403 rhinoceros horn
After explaining the rhinoceros's sleeping behavior, Liu Wei said to Rama, "We can slowly lean over now!"
Rama nodded, he couldn't wait.
The two walked along the swamp shore to where Cook was sleeping.
The Indian rhinoceros sleeps for a long time every day, and it sleeps very well, and after bathing, it is covered in mud to prevent mosquito bites, and it falls asleep as soon as it lies down.
The proximity of Liu Wei and Rama did not disturb it, and it slept soundly.
Rama's eyes showed a deep love, and he squatted next to Cook and looked at the sleeping Cook with a blank smile.
"Brothers, while the rhinoceros is asleep, I will give you some knowledge about the Indian rhinoceros. ”
Liu Wei moved to Cook's head to photograph and said, "The Indian rhinoceros is the largest single-horned rhinoceros in the world, and it only grows one horn from its snout, while subspecies such as the African rhinoceros have two horns on their heads, one long and one short.
A lot of viewers will be very interested in rhino horn, and I think you must think that rhino horn is its weapon?"
"Isn't it?"
"Don't bovids all use their horns as weapons?"
Liu Wei smiled and said, "First of all, to correct a common sense problem, the Indian rhinoceros belongs to the rhino family, there are four genera and five species of rhinoceros, and it is the largest odd ungulate animal in the world, and it is not related to bovids, so it cannot be considered that it belongs to the bovidae family because it has a cow in its name." ”
"Laughing, crying, crying, I always thought that the rhinoceros was a kind of bovine family!"
"Gain knowledge, remember quickly, don't be embarrassed next time!"
"Embarrassing, I remembered, a rhinoceros is not a cow!"
Liu Wei then said, "Let's continue to talk about rhinoceros horns, when Indian rhinos fight, rhino horns are actually not the weapons they use to win, they rely on the strength of their bodies to hit the opponent or bite the opponent with ivory, usually the wound formed by the fight between two rhinos is at the edge of the ear or sideways.
So researchers at the reserve often see rhinos with mutilated ears, which were bitten off by their opponents during a fight.
When facing each other, their heads do not collide head-on, but leaning sideways together, and their necks are wrapped around their necks with force.
Rhino horn is basically not very useful in fighting.
Many people will intuitively guess that rhino horn is very hard, but in fact, its main component is protein, so it is not too hard, and the hardness of sheep horn is about the same.
Through the analysis of the chemical composition of Indian rhinoceros horn by infrared spectrometer, X-ray fluorescence spectrometer and other instruments, we can know that the main inorganic components of rhinoceros horn are CAO, F2, O3, K2O, ZNO, SO2, etc., the content of amino acids is 48101/, the content of medicinal amino acids is rich, and the closeness of amino acid composition to standard protein is 074!"
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"Crying, anchor, what are you talking about?"
"Can you speak human language?"
"A high school degree means I can understand a little bit!"
"Is there anyone who studies medicine in the live broadcast room to come out and translate!"
Liu Wei looked at the scrolling barrage, and it could be inferred that the audience who was watching the live broadcast at the moment was in a state of bewilderment.
He smiled and said, "It seems that I can't tell you too professionally, to put it mildly, rhinoceros horn has a high nutritional value!"
"By the way, things that can be summarized in one sentence, say something that you don't have, really, hey, the anchor still needs to improve his expression skills!"
Liu Wei smiled awkwardly, thinking to himself grandma, don't you understand and blame me?
Shaking his head, he sighed secretly, he was too cultured and disliked, and continued to preach, "It is precisely because of the medicinal value of rhinoceros horn that it indirectly causes the contradiction between Indian rhinoceros and humans.
Poachers hunt rhinos for the sake of rhino horns, and in Arab countries, rhino horns are used as a symbol of social status, and in Yemen and Oman, it is used to make ritual dagger handles, and people will cruelly saw rhinoceros horns off.
This is the main reason why the rhino population in India has plummeted at the end of the last century!"
The barrage slowed down.
The audience was silent for a moment.
They don't know what to say anymore, as if one of the main reasons for the extinction of every living thing on the planet is human beings for profit.
Hearing this before, the audience would be angry, to curse those rampant poachers, to sympathize with endangered animals, today, the audience in the live broadcast room is somewhat sympathetic to humans.
Liu Wei could feel the audience's mood at this time from the barrage atmosphere in the live broadcast room, and he smiled and said, "Brothers, what happened in the past is irreparable, fortunately, now countries around the world are trying their best to make up for the serious ecological problems caused by the past, the Cook in front of us is twenty-five years old, I think it can also feel the change in human attitudes towards them!"
Although Rama could not understand Chinese, he could feel Liu Wei's love for wildlife in his tone.
He turned his head to look at Liu Wei with the kind eyes of Cook, and smiled, indicating that he felt Liu Wei's attitude.
Liu Wei returned to the topic of popular science and said, "Brothers, in addition to the rhinoceros horn, the most interesting thing about the Indian rhinoceros is its mouth!"
Focus on Cook's exhaling mouth.
The upper lip is noticeably longer and more pointed than the lower lip, protruding quite a bit.
"The huge body of the Indian rhinoceros determines its food needs, I have mentioned before, its life is to eat in addition to sleeping, this living habit is very similar to our country's national treasure giant panda, the giant panda also has a large amount of food, it can rely on its soft forepaw to grasp the food and knead the food to improve the efficiency of eating to ensure the caloric needs of physical activity.
The Indian rhinoceros, which is several times larger than the giant panda, does not have soft forepaws, it can only rely on its own lips to improve the efficiency of eating, its upper lip is very flexible, it can play the role of a hand, twisting its lips to grasp a large bundle of grass when eating, and chewing and swallowing it with its lower lip.
When Cook wakes up, it should be grazing, and I'll take a closer look at it for everyone to see, it will be more intuitive!" Liu Wei said carefully.
Cook slept very deeply, not affected by Liu Wei's voice, but the heavy snort it emitted kept coming into the live broadcast mobile phone, and the audience couldn't stand it.
Liu Wei had no choice but to stand up and walk to its back to keep the live phone slightly away from Cook's mouth and nose.
Liu Wei couldn't help but reach out and touch the armor at the junction of the legs and body of the Indian rhinoceros, the raised bag on the armor was very tactile, and there was a feeling of massaging the palm of the hand when touched a little hard.
"Great!" Rama also touched it, and he said to Liu Wei.
He was familiar with Cook's body, and touching Cook's body brought him not only a comfortable touch, but also a replay of a memory, which reminded him of the time when he first met Cook.
He was looking forward to recognizing him when Cook woke up and rebuilding his friendship.