Humans are undoubtedly the most intelligent animals in the world, but the wisdom that God has given to other creatures is often beyond human imagination. In order to survive in the treacherous nature, each creature has its own skills, and even evolves a set of behaviors that even humans do not necessarily understand, increasing its competitiveness in nature.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > survival master - ants</h1>
Today I want to introduce you to two kinds of terrifying and strange insect behavior, the first is ants. Ants in daily life are annoying and fragile creatures, and humans can easily take their lives, but in nature, ants cannot despise living things.
A Brazilian man witnessed the power of the ant army just outside his dormitory, and millions of ants used their bodies to build a U-shaped suspension bridge to attack the wasp nest some distance from the eaves, forming a road to the wasp nest, so that the army of ants in charge of the attack directly pounded the wasp nest and snatched the food inside the nest.
The bridge seems simple, but in fact it is very complicated, and the ants not only have to calculate the collective weight, but also arrange different numbers of ants according to the different positions of the bridge to determine that each point on the bridge can support the ants on the head.
Many scholars have studied the behavior of ants in building bridges and found that ants are not only industrious creatures, but also very intelligent, and they even make some degree of cost-benefit analysis according to the situation, and they do not always choose the shortest route. For example, if building bridges can shorten the distance, even if the road is complete, they will take shortcuts to save time.
If there are more and more ants building bridges and fewer ants carrying food, the ant colony will measure the time and people to choose to release the bridge according to the situation. Ants don't just do that, they can build bridges over the water, and when a flood comes, they can use their bodies to form an "island" in order to save the entire population.
This is a flood scene in the United States, where hundreds of fire ants can be seen floating on the surface of the water in groups to survive, forming a floating island until they reach a safe area, and this tenacious survival behavior can last for several weeks.
All of these behavioral scientists have figured out, but the behavior of ants controlled by mobile phone ringtones is still a mystery.
The internet circulates that ants can be controlled by a ringtone of the iPhone, the ants in the film are originally chaotic crawling, the mobile phone rings as soon as the ant rings counterclockwise around the mobile phone, this strange scene some foreign netizens believe that electromagnetic waves directly affect the ant's sensory organs, so that they all go around in the same direction.
But experts say that usually ants only do this behavior at the command of the queen, and the ant's response to electromagnetic waves should be to flee, so the special action of the ant needs to be further studied.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > to do the unity to the extreme - leaf peak larvae</h1>
It's fairly rare to see ants bridging in the wild, but the biological behavior to be introduced next may be rarer and more bizarre than ant palliing, leaf peak larvae. On a street in Brazil, a passerby saw a strange insect that had never been seen before, and this strange insect moved slowly in the street, and when passers-by looked closely, they found that it was not a strange insect, but a group of strange insects gathered together to move forward.
This group of strange insects is black in appearance, not small in size, very united in the same direction, many passers-by are frightened by this rare sight, in fact, this creature is the leaf bee larvae, but also a pest that makes many people headaches. It turns out that this larvae eat plants exclusively, and the amount of food is particularly large and numerous, and when they gather together to feed, they can destroy any plants in a considerable amount of time.
Because some individuals of the leaf peak larvae are quite brightly colored, they are often an obvious target for hunters. In order to increase the survival rate, this group of monsters triggers many special enemy behaviors. The giant monsters seen on the streets of Brazil today are a kind of anti-enemy behavior. Whenever they go somewhere in search of food, they use this group movement to make themselves look like giant creatures to scare off enemies, after all, they are not threatening as a single individual.
In addition, their anti-enemy behavior is more than that, and the entire larval stage of the leaf peak larvae is almost a group action. For example, when the leaf peak larvae are threatened when eating, they will make a very united act of resisting enemies, and the rest of the larvae foraging on the plant will stop at the same time and shake their bodies at the same time.
Although sometimes a few lazy and uncooperative larvae can still be seen, from an overall point of view, it can already play a deterrent role, which greatly increases the viability of leaf bee larvae.
In addition to feeding, leaf bee larvae will behave similarly when resting in the tree, and in order to avoid falling alone, even the leaf bee larvae will gather together during rest. Once they detect prey approaching or being threatened, they will shake their bodies en masse to form this eerie and interesting sight.
The fragile creature of the leaf peak larvae, with its wisdom and unity, greatly increases the chance of survival, but at the same time makes humans more troublesome, how to reduce this pest?