Text: Bai Xiaosheng
Editor|Caifeng Bai Xiaosheng
It's not a human privilege to like jerking off!
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A video of the brutal killing of frogs circulated on the Internet, and a large number of frog carcasses hung on the bamboo poles in the vegetable fields of netizens, which had been dried and looked extremely terrifying.
Could it be that such a cruel hunt was a prank "elaborately" planned by some evil person? But in fact all this is a kind of bird's "art."
Why do these little birds hang frog carcasses on their branches? Could it be that they really like to masturbate?
Hanging from the branches is my "string"!
In 2022, a woman in Guangxi told a terrible memory about herself, on this day she came to her family's vegetable field as usual, and was about to pick fresh vegetables, just when she was about to reach out to pick them, she saw a terrifying scene.
The bamboo poles in the vegetable field are neatly hung with frogs, each of which is worn on the protruding tip of the bamboo pole, and the largest bamboo pole has four "frog biscuits" hanging on it, as for why they are called biscuits, it is because these frogs have been dried and are as crisp as biscuits.
This situation was like a sacrificial place in a terrifying myth, so strange that it sent chills down the woman's spine, and she couldn't help but wonder what kind of cruel creature was doing such a wicked prank in her own vegetable garden.
This kind of torture of small animals is really bad, so the woman took a video of these poor little guys and posted them on the Internet, wondering who did this good thing?
But is the truth really the work of human beings? This time it was really not, the culprit of the incident turned out to be a bird, and the rows of frogs were "butchers" masturbating.
The butcher of the birds!
The shrike is smaller, and its distant relative is our common sparrow, but the shrike is completely different from the fat chubby sparrow, the sparrow's character is relatively docile, and the shrike is a "big brother" temper, and has the title of "butcher bird".
Don't look at the shrike as small, their personalities are extremely fierce, they don't look down on fruits and seeds, insects, lizards, and even rats are their meals, and if they can't find anything to eat, some birds will also appear on their recipes.
Look at the sharp beak of the shrike, the hook in front of it is the key to the shrike pulling away the prey, and after the shrike catches the prey, the hook of the bird's beak can pierce into the skin of the prey, and then easily cut its body.
But nature is fair, no creature can be perfect, and the same is true of the shrike, which also has its own shortcomings, that is, its slender legs.
Although a pair of long legs is a dream of many girls, the shrike legs cannot help it effectively catch its prey. Falcons, for example, have large, wide talons and muscular legs, and they only need to hold their heads down with one claw to catch their prey, while the shrike cannot do that.
Like a small insect to swallow a bite of food, but you can't use your precious melon seeds, but when you encounter a mouse or a frog, it can be difficult, how to make the prey unable to move, and it is a headache to be eaten by yourself.
At this time, the wisdom of the shrike is manifested, and they think of a perfect solution for themselves, which is what we saw at the beginning - masturbation.
When the shrike catches this prey, it will fly to the branch, find a strong and sharp branch, and then "poof" it, string the prey, and then there is no need to worry about it.
Occasionally, the shrike would add a meal, and they hung the snake on the branch more like a skewer, and this cruelty earned them the domineering title of "butcher bird".
It's not that I'm cruel, it's my great wisdom!
The shrike doesn't look big, and they must have eaten very little, so why do they catch so many frogs and hang them neatly on the bamboo poles? Sure enough, it's still their bad taste! In fact, this behavior of the shrike shows their great wisdom.
The predation of the shrike highlights a "more work and more reward", they will be very diligent when the prey is abundant, they will actively catch the prey, and if they can't finish eating, they will hang it neatly on the branches for air drying, and then come to eat their own "buffet" when they are hungry.
In fact, this behavior of the shrike is also forced to be helpless, because the shrike does not have a storage sac for food, so they are easily hungry, and they are constantly busy every day, just to fill their stomachs, and the behavior of wearing prey in a row is only leaving a way back for themselves.
Why, then, is it a great wisdom for the shrike to hang up the food? Because in this nature, there is not only one creature that is the hunter, and there are so many carnivores in nature, and the shrike does not want to make a wedding dress for others with the fruits of his hard work, and if he hangs the food on a high place, he is not afraid of the creatures on the land picking it up.
Some of the shrike recipes are poisonous organisms, so after "solving" them, the shrike will peel them and then hang the remaining meat on the branches to dry, so that the toxins can be reduced to a certain extent, and the food can be preserved longer after natural air drying.
Little Shrike!
But it is the ecological Xi of the shrike that makes people have no good impression of this creature, and the survival wisdom of the creature becomes very cruel from the perspective of human beings, and the notoriety of the shrike has been around since ancient times.
It is rumored that as long as the shrike is named a few times in the house, then the family will soon be unlucky, and the shrike has always been regarded as a bad omen, but in fact the shrike is a good bird, although they have a ferocious character, but they can solve a lot of pests for people.
Whether it is insects or rats, their reproductive ability is obvious to all, and if there is no restriction on natural enemies, it will soon become a disaster, and locust plagues and rat plagues have also occurred in some areas of the mainland.
And don't look at the shrike in the small animals to show off, in fact, it is also a member of the recipe of other birds of prey, the so-called natural selection, survival of the fittest is such a thing, the shrike will become someone else's snack if you are not careful.
Red squirrel and its air-dried mushrooms
In nature, it is not only the shrike that prefers to preserve food by drying it, but there is also an animal that likes to do it, but they do not dry living creatures, but mushrooms.
This creature is the red squirrel, and although they mainly fill their stomachs with pine nuts in their daily lives, they still pick some when there are plenty of mushrooms and dry them for the winter.
They put freshly picked mushrooms on bare branches or withered trees, and when the mushrooms are dehydrated and turned into crispy dried mushrooms, the red squirrels store them in their small tree holes.
Animals save their food in a variety of ways, and although the shrike is cruel in our eyes, it is only a part of its life, and every creature is trying to live, and the little shrikes are no exception.
Source: https://www.toutiao.com/video/7136475728962388516/?channel=&source=search_tab