According to the Daily Mail, something happened in a zoo in Australia that surprised everyone! The zoo's keeper said an American alligator weighing 350 kilograms, or about 700 kilograms, had recently entered the estrus period. This species itself is usually extremely threatening, and now after entering the estrus period, it is more aggressive, so for the safety of other animals in the park, it was unanimously decided to remove this crocodile uniform from the water, but it was difficult to implement it!
It is reported that the 700-pound American alligator is named Kanye, and in order to force it to quarantine, the zoo staff worked together to develop a plan: first use a rope to wrap its most dangerous jaw and drag it out of the water. Then the others came together to assist and subdue it together. Finally, use the tool to transfer the crocodile to the target. Unexpectedly, the 700-pound American alligator was also too fierce, and the zoo sent a total of 12 strong men in the whole process, and it took a lot of effort to drag the crocodile out of the water. Then, after dragging ashore, it was suppressed by 5 strong men stacking luohan, and it barely stopped struggling.
Isn't that interesting? I believe that I was full of confidence before the implementation, but I really started to act on the zoo to understand the difficulty of things. Leaving aside the moving event itself, it has to be admitted that the strength of the American alligator is really not covered, and it is not difficult to imagine that the attack power of the alligator in estrus should go up several levels. So the question is, what species is the American alligator? What other animals "escalate" their attack power during estrus? The following is still a rubik's cube to popularize science.
The American alligator is not only found in the Americas, but is a large crocodile species that lives in the Western Hemisphere. In general, they can grow up to 2.7 meters in size, and the largest can grow up to 4.5 meters. In addition, in addition to its size, the American alligator also has a significant difference in appearance from other crocodiles, that is, the mouth of the alligator is wider than that of other crocodiles, and other crocodiles may expose the teeth that are not fully wrapped in the jaw when they close their mouths, but the alligator does not. Not to the moment when it opened its mouth to attack, it looked like a harmless look of humans and animals, and was very good at "camouflage".
In terms of living habits, the American alligator mainly feeds on fish and shrimp, sometimes crabs, turtles, frogs and even small animals, and even sometimes large mammals such as wild boars. Of course, alligators like to live in the water, and wild boars are mainly in the mountains, so if you want to encounter this rare delicacy, alligators also have to encounter rare luck. It is reported that don't look at the size of the alligator is actually not a human opponent. Once because of the popularity of the crocodile skin and alligator market, it was once going to be extinct. Fortunately, the systematic hunting at the first level of prohibition was adopted, and the population gradually recovered.
It is reported that the American alligator becomes unusually aggressive after entering the estrus period. According to the administrator, at this stage, the American alligator has even reached the level of some humans and animals. It's common for reptiles to roar to attract females, but it's growling not just at other alligators in the waters, but even at zoo staff. Imagine that now that it has officially entered the estrus period, how terrifying it would be if an accident occurred?
As above, after the initial American alligator species, how fierce is it? The comparison with china's locally flooded wild boar must be very illustrative! First of all, as far as the American alligator is concerned, according to statistics, the alligator Kanye has 80 teeth in its mouth, and its powerful jaw can even crush the hard shell of the turtle, and it has been reported that its bite force is 1928 pounds. Secondly, compared with the attack power of wild boars, the running speed of wild boars is 70 nanometers per hour, and the bite force is more than 400 pounds.
Obviously, the attack power of wild boars is far inferior to that of American alligators, so why not introduce American alligators to subdue the wild boars that flood our country? In fact, there are two main reasons! First of all, first, the analysis of the current worldwide wild boar flooding situation can be known, although China has a total of about 1.5 million wild boars, but in fact, in the United States is also facing 6 million wild boar flood, Australia is more than 24 million, compared to the Number of alligators in the Americas these foreign regions of the wild boar flood, so based on the "mud bodhisattva crossing the river itself is difficult to protect" principle, the introduction of alligators does not have great significance.
Second, the lack of introduction of the American alligator is actually based on some of the previous experience of biological control of flooding. The ecology of each region is basically balanced, and if another species is introduced for the flooding of one species, then the final solution is undoubtedly only the flooding of newly introduced species and continuous circulation. Moreover, as mentioned above, the American alligator mainly lives in the water, and does not take the initiative to run to the mountains and forests to catch wild boars, so it is unreliable to rely on it to cure wild boars!
People who have watched "Animal World" know that we often hear this sentence from Teacher Zhao Zhongxiang: "Spring has arrived, and it is the season of animal mating." From this, we can conclude from this that many animals have estrus periods and are relatively fixed. However, the difference in nature is that most animals are in spring, while some animals are not necessarily in spring, but in general, it is the law to be in heat!
It is worth noting that the animals are not mild in heat, but rather terrifying. For example, ring-tailed lemurs "flirt" with body fragrance and smear the scent secreted on their wrists on their tails. When there is a fight for mating rights, they will also change their cute appearance and fight each other.
However, this is still a small meaning, chimpanzees belonging to the primate class can be described as "unscrupulous" in order to courtship. Why male chimpanzees mate with females who have not had the desire to mate shortly after giving birth to small orangutans, they will create their own estrus period with females by killing the female cubs.
Elephants, as the largest mammals on land, are quite frightening when in estrus. They originally fed on plants, but during estrus they may transform into steppe killers. During estrus, their testosterone levels are 60 times higher than usual, and the first change is that they fight with their peers. Second, "unruly" elephants attack rhinos, cars, and even the lions of the king of the prairie.
Cats, dogs, rats, etc. that humans often raise will also become extremely manic during the estrus period, and it is common for people to change their voices, pee everywhere, and attack their owners.
Animals in heat are normal, like the American alligator in the zoo. However, for such a large species and the ability to multiply its attack power, caution should be taken. Otherwise, it will not only affect the breeding staff, but may also threaten the safety of other rare species in the zoo. All in all, don't mess with animals when they are in heat, otherwise it is not worth it to innocently suffer!