In the previous article, we talked about the strongest creatures on the surface, and today We talk about the strongest creatures in the ocean, and the same as last time, they are also one-on-one.
10th place: Walrus
Although the walrus is called an elephant, it has nothing to do with elephants, because its canine teeth are particularly long and large, like ivory, so it is called a walrus. The walrus's tusk is one of the most important tools of the walrus, as well as a weapon, which grows all its life.
In fact, there are many animals whose teeth have grown all their lives, elephant teeth have also grown all their lives, rats' teeth have also grown all their lives, and its two front teeth are constantly growing, so it has to keep grinding teeth, why do their teeth not stop growing? Now research believes that they are very dependent on this tooth, and if its tooth is broken or worn, it will affect its life;
Why do its teeth keep growing? Because there is a stem cell pool at the root of its teeth, the stem cell pool is constantly secreted, so that it grows teeth; walrus ivory is currently more than 1 meter long, while elephant ivory is the longest ivory of 1.8 meters, and the intercepted smuggled elephant ivory has 1.9 meters long ivory, so the longest ivory of the fossils currently excavated is 5 meters long.
Because the elephant itself has a long lifespan, and another is that no one hunts it, it grows until it is 5 meters long The largest walrus weight is currently found to be 2.2 tons, 4.4 meters long, larger than a large rhinoceros, then the walrus fat is particularly thick, can resist the cold, it and the polar bear is living together, but the polar bear rarely attacks the adult walrus, because it is too big, the skin is thick and impenetrable, it is easy to attack the walrus, it has a big tooth to pry you you can't stand it, so the polar bear usually attacks juvenile walruses; in fact, the things in the sea are larger than on land, you see walruses are bigger than big tigers, Lions, giant scorpions, giant lizards; large creatures live in the sea, mainly because it is convenient to move in the sea, and they will move more slowly on land.
A little more powerful than walruses, it is seals;
9th place: Leopard seals
Leopard seals are the second largest of the seals, although not the largest, but they reach a length of 3.5 meters and weigh 500 kilograms. Similar to a large lion, but it is not just a little larger than the average seal, its athletic ability is particularly strong, the muscles are particularly developed, the sense of vision and smell is also very good, although its size is not as large as the walrus, but it is much more flexible than the walrus, the teeth are also particularly sharp, and its mouth can open 160 degrees.
Leopard seals live mainly in the waters off antarctica and often prey on penguins, preying on seals of other species that are smaller than them, and they even attack humans.
In 2003, there was a tragedy that shocked the world. A 28-year-old British female oceanographer was attacked by this leopard seal while diving in the waters near the Antarctic to study, and the rescue was ineffective, and the reason why the seal attacked it was unknown. In fact, there have been no seal attacks during diving surveys in Antarctica, which has been a very rare incident of seal attacks in recent years.
It is more powerful than this leopard seal, and it is also the most special one in this ranking - the bay crocodile.
8th place: Bay Crocodile
There are also bay crocodiles in the strongest creatures on the surface, and the strongest ones in the sea also have it; the bay crocodile is the only crocodile that can live in the sea, it has a strong patience with the sea, the bay crocodile is also called the saltwater crocodile, the bay crocodile is the world's largest reptile, and the bite force is also the largest, reaching 2 tons;
The bay crocodile is slightly weaker than other crocodiles in that it has a shorter breath holding time, and it can only hold its breath for 1 hour. Other crocodiles can hold their breath for several hours, and the strong breath is closed for 5 hours, why can the crocodile hold its breath for so long? It is because it can freely regulate its own heartbeat, it is a cold-blooded animal, it does not need to maintain its body temperature, when it wants to close its breath under the water, it adjusts its heartbeat to three times per minute, normally 40 times per minute, it adjusts to 3 times per minute, basically enters a semi-suspended state, oxygen is only delivered to the brain, and then it looks at the surrounding situation, when it needs to exercise, the heartbeat accelerates again, and then it can exercise, it reduces the consumption of oxygen, and can hold the breath for a long time. The bay crocodile is actually weaker underwater, and it mainly eats animals that are near the seaside. So why did it go to the bottom of the sea? It often has to go somewhere else to find something to eat, so it crosses a bay, so it has to dive to the bottom of the sea.
7th place: Swordfish
It is the fastest fish in the ocean, swimming at more than 100 kilometers per hour, as fast as a cheetah, and the largest swordfish found so far can reach 5 meters in length and weigh 650 kilograms.
You can imagine running at the speed of a cheetah in the ocean, and then in front of a creature with a long sword, piercing anyone to death, and the fish itself is extremely brutal, although it mainly eats squid and some small fish, but it will attack whales and even boats, and people have been caught by it; on May 29, 2015, A captain in Hawaii saw a 1.8-meter-long swordfish offshore, he wanted to catch the fish, he jumped into the sea with a spear, the fish swam over, it hit the fish, the fish also stabbed it, and the captain and the swordfish died.
The number of swordfish has been very small, and it was later found that the mercury content in the meat of this fish is particularly high and poisonous, and many countries restrict the sale of swordfish. More powerful than the swordfish is the tiger shark.
6th place: Tiger shark
It is one of the few sharks that will actively attack humans, very dangerous, because this shark has the same markings on the tiger, so it is called tiger shark; the largest known tiger shark is up to 6 meters long and weighs more than 800 kilograms, it is the top predator in the ocean, it is very cruel in temperament, almost everything attacks, it often attacks some other sharks, attack dolphins. It will even attack some plastic bags, canned fish; it is an omnivore, in fact, an omnivore, very dangerous.
More powerful than the tiger shark - the great king squid.
5th place: King Squid
King squid is the world's largest invertebrate, and one of the largest species of king squid is called King Squid, which is an oversized squid, what is the difference between squid and squid Do you know? In fact, squid is a kind of squid, it is more slender, the scientific name of the squid is gun squid, the cover on the body of the squid is slightly looser, thicker, larger; what is the difference between squid and octopus? Octopus, also called octopus, has 8 legs, and squid has 10 legs, they are close relatives; they are the same order in cephalopods, but the number of legs is not the same, so they are listed separately; octopus is soft, and there is a hard board in the squid; and the octopus leans on, the squid swims; the octopus also has a different place from the squid, that is, the octopus is very smart, the squid is not so smart.
At present, only juvenile fish have been found, not adults. Juvenile fish were caught in 2003 and 2007, with a body length of 8 meters; the mouth of many king squid was found in the stomach of sperm whales, but this mouth was also the mouth of juvenile fish, and the mouth of the adult fish was not found; according to this speculation, the adult body of the king acid squid can reach 18 meters long and weigh 750 kg, but it has never been seen, possibly in the deep sea.
There are several interesting mysteries about the king squid, one is that the juvenile fish found so far are female, no males have been found, and it is felt that the males should be larger than the females, so how many meters there is is not known.
There is also an incredible thing, found that the sperm whale has a lot of squid scratches, think that it is when it fights with this sperm whale scratch, the scratch marks are very deep, indicating that its combat effectiveness is very strong. Similar scratches have been found on some sharks, and in Norse mythology, a huge monster in the sea, looking like an octopus or squid, attacked ships, this myth is called the Norwegian Sea Monster, which has also appeared in pirates of the Caribbean; although it is so powerful, it is currently known to eat only 30 grams of food a day. Although it can fight with sperm whales, it is basically dead;
The next one is more powerful than this king squid - the great white shark.
4th place: Great White Shark
Many people may think that it is the most powerful animal in the sea, but in fact, it is not, even the top three are not ranked; more than 20 million years ago, there are fossils of great white sharks, it has not evolved, and it looks exactly the same as before, it is also the world's largest predatory fish, the largest living great white shark is called deep blue, body length of 6 meters, weight of more than 2 tons, this is the weight of speculation; in fact, the number of great white sharks has been very small, almost all the discoveries have given names;
Now there is a website called oceach that can track the trail of the great white shark, gps global positioning; the nearest great white shark called Louis, in the Indian Ocean, but they can not be tracked if they dive very deeply, so this signal is intermittent; look at the route they swim, find that this great white shark has been anywhere in the world, where it is possible; this deep blue was last found near Hawaii, is eating a dead whale;
The great white shark is full of hundreds of teeth as sharp as a blade, plus more than 300 kilograms of bite force, basically the most aggressive creature in the sea, its swimming speed can reach more than 50 kilometers per hour; the great white shark usually only attacks once, it finds that the prey goes up to bite, and then wait for the prey to lose too much blood and die, and then eat it, so that it is to save physical strength, but also for its own safety, it may be injured if it keeps attacking; the great white shark has a very good sense of smell, You can smell a drop of blood 400 meters away, if it is farther away, the blood will be a little more, in order to smell, the great white shark will also take the initiative to attack humans.
There have been many incidents of great white sharks attacking humans in the past, but current research has found that this may be a misunderstanding. Great white sharks attack humans, it is possible that humans themselves caused, why? Because now many wild great white sharks, if they have not had any contact with people, and divers come close to it to touch it, it will not have any reaction; just contact with humans, it will attack people, why? In order to observe the great white shark, people often use some blood, flesh, and those things to attract it, let it come over, and then put it aside to observe. After a long time, the great white shark feels that there is good food where there are people, it goes to find people, it goes to the place where some people swim, close to people, it goes to bite these people, it itself does not have much hostility to people, but later it has become a habit;
There are no great white sharks in the aquarium, and there is no aquarium in the world that has great white tea, what is the reason? Because there have been many attempts in history to put the great white shark in the aquarium, but they have failed, the great white shark will soon die as long as it is kept in the aquarium, because it is particularly large, it can not be kept in captivity. If it finds itself in captivity for a limited range, it will become particularly irritable and start attacking all the fish in the aquarium; you can't just raise a great white shark and all the remaining fish are dead, and it doesn't attack other fish to eat, and finally starve to death.
Once tried to raise great white sharks, some of them killed themselves one day, and some of them starved to death after living for 5 weeks, so great white sharks cannot be artificially raised. Another reason is that there can never be a great white shark in the aquarium, that is, the great white shark mainly eats mammals, so you have to raise a great white shark, you have to give it a seal a day; from all angles, the aquarium can not have a great white shark.
Great white sharks have almost no natural enemies in the sea, but there is one guy who can cure it, that is, killer whales;
3rd place: Killer whales
Killer whales, many people may think that it is the most powerful number one in the sea, but today is talking about one-on-one, it can only rank 3; killer whales can reach 9.5 meters in length and weigh 9 tons, and killer whales can swim up to 70 kilometers per hour, faster than great white sharks.
It is the fastest mammal in the ocean, the movement ability is particularly strong, the big killer whale can jump out of the water, you think how strong its athletic ability is, jump up like a dolphin; the killer whale is the largest species of dolphins, it belongs to the dolphin, especially intelligent, from the combat ability, from the intelligence, it is the top in the ocean, so it is the top killer in the whole ocean, it is also called the killer whale.
The diet of the killer whale has a very unique place, although it eats everything, but different species of killer whales eat things are very single, some killer whales only eat fish, some killer whales only eat seals, some killer whales eat everything, and the environment in which it lives is related; there have been observations of many killer whales hunting and killing great white shark scenes, in fact, the great white shark in the sea If you feel that there are dolphin creatures around, it will run away, it is afraid of dolphin creatures, because the dolphin creatures are in groups, and the IQ is particularly high. A single great white shark against a dolphin, a great white shark can win, and has eaten dolphins, but if there are more it is, it will not; dolphins are mammals, it has hard bones on its body, and great white sharks are bony fish, their bodies are particularly soft, and their internal organs are not protected by anything. Dolphins are particularly clever, it will top the belly of the great white shark from the bottom, if it is one top, the stomach will be broken, and the great white shark will die; but if it is bitten by the great white shark, the dolphin basically has no chance, and if the great white shark encounters the killer whale, it will run directly, and it will not be able to fight;
How do killer whales deal with great white sharks? Killer whales are smart to a certain extent, the great white shark has a weakness, once the great white shark is turned over, it will not move, it will not swim, it will be stationary, the shark will die if it does not swim, its gills themselves cannot move, it needs to rely on swimming to breathe, it will die once it does not move; the killer whale will come together in two and turn the great white shark over and hold it, and after a while the shark will die. Great white sharks are not bitten to death, they are suffocated in the sea. If the killer whale really wants to kill it, it really can't run away, it can't swim it.
So killer whales don't kill great white sharks to eat, but for what? To exclude competitors, their diets are very similar to those of great white sharks. To kill a great white shark, killer whales have a little more food; killer whales are social animals, matrilineal societies, they have their own language communication systems, they have complex social structures, many oceanographers believe that killer whales are cultured, and if there is a place to build them a city, they have civilization. Killer whales have a very long lifespan, some can live to more than 100 years old, it is currently known that wild killer whales will not attack humans, but aquariums will attack humans;
There is a very famous killer whale called Tirikum, it was found near Iceland by this whaling team when it was young, it was replenished, pulled away from its mother, sent to the Aquarium of the United States to raise, it was bullied by other killer whales in this aquarium, in fact, killer whales bullying each other This phenomenon can only happen in aquariums. It grows up to be very big, 7 meters long, Weighing 5.4 tons, it is the largest in the aquarium; in 1991, together with two other killer whales, it dragged a trainer who fell into the water to the water, and did not let the trainer go ashore for several hours, that is, when the trainer was going to climb up, it dialed you down, and finally rescued it and died; later the killer whale was sold to other aquariums, and after arriving at other aquariums, one day there was a spectator, after work, secretly sneaked around the training pool of the aquarium, found the body one morning, and died on the back of Tilicom;
Later, 10 years later, one of Tilikum's trainers was dragged into the water by it and drowned; this killer whale was raised in this aquarium since childhood, and it had a deep hatred for humans, and if it was in a bad mood, it dragged you into the water.
In 2017, SeaWorld Orlando, where Curitim is located, announced that Curitim was dead, but the cause of death was not announced; because the killer whale's individual combat power is very strong, but also social, very good at group combat, so there are no natural enemies in nature, but today is about one-on-one confrontation, so there are two more powerful than it. If you don't think about one-on-one, it's definitely the strongest in the ocean.
The one-on-one case that has the potential to defeat killer whales is the sperm whale.
2nd place: Sperm whale
The sperm whale is much larger than the tiger type, it can reach 20 meters in length and weighs 70 tons, which is equivalent to 7 killer whales; elephants are 100 kilograms when they are born, and sperm whales are 1 ton when they are born; adult sperm whales, each tooth in the mouth is 20 centimeters long and weighs 1 kilogram; sperm whales also have very complex social structures and their own language system, and sperm whales have dialects. They also have the ability to inherit culture, that is, they will give their dialect to their descendants, sperm whales are much stronger than killer whales, that is, its diving ability is very strong, killer whales generally do not dive for more than 20 minutes, they have to come up to breathe, sperm whales can dive for 1 hour, so if the sperm whale bites the killer whale and does not move in the water, the killer whale is suffocated in the water, this is the only way for it to defeat the killer whale; but in reality, the sperm whale feels that there are killer whales around, and will immediately dive into the water. It's very deep, and it doesn't come out until the killer whale swarm has passed.
Sperm whales mainly eat squid and king squid; now the study of king squid and king squid also mainly rely on sperm whales, but to study these things is to kill sperm whales, take out what is in its stomach; humans have hunted sperm whales since ancient times, because it has a lot of whale oil, which can be used to make candles, so it needs a lot of whale oil.
Sperm whales have a very magical place, and the phenomenon currently found is that sperm whales can emit ultrasonic waves that stun prey in front of them;
Even more powerful than the sperm whale, the world's largest animal - the blue whale
1st place: Blue Whale
The blue whale can reach 33 meters long and weighs 177 tons, and the weight of the blue whale is estimated; it is 1 times larger than the sperm whale, it is the largest animal ever recorded on earth, including various large creatures in prehistory, including dinosaurs; the largest known dinosaur is 100 tons, and the blue whale weighs 177 tons.
A tibia fossil called Megalopoda has been found, 2 meters long, according to this fossil inference, this giantosaur may be 55 meters long and weigh 300 tons, but this is only speculation; blue whales are born 2.7 tons, 7 meters long, drink 400 liters of breast milk a day, and can grow more than 100 kilograms a day.
Although the blue whale is so big, but the temperament is very docile, will not attack other animals, only eat some small fish and shrimp, the only natural enemy of the blue whale in nature is the killer whale, in a one-on-one situation, the killer whale will not attack the blue whale, because of its large body, its tail strength is also very large, once the killer whale can not stand, before did not know that the killer whale will attack the blue whale, and then how to know, that is, in recent years, the technology has developed, with the drone, it has photographed the killer whale group to kill the blue whale This scene Only then did they know that killer whales ate blue whales; but they did not hunt the largest blue whales, the small blue whales they hunted, with a body length of about 20 meters; in fact, the real overlord of the ocean is the killer whale, with a high IQ and good physique.
0th place: Australian box jellyfish
The most poisonous jellyfish in the world, not to say that it is the most poisonous jellyfish, of all the poisonous creatures in the world, it is the most poisonous; this jellyfish has a scattered head, about half a meter in height, the umbrella head has 4 nodes, 4 nodes will each extend 15 tentacles, the length of the tentacles reaches 4.5 meters, each tentacle has countless stingers, once it touches something, it will be poisoned, it usually relies on this tentacle to catch some small fish, shrimp, and die quickly; how strong is its toxicity? A box jellyfish can easily poison 60 people; and this box jellyfish is transparent, the tentacles are also transparent, and the swimmers are very easy to touch; the box jellyfish mainly lives in Australia, the Philippines, malaysia; every year there are hundreds of people who die of box jellyfish poisoning, the reason why the box jellyfish is so powerful is because it has several deadly toxins in it, some can stop you breathing, some make you stop beating, some make you blind, some make you skin necrotic, Several of the most poisonous venoms are put together.
In fact, some people have survived from the box jellyfish, but they have only touched a little bit, and the skin will be necrotic where they are touched, so it will leave permanent scars; although the box jellyfish is so powerful, it has a natural enemy, the only natural enemy is the turtle, and its toxin is ineffective against the turtle. Turtles eat it, but the number of turtles is relatively small, and they are not willing to eat box jellyfish; the number of box jellyfish is still very large, although the box jellyfish is very poisonous, but only the tentacles are poisonous, there is no poison on the head, you can grab its head.
One of the most terrible places about the box jellyfish is that it has 24 eyes, it can see some prey around it, just see someone swimming it will swim over, it swims very fast, 1.5 meters per second, much faster than the average person swims, so it really has to come to sting people, people can't run away.
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