In the eyes of many people, only tigers will be called the king of the forest, the king of beasts. Once upon a time, however, the forest hopper was the overlord of nature. It can swallow the jaguar alive in an instant, and many innocent people's lives are buried in its belly. The forest hopper is the fiercest "character" in the snake family, why is it on the verge of extinction today?
In the impression of many people, the world's largest snake should be a python, but it is not known that the forest hopper living in the Amazon rainforest is the largest snake in the world, the longest forest hopper body length can reach 10 meters, weigh more than 200 kilograms, the whole body is thicker than adult strong men. However, most of the forest hopper, its average length is about four meters, and it likes to roost in the water on weekdays. The forest hopper is a nocturnal animal that bathes motionlessly in the sun during the day and forages at night.
Compared with ordinary pythons, the forest borer has no jaw, and its mouth can be opened nearly one hundred and eighty degrees, and the 2 rows of teeth in the upper jaw can swim, which is conducive to devouring relatively large prey. The most important parts of the body are its tongue and eyes, as well as its skin scales. The long tongue of the forest crab is like a metal detector in our modern technology, and the skin scales can feel whether the surrounding prey is moving, but to determine the exact location of the prey, it is necessary to rely on the eyes of the forest crab to judge.
Some netizens will not only question: "When the forest hopper swallows large prey, is not afraid of being blocked and suffocating the trachea?" "In fact, the trachea of the forest crab can move, especially when devouring prey, their trachea will be exposed, so there is no need to worry about the trachea being blocked."
If pythons are found all over the world, the silkworm only lives in South America. The tropical rainforest climate here is like paradise for the borer. In order to adapt to the extremely complex living environment, the forest borer can give birth to several or a dozen cubs at a time, and sometimes these cubs have a very low survival rate and are extremely easy to be swallowed up by crocodiles or other ferocious creatures. But once these cubs survive and become adult forest hoppers, they can dominate the entire rainforest and do almost anything.
In 2003, an American film and television company spent a lot of money to make a real documentary about who would win the jaguar and the forest grasshopper in the forest. The jaguar's arena for supremacy with the forest crab is located near the river's edge, which is its home field for the forest hopper, and in the process of fighting each other, the jaguar as a feline has obviously lost its physical strength, and it seems that there is no way to win except to constantly bite the forest crab.
In the process of this desperate battle, the forest crab became stronger and stronger, and the endurance was very good, although the jaguar bit its body to death, but for the forest crab, this did not cause any harm. As the forest hopper continued to move, it stubbornly entangled the jaguar, and finally came a surprise return gun, causing the jaguar to suffocate and try to swallow it into its mouth. The jaguar was almost powerless to resist, and finally became a feast for the grasshoppers.
We have already mentioned that the silkworm is an oviparous organism that can lay on average a few or a dozen cubs at a time. For Mori, it is almost too difficult to grow up to the stage of adulthood. Because in the cub period, they are easily swallowed up by crocodiles, lions and other large prey. In other words, in the rainforest, large and ferocious animals have strangled their young forest borers in their cradles.
For example, our common crocodiles hunt in a sneak attack, often feeding on small animals and the cubs of forest hoppers. Especially during the day when looking for food, the young forest borers will be their best targets. The young forest grasshoppers, which have no chicken power, can only be slaughtered, and as the number of forest grasshopper cubs gradually declines, the adult forest grasshoppers will become rare, which is the main reason why the forest grasshoppers are on the road to extinction.
As deforestation intensifies, the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest has been severely damaged. When vegetation coverage is reduced, it is extremely easy to cause wildfires. In addition, these wildfires also release a lot of greenhouse gases, including methane and carbon dioxide, which pose a huge threat to the animals living in the Amazon. After entering the twenty-first century, according to incomplete statistics, about 85,000 square kilometers of Amazon forest were burned. Especially in the past two years, the central Amazon has experienced a surge in fires, and in this grim situation, the number of forest hoppers is also decreasing year by year, and the current situation is on the verge of extinction.
Many people in order to pursue more interests continue to wantonly kill wild animals, especially pythons and forest hoppers, with their snake skin made of high-grade leather goods, because adult forest hoppers are not easy to be hunted and killed, so many people will attack its cubs, the number of forest hoppers is rare, in the black market trade, forest grasshoppers Its price is also relatively high, the so-called rare things are expensive, driven by interests, many people will risk their lives to kill forest grasshoppers, resulting in its number becoming less and less, and finally entering the stage of endangerment.
In the natural ecological environment, every animal has its own reason for existence. With the continuous expansion of the scope of human activities, the damage to the natural ecological environment is becoming more and more severe. Once the balance of the ecological food chain is broken, there will be a terrible situation of no return, such as the disappearance of the forest crab on the earth, then many other large animals, such as the jaguar, will lose their natural enemies, and the increasing number is also a disguised threat to humans.
So in general, we humans should learn to respect everything in nature, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, low-carbon travel, protect the ecological environment, reject wild meat, and protect wild animals. Only in this way will we not upset the ecological balance and will not let the animals go to the brink of extinction.