Do you remember the Czechoslovak cartoon "The Mole's Tale" that was broadcast on TV in the 1980s.
In the cartoon, the image of the mole is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and through the animation we learn about creatures like moles for the first time...
With the passage of time, the image of the mole in film and television works has become like this
3D, special effects, full of realism, the image is more cute and cute
Whether it is the degree of authenticity, or the sensory effect, the film and television image makes us feel the changes of the times, although the real animals are personified and exaggerated, but the hazy and cute image is still deeply rooted in my heart.
The image in the picture is produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and written by J.K. Rowling's first 3D magic masterpiece "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", a cute little guy who likes to steal.
The sniffing mouth looks more like a duck's beak, and the result is really like a needle mole
According to some data, sniffing is actually a virtual character made by the needle mole rat as the prototype, but the coat color and personality characteristics seem to have a certain difference from the needle mole, what kind of animal is the needle mole? Today I want to highlight this rare "barbed excavator".
Echidna Tachyglossidae
Eugenaceae
Features: Back and body sides covered with hard spines
(Hedgehog-like)
Hobbies: Digging soil, eating ants and insects
Close relatives: Platypus
I said how sniffing is still a bit like a platypus, it turns out that the needle mole and the platypus are relatives
Little is known about the Australian echidna, a lonely continent that is in fact one of the oldest mammals on Earth, and even human history can only be counted as a short moment in front of it.
Don't look at the rare creatures, they are hanging alone overseas, rarely encounter large predators, as of today, there are still 4 different kinds of echidna, three of which are more typical: shortnose echidna, longnose echidna and echidna, and a relatively rare Attenborough long-beaked echidna.
How does a "needle" word make a mole different from it?
The tip of the head, the long snout, the short limbs, the body is short, about 10 centimeters, resembling a mouse finger is a mole. Due to the degeneration of the pinna and the small eyes covered by fine hairs into slits, it is easy to intuitively think that it is a blind object, but in fact, the observation is not meticulous enough!
Poor vision will be compensated by smell. Moles have an unusual sense of smell, can identify the smell of different things in the direction of the three-dimensional space, as an "underground worker" the most important thing is to have a strong ability to dig the ground!
I'm looking at you! Know no!
The needle mole is basically similar to the mole from the perspective of appearance, the most obvious difference is acupuncture, of course, the eyes are more obvious than the mole, the shape looks more like a hedgehog. The echidna has a grayish-white head with a long, hard, hairless tubular mouth at the front, toothless in the mouth, just a small hole, and curved downwards
My eyes were bigger than it was
The echidna is full of contradictory elements all over its body, its beak is like a small bird, it has a baby bag like a kangaroo, and it lays eggs like a reptile, and it is the only single-perminate besides platypus. Don't look like the mole name, but Pan's relatives are still platypus.
Rare animals, foraging also have their own secrets
Don't look at the mole and the echidna mole whose eyesight is not good, but this does not affect their ability to discover food. They have the ability to sense, the slightest vibration in the soil will be found, the nose and mouth are even more powerful, you can feel a very subtle bioelectric signal, the underground signal should be full of undisturbed.
Ants encounter this with their own "wireless signal induction positioning" tool, it is really difficult to escape, once the ant nest is found, immediately locate the lock, excavation to start, and then use the hard, flexible, slender tongue to go deep into the nest to get food!
Although there are no teeth, the special tongue makes up for the shortcomings, the mucus on the tongue can catch ants, the hard part of the back of the tongue is responsible for crushing, and the daily consumption of thousands of termites is up to several thousand. This ability is very much like an anteater!
The narrow and limited distribution range of Echidna species is considered to have a moderate decline trend, and the reason for the decline is due to habitat loss, reduced precipitation, tourism impacts, road development, and changes in the living environment. It has been classified as a subsistence vulnerable and critically endangered species. Listed on the IUCN 2015 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1
As a rare animal, the treatment is also very special:
Papua New Guinea 2012 Animal Echidna Anteaters Antique Black Diamond Commemorative Silver Coin
Deeply felt the value of its existence
In fact, there is still a lot of interesting information about echidna, but as the director of the science zoo, considering that there are too many words, the audience and friends will feel bored, so they have to keep it for the next time to share, Koko~
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