Green forest grasshopper
There is a video on the Internet documenting the process of a battle between a snake expert and a forest hopper, the snake expert wore a protective suit to wrap the forest hopper, the purpose of the shooting is to record the whole process of the forest hopper hunting and killing prey. In the end, the snake expert ends the entire record with the end of nearly destroying an arm while wearing protective clothing. The silkworm is one of the largest snakes, and its winding power is so amazing that if it does not wear protective clothing, the human chest cavity can only support 30 seconds. As huge as the forest grasshopper is the well-known python.
Snake experts wear protective suits to fight snakes
Snake experts are about to scrap their arms
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >, Amazonian borer, and python</h1>
In the past, the family Aphididae, The Anacondae, and two other smaller groups, the Nymphalidae and the Mascarinaceae, were divided into the same family, but now they are divided into 4 families: Nymphalidae, Bodaidae, Nymphalidae, and Razeridae. They share some common features, both with pelvic bands and vestigial hindlimbs, most have functional left lung (which is not found in higher snakes), and many have temperature-sensitive holes in the jaws. They are all strong pythons, and although some of them are semi-burrowing, most of them are terrestrial, and there are several kinds of arboreals. The 6 largest species of snakes in the world are among these snake families.
Cockroaches and pythons are considered the most primitive snakes in the world, belonging to the snakes that are good at contracting muscles, that is, they will constantly strangle their prey until they suffocate, without using venom. It can live in the water or move on the ground.
The "real" nymphals in the family Nymphalidae include the largest species such as the forest nymph and the common python, which is semi-aquatic and lives in dense swamps and flooded forests, which are terrestrial or arboreal. The treehopper has a slender body with a long, long tail and can be wrapped around. Their bodies are squeezed on the sides, like iron bridges, so that they can straddle from one branch to another. They like to rest on large horizontal branches, hanging their heads upside down and their necks in an S-shape, a way of resting that allows them to strike quickly when they spot their prey. Forest nymphs can also climb trees, but are not as adaptable as tree nymphs.
The forest borer is the largest snake in the world, and the largest forest crab has been recorded to weigh 227 kg, a female forest hopper captured in Brazil in 1960. The body is dark green and the abdomen is brighter. The head is very narrow, with nostrils (external nostrils) and eyes located high in the head.
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The forest grasshopper is a very good hunter, can spy on animals that come to drink water in the water, and can also hide in the trees to catch prey. Their teeth are long and curved inward in order to bite their prey. They prey mainly on mammals and birds, and the bushhopper resting in the trees will keep an eye on the birds that inhabit their nests. Some specialize in preying on bats that inhabit burrows, while others also eat lizards. There are also many species of snakes that grow from eating frogs and lizards to eating mammals, such as capybaras and deer. Green forest hoppers also eat caimans and turtles.
Snake hunting operations
The forest hopper senses odor through its tongue, and the keen sense of smell combined with the temperature-sensing scales of the head allow the forest hopper to quickly track its prey. They first bite their prey with their hard maxilla and then wrap it around vigorously until the prey suffocates. The jaw joints are then separated, allowing the mouth to open to 180 degrees, allowing the entire prey to be swallowed in one bite. Silkworms that have eaten huge prey do not need to eat again, and slowly digest their prey for weeks in a drowsy manner.
The snake hunts in a different way than other types of snakes, instead of killing the prey with venom, it wraps around the prey and tightens the body with the strength of the whole body until it dies of lack of oxygen, and then swallows the prey in one bite. During the hunting process, the snake will first kill the prey, confirm the death of the prey before starting to swallow, so the snake is basically impossible to swallow the living, which is determined by their hunting habits. Some snakes kill prey by poisoning and then swallowing, and rarely swallow live animals. Some water snakes swallow frogs and toads raw, but it is difficult to succeed. Pythons hunt in a similar way to cockroaches, and their hunting process is mainly divided into three steps:
1. Bite
The prey is immobilized with front teeth, which are curved and hook-shaped and can pierce into the prey. Cockroach snakes have no poisonous teeth.
2. Winding
The snake wraps its body around its prey in a spiral. As long as the prey is breathing, they will continue to wrap themselves vigorously until they suffocate. Muscles contract constantly as they bind their prey. If the prey is small, the process takes only a few seconds. The prey is larger, and this process takes up to 3 hours.
3. Swallow
The mandible is not connected to the chin and can move to the side. Tough tendons allow the jawbone to stretch all the way down. Because of these evolutionary characteristics, the snake can swallow prey several times larger than its own diameter in one bite.
According to the characteristics of hunting by crabs and pythons, if you want to save animals hunted by crabs and pythons, the best time is in the winding link. There is a video of a python hunting a dog on the Internet, and several children rescue the dog in the winding link.
The dog was entangled
Kid rescue
The dog was successfully rescued
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, why is the forest grasshopper oviparous</h1>
Pythons are oviparous, inhabiting only Asia, Africa and Oceania, while the snake is also often found in the Americas, is an oviparous animal, can directly give birth to juvenile snakes. Hatchres are eggs from the mother, and once born, they can live independently, grow 60 cm long, and can swim and prey. Different reproductive patterns of grasshopper snakes may be more related to their living environment. Humans are viviparous, and the way of reproduction is that the nutrients required by the embryo are provided by the mother. In the oviparous mode, the nutrients required by the embryo are provided by the yolk. Oviparous birth refers to the formation of a fertilized egg that does not release the egg out of the body like oviparous, but develops into an embryo that slides towards the uterus. The nutrition of early embryonic development is provided by the yolk, just like oviparous, and substance exchange with the mother may occur later in embryonic development. After the embryo is fully matured, it is delivered through the mother to the outside world. Oviparous birth is a kind of fertility between oviparous birth and viviparous birth, because its embryo develops from the egg and the offspring leave the mother when it is like a fetal birth, so it is called oviparous birth. The egg is not excreted, but the mother protects and hatches the embryo. This mode of reproduction evolved in response to the harsh environment in which eggs outside the mother's body would be eaten by other animals.
The fertility of the forest grasshopper is still relatively high, and it can breed 70 juvenile snakes at a time, sometimes even more than a hundred. However, the living environment of the forest crab is full of caimans, and when the forest crab is still a juvenile, it will be eaten when it encounters caimans. Caimans even stay near the birthing forest hoppers to prepare to hunt the small forest crabs. Therefore, there are not many forest crabs that can grow up smoothly, rather than saying that nature is carrying out the survival of the fittest, it is better to say that there are always a few lucky people who will be selected and successfully survive and grow up in probability. It is precisely because of the fierce enemies of caimans all over the world that the forest hopper has evolved the reproductive method of oviparous birth in order to make the offspring have a greater probability of survival. Of course, when they grow up, they also hunt caimans, and it is their mutual reproduction that keeps the Amazon forest in a relatively balanced state.
Although we have heard many legends of giant snakes devouring people, the incident of the forest grasshopper eating people has never been confirmed. How those who disappeared in the swamp disappeared is unknown. But the magic of nature is constantly producing all kinds of terrifying legends, these "magic" attract human beings to explore nature, but also let human beings know how to fear nature.