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Text|Fanghua Historical Theory
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Human lungs inhale oxygen and excrete carbon dioxide, so that life can survive. There is such a place in the world that can produce unlimited natural oxygen every day, it is the Amazon rainforest known as the "lungs of the earth" by human beings, since it has such a good name, why is it also called "human forbidden area"?
Hidden in the rainforest are hundreds of thousands of different and terrifying animals, living in the extremely treacherous Amazon rainforest.
So what is hidden in the Amazon rainforest, how terrifying is it, and why is the first impression of this rainforest is mysterious and dangerous?
01
"Exclusion zone for humans" Amazon rainforest
When it comes to the Amazon rainforest, the first thing that pops up in our minds is "terror" and "danger", so what is in the rainforest and how terrifying it is, will make us as advanced animals call it "forbidden area for humans".
Of course, "human forbidden area" cannot be interpreted in a partial way, located near the equator, as the world's largest rainforest basin, "it" also supports nearly 20% of our global oxygen source, so it is also praised by us humans as the "lungs of the earth".
Then follow our God's perspective to see what strange plants and animals are in this mysterious and dangerous rainforest.
Stepping into the jungle, we can first see that the trees next to them are tens of meters high, with lush branches and lush greenery, without a trace of space. So let's explore the mysterious and advanced plants of the rainforest.
The rainforest is home to nearly 15,000 species of high-grade plants, most of which we have never heard of before. Let's take a look at beautiful plants that are safe and harmless.
For example, the plant "Amazon King Lotus" looks gorgeous, the temperature requirements are very high, the diameter of the leaves can be up to 3 meters after growth, and the flowers produced can change to dark red after maturity.
Huge dark green leaves surround the crimson petals, making it look very beautiful and edible, and the fruit of this plant is edible, and this plant is one of the few harmless and edible plants in the rainforest.
Of course, the "cacao tree" we are most familiar with, making delicious chocolate in our daily life must be inseparable from the credit of the cocoa tree.
At the beginning, cacao trees grew in the extremely terrifying Amazon basin, this plant has high temperature requirements, they do not like strong direct sunlight, and most trees in the rainforest have very dense and heavy foliage, under the protection of these plants, cocoa trees can survive very comfortably.
Of course, we also have a lot of artificially cultivated cocoa trees, and they will start to bear fruit in about the fifth year after careful cultivation.
Their fruit has the shape of a rugby ball and is unique in the rainforest, not only is it good to see, but it can also extract pure natural oils.
Of course, these are not its main uses, and when we first found that the fruit of this plant was edible, many people disliked it as very bitter, and no one wanted to accept it.
Later, as intelligent humans, we mixed cacao nuts with some herbs and various sucrose to form a very delicious drink and now our favorite chocolate.
The chocolate made from cacao nuts is very natural, and there is no substitute for cocoa butter, and the hidden trans fats in it cause damage to our body.
Of course, there are not only two edible and safe plants in the rainforest, after reading the "safe and harmless" plants, let's take a look at the extremely dangerous plants hidden in the rainforest.
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Potential "killers" in the jungle
If you accidentally enter the rainforest, then many plants that look very beautiful, please be careful before touching it.
As the saying goes, "the more beautiful the more dangerous", this sentence can be said to be vividly embodied in this plant called "wood vine", which fits perfectly.
Similar to the vine we know, it also has a harmless appearance of humans and animals, and the flowers are mostly light blue, pink, and white small flowers, attached to the branches and hanging down the curtain.
Its shape can be described as very romantic, in the whole rainforest, it looks subtle, a harmless appearance of humans and animals, as if to say, "I am so beautiful, how can I be poisonous?" ”
Don't be fooled by its beautiful appearance, it is poisonous all over the body, if you accidentally scratch something in the rainforest, and then you are unlucky and accidentally touch this plant, then you will die in a short time.
The beautiful and poisonous plant is not only Chaiteng, but there is another plant that is also on the list, this plant is called "Eight Immortal Flower", which is gorgeous and swaggering.
The so-called "eight immortal flower" proves that the color of this flower is not limited to the well-known pink, red purple, it has a wide variety of colors, not only bright bright red, but also rare dark green and sky blue.
This flower has a very short production cycle, grows quickly and grows very luxuriantly in a short time, and from a distance, it looks extremely swaggering and does not hide its beauty in the slightest.
And it looks like "I'm safe and edible", but in fact, if we don't know this flower, we accidentally eat it in the jungle without food and are very hungry, then we will vomit abdominal pain in a short time, followed by these symptoms, there will be convulsions and the collapse of blood circulation in the body.
And deep in the jungle, in the rainforest, we have no choice but to wait quietly in pain for death to come.
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Mysterious and dangerous "killers"
If we can avoid the plant killers in the rainforest with a little attention, then the mysterious and dangerous animals in the rainforest, as well as the dark river that does not know the depth, are difficult for us to avoid.
Let's continue walking towards the rainforest, we have already seen several safe and dangerous plants, so let's take a look at the hidden mysterious killers in the jungle.
Walking to the middle of the jungle, we will see a very inconspicuous river, but you should not underestimate any inconspicuous plants or animals in the jungle, including rivers, which are the most dangerous areas in the jungle.
In the jungle, this kind of river is called "dark river", not only is the river inedible, we must go around the side when passing through these dark rivers.
You never know how deep this dark river is, whether there are quagmire in it, how many eyes are in it, how many dangerous animals there are, how many viruses you don't know.
We are very lucky to avoid these dark river "sneak attacks", so we can still save our lives temporarily.
Moving forward, we can see that there are densely packed mosquitoes, as mentioned earlier, no creature in the jungle can be underestimated, even the most common mosquitoes.
If a huge mosquito comes like rain, this mosquito is more than two or three times larger than the mosquitoes in our daily life, and it flies extremely fast.
This is the mosquito of the rainforest, no creature here is good, if the mosquito is just biting and sucking blood, the key is that the mosquito that has lived in the jungle for a long time has malaria, as well as various viruses, if they bite, headache and fever will follow.
However, the mysterious and dangerous dark rivers and dense mosquitoes are just beginning.
04
Gaze into your "dangerous eyes" in the corner
We continue to walk deep into the jungle, and what you don't know is that from the moment you first stepped into the jungle, there were countless pairs of eyes staring at you behind you.
Insects larger than the palms of adult males, "ants" that eat carrion, all quietly watch us in the corner, of course, while we are afraid of them, they are also afraid of us.
Tens of meters long pythons, hidden in fresh water, extremely dangerous electric eels, as well as terrifying piranhas, and huge cougars.
The cougar that survives in the jungle has a huge bite force, and it can crush the skull of an adult in seconds.
But there is an animal in the jungle that everyone must have heard of its name, called "poison dart frog".
This poison dart frog is arguably the most beautiful frog in the world, bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, and various blue pinks, these are the colors on the poison dart frog creature.
This frog is very small, much smaller than ordinary frogs, even some are only 1.5 cm half a finger big, but don't look at it so small, long and very beautiful, but the poison it carries is rare in the world.
This frog is difficult to detect because of its very small size, why does it carry poison? The reason is that the food it eats daily is some spiders, ants and fruit flies in the jungle that are more poisonous than it.
If other animals mistakenly eat highly toxic spider ants, they will die immediately, but poison dart frogs are different, even if the spiders in the jungle carry the poison, once in its body, it will convert the poison carried by the spiders into its own venom.
This is why it is called a poison dart frog, and the venom it carries can kill an adult with just 0.0002.
If we were to be attacked by it, we would have cardiac arrest within 3 minutes, muscle atrophy, and eventually death.
Because the poison dart frog looks beautiful, now we also have an artificially bred poison dart frog, but there is no need to worry about its poison, as long as we do not give it highly toxic food, then it itself will not produce toxins.
05
tropical rainforest
At this point, to end our God's perspective, of course, the Amazon basin is not only the few plants and animals we discussed this time, there are more than 100,000 species of animals and plants living in the 7 million square kilometers of rainforest.
However, now, due to the perennial rainfall of the rainforest and global warming, the flooding is also particularly serious, and many rare animals are disappearing, such as the poison dart frog we mentioned above, and its population is also decreasing.
Therefore, in our daily life, we must reasonably protect resources, protect our common global village, and do our best to reduce the occurrence of global warming trends.
Like the Cocosili no-man's land, the Amazon rainforest is a mysterious and dangerous area. So do you also have a general understanding of this mysterious and dangerous place?