The recent remake of "The Lion King" has finally been released, and this remake of the classic childhood movie has caused an uproar around the world just after the trailer was released. In addition to the feelings, the main reason is that it was actually filmed as a "live-action version", that is to say, all the animals in it are modeled using real wildlife images.
Although there have been many movies with wild animals as the protagonists before, this new "Lion King" uses high-tech means to restore the animated characters such as Mufasa, Lafichi, Simba, Peng Peng, and Ding Man in our childhood memories into real animal images, and it is right to be popular.
I don't know if you remember Ding Man in the Lion King, the lively and cute mongoose.
<h1>The classic shape of the slender-tailed badger</h1>
The mongoose is also called the fox, but these two widely circulated names are not very standardized, and its official scientific Chinese name is called slender-tailed suricatta, and the scientific name is Suricata suricatta.
The slender-tailed badger is the prototype of Timon, living in the desert of southern Africa, and is very pleasant in appearance and personality.
In people's impressions, the most classic shape of the slender-tailed badger is to stand at the entrance of the cave or on a small dirt slope looking into the distance, sometimes several standing together, even if they are trapped in the east and west, they stubbornly adhere to the upright posture, super cute.
<h1>A different kind of "cute god"</h1>
Although the slender-tailed badger also has a name called the mongoose, it is not a mustel in the family Mustelaidae, but belongs to the carnivorous, badger family, and slender-tailed badger genus.
Most of the animals of the badger family are fierce, known for daring to attack poisonous snakes, and do not look very annoying. But with the exception of the slender-tailed badger, they are not very large in size, thin and small (there are also fat), and similar to the giant panda, a big brother of the animal kingdom, they are born with a pair of dark circles, which is quite funny.
Coupled with the fact that the slender-tailed badger often stands (or sits), looks like a full-spirited sentry, but it will still be sleepy, combined with these characteristics, the slender-tailed badger has become a popular new cute god.
<h1>A slender-tailed badger who knows how to share</h1>
Let's talk about the life habits of the slender-tailed badger.
Wild stiletto-tailed badgers are social social animals, each community consisting of one to three small families, and each family contains a pair of slender-tailed badger couples and their offspring, and the total number of members of the mixed group is between twenty and thirty, up to a maximum of fifty.
Slender-tailed badgers are burrowing animals, they are very good at digging, can work together to dig out the maze of the bottom in all directions, and sometimes share their nests with pen-tailed badgers and South African ground squirrels, which is more dedicated.
<h1>Responsible little sentry</h1>
Slender-tailed badgers have a strong sense of preparedness because they are not really powerful animals on the African continent.
During the day, the slender-tailed badger group will select one or more members responsible for vigilance, usually adult slender-tailed badgers, and sometimes cubs and juvenile small-tailed badgers will also learn and imitate them.
If there is a danger (such as ground predators and birds of prey), the stiletto-tailed badger in charge of the vigilance will make a sound to warn, and all members will respond quickly when they hear it.
The cries of the slender-tailed badgers vary slightly, some to remind other members to hide, and some to summon other slender-tailed badgers to come with them (such as when encountering a poisonous snake).
<h1>Love sunbathing</h1>
In fact, the slender-tailed badger standing in a team or sitting upright on the ground like a human, in addition to being able to look into the distance, there is also an important role in basking in the sun.
As we all know, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert area of Africa is extremely large, and after a cold night, when the sun rises in the morning, the fine-tailed badger will come out of the hole to bask in the sun to absorb heat.
Through the sparse hair of the fine-tailed badger, we can see that the skin on its ventral surface is dark in color, which can help the fine-tailed badger to quickly absorb heat from the sun, so the thin-tailed badger will adopt an upright posture when basking in the sun, exposing its belly to the sun.
<h1>Immune to snake venom? </h1>
The slender-tailed badger has a wide range of food, is a meat-eating omnivorous animal, which can eat not only berries, shoots and fungi, but also spiders, centipedes, scorpions, insects and small lizards, and even snakes.
As we said earlier, most badgers are known for daring to fight snakes, and the slender-tailed badger is no exception. Like many other badgers, the slender-tailed badger has the ability to be immune to the venom of some types (note the word).
Because the nicotinylcholine receptor in some badgers is mutated, the situation is similar to the acetylcholine receptor in some venomous snakes, which is immune to most neurotoxins.
However, if attacked by a venomous snake with blood toxins, muscle toxins, or mixed toxins, the stigreek-tailed badger will still be poisoned to death.
<h1>The survival status of the slender-tailed badger</h1>
Despite having a sentinel warning mechanism, the slender-tailed badger was unable to successfully fend off all predators.
In South Africa, animals that can threaten the life of slender-tailed badgers include medium and large birds of prey, jackals, brown hyenas, African wild dogs, etc., and sometimes encounter poisonous snakes can also be fatally attacked (not immune to all snake venoms).
The slender-tailed badger is not in danger of extinction and has also been introduced to zoos around the world as a popular internet animal for tourists. Some people look at the slender-tailed badger cute like breeding, but it should be noted that the wild slender-tailed badger carries a variety of viruses, including rabies virus, and is also a carrier of a variety of parasites. Moreover, the slender-tailed badger is good at digging, and the ability to dismantle homes is much more powerful than that of huskies.
So if you like the fine-tailed badger, it is better to check it out online or at the zoo.