Seven worlds, one planet
Recently, I was chasing the documentary "Seven Worlds, One Planet", and when I saw South America, I was not familiar with this continent at all. Thus the knowledge of world geography was made up. South America, with 40% of the world's species, has the world's longest mountain range, the Andes Mountains, the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, and the world's largest waterfall, Angel Falls. Let's follow the documentary to see what animals are in this fertile South American country.
Topography of South America
Before watching the documentary, let's take a look at the geography of South America, which has 12 countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and so on. Located in the northernmost part of Venezuela, angel falls are located in this country.
1, the Andes: the power from the movement of the earth's crust has created the Andes, and for hundreds of millions of years, the seabed of the Pacific Ocean has been moving eastward. When the sediment hits the edge of South America, the plate is squeezed and lifted upwards. Under the action of huge lifting, the rock rises, creating cracks. The Andes are like a huge barrier, stretching more than 6,000 kilometers from Patagonia in the south to Venezuela in the north. There are also many volcanoes in the Andes.
Cougar – A feline. It feeds on the original camel, although it is smaller than the original camel, but it hunts with a lock throat, so it throws the original camel down. The documentary tells the story of a mother mountain lion who fearlessly threw down the camel three times in order to find food for her cubs, and finally managed to catch the food the last time. But the moment I saw the camel being thrown down, I felt sad for the camel. The world of animals is such a natural choice
Mountain lions lock throat hunting
The original camel - a close relative of the camel, is 2 meters tall and weighs 3 times the weight of the mountain lion. The moment I saw the original camel being eaten by a mountain lion, I thought the original camel was so pitiful (whoops)
guanaco
2. On the coast of Peru: Humboldt penguins must cross over sea lions to bathe and fish in the sea. However, humboldt penguins look quite handsome in thrilling parkour.
Humboldt penguins
sea lion
3. Cloud Forest: Each valley contains unique wildlife. There are Pinocchio lizards, rare spectacled bears, etc., the spectacled bear mainly eats leaves and fruits, it climbs to the top of the canopy to feed, looking for small avocados. One skill it learns is to bite off branches and get the fruit it wants.
Spectacled bear
4, Venezuela: In the flat top mountain, there is the world's highest waterfall - Angel Falls, with a height difference of 1 km.
5, Colombian lowland forests: there is a forest, living in the world's extremely rare monkey - the velvet tamarind monkey (cotton crown), with white hair on the head, like down jacket like fluff. This monkey is extremely endangered. He eats fruit, likes to eat the sap of trees, and also eats insects. In all corners of the continent, forests are gradually being cut down and turned into farmland. Many animals are in danger.
Cotton-crowned marmoset
6, amazon forest: the largest forest on the planet, here live 2 million species of animals. There is a bird called swallowtail petite, which dances in groups for courtship. There is also the poison dart frog, which is petite, only the size of a fingernail cap, and in order to survive in the rainforest, it has found one of the most ingenious parenting strategies. Papa poison dart frogs would carry a small tadpole on their backs and place them in small puddles on the leaves, and it had to remember where it was to place the tadpoles and examine them one by one. Even though it was so small, it still had to climb on the towering tree, but it could not feed the tadpoles alone, so it had to leave, call on its partner, guide it to find each tadpole, and then the mother poison dart frog laid an unfertilized egg as food for the little tadpole. The parents worked hand in hand to raise their children, showing an extraordinary spirit of cooperation and memory. Very warm side.
Swallowtail Grebe
The crimson macaw is loyal to its partner and has been with her for 40 years, eating the soil like crazy in order to bring some salt soil for the baby to eat. Baby parrots also need minerals for brain development.
macaw
7, Brazil Bonito River: The spring water here is crystal clear, there is a special kind of fish living in this spring water - The Greek-style stone carp, it can see every move on the water, such as watching the black hat hanging monkey in the tree looking for food, wherever the monkey on the river goes, the fish follows. The food the monkeys ate fell into the water, and the fish scrambled to eat it. There is also a large water nymph in the water, which is the largest snake in the snake species and seems to eat monkeys. So the monkeys can't get too close to the surface of the water. The stone carp has an extraordinary foraging skill: it can jump up and take its own food to eat. It's amazing.
The stone carp leaps to feed
8. Iguazu Falls: The widest waterfall in the world. Large black swifts live here, and they are able to cross waterfalls and return to their nests. Because their nest is behind a waterfall. But the chicks have not yet learned this skill, so when the amount of water on the river increases, they have to change their nests. When the flood came, some chicks were driven by instinct to escape, and these brave chicks ushered in a glimmer of life in a desperate situation, and the only way to fly out was to die. So their future, and all the wildlife of the South American continent, requires us to carefully weigh the different needs of humans and animals.
Thanks to this documentary for showing us the survival of animals in South America, some of which are in danger, we need to take effective measures to protect these animals. No more deforestation, no more blindness to these animals.