopic, it is already good. Some snakes under the family of colubrids either live in water or caves, and their vision deteriorates more severely.

The blind snake lives underground all its life, and its eyes have degenerated into two small black dots, with only weak light sensitivity and almost no vision.

But the cobra has a very strong organ for searching prey, which is the tongue, or snake tongue.

"Snakes under the cobra family use snake tongues to collect odor particles in the air, and use the odor particles to determine the location and type of prey."

During the brief confrontation, Bifang spoke quickly, and his voice was unconsciously amplified.

He was not afraid that the ostrich and the cobra would hear and run away.

Once animals start hunting or fighting, they pay very little attention to the outside world, especially static objects. As long as they don't jump in front of their eyes, they basically won't notice them and will assume that it is a natural environment.

For example, once a pack of wolves starts chasing a fleeing antelope, even if a motionless rabbit passes by them, it will not attract their attention, but can escape by luck.

Of course, if it moves, it will be another story.

After probing for dozens of seconds, the battle soon became fierce.

The ostrich was obviously much bolder and started to attack more frequently, but this also made the cobra see more clearly.

The audience couldn't help but hold their breath.

Finally, the ostrich's attack hit the cobra's tail, almost on the spot, and the cobra's flesh and blood exploded directly, splashing a pool of blood on the rocks beside it.

Is it over?

Most of the audience don't have a good impression of snakes, and they don't think it's bad to see the cobra lose.

But at this moment, something strange happened!

The cobra, which was almost half broken, suddenly jumped up, bit the neck of the ostrich that was about to lower its head and tear it, and then quickly coiled around it!

Bifang couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.

This can even kill back?

Looking at the remaining half of the snake's tail on the ground, which was still swinging, everyone felt a little absurd.

It's normal for an ostrich to kill a cobra, even though the Egyptian cobra has one of the most venomous snakes in the world and is extremely large.

There is no small cobra in the cobra family, and it is also highly venomous, which is a species with considerable advantages.

Those that are more venomous than it are not as big as it.

Those that are bigger than it are not as venomous as it.

Venomous snakes generally hunt smaller creatures and rarely use coiling, but not using it doesn't mean they won't.

Facing the ostrich, the seriously injured cobra obviously didn't dare to be careless, and injected venom crazily, coiling the ostrich's neck tightly, like a black scarf, but this scarf is very scary.

Bifang licked the corner of his mouth, and was very excited. Although he was just watching the show, this rare counter-killing scene was still extremely rare.

With such a long vision, it is difficult for the cobra to keep up with the attack speed of the ostrich. This time, it was a blind cat catching a dead mouse to bite the vital point.

As an explorer of nature, Bifang also has a deep knowledge of various animals and loves them very much. Seeing such a scene, he was naturally happy.

"The neck of the ostrich is very fragile because the neck of the ostrich, whether it is bones or muscles, focuses on flexibility and is not strong. The legs are extremely strong, and the muscles on the femur and fibula are extremely developed."

"If it bites the legs, it may not be a big deal, but if it is the neck, the ostrich should not survive."

"Just"

[Just what]

[Quickly say]

Bifang stared at the remaining half of the snake body on the ground, but it was not short at all, close to one-third, completely exceeding the scope of the tail.

"It's hard for this cobra to survive."

"If it was just the tail that was broken, the chances of survival would still be quite high, and it might be a little disabled, but now it's so long, it might have damaged its internal organs, plus the infection and deterioration of the natural environment."

Even for animals, infection is quite fatal.

Almost before Bifang finished speaking, the ostrich began to react. At first, it was bitten and shook its head and flapped its wings frantically, but it was all in vain.

With such a close distance to the head, the venom took effect very quickly, making the ostrich dizzy and finally fell on the ground. Its huge body even raised a cloud of dust.

The cobra that fell to the ground did not stay for too long. Almost after killing the ostrich, it didn't even take the spoils, and immediately let go of its body and fled out of the canyon.

Bifang then walked out from behind the boulder, looked at the bloodstains on the ground, and shook his head.

The bloodstains were not long. Snakes have well-developed muscles and have the ability to stop bleeding by themselves. Moreover, the ground is full of gravel, which can also help stop bleeding after being stained.

The ostrich on the ground was still struggling and flapping its wings, but it was a pity that it was undoubtedly a last gasp.

With the amount of venom in the cobra, it was almost impossible for this huge ostrich to survive.

[Eye-opening]

[Damn]

[I thought ostriches would just bury their heads when they encountered danger, but I didn’t expect them to be so fierce, even though they died (dog head)]

“The ostrich burying its head is actually a rumor.”

Bifang shook his head.

"Many people believe that when an ostrich is frightened, it will bury its head in the sand to escape danger. This has led to the idiom 'ostrich policy', but this is actually incorrect."

"The ostrich as a symbol of stupidity has long been recorded in the Bible's Old Testament: 'The ostrich's wings are flapping joyfully, is it the feathers and feathers that show kindness? ... Because God has made it without wisdom, and has not given it understanding. When it stands up and spreads its wings, it laughs at the horse and the rider.'"

"However, the first person to write down this rumor and clearly describe the behavior of ostriches was the Roman thinker Pliny the Elder, who lived between 23 and 79 AD."

"Pliny wrote in his natural history that ostriches think that when they stick their heads and necks into the bushes, their bodies are also hidden."

"Although it is similar, it is also quite different from burying the head. Later, I don't know how it evolved into ostriches burying their heads in the sand."

“But this is totally impossible. Most birds have nostrils at the base of their beaks. Birds like kiwis that can only rely on smell to find food and have nostrils at the front of their beaks have to spray their nostrils vigorously after sticking their heads into the mud to find food to remove debris that hinders breathing.”

“If the ostrich buries its head, it will suffocate to death.”

“As for why this rumor appears, it is probably because the ostrich’s head is very small compared to its body, so as long as the ostrich’s head is close to the ground, it may be mistaken for its head buried in the sand. It is easy to cause misunderstanding.”

In fact, if an ostrich encounters an enemy, the first thing it does is to run.

Although the ostrich belongs to the class of birds, it has completely lost the ability to fly.

The bones of birds are thin and light, and the long bones are filled with air. All the bone fragments of the skull are completely healed. The thoracic vertebrae and lumbar vertebrae, sacral vertebrae and coccygeal vertebrae are all healed together, and the sacral vertebrae and left and right waist belts are also healed together.

There are hook-shaped protrusions on the ribs, which are hooked together to form a solid thorax.

Flying birds also have triangular keel protrusions on their sternum. This increases the area for the pectoral muscles and vibrating wing muscles to attach.

These unique structures of bird bones reduce weight and enhance the ability to support flight.

But this is obviously not the case with ostriches.

As the largest modern bird in the world, male ostriches are generally more than 2 meters tall and weigh about 150 kilograms, but the feathers on their bodies are soft.

The wings of ostriches have been specialized, and there are no hooks between the filaments of the feathers, which cannot form a complete piece of feathers with flying functions, so they can only stay on land.

If you don't observe carefully, you may even mistakenly think that it has no wings.

In addition, it only has a flat sternum and underdeveloped chest muscles. However, although it cannot be used for flying, their feathers still have basic warmth and heat dissipation functions, and can also help change the direction of travel when running.

Bifang squatted on the ground.

At this time, the ostrich was completely motionless. He poked it with a stick, but there was no response.

It was completely dead.

This also made Bifang feel at ease to reach out and touch the dead ostrich.

"Many wrong conclusions are caused by insufficient observation, and ostriches are no exception."

"They have been misunderstood for more than two thousand years. Even if more and more people know the truth, they cannot resist the widespread spread of sayings like 'stupid as an ostrich'."

"However, after saying so much, maybe one day these sayings will become 'strong as an ostrich'."

Bifang smiled, paused, and then added

"If there are still ostriches at that time."