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What about eagles that eat lions? In the vast natural world, there may be many phenomena that you do not expect.
Lions, with their strong bodies and amazing biting power, have always been regarded as the kings of nature. Lions do deserve this name, and in the wild, it is basically difficult to find an opponent who can match the lion. But even the most powerful creatures have natural enemies, and lions are no exception.
In the wild, there is such an eagle, it feeds on lions, with its huge size to occupy the survival field, even now, no one has found its natural enemies, what is the matter?
"Air Overlord" Argentine Giant Eagle
In nature, there is a corresponding "strongest king" in each field. Although humans occupy the position of the overlord of the earth, if they lose their weapons and live in the wild, they are very likely to be directly "slaughtered" by wild creatures.
As the saying goes, the winner is the king, the loser is the coward, in nature, most creatures still rely on "brute force" to obtain food, the huge size and strong attack power are still an important criterion for measuring whether animals can dominate the natural world.
The Argentine giant eagle has become the "air overlord" in nature with its innate size advantage.
The Argentine giant eagle belongs to the ornithischian family, is the second largest known bird in the world, and is known for its size comparable to that of small aircraft. According to expert research, Argentine giant eagles can generally grow naturally to about 70 kilograms, reaching 150 kilograms at their heaviest.
When it spreads its wings, the wings can reach 7 meters long, and even 14 meters at the longest time. When the Argentine eagle stands up, it will reach a height of 2 meters, much taller than the average adult male.
From a distance, the Argentine eagle flies through the air like a small airplane. After estimation, we also found that the Argentine Giant Eagle is indeed about the same size as a modern Cessna 152 aircraft.
The size of the Argentine eagle makes it almost free to have no natural enemies, so the Argentine eagle can fly freely on the Pampas all year round.
And judging from the fossils found in the past, we found that the Argentine giant eagle actually has an extremely long history. Experts have speculated that as early as the Miocene 6 million years ago, the Argentine giant eagle may have appeared on the earth.
Lazy predation
As an air overlord, the "menu" of the Argentine Giant Eagle is actually very extensive. Whether it's lions or small creatures, the Argentine giant eagle can easily prey on them.
Despite such a strong predatory ability, the Argentine giant eagle is not as brutal as people think, and the biggest reason is because it is too "lazy".
As the overlord of South America, the life of the Argentine giant eagle can be described as extremely calm and relaxed. For many years, the Argentine eagle has been living lazily and enjoying the peace of life.
It does not actively prey on ferocious animals, neither adds chaos to itself nor causes trouble for other creatures. If hungry, the Argentine eagle will go looking for some carrion for food. In this way, its super high predatory ability is gradually hidden, and it will not be easily exerted when the time comes.
Of course, there is another reason why Argentine giant eagles rarely take the initiative to prey: the physical exertion required for each hunt is enormous. Because of its large body, every time the Argentine giant eagle wants to hunt, it needs to let its wings exert powerful energy to support the hunting operation.
For every hunt, the Argentine eagle also consumes the most energy. For the Argentine Eagles, this is not such a 'good deal'.
Therefore, under the influence of various conditions, the Argentine giant eagle has lived the ultimate "lying flat life" in South America.
A giant eagle that is extinct because it is too lazy
According to common sense, since the Argentine giant eagle has no natural enemies, it will not be so easy to extinct. In the current era, why has the Argentine giant eagle disappeared from people's eyes?
In fact, this is inseparable from the "laziness" of the Argentine giant eagle.
Since there were no natural enemies, the Argentine giant eagle also gradually entered the process of Buddhist reproduction. Usually, an Argentine eagle reproduces every two years and only lays two eggs during each breeding period.
If these newborn eggs want to become an independent and mature Argentine giant eagle, they will have to wait for at least a decade. From this point of view, the breeding speed and update iteration of the Argentine giant eagle is very slow.
The extremely slow rate of reproduction, combined with its lazy predation methods, doomed the Argentine giant eagle to gradually embark on the path of extinction.
Because the environment in which it lives is too comfortable, the powerful limbs of the Argentine giant eagle are also slowly deteriorating, beginning to become weaker and weaker, and the powerful body that it originally possessed has gradually become a drag.
In the face of the changes in the natural environmental conditions that occurred on the earth later, the Argentine giant eagle lost its ability to cope. In the end, in history, the Argentine giant eagle also gradually withdrew from the historical stage.
Some have speculated that the late Pliocene, 250,000 years ago, was the last period for the survival of the Argentine giant eagle.
epilogue
Nature is always cruel, no matter how powerful you are, if you don't know how to evolve in time, you will eventually accept the fate of extinction from the earth.
The Argentine giant eagle, which can be preyed on even by lions, is the best example of this. The overly comfortable environment has deprived the Argentine eagle of the motivation to move forward and the qualification to continue to survive on earth.
The extinction of the Argentine giant eagle is undoubtedly also a wake-up call to mankind, and we must know how to evolve in time in the future, otherwise even if it is strong, it will eventually disappear from the stage of history and embark on the road of extinction.