Chapter 58: The Death of Anubis
After three days of following, Fang Hong once again drove the vehicle off the Great Migration Route and came to the highway, mainly to refuel diesel and make some supplies. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although there was still a lot of oil in the spare mailbox, Fang Hong was ready to keep the mailbox full, so as not to open in the wilderness without a store in front of the village or behind the village.
Returning from the road, there is still a certain road to reach the savannah.
It passed through the dividing line between a hilly mountain area and a steppe.
Fang Hong saw Anubis.
Anubis, the ancient Egyptian wolf-headed god.
Of course, there is no such thing as a true god in this world, but there is one species called Anubis.
That's the olive baboon, or the East African baboon.
The baboon family dates back to ancient times, and there are also incredible animals like giant baboons, which are larger than orangutans and not weaker than giant apes in the slightest, but in the competition of history, they disappeared.
Today's olive baboons have a highly rigid social system, and their heads look like wolf heads, which really look like Anubis from the side.
Baboons have a high degree of sexual dimorphism, which means that males and females look different, such as lions. Male baboons are one and a half times the size of females and weigh almost twice as much.
Males have large canine teeth, dark olive-gray coat color, alternating yellow, brown, and black hair, and males have large manes.
"They are a colony of baboons."
A low shrub with swaying trees, and it seems as if some beast was walking through them.
The outermost sentry of the baboon colony howled.
"There are intruders!"
Baboons are already one of the high-class carnivores of the land, and their diet even includes large herbivores such as antelopes and deer, and there are only two animals that can use them as food, one is a lion and the other is a chimpanzee.
It seems that in ancient African times, there were lions that were specifically fond of primates, but of course, when humans appeared, they had to become extinct.
Today's Kenyan lions don't like to attack primates very much, but sometimes they are hungry or have no physical objects to attack them.
But another creature is different.
Chimpanzee.
Sometimes, chimpanzees can live in harmony with baboons, but only if they don't behave as demons.
Baboons are very cruel animals, they sometimes attack baby chimpanzees, if a chimpanzee community has been attacked by baboons, then the community will show the baboons in turn, what is the real cruelty.
"The ...... of the Holocaust"
It was a chimpanzee walking through the woods.
Chimpanzees run from the ground, chimpanzees move from treetops.
You arrived at your destination in a blink of an eye.
"The enemy has thirty seconds left to reach the battlefield and crush them!"
However, this is not a reciprocal war at all.
Even a baby chimpanzee who is pampered and held in the arms of a female orangutan can treat a baboon as a plaything, not to mention that this time it is an adult thug with blue faces and fangs.
"Brother Gun, what's wrong?"
"The baboons seem to have angered the chimpanzees, who are about to take revenge."
Chimpanzees are endangered, while baboons are not endangered, and although the entire population of baboons is not in danger of extinction, this group of baboons is really going to run out of calves.
War, this is war, there is no escape.
All kinds of rocks fell from the sky, and the baboons fled in panic.
"Chimpanzees with weapons?"
That's right, even juvenile chimpanzees are skilled in using stones, and they know that stones can break nuts, so they know that stones can break monkey brains.
If they can further shape the stone in the desired form, they will almost enter the Stone Age.
Among all the primates other than humans and humanoids, chimpanzees are the most intelligent, which is why chimpanzees have repeatedly established the Planet of the Apes in modern film and television works.
"Woo woo woo wow wow!" The baboon leader continued to howl and turned into a scream and rushed forward.
However, doom awaited it.
Three strong chimpanzees hugged each other, two chimpanzees grabbed the baboon's forearms, one grabbed the baboon's hind limbs, and the three chimpanzees turned their lips upward, revealing their fangs and sharp mouths, and together they exerted their strength, and the baboon leader was directly torn apart.
A chimpanzee opened its mouth to bite off a piece of baboon meat, then beat it in the chest and rushed into the battle circle again.
Really crush them without the slightest hesitation.
"Millions of years ago, we were pretty much like that."
It has to be said that Australopithecus and chimpanzees are too similar.
Chimpanzees were not the strongest, and there were gorillas, orangutans (Malayan orangutans), and humans were not the strongest at that time.
The lack of food in the forest forced Australopithecus to go to the ground, not because the forest became smaller, but because the forest was occupied by larger primates, and those powerful gorillas, cracked tigers and leopards, where can small humans resist.
But because of this, human intelligence developed by leaps and bounds, and eventually became human.
And in the process of human evolution, the number of species is not very large, are they all destroyed by nature? No, humans slaughtered them like chimpanzees slaughtered baboons.
Nowadays, due to the existence of human beings, the path of evolution of chimpanzees has been blocked, and they cannot develop the population on a large scale, so they cannot wash away the baboons, if a second intelligent human race is born on the earth in the next years, the primates of Africa will be all slaughtered.
In just a few minutes, the baboon colonies scattered and fled, while the powerful males were torn apart on the spot, stoned to death, and used as rations.
"It's a war."
However, chimpanzees faced weaker baboons, while humans used to face more powerful races than Homo sapiens.
The chimpanzees closed their group and turned around and ran into the forest.
Under the withered yellow weeds of the grassland, the traces of the fight could not be seen clearly, as if nothing had happened.
"Brother Gun, who do you say is more powerful, felines or primates? Or to say that in this land, who is the lion or the silverback. ”
Silverback is the silverback gorilla, also called the mountain gorilla, the most massive guy in the primates, the representative of strength.
"Silverback is amazing."
"Brother Gun, I've seen people on the Internet compare it many times, saying that the silverback can't beat the lion, because the silverback is not as flexible as the lion."
Fang Hong smiled: "I never look at false comparisons. ”
"That'...... How do you compare, close the two beasts heads-up? ”
Fang Hong: "Have you ever considered why most of the world's cats live in forests? And lions live in the steppe? ”
That's the answer, do you think lions don't live in the forest?
The ancestors of lions lived in forests and evolved in two directions, one being the cave lion and the other being the African lion. The African lion left the forest, while the cave lion stayed, and the cave lion became extinct.
"Brother Gun, didn't you mean...... Was the cave lion exterminated by humans? ”
"Then do you remember why humans left the forest?" Isn't it because of a behemoth like a silver back?
The ancestors of lions lived in forests and fed on primates, while large primates did not feed on felines? The lion escaped from the forest first, branching into two branches, but one was wiped out by humans, leaving the lion behind, and the lion was also surviving compared to the primates.
Let anyone choose, grasslands and forests, forests may also be a better choice, lions don't want to choose? The lion can't be chosen.
The king of the African forest is the silverback gorilla.
Fang Hong started the car again: "We have to catch up with the big migration team before lunch." ”
Ahead, a bird landed on the savannah, it was about one meter high, had a wingspan of about one meter and eight meters, and weighed an estimated four kilograms. It has long and slender legs, a long neck that stretches freely, a graceful and moving posture, and a great otherworldly spirit. Another bird of the same kind landed, and it was the female. The plumage of the male and female is very similar, with different shades of gray on the whole body, white flight feathers, and tan wingtips and tail feathers. But the most striking thing is its head, with its clear cheeks embedded with small red patches on the top and large white patches below, and a pair of small round eyes with bright eyes, and two large red flesh lobes hanging from the throat. The feather elephant on the front of the head is covered with a black satin, soft and smooth, and the back wears a brocade crown made of stiff silk wool, shining with golden light, like the crown of Kill Matt or the hairstyle of Mohican.
The grey-crowned crane is the national bird of Tanzania.