There is a proverb in the countryside: "Ants move, snakes walk in the aisle, heavy rain will come soon", which means that when you see ants moving, or there are traces of snakes passing by, heavy rain will come soon after.
This is because the ant is afraid of the rain to wash away its own cave, so it will block the opening of its ant nest early, and the snake is generally not close to the person, they will move around the person when they move, so we will not easily see their traces, but when it feels that it is going to rain, in order to rush home, they will take shortcuts directly.
These are the "superpowers" of wild animals, who are more sensitive to weather changes than humans, so they can often "predict the future".
Japan is a country that is deeply troubled by earthquakes, and they have taken many measures to prevent earthquakes, including the behavior of observing animals to prevent disasters similar to those in China.
They listed the "king band fish" as an "earthquake fish", and whenever the Japanese people saw this fish, they would think that there would be a big earthquake in the near future. Today Xiaobian will take you to understand the "royal fish".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the habits of the kingfish</h1>
The kingfish is a royal band fish family, it is the "world's longest teleost fish", the normal king band fish, its body length can reach 3 meters, similar in shape to the banded fish, their body size is slender, the body has no scales.
The dorsal fin is filamentous and long, as if wearing a crown, its body is silver or silvery blue, and after death, the fins change color to pink or red.
They are so widely distributed that they roam almost everywhere except in the polar oceans. But even then it is difficult to spot them because they are mainly active in the deep sea.
The royal banded fish are fierce, often catching prey in an ami-shaped swimming way, and sometimes even preying on their own kind, and because of their large size, people often associate them with sea monsters after they are first discovered.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > breeding method of the kingfish</h1>
The reproduction of royal striped fish is very slow, except for spawning activities, they almost all live on individuals, and their number probably doubles every 14 years.
In mid-November, many king-banded fish come from all over the world to the South Pacific island of Savai for collective mating, twisting their bodies, wrapping them together, and then surrounding the female king-banded fish in small balls, some with dozens of king-banded fish, some with more than a hundred.
At this time, the royal band fish do not attack their own kind, they will breed in an orderly manner, according to scientists, these female kingfish in the breeding period of about two weeks or so, laying about 100,000 eggs.
The male monarch fish wrapped around it will release its own sperm at this time and allow the eggs to conceive, but due to the large number, no one knows who succeeded.
Once all this is done, the male kingfish will quickly leave the place, while the female royal band fish will be surrounded by the next batch of male royal band fish, waiting for two weeks to spawn.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > kingfish and earthquakes</h1>
It can be seen that the kingfish has no special skills except that it can accurately come to the South Pacific Island of Savai in mid-November, and even its living habits have no intersection with humans.
In order to study the relationship between the king band fish and the earthquake, Japanese scientists compared the time of the king band fish seen and the time of the earthquake, and found that the two did not have much relationship, but the earthquakes in Japan were too frequent, and the king band fish was difficult to see, which made people misunderstand the king band fish.
In fact, although the kingfish live in the deep sea, there are many reasons why they will enter the shallow sea area, such as: changes in the marine ecological environment, changes in the temperature of the sea, and the direction of action of the food they eat, which will make the deep sea fish go out of the deep sea and enter the shallow sea.
For example, in 2006, when the kingfish first entered people's eyes, it was because of some special reasons that it had no way to dive into the deep sea, and could only float above the shallow sea of Australia.
Therefore, the royal belt fish has nothing to do with the earthquake, and there is no scientific basis to confirm it, and the earthquake that occurred after seeing the royal belt fish is a coincidence within a coincidence.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > why earthquakes occur frequently in Japan</h1>
And this is not the first time that Japan has found the wrong animal, in fact, this is because the earthquakes in Japan are too frequent, causing them to look like "omens".
Japan is located at the extinction boundary of the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate, just in the seismic zone of the Pacific volcano, so seismic activity is more frequent.
And 68% of the whole country of Japan is mountainous, one-tenth of the world's volcanoes are located here, so once there is a big earthquake, not only earthquakes, the follow-up hazards are also very terrible, according to statistics in Japan, the earthquakes with greater harm will occur on average every three years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > why animals can sense earthquakes</h1>
In fact, many animals in life will sense the arrival of earthquakes in advance, and when earthquakes come, they will have some special behaviors.
For example, tigers will become "dumb", livestock will be irritable and unwilling to return to their nests, and birds will show uneasiness.
This is because earthquakes occur because of plate movement, so before the earthquake, there will be some slight changes, such as this activity will produce some series of infrasound waves of lower frequency, our ears can not hear these low-frequency sound waves, but animals can hear, so they will show uneasiness in advance.
Birds do not hear sounds, they rely on their own developed visual nerves, before the earthquake, there will be a precursor - earth light, birds are because of seeing it to sense the earthquake.
However, sometimes the "special behavior" of animals may not be because of earthquakes, but also because of climate, seasons, and living environment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > conclusion</h1>
Of course, although these animals have "superpowers" that we don't have, we don't need to be arrogant, because the reason why humans can't hear these sounds is the result of our evolution.
If sounds of all frequencies could reach our ears, we would receive useless noises all the time, which would not help our lives to be better and would disturb our lives.
And we don't need to accept these noises, we use our wisdom to invent technological products that can not only predict future weather, but also facilitate our lives, which are "superpowers" that other creatures do not have.