Many people wonder why the ostrich buries its head in the soil when it encounters danger, shouldn't it be the first to escape?
In fact, we are all deceived by television, when we were young, we watched TV, and we could always find that ostriches would bury their heads in the soil when they encountered danger, which was stupid and cute, really interesting.
But for so many years, everyone has been misled, in fact, ostriches are not stupid, if stupid, in the African savannah should not exist for so long, have been eaten clean by predators.
The ostrich, which runs at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour, is known as the fastest bird, also known as the fastest creature with two legs, and it runs so fast that it is necessary to bury its head in the soil to avoid danger.
I watched a documentary in which three cheetahs capture ostriches at the same time, and when they work together perfectly, they almost hurt and run away, a cheetah can't catch an adult ostrich alone, the ostrich is three times the size of a cheetah, the running is not slow, the thick legs and sharp toes can easily kick the opponent to death.
The biggest enemy of ostriches is the cheetah, because only the speed of cheetahs can crush ostriches, not even lions, because the running speed is similar to ostriches, and some even can't run ostriches, so it is rare to see lions and other beasts actively attacking ostriches. But the cheetah runs fast, but there is no weight advantage, the reason why the cheetah will go to hunt ostriches, is also hungry or large numbers will choose to take risks.
Don't look at the ostrich silly cute, it is very aggressive, there are many attacks on humans, the most famous of which is the Johnny Cash incident, the famous American singer, one day just passed by the ostrich, did not provoke him, but the ostrich seems to look very unhappy with him, so it broke a few of his ribs.
Oh, is not an understatement, in fact, the process is also very short, he ran the ostrich chase, and then was thrown down and stepped on a few feet, the ostrich ran away. But the late singer must have remembered it fondly, and seeing that the ostrich would never be deceived by its appearance again, he must have chosen to avoid it.
As mentioned earlier, the ostrich's biggest 'weapon' is his legs and toes, so simple that he can an adult, you can imagine how terrible the ostrich's toes are.
Therefore, the ostrich who runs fast and carries his own 'weapon' has no need to bury his head in the soil or sand when he encounters danger.
So why do we often see him look down?
In fact, there are several reasons for this, I will briefly say, after all, there are many people who say it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > first, protect ostrich eggs. </h1>
The surface of the desert is very hot, so every once in a while, the ostrich will bow its head and turn the ostrich egg over to prevent it from becoming mature after a long period of high temperature.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > second, aiding digestion. </h1>
Because ostriches are vegetarian animals, plant fibers are often difficult to digest, so they will eat small stones to fully grind in the stomach to promote digestion.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > third, look for food. </h1>
Ostrich food is mainly based on the stems and leaves of plants, how can the general plant be very tall, it is impossible to grow as tall as the ostrich, so the ostrich needs to lower its head to eat, look at its long neck to know, in order to eat, they deliberately evolved the neck long and thin, just to facilitate eating.
Now everyone should know that in fact, in the face of danger, ostriches do not bury their heads in the soil, but will fight back and quickly escape, and nature's survival laws do not allow the emergence of creatures that are tied up.
Finally, what if you meet an ostrich in the wild.
This is very simple, although the ostriches run fast and are aggressive, they actually have a fatal weakness, that is, the neck.
As soon as we grab the ostrich's neck and press it down hard, the ostrich becomes a well-behaved little sheep.
Well, it's a bit of a stretch, after all, our chances of meeting an ostrich are almost zero.
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