Introduction: The vast African grassland is a paradise for lions, and people can see the ferocity of lions. Even the animation of the Lion King, the African savannah in the animation is the territory of the lion, which shows how powerful the lion as the king of it is. The lion is already so fierce, how powerful should the eagle that feeds on the lion be, and it is the protagonist of today: the Argentine giant eagle.
As the leader of the African steppe, the lion has always been known as the king of the grassland. And an adult male lion is even more majestic, able to easily prey on other animals similar to its size, even with the cooperation of lions, adult buffalo is not a problem, and it is such a species that stands at the top of the food chain, and even preys on another species. And this can also set off the strength of the Argentine giant eagle.
In each field, there are its leaders, elephants among herbivores, tigers in the forest, male lions on the steppes, they are all the best of their kind, and the Argentine giant eagle is also the leader of the birds of prey in the air. In the natural world where strength is respected, nature is the larger the body, the stronger the strength, the more popular it is. And the Argentine giant eagle also relied on its size advantage to successfully take away the crown of the air overlord.
As the second largest known bird in the world, the size of the giant eagle is even comparable to that of a small aircraft, according to relevant data, the Argentine giant eagle can grow naturally to about 70 kg, up to 150 kg. His wingspan is very large, generally reaching 7m long, the longest can reach 14m, and when the Argentine giant eagle stands up, it can even reach 2m in height far exceeding the average adult male. And as the Argentine eagle flies, it looks almost like a small passenger plane from a distance.
Naturally, such a powerful size naturally brought the giant eagle a commensurate strength, which also allowed him to prey on most herbivores. This is the argentine giant eagle can be the Pampas strong capital, and according to the relevant fossils, it can be inferred that the Argentine giant eagle existed in the world as early as more than six million years ago, so why is such a powerful Argentine giant eagle so precarious.
The Argentine giant eagle, which is so large and powerful, should be on a par with lions, tigers, and other animals, but because of its lazy life, the Argentine giant eagle is not well known. Unlike other carnivores, the Argentine giant eagle does not have a strong wild and aggressive desire, and its life is very plain.
And the Argentine giant eagle has a carrion behavior, in the usual they will not take the initiative to attack the vigorous herbivores, but will look for some carrion as their own food, not only save time and effort, but also save them the danger of predation. As a result, they do not show their faces in the process of predation.
There is another reason is that because of their huge size, the nature is also a huge energy consumption, the wingspan of several meters of arms, each wave is a huge consumption of energy each time they prey, the energy they spend is also amazing, so the consequences of the failure of the predation are certainly unbearable, so the Argentine giant eagle is under such conditions, gradually living a lying life.
Such a powerful creature has no natural enemies, but it is now an extinct dilemma. Why? In fact, it is still inseparable from the lying life of the Argentine giant eagle, because there is no natural enemy supervision, coupled with their Buddhist lying life, directly leading to the Argentine giant eagle basically breeding every two years, and each breeding will only lay two eggs, the growth process of the Argentine giant eagle is relatively slow, ten years will grow from infancy to adult Argentine giant eagle, so their breeding of the next generation of events is very slow.
Slow developmental time combined with their lazy predation patterns caused their total to decline year on year. This also made them doomed to the road of extinction, and coupled with their increasingly lying flat life, it also made their otherwise strong and powerful bodies a burden. In the change of weather later, the environment changes. The Argentine eagle was unable to adapt to the new environment and eventually withdrew from the stage of history with hatred.
Summary: What people did not expect was that their strong physique and huge body were the proud qualities of Argentina, and they were also the starting point of their extinction. Such a powerful body, but because of the laziness of the Argentine giant eagle from advantages to disadvantages, the huge body should be an assistant when hunting, but they evolved into a resistance to hunting. This also makes the powerful species that could prey on lions because of the fear of energy consumption gradually degenerate into waste, and finally can only helplessly keep up with the changes in history, and finally be brutally ruled by the survival of the fittest in nature.