You would never have imagined that in December 2020, a woman living in Chibolo, Magdalena, Colombia, found a large bird with a strange appearance on the fence in front of her house.
This strange bird is covered with snow white fluff, like wearing a wool coat, the most terrifying thing is its big head that is not in harmony with the body, with large dark eyes, living like an "alien", especially scary.
Curious to kill the cat, the heroine did not know whether she was scared silly or how, she quietly went to the strange bird again, ready to give it a picture.
This time it was good, the strange bird seemed to be provoked, and a huge poignant cry came from its mouth, which frightened her to never dare to come forward again, and she immediately "fled" after taking a hasty video.
What the hell is this?
The woman had never seen such a strange bird before, so she posted a video of the strange bird online in search of answers.
As a result, it immediately attracted the attention of the melon-eating masses. Some have speculated that this is a bird with a genetic mutation; Others believe that this is a new species that has never been discovered ... For a time, there were many opinions, and there was no answer.
Seeing that the crowd is deadlocked, a biologist really can't look at it, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid I'll have to make an "international oolong", so I immediately appeared to reveal the answer for everyone.
It turns out that this strange bird is not a so-called new species, because it is good at camouflage, it is often not discovered. And its scientific name is "Great Forest Bird".
The great forest bird generally lives in the forests of South America, and is said to be rarely found in Guangxi on the mainland. The Great Forest Owl belongs to the family Ofeidae, and there are only 7 species in this family, the most common of which are the Great Forest Plover and the Common Forest Plover.
The reason why they are called "forest owls" is because of their unique camouflage ability. Birds of this family have bodies very similar in color to trunks and are gray-brown.
The great forest bird often stays at the fork of the trunk, and once it "stays" for a day, it closes its eyes and does not know what it is thinking. However, don't think that it is asleep, in fact, it is secretly observing the movements around it.
On the upper eyelids of the great forest plover, there are several small slits, and when they close their eyes, they secretly observe through the small slits to see if there are any natural enemies.
I really took it, direct eye squint slit is not good? I also have to open a slit in the eyelid, and I don't know whether I am deceiving the predator or deceiving myself, and I have a sense of "a leaf obscuring the eye".
But you don't have to say that the camouflage of the great forest bird is still very effective, in addition to deceiving predators, some small insects that do not see the danger will also climb up as a tree trunk. If the fat meat sent to the mouth has no reason not to eat, the great forest bird can eat a beautiful meal with its neck extended.
Generally speaking, at dusk and at night, the great forest bird will quietly stand on the trunk of the tree and stand motionless. At this time, the flying insect, just after a busy day off work, said that he took his wife and children out for a walk, and when he was tired, he would go to the trunk of the tree to lean on.
Who ever thought, before he could stand firm, the whole family was destroyed. Even some of them have no eyesight, and they also pull everyone into people's mouths, which is really invincible.
Therefore, the Great Forest Bird relied on the "disguise" of this "wealth code", standing still, it could harvest innocent insects, and wave after wave of "fat meat", which simply made lazy people envious!
In addition to the special camouflage ability, the breeding of the Great Forest Owl is also different.
Generally speaking, even if normal birds are usually uneasy about their families, after the breeding period, they have to find a "wife" to lay eggs and reproduce offspring, and the squeamish "wife" also wants a big house, so they have to settle down first and lay eggs.
But this is not the case with the great forest plover, the great forest plover will not build a nest in life, and it is monogamous, after the two sides look at each other, they will lay eggs at the branches, and they will only lay one egg at a time, so there is no need to worry about squeezing down.
The male Ōbayashi knows that he is not like other birds, has ideals and the ability to go out and fight in the world, so he is willing to be a "warm man".
Although the couple usually takes turns to incubate the eggs, the male bird will take the initiative to undertake most of the incubation work, let the "wife" go out during the day to "worm meat", go to the park to relax, and take the children at home with peace of mind.
A month later, the chick was born, and at this time, its whole body was still snow-white, and it was easy to be found by predators, nor could it be disguised to prey.
As a result, parents will often guard the chick and protect it with their own wings. When the chicks grow up and form the gray-brown feathers of their parents, they have the same camouflage ability as their parents, and they can go to "worm meat" on their own and find true love.
In general, the Great Forest Bird is really a bird with "self-knowledge". They not only implement the "bird life principle" of "ugly and don't come out to be scary", but also after knowing that they can't fly and fight like other birds, they are willing to find a lifelong partner to go home with their babies and spend their birds.
Although there is no great achievement in a lifetime, but in the end it is comfortable, why is this not a happy choice?