Presumably, many people have seen "Fight Club" starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, so have you ever seen the exclusive National Geographic documentary "Animal Fight Club" starring Animal Station B?
The fighting stories shared today are not from the familiar "fighters" of lions, bears and tigers, but from the more bizarre giraffes, mudskippers and slave ants!
Interested friends will continue to look down on it~
giraffe
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Have you ever seen "Free Neck"?
If you think giraffes are docile, you may not think so much after reading the following...
Screenshot: Bilibili | National Geographic Documentary Animal Fighting Season 1
In Tanzania, a young rookie tried to beat the current champion with tactics that surprised nearby visitors.
The giraffe's muscular neck occupies half of its height, and at the top is a head like a baton, which is also the perfect weapon to beat up opponents.
They want to damage their opponent's vital organs and win by violent impact, and the sound of the collision can be heard hundreds of miles away (watch the video, the effect is better)!
At this time, a small partner asked, such a swing blow, is the giraffe's head okay?
Don't be afraid, the male giraffe's brain is protected, and the oversized sinuses act like air sacs to cushion the impact.
For giraffes, the deadliest blow is in the back of the head. Blood flows through the neck up to 2.5 meters high, is pumped into the giraffe's brain, and if the blood supply is cut off, even for a short time, the giraffe will lose consciousness.
Mudskippers
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Win with a "mouth cannon"?
Some coastal creatures will stop at nothing to find love, but no creature can be as extreme as a mudskipper!
These strange-looking fish, leaving the comforts of the ocean, bravely come to a new dry world, just to find a mate on the beach.
The females are looking for a male fish with a perfect house in a prime location: a cave near the tide, built in soft dirt.
Just as this little mudskipper was ready for the new house, just as the ladies came, the big brother of this quagmire came! Any newcomer is not allowed to build a luxurious love castle on its turf.
So they started a cave battle. First, they flaunt their fangs, a form of intimidation, not a close sticker.
The mudskipper's skull is embedded with thorny teeth, and during the confrontation, the two sides open their mouths wide and do not flinch. It is not afraid to be bitten to the head and face, because the novice has built-in protective measures: the skin on its head and upper body is particularly thick and is not easy to be punctured.
If they can't, they also have a special skill to dodge their opponents: they curl up tightly, slap the dirt hard with their tails, and bounce themselves into the air at a height of 60 centimeters to make it easier to escape.
Hummer ants
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How do soldiers get a clan without bloodshed?
We've all seen it alone, have you ever seen an all-out war between animals? Let's welcome hummers!
Humpty dumpsters, tortures victims, and launches chemical attacks. Their mandibles are too sharp to eat on their own. These sickle-shaped mouthparts have only one way: killing!
In addition to "Hum", they also have a louder name, "slave ants"!
A female ant that wants to be in power has no chance of ascending to the throne in the native population. Because the queen could not tolerate competitors, the slave female had to leave with her eggs that had not yet hatched to build her new colony.
But instead of building a race from scratch, it chose to steal someone else's race.
Its target is a population of six hundred black-brown worker ants. Although it may seem a bit self-defeating, the slave ant princess has her own tricks: a special gland called the "Du's gland", which can release a pheromone to soothe the black brown ant.
As soon as the pheromone was released, the stunned defender laid down his weapon and allowed the slave ants to pass. Now its goal is to assassinate the Queen of The Black Brown ant and take away the queen's throne.
The black brown ant queen was caught off guard, completely unable to resist the intruder's sharp teeth. After twenty minutes of torture, the forced abdication of the queen only asked for a death to be relieved.
Now the nightmare took an even more horrific turn: the slave-keeping ant princess began licking the wounds of the dead queen ant, staining the other's scent.
The black-brown worker ants sniffed and surrounded the invaders. They caress the body of the slave ant with their antennae and feel the hydrocarbons in its abdomen. This is a badge that helps them distinguish between friend or foe.
By applying the liquid splattered by the victims all over their bodies, the invaders succeeded in confusing the colony: it was and has always been their queen.
These are the three wonderful fights that Frame has chosen for everyone in the first season of Animal Fighting Club!
In order to take care of the weaker friends, the choice is bloodless battles, and does not show the cruel fighting between the most ferocious species in the animal kingdom.
If there are warriors who want to feel a more brutal and rough, or even a vague flesh and blood life and death fight, you can also go to the B station to search for "Animal Fighting Club", or click "Read the original article" to watch it right away!
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