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Text: Vientiane hardcore
Edited by Vientiane hardcore
«——【Preamble】】 ——»
Speaking of who is the saddest animal in the world, this animal must occupy a place, because it basically has no special self-preservation ability except for running, and those who fly in the sky and run underground are basically its natural enemies.
And the reason why this animal is not extinct is because it is relatively capable of giving birth, if it were not for the fertility of people, it is estimated that the upper animals of this group of rams would starve to death.
It is not only the daily ration of the lynx, but also the after-dinner "dessert" of many big cats, and even the weasel has to bully it when it sees it.
What animal is so miserable? It's what people often call the hare.
Don't look at the hares that can live, the snow hares in the family are still national third-class protected animals, it seems that they can't withstand the uncontrolled hunting of humans in their lives, and the protected animals at the top of the food chain may not even have the opportunity to fight tooth sacrifices.
So what is the breeding of hares, and why is there no way to save the situation of dwindling family members?
«—[Hard Hare Mother·]—»
The hare must inhabit a place with abundant water and vegetation. In spring and summer, they live "carefully" in low bushes and young forests, and in autumn and winter, they like to dig holes and burrow. But hares are accustomed to wandering around and do not have a permanent permanent dwelling, except for breeding periods.
From January to September every year, the mother hare gives birth to a baby rabbit, it can give birth to five or six baby rabbits in a litter, and can give birth to three litters a year, and it is worth noting that the process of raising cubs is also very difficult.
There was such a small video on the Internet, a hare moving in the wild meadow, suddenly sensed that the baby in her belly was about to be born, and she desperately needed a safe place to give birth.
It came under a small tree with fertile and soft soil, and dug a hole with its two front paws. The hare is naturally vigilant, pouting its tail and working hard while stopping to look up to the left and right to see if there are any predators.
Hares usually hide in "lumps", that is, small nests, in autumn and winter when weeds are sparse.
This nest is about 10 centimeters deep and 0.3 meters long, with a high back at the top and a shape similar to that of a dustpan.
This nest looks a little small, but for a hare, it is just enough to accommodate its limbs. Part of its body is exposed, and its body color matches the dirt, forming a perfect camouflage that allows it to flee quickly if disturbed.
Soon, a shallow nest appeared under the tree, and the mother hare immediately lay down and burrowed into the nest to complete the delivery, and the strange thing is that when it crawled out of the nest, it hurriedly buried the nest with soil!
It turns out that this can use dirt to mask the smell of the cubs and prevent the cubs from sneaking out and being taken by predators.
After burying the nest, the mother hare will also step on the mouth of the nest, and finally pull some weeds, branches and roots to spread on it at will, and after everything is processed, the mother hare will go to forage.
When it comes back after it has eaten its fill, it opens the nest little by little, and at the same time keeps looking up for any predators nearby. After the nest is dug up, the mother hare supports her body directly outside the nest and begins to nurse the cubs hidden underneath, observing the surroundings while feeding.
After feeding, the mother hare sends the cubs back to the nest and buries them again with mud, without worrying about the lack of oxygen, because the attentive mother hare has air holes for them.
After everything is done, the mother hare leaves again, because there are many predators in the wild who will covet her baby, so usually the mother hare will not stay in the nest for a long time except for breastfeeding, it will only feed the baby at intervals.
In this way, the mother hare will run around almost every day, so that the baby can grow up safely. The hare's mother is experienced and heartbroken in order to feed a few children.
So what kind of predators is the clever mother hare hiding?
«—[The Hare Without the Strength of the Chicken]—»
Adult hares mostly weigh between 5 and 6 kilograms, and a very small number of large hares will have individuals of 8 kilograms and above. What's interesting is that with such a large weight and no fat at all, it's no wonder that so many carnivores are thinking about catching a hare to eat as soon as they get to eat.
The hare is at the bottom of the food chain, and its natural predators are a large area of the black sea, including birds of prey, felines, canines, ferrets, snakes, and of course, humans.
Birds of prey hunt rabbits are represented by eagles, falcons, eagles, etc., birds of prey are not ordinary hunters, and few people can escape their claws. For example, the hare is one of the eagle's favorite foods in the wild.
The bouncing figure of the hare that went out to forage was easily caught by the eagle hovering high in the air, and then accelerated and dived to catch the poor little hare.
It presses the hare to the ground, pokes the hare's eyes and head with its sharp beak, then wipes the rabbit's fur clean, pokes a hole in the head and pulls out a series of internal organs, and then slowly eats its prey in small pieces.
Hares are a bit timid by nature, but hares can "bite" when they are in a hurry.
Its size is not large, but its hind limbs are very athletic, good at fast running, jumping, usually very vigilant in activities, the slightest movement will run immediately, especially when it feels a strong natural enemy like an eagle approaching, it almost runs away.
Nature gave the hare a special pair of eyes when it created it, and its eyes came in many colors. Its eyes are round and bright, with a 180-degree perspective on one eye, and its field of view is particularly wide, so that when the eagle swoops down and attacks it, it can quickly sense the danger and flee in panic.
The most important thing is that its eyes can look backwards, which allows it to observe the pursuers behind it while fleeing, and make corresponding reflex dodges with its body.
The eagle is a flying bird, and the eye-back function allows the hare to occasionally avoid the eagle's talons by jumping high, kicking the eagle off with its hind legs, and then quickly disappearing into the weeds to hide itself.
But dodging the eagle, there are many more large, large beasts of prey waiting for it. Like cats, dogs, and ferrets, they love to hunt rabbits for ten minutes.
Of course, there are big cats - leopards who like to eat hares, and after the leopards forage in the wild, they do not forget to take a few hares home for the little leopards to eat as snacks, and at the same time, in order to train and strengthen the hunting skills of the little leopards, the hares that are caught home are often forced to use their lives to serve as the "sparring partners" of the little leopards.
The way wolves hunt hares is different, wolves are used to working as a team and hunting for food. The fleeing little hare was chased by a group of persevering wolves, but the poor hare was physically exhausted and was bitten off by the wolves that caught up.
However, there will also be a "veteran" Arctic rabbit who uses his brains to use a unique way of turning and running, constantly changing the direction of escape, playing several huge "silly" wolves, and finally successfully escaping.
In addition to this, the natural predator of the hare is the lynx, and different breeds of lynx pairs have a special preference for the hare.
The white-booted rabbit makes up nearly 100% of the Canadian lynx's diet, and it can be said that they live on the hare.
The Iberian lynx's main diet is burrowing rabbits, which do not survive in places where they are scarce. I have to say that the lynx is a species whose mouth is really picky eater.
The Eurasian lynx living in the Altun Mountains is also unhappy without hares, but some Eurasian lynx in the northeast want to open up and find a substitute for the hares - roe deer, otherwise so many competitors will starve to death sooner or later.
Weasels also like the "taste" of the hare, don't look at the weasel is not as good as the hare, but compared to the body of the body sensitive, the hare sometimes really can't compare to it. When a weasel catches a hare, it bites off the back of its neck, drinks its blood, and drags it into a nearby bush to eat it.
In addition to these hare's natural predators, there are foxes, ocelots, jackals, etc., and almost all carnivores eat it, including humans.
Because of the large number of natural predators, hares prefer hiding places that are more hidden, can observe the enemy, and can quickly escape at any time, such as the young locust forest with long thorns, barren beaches with small trees, and barren slopes near farmland.
Just such an ordinary hare, now facing endangerment, what is even more surprising is that the hare is rampant in Australia, what is going on?
«—[Flooded Hare·]—»
Hare are distributed in many places around the world, and so far, there are nine species of hares in China, including Tarim rabbit, snow rabbit, Northeast black rabbit, and grass rabbit. These hares are either second-level protection or third-level protection, but the gold is expensive. Who wants to be in Australia, but "everyone shouts and beats".
In fact, the hare is not a native species of Australia, but an introduction on a whim. At first, they thought that Australia was vast and inhabited, and they didn't care about a few small hares, which Cheng Cheng thought that the breeding ability of hares was very strong, and by the time people realized that it was too late.
These patches of hares are about to gnaw the few green plants bald, resulting in the exodus of Australia's native mammals to the point of population decline or even extinction, destroying the balance of the local ecosystem, and affecting the normal production and life of human beings.
The most terrifying thing is that Australian carnivores are not interested in hares, which also promotes the wild growth of hares, people try all kinds of ways to control the number of hares to a reasonable range, the headache is that they still keep giving birth!
I wonder if the problem of hare proliferation can be solved in the future.
«—【·Conclusion·】—»
The hares and predators on the endless grasslands often stage fierce chase competitions, but the "murderer" and the "victim" are all trying to survive, and objectively speaking, the hare is not absolutely pitiful.
Reference:
The Paper "Fighting hares is a crime, these "three prohibitions" must be remembered"2022-11-16
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_20769000