There is an animal that lives in the desert called a mobile "water dispenser", this animal is the sand chicken, why does the sand chicken have this title?
Sand chicken is also known as hairy-legged sand chicken, because its legs have thick feathers, so it got this title. Sand chickens mainly inhabit plain grasslands, deserts and semi-desert areas, but also inhabit saline forest plains and sand and gravel wilderness. Sand chickens are social animals, not lonely in temperament, often in groups, especially in autumn and winter will be grouped together to wander together. Sand chicken mainly feeds on plant foods such as seeds, berries, shoots, young shoots, and young leaves of wild plants, which are relatively easy to find in the desert compared to rare water sources.
In the desert, water sources are very rare, and sometimes sand chickens will fly tens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers away in order to find water sources. May some viewers have questions? Why should the sand chicken perch so far away from the water source, it is better to roost directly near the water source, and it is not necessary to run back and forth very hard. Sand chickens are not very intelligent animals, but they are not so stupid. In order to find a safe place to lay eggs and hatch and raise their cubs, the habitat of the sand chicken must be far away from the water source, because where there is a water source, predators will pile together, and the scene is like a nightmare for the weak sand chicken. With a safe place to lay and incubate eggs, the price instead is that every day the father of the sand chicken has to fly tens or even hundreds of kilometers to drink water and take the water back to the habitat to raise the cubs and the mother of the sand chicken. The journey to find a water source is full of hardships, but the process of fetching water from the water source is both arduous and dangerous, and the slightest carelessness will lead to a small life.
After seeing the cheetah leave, the rooster dared to go near the water source, buried its head in the water, and began to drink. When a fox came, the sand chicken flock immediately became vigilant and flew into the sky in flocks. After the rooster drinks the water, it will return to the place where the hen incubates the eggs, the rooster will take turns to incubate the egg with the hen, and the rooster will come back to take over the position of the hen after drinking the water, and then it will be the turn of the hen to drink water. Taking turns incubating eggs with each other and having a gap with each other to drink water is fine for this sand chicken parent. When the chicks in the egg hatch, the life of the parents of the sand chicken will become more difficult. After the sand chicken baby hatches, the hen sand chicken has to guard them and shade them, the sun in the desert is extremely hot, and the newborn sand chicken baby obviously can't stand such exposure. The rooster is responsible for going out to find a water source and bringing water back to the hen and the baby sand chicken to drink, because only the rooster has the ability to fly with water, and the hen does not have this ability.
The rooster's way to fetch water is not smooth, and it is sometimes attacked by goshawks. In order to get back to his cubs as quickly as possible, the rooster boldly walked past the goshawk, soaking himself in the water and letting his feathers inhale as much water as possible. Because the body was full of water, the rooster's way back to fly back was even more difficult. Even so, it dodged the goshawk's attack and successfully returned to its family, and the chicks finally took their first sip from the rooster. The rooster during brooding is the hardest, and in order to get the chicks to drink water, the rooster has to risk "carrying weights forward" every day, even if it is more likely to be preyed upon by predators. How do you feel about the rooster's act of generating electricity for love? Click on the comments section to comment!