According to Pan Xiuying's "Animal World", in Africa, there is a magical cow, it does not need to drink water with its mouth, its four hooves have hair follicles that directly lead to the stomach, when you feel thirsty, you only need to stand in the water for a few minutes, the hair follicles will absorb a lot of water into the stomach, to achieve drinking water;
In addition to the cow that can drink water with its feet, there is also a magical bird that can make the same laugh as people, so it is called "laughing bird"; it is extremely magical
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="6" > an introduction to "LaughingBird"</h1>
"Laughing Bird", a mascot from Australia, is one of the three major birds in Australia, and is also the lucky thing of the Sydney Olympic Games, the scientific name is "Laughing Kingfisher"; It is the Dharma monk, kingfisher family;
With a body length of about 46 cm, a beak length of about 8-10 cm, and a weight of about 500 grams, it is the largest bird in the kingfisher family; its subspecies, only 2 species;
Therefore, the kingfisher is not only Australia's national bird, but also one of the world's endangered and protected animals, and its preciousness;
Laughing kingfishers have a common name for "laughing birds" because they make a human-like laugh in the morning, evening and evening; for this reason, they are known as the "clock of the forest dwellers"
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="13" > kingfisher is endemic to Australia</h1>
The area where the kingfisher is active is very narrow, and only exists in Australia's Cape York Peninsula, Cooktown South, South Flinders South of South Australia and New South Wales, and its habitat is dense forest and wide open spaces;
Because their habitat is forest and clearing, the kingfisher, although it is a kingfisher, does not live on fishing, but mainly eats lizards and insects, crayfish, snails, etc.
Among them, the most famous is that the laughing kingfisher has a strong snake hunting ability, an adult kingfisher, can easily hunt rattlesnakes, large climbing snakes and other large venomous snakes. Zoologists often observe that the kingfisher kills snakes that are too big to eat themselves;
According to zoologist research: the reason why the kingfisher catches snakes is not to eat, but to protect their territory from invasion, the kingfisher has a strong sense of territory, even if the bird king such as the goshawk enters their territory, it will be counterattacked; in addition, the kingfisher seems to maintain natural hostility to snakes;
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="34" > kingfisher is highly intelligent, gregarious and cooperative</h1>
Kingfishers like to live in groups, each group is composed of 3 to 5 families, each family is about parents and two generations of children or so, the kingfisher's reproductive ability is not strong, and the eggs that reproduce at one time are about 3;
Because the growth cycle of the kingfisher is very long, it generally takes 9 months to live independently, and 1-2 years old is considered to be an adult, so the survival rate of the young kingfisher is very low; about one spawn is laid, and finally only one can survive; and the kingfisher only lays eggs once a year, which also leads to the very small number of kingfishers, and has not been able to get out of the ranks of endangered animals;
However, once the kingfisher survives, its life span will be very long, about 20 years old, and it will enter old age, and there are basically no natural enemies;
The reason is that the kingfisher has a high IQ, one of their groups has about 30 up and down, although there is no "bird king"; but it is "cooperative survival", with a strong sense of teamwork, in the face of large predators such as goshawks into the territory, the kingfisher group will be orderly siege, team cooperation, until the intruder is repelled;
Zoologists believe that the reason why the kingfisher can cooperate so harmoniously in the absence of a "bird king" is related to their high INTELLIGENCE;
Because of the high degree of cherishing of the kingfisher, zoologists have not conducted experiments to test the IQ of the kingfisher, but usually list it as a high-IQ animal;
The reason is that in the face of natural disasters, they will know how to hide in places where disasters cannot be affected, quietly wait for disasters to pass, and then happily pick up prey that has been injured and frightened after disasters;
It is worth mentioning that the kingfisher is also "monogamous";
【Conclusion】: The world is very large, there are many amazing and amazing magical beings, and the "arrogant" laughing birds who are good at cooperation and laughing wildly are just one of them; protect the environment, leave a vast living space for more magical lives, and feel the miracles left by nature for the world;