The Amazon jungle is a magical place, where the world's largest surviving python, the Amazon forest borer, has also appeared, as well as magical animals such as armadillos wearing "armor".
At first glance, armadillos look a lot like pangolins, and much of the habits of pangolins. It is good at digging holes, likes to eat ants, and will form itself into a ball when it encounters danger, when a hard armor can protect it very well, and few animals can bite through its scales.
Unlike the pangolin, first of all, it has two small ears on its appearance. Secondly, their scales are not the same, pangolins are scales, and the body is covered with layers of hard nail pieces, covering from head to tail without interruption. Armadillos are a whole piece of bone plate armor, the armor on the head, body, and tail is separated, and their bone armor is also covered with epidermis.
Some zoologists say that armadillos are one of the animals with the most complete natural defense capabilities in the mammalian order.
In 2015, a man in Georgia, USA, shot an armadillo, and a fragment hit the armadillo's armor and bounced back, hitting his 74-year-old mother-in-law; coincidentally, in the same year, a man in Texas opened fire on the armadillo, and the bullet that touched the armadillo's armor bounced back, and the rebound bullet pierced the man's jaw.
This shows how hard the armadillo's armor is.
Zoologists say that the armadillo has perfect defenses, not only because of its hard armor. When the armadillo encounters danger, it will first use the thick bushes to escape, and then just give it a minute or two to dig a hole, it can bury itself in the sand.
It then blocks the hole with the hard scales on its back, and the predator can't pull it out.
It doesn't matter if you don't have time to dig a hole, the armadillos have clumped themselves into a ball, they can't bite or beat, and the carnivores can't bite.
If the armadillo is like a warrior with four shields, it is difficult to attack but can be firmly defended, then the Amazon forest hopper is like a tank with a row of swords, which can be attacked and retreated... In the face of armadillos, it does not need to retreat.
What are the chances of an armadillo encountering an Amazon foresthopper?
The Amazon borer is the largest grasshopper in the world today, with a body as thick as an adult man, generally about five meters in length, and the longest forest hopper found is more than 10 meters long. The armadillo in front of it is really enough to plug a gap between its teeth.
Armadillos come out at night to hunt, usually eat insects, but also eat carrion, they burrow in bushes, grasslands, wilderness, next to the shallow pond or mud pit for bathing.
They also go to the river, and if the river is narrow, they will take a deep breath and dive downstream; if the river is wider, they will make the stomach full of gas to float through.
Amazon forest grasshoppers are naturally water-loving and like to stay in shallow water on muddy banks, and shallow streams, swamps, and smooth rivers may have the presence of Amazon forest grasshoppers. They are also nocturnal and like to prey on water birds, turtles, caimans and so on.
The same is the night travel, amazon grasshoppers often stay in the water, armadillos will also cross the river, and armadillos are still a big myopia, what is in the river It is likely to be unable to see clearly, that is to say, the two are likely to meet.
The armadillo's biggest defense is its shell, but we know that the shell is also very hard, and one of the foods of the Amazon borer is the turtle. So while armadillos with hard armor may not be easy to digest, forest hoppers will not be abandoned.
The largest giant armadillo can reach a meter long and the diameter of the ball is about 32 centimeters, and other types of armadillos are even smaller. This size can be swallowed raw even if the Amazon grasshopper cannot bite.
When armadillos cross the river, they either swim or float over, which also prevents them from fully curling up to protect themselves.
However, if the armadillo is on the shore and the moth is in the water, and the armadillo has time to dig a pit and bury himself in it, there is no way for the moth to take him. After all, the wolf still has claws to barabala, and the forest crab does not even have claws.
Although the armadillo is not on the list of commonly eaten foods of the forest hopper, if the forest hopper has not eaten for too long, there is no reason to refuse the food sent to the mouth. And when the armadillo encounters the Amazon forest crab, he can only say that the fierceness is more auspicious and less auspicious, and see the mood of the forest grasshopper.