The first few issues presented you with some beautiful scenery of areas with relatively abundant water resources, and today Xiaobian takes you to change your taste and enjoy another charm of the barren but extremely tense brought to us by the American desert.
There are not only penguins that can trudge in the desert, lizards that "weep" and bleed, but also "killers" who "howl" like wolves, and lamp moths that can interfere with bats' sound waves...
The Desert of the Americas is one of the hottest and driest places in the world, a world that seems unsuitable for living, but where many creatures choose to make their home. The tenacious survival efforts of these warriors in the harsh environment have made this supposedly barren land full of wild charm!
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Speaking of the most masculine and beautiful animals in the desert, Xiaobian will reflexively appear in his mind a scene of "horses galloping on the crimson land, and the sunset hovering on the horizon".
In the Great Basin Desert, an arid wilderness between the American Rockies and the Nevada Mountains, American pioneers brought horses here a hundred years ago. With the passage of time, the descendants of those horse-wilding are now shouldering the heavy responsibility of "face value" in this barren land, and have become the symbol of the American West!
Beautiful - beautiful - beautiful mustang!
All the way south. The Andes mountains of South America are shrouded in an almost rainless desert, the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert.
In this barren land, there is an unexpected figure - the "desert penguin" Humboldt penguin!
More than a thousand pairs of Humboldt penguins live by the sea on the edge of the Atacama Desert. Every day, they slide down the beach from a thirty-meter-high nesting point, politely pass through a large group of sea lions, and enter the sea in search of food.
The Monarch Horned Lizard is not as polite and thoughtful as the Humboldt penguin, although it lives in the Sonoran Desert in North America, where the average annual precipitation is less than 80 mm, the Monarch Horned Lizard "cries" without sparing the water, so that it spews out drops of "blood tears"!
This horrible "crying" annoys (disgusting) the animals that want to hunt the imperial horned lizards, and often give up feeding.
In the Sonoran Desert, there are imperial horned lizards spewing terror "blood tears" during the day, and at night in the cold moonlight of the slaughter, howling like lone wolves are bloodthirsty killers stretching their bones from their burrows, they are fearless and agile killing experts, they hunt those poisonous opponents that make other animals daunting, they are - locust eaters.
In the wild world, the relationship between the hunter and the hunted is often relatively stable.
But in the Colorado Highlands, the lamp moth unleashes a unique skill on its natural enemy, the Mexican tailless bat, making the relationships we thought familiar fresh again.
Every summer night, about 20 million Mexican tailless bats flock to the desert to enjoy more than 180,000 kilograms of insects.
When we firmly believe that the sonar system of bats has an absolute advantage in the "air battle" with insects, the lamp moth shows us supersonic sonar jamming technology!
The scientific community has recently discovered this secret weapon of the lamp moth. By playing slowly, we can hear the ultra-high-speed micro-sound waves emitted by the lamp moth. When locked by the bat, the lamp moth launches a counterattack, and the interference can make the bat lose for a while, allowing the lamp moth to escape between the electric light and flint. (The screenshot is a bit black, please open the video to enjoy the "air battle" between sonar and anti-sonar)
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