In the jungles of South America, there are many strange animals, but also a lot of strange birds, such as some strange birds that people are not common, this time also to know a strange bird in South America, the whole body is full of oil, and the chicks accumulate more oil than adult birds - oil owls.
First, the population of the oily owl
The oil owl is a bird of the nighthawk family, a nocturnal bird, the only fruit-eating member of the nighthawk order, feeding mainly on oil palm fruit, distributed in the tropical forests of the Foothills of the Andes from Bolivia to Venezuela, and also found in Panama and Trinidad.
Second, the oil bird has a high amount of oil
The reason why it is called the oil bird is because this bird is different from other birds, they are almost all grease, which is related to their food, they mainly feed on oil palm fruit, and oil palm fruit is known as the "world oil king", is a perennial woody oilseed, its fruit is divided into two parts of flesh and palm kernel, the biggest feature is that the oil content is large, can be extracted twice and so on.
In the oily bird, there is also such a feature: the oily bird's chicks have sufficient food, grow very fast, at a certain stage of their volume is 1.5 times that of adult birds, and what is more peculiar is that the chicks accumulate more oil than adult birds.
Third, the defense method of the oil bird
In nature, is the law of survival of the fittest, the oily bird is a nocturnal bird, can better avoid many predators, when in the daytime, the oily bird is a feather like a fallen leaf, which is conducive to the hiding of the oily bird, helping them to avoid the hunt of predators during the day.
Oil bird is known as the "bird with radar", the oil bird has no sharp teeth, need to protect itself, on the one hand is camouflage, the other is to issue a harsh scream, the sound frequency is more than 7000Hz, and the human ear can receive the sound is between 20Hz -20000Hz, the sound emitted by the oil bird has the effect of "echo positioning", but also has a certain lethality, if multiple oil birds scream at close range to people, it is likely to lead to deafness and so on.
Fourth, the crisis of the oily owl population
Humans have always coveted animal fats, such as the Inuit hunt whales and obtain oil, so in the Jungles of South America, Indians will catch hundreds of oil iops every year for oil refining, especially the oily iris chicks with higher oil deposits, which is fatal to the oily bird population.
In order to protect this strange bird, some places have begun to protect the oily bird population, prohibit the killing of oily birds for oily birds for oil refining, and establish a special protected area for oily bird populations.
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