Douyin, as the hottest short video at the moment, is popular with many people, among which the "African Hot Foot Dance" has great attention, and netizens seriously suspect that these people are equipped with electric small motors. Because the frequency of feet stomping on the ground is so fast, no one has surpassed it so far. Netizens can't help but think after lamenting its speed, these people are seeing what can create such a ghost animal dance, until the editor saw the courtship dance of the prairie hazel chicken, and found that the dance of the two is not only similar, but even the shape is similar.
Grassland hazel, distributed in the United States and Canada, mainly inhabits coniferous forests at altitudes of 1500-2000 meters. Adult prairie hazelnuts are usually around 45 cm, approaching seventy centimeters when their wings are spread, and weigh about two pounds. They like to forage in the woodlands and bushes in the morning and dusk, and in the spring, summer and autumn evenings, they will fly to the trees for the night, and in the cold winter, they will spend the night in the snow caves on the ground to ward off the cold.
The range of activities of the grassland hazel chicken is not very large, the adult grassland hazel chicken mainly feeds on plant fruits and young leaves, while the chicks feed on insects, when encountering insufficient food, they will fly to a few kilometers away to forage, often on the soybeans, corn and other crops grown by humans. So for a long time, prairie grouse were also a major threat to agriculture in the United States and Canada.
When it comes to looks, the prairie hazel can be said to be very ordinary, similar to the common hen. But it has its own special features, why is it special? This has to start with its "airbags". Prairie hazelnuts are born with "airbags". Airbags grow around the neck and above the eyes. In the mating season, the role of airbags can be great! At this time, the airbags of the prairie hazel chicken will swell up, looking like two eggs hanging on the head, and will make a courtship sound that can be heard 800 meters away.
Since prairie hazel chickens have airbags, how to distinguish between males and females? In fact, it is very easy to distinguish between male and female of prairie grouse, just look at the color of the "airbag". Male airbags are larger orange-yellow, while females have brown, smaller, and are not easily detected.
It is worth mentioning that the prairie hazel is the most intelligent of the grouse family. This can be seen from the performance of the male bird during courtship, other animals inevitably have a martial fight when courtship, and the grassland grouse will also compete in the martial arts in addition to the martial arts, but it is really a combination of culture and martial arts. The contest of Wendou is like a human dancing, before dancing, it will rub the feathers to give itself a soundtrack, and then a sprint to help, and then several male birds dance against the female birds at the same time, whoever dances better is more likely to get the favor of the female.
This bird, which is good at dancing ghosts and animals, used to be very numerous, and in the early years of Canada and other regions, the prairie hazel chicken could be hunted at will, because the crop yield was not high at that time, and they loved to steal it. As a result, under the spray of muskets and the hunting of hunters, the number of steppe grouse was greatly reduced. But today, they are endangered, and local governments have banned the hunting of grassland hazel chickens.