According to the theory of evolution, humans and creatures such as gorillas and chimpanzees are the closest. Even millions of years ago, humans and orangutans were the same ancestral group. However, with the passage of time, when biological evolution has branched evolution, humans and orangutans have naturally embarked on different paths of development.
Today, humans have become the deserved world hegemons on the current earth, but the orangutans have not changed much. In terms of IQ alone, no gorilla has ever shown further potential. What is even more unexpected is that the incredibly strong gorillas and chimpanzees are only the prey of leopards in the forest, which makes many people wonder.
Humans and gorillas
Influenced by the theory of evolution, almost everyone already knows about the ancestors of the apes, and how humans evolved in the direction of Homo sapiens in the subsequent time. But for the evolution of orangutans, not many people actually care.
In fact, at the same time as human development and evolution, orangutans are also carrying out their own evolutionary process. It's just that compared to the early behavior of the able person who actively broke out of the comfort zone, the gorilla just changed to live in a different place. To take a simple example, like the lowland star and mountain gorillas that we are more familiar with now, the difference is mainly in the difference in living environment.
A gorilla eating
In such a situation, the likelihood that a gorillas will want to make further progress is much lower than that of humans. So although modern scientific research has found that the genetic arrangement between gorillas and humans is only between 1% and 2%, gorillas have never been able to leave the category of beasts.
In addition, when humans left the forest and began to create various tools to help themselves live, orangutans chose to increase their physical flexibility and reproductive ability to cope with various existential crises. As a simple example, when faced with other large predators in the rainforest, orangutans would climb trees to evade pursuit.
Clever gorillas
Although this method mitigates the biological threat from the ground to some extent, it also further reduces the possibility of orangutans actively leaving the forest. Subconsciously, leaving the forest is equivalent to voluntarily giving up life, so even after millions of years, the gorillas still live in a very primitive state.
But what we need to know is that natural selection and survival of the fittest are always unchanging truths. When orangutans choose to develop to "up" to ensure the continuation of life, predators will also actively evolve this skill. Especially creatures like leopards, when their sensitivity and strength are sufficient, will inevitably take the initiative to climb the trunk of the tree to find the trouble of gorillas.
gorilla
According to the data, gorillas are the largest creatures of all the primates in existence, and when they stand up, they are about 1.6 meters to 1.8 meters tall, which can even be compared with humans. Not only that, in terms of weight, female gorillas weigh about 60-100 kg, and males weigh about 130-180 kg, which is much stronger than humans.
The physical fitness of leopards can be reflected, with a body length of about 1 meter to 1.5 meters, and a weight of only 50-100 kg. If compared with female gorillas, leopards undoubtedly have an advantage. But compared to male gorillas, leopards are at a disadvantage. But even so, why are gorillas so important in the leopard's food list?
Predator leopard
In fact, this is mainly due to the fact that the survival of the two is completely different, or even completely different at the same level. Anyone who knows gorillas knows that this is a wild animal with a very docile and vegan personality. Let's assume that if someone accidentally enters the territory of a gorillas, their most violent reaction is to try to drive outsiders away without harming humans.
But if humans accidentally enter the leopard's territory, it is best to pray that they have enough self-preservation ability, otherwise it is easy to become the leopard's plate food. It should be known that in the eyes of leopards, the difference in appearance and form does not affect their appetite for eating. Even compared to gorillas, humans are more likely to prey without any defenses.
When a leopard chooses to attack a gorilla, fangs, claws, and a body that is flexible enough can all be lethal weapons. The advantages that gorillas show on the data panel are useless in the face of survival problems.
Leopards in a predatory state
This is actually very easy to understand, in the imagination of many people, gorillas only need to use their own physical strength to crush leopards, but unfortunately they do not know how to use these advantages. At this point, gorillas show less ability to fight back than other large wild vegetarian animals.
Fortunately, gorillas are social creatures, while leopards like to act alone. So when leopards attack during the day, the orangutans can still cooperate with each other to drive each other away. In general, however, leopards prefer to attack at night. With the help of excellent night vision, the orangutan has no ability to resist at all, and can only be reduced to fish on the chopping board.
Strong gorillas
In addition, in fact, primates like gorillas have a very fatal shortcoming - the pain nerve is too developed. In this regard, the same is true of us humans. When many people see some larger animals being chased and hunted by smaller animals in some film and television materials, they will lament the cruelty of nature and think that these creatures cannot effectively fight back.
However, this is not the case, and when faced with a threat to life, every creature fights hard to survive. However, when the trappers use their fangs and claws to inflict damage on themselves, the pain on the body will make it impossible for them to form an effective counterattack.
Because of this, when leopards attack gorillas that are larger than their own size, the pain in their bodies will make them gradually give up resistance and eventually accept their fate helplessly.
Leopards sometimes hunt gorillas
In contrast, predators like leopards have less pain nerves than gorillas. In other words, after feeling the pain, the leopard shows a completely different reaction.
Scientists once did a special experiment, when they inflicted the same damage on leopards and gorillas, gorillas often only "barked incompetently", the overall behavior is very uneasy, want to delay the pain in the body in various ways. But the leopard is completely different, and after being hurt, the leopard becomes extremely aggressive and extremely irritable.
In such cases, leopard attacks on prey become more rapid. Unless the body is extremely serious or even fatal, they will not give up their hard-won hunting opportunities. In this way, the possibility of the gorilla being targeted by the leopard will naturally be further reduced.
Leopards' pain nerves are not as good as gorillas
Many people wonder why gorillas and chimpanzees are preyed upon by leopards. In fact, the answer is very simple, the two are the relationship between predators and prey living in the same area. What's more, leopards don't just prey on gorillas, and other vegetarian animals of equal size are also likely to be prey for leopards.
The only difference between orangutans among these prey is that they are closer to humans. Before humans investigated leopards, many zoologists mistakenly believed that leopards could coexist peacefully with gorillas.
Since the 1950s, a growing number of zoologists have discovered that leopards are fully natural enemies of gorillas. Even the most powerful "silverback gorilla" in a certain orangutan group has only escaped in front of the leopard.
Silverback Gorilla
In addition, in fact, not only leopards will choose to prey on gorillas, such as lions, tigers, pythons, crocodiles and other animals, but also do not refuse to come to gorillas. Once the gorillas accidentally touch these creatures, they will all have the potential to become each other's lunch or dinner.
So it's not surprising that leopards prey on gorillas. However, compared to other predators, leopards have the advantage of being able to actively attack gorillas from trees. According to the statistics of scientists, it was also found that among all predators, leopards had the greatest chance of success in preying on gorillas.
Leopard with beautiful fur
It's just a pity that both leopards and gorillas still look vulnerable in the face of human technology. Especially when the animal protection law was not perfect, many poachers would specifically pick two creatures to start. Leopards needless to say, shiny fur has always been the hard currency of the poaching market. As long as they can hunt a leopard, poachers can even rest for a whole year.
But why are gorillas hunted and killed? In fact, this is also due to human greed for the physical wealth of gorillas. Although the fur of the gorilla is not as bright as that of the leopard, the overall texture is still loved by many people.
When the market has demand, poachers will naturally not let it go. What's more, in contrast, the difficulty of hunting gorillas is much lower than that of hunting leopards, "why not enjoy it"?
Leopards rescued from poachers
When some illegal institutions need to conduct relevant research on gorillas, they will even raise the price of gorillas appropriately, which will also make them more and more seriously hurt. According to the data, leopards and gorillas in the wild around the world have become endangered animals.
It is sad that two creatures that once competed for survival in an ecosystem have now become completely difficult brothers. What is even more hateful is that even today, many people still hunt leopards and gorillas in Africa, which further threatens the survival of the two creatures.
Wild gorillas have become endangered
In fact, there are many more animals like orangutans and leopards in nature. Even if the two are the relationship between the hunter and the prey, there is no difference in the eyes of the poacher. In the case of lions and elephants, for example, these two creatures are also mostly favored by poachers.
However, in contrast, the elephant's tusks will be sawn off in advance by animal protection personnel, so that poachers can only give up, and lions, as social creatures, are too dangerous to hunt, so orangutans and leopards will be so unfortunate.
After a million years, human beings will have an absolute advantage in the face of any other creature. But how humans should take advantage of this advantage is definitely a question worth pondering for everyone.
Poachers attack wildlife with a variety of advanced powers, sacrificing the entire natural world for their own gain. They simply did not think about how lonely future generations would be when there were only human beings left on earth in the future.
In addition, although gorillas are very close to humans, protecting leopards is equally important in terms of the current conservation status. In our country, for example, the number of leopards living in the wild today is enough to be described as a handful. In such a situation, whether it is a leopard or a gorilla, it should be highly valued. If we continue to hunt these two few animals for our own selfish interests, perhaps in the near future, the question of why leopards prey on gorillas will become a complete history.
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