When dawn comes, the sleeping earth begins to awaken, and the hope of life shines everywhere. But it was these small animals that first ushered in the dawn in the Amazon basin.
Leafcutter ants work best during their darkest hours before dawn to avoid predators who are active during the day.
Leafcutter ants collect leaves from the canopy, but they are not used for food: they use leaves to breed their only source of food, fungi.
Leafcutter ants have a very clear division of labor. Leaf-cutting ants in charge of picking transport the leaves to their underground vegetable gardens. Leafcutter ants, which are responsible for processing, cut leaves into detritus suitable for cultivating fungi, while the smallest leafcutter ants take care of the fungi.
The division of labor and cooperation brings considerable work efficiency: in less than two nights, leaf-cutting ants can strip a large tree. So that it can escape the disaster in full view of everyone.
At dawn, a large group of marching ants set out. No animal can escape their doom on their way.
Marching ants have a high IQ, and they can even turn their bodies into bridges to cross obstacles.
Marching ants have strong, hook-like upper jaws that are used to firmly clamp down on their prey. Usually, nothing escapes the deadly hook of a marching ant. At dawn, with astonishing efficiency, they will quickly kill a bloody path in the rainforest and conquer everything they encounter.
Every day, when the first rays of dawn shine on the mist rising above the forest, it is the moment when the howler monkeys wake up. The first thing the roaring monkey does when he wakes up is to start showing his voice. Other howler monkeys a few kilometers away will respond with a loud cry when they hear the sound. At dawn, the echo of the howler monkeys rise and fall...
This is a very wonderful diplomatic strategy. The purpose of this harsh harmony is to help them find a familiar kind, and to avoid unnecessary physical and territorial disputes.
The lead singer of the howler monkey has led to the singing impulse of more animals - many harmonies have gradually joined, and birds and insects that are active during the day have become the protagonists of harmonies. The crested bird makes a low but explosive sound. The chorus of dawn plays the symphony of life.
The chorus of dawn
After completing the dawn crying ceremony, the next morning ritual of the howler monkeys begins – an epic spectacle of spectacular spectacles in which the monkeys gather together for convenience, urine and feces pouring down from the top of the tree like raindrops. And this feces has become a major link in the Amazon food chain. In animals like dung beetles, feces are a key part of survival, rolling feces into balls and using the surface as food, while the rest serves as a hatchery for breeding offspring.
dung beetle
When a few rays of sunlight shine on the surface of lakes and rivers, the industrious scissor-billed gulls begin to forage. The cut-billed gull, like the leaf-cutting ant, chose pre-dawn, a predation time that rarely encounters an enemy.
In order to adapt to the needs of dawn predation, the clipper gulls gradually evolved, giving them advantages that other fishing birds did not have - their retinas were perfectly adapted to the environment, and they also had excellent vision in dim light, which made them highly efficient at hunting.
The Guyana's winged umbrella bird is a natural lighting engineer. They use the first rays of the morning sun to hit their beautiful feathers as a way to show off their courtship.
In fact, the feathers of the female mover-crested umbrella bird are not very dazzling, not particularly eye-catching: the wingspan is not large, the body is solid, but this does not affect its graceful flight through the dense forest.
Before giving birth, female crypteras build bowl-shaped nests from mud and plant fibers. Such habitats are directly connected to the rocky surface and protect the cubs during the feeding season.
At dawn, a variety of animals in the lush biota of the rainforest are making full use of the sun to tell their own life stories.
A natural legend
"Breaking Dawn"
Broadcast time: July 18, 19:55
Producer/Zhang Guangyi Editor-in-Chief/Liu Ming Huang Lijun
Editor/Shi Yan Cui Xiang Xu Yanlin (Intern)