Chapter 5 Gathering of poisonous insects
Doomsday Madness 1999
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After entering the forest, the charm of Honduras begins to unfold. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
There are more birds in the sky, including the horned eagle, the program done by CCTV classifies the horned eagle as the twelve King Kong of Central America, in fact, there is something wrong, the body size of the horned eagle can grow to nine kilograms, it is good, the horned eagle on the CCTV introduction seems to be an alien species, it can grow to thirty kilograms, but there is no horned eagle in Central America that can grow to thirty kilograms, if that's the case, it shouldn't be called a horned eagle, it should be called a divine eagle.
Just imagine, a nine-kilogram eagle is half a person tall, with a wingspan of two meters, and if it is thirty kilograms, then it just happens to fly with Yang Guo.
The Argentine giant eagle that has appeared in history has a wingspan of eight meters and an estimated weight of only 70 kilograms.
Of course, who called it CCTV, and no one scolded it after talking nonsense.
The horned eagle is called a horned eagle because it has several white feathers growing up on both sides of its forehead, which looks like horns.
"In Latin America, all kinds of creatures are very magical, and the horned eagle is a creature that is said to be able to compete with the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”
"The horned eagle is a kind of buzzard, and the eagle in my country belongs to the buzzard, which basically feeds on large insects, small mammals and reptiles. ”
Although it looks fierce, the recipe exposes the essence. Compared to the recipe of the golden eagle, the horned eagle is like a vegetarian in the raptor world.
Of course, their claws are longer than the claws of adult bears.
In terms of size, although it looks like a martial artist, it is actually smaller than the golden eagle and the bald eagle.
Weight and size are two different things, the three birds of prey have a similar wingspan, among which the golden eagle has a longer body, and the bald eagle can also reach one meter, compared to the horned eagle with a wide wingspan, but the body flies short in the sky and has no sense of existence, and can only see two huge wings.
However, the simple horned eagle that looks like a glider is very elegant.
When its wings open, it stretches straight and circles the sky, as if looking for prey.
Not far ahead, Fang Hong saw a cyan snake hanging on a palm tree, Fang Hong did not approach, but looked at it from a distance: "Honduran palm pit viper, cyan, with two small sarcomas above the eyelids, it looks like two horns. The cockscomb snake in our ancient legends is supposed to be this snake. ”
In ancient times, there were separate legends all over the country where there were snakes like cockscombs, but no entities have been found, and no specimens exist.
The horns of snakes that are supposed to be some kind of pit viper or soldering iron head are seen as cockscombs.
After all, if someone encounters such a dangerous snake, they should not come close.
"The palm pit viper is a very unique snake, generally snakes will have a protective color or camouflage color, hiding in camouflage to attack prey, but this snake color is conspicuous, they do the opposite, they use a conspicuous appearance to make the animal think that they are fresh fruit, and then go to taste it, the result can only be tasted. ”
"I'm going, are the animal kingdoms starting to play tricks?"
Fang Hong: "The animal kingdom has been playing this kind of infernal affairs routine for hundreds of millions of years. ”
"Today's luck, we have met the jumping viper, palm snake, and horned eagle in the twelve King Kongs of Central America, if it weren't for the fact that I didn't have to go to the sea, I feel that I could meet all the twelve King Kongs. ”
In fact, the film The Twelve King Kongs of Central America is a film in which CCTV and unknown fake scientists in foreign countries cooperated, making the name of the Twelve King Kongs widely disseminated, which is actually very inaccurate.
For example, the poison dart frog among them, first of all, there are very few creatures on the earth that can produce venom, the venom of snakes comes from their lizard ancestors, and the venom of scorpions comes from the acidic body.
The first is the toad, the most powerful toxin in the frog category comes from the poison dart frog, of course, but it will not bite you and cause you to be poisoned, you need to bite it, and the fool will go back to bite the poison dart frog, so although they are highly poisonous, they are actually not the slightest threat, just like before in the Zoe tribe, the Zoe people did not hesitate to use arrows to pierce the poison dart frog and then shoot arrows.
Although it is claimed that 0.0003 grams can poison an adult, no one in the world will be poisoned by poison dart frogs all year round.
The reason is simple, it takes thousands of poison dart frogs to purify a gram of toxin, biologists are used to bragging, and the name of poison dart frogs can be seen in their tragic fate, which is used to be used as a source of poison by arrows.
In addition to toads, there are also bats, which are also not poisonous, at most there is rabies virus, but it is not their own, not to mention that the bats themselves are also going to die, and ordinary bats do not carry rabies virus.
As for spiders, their toxins are very traceable, unless people who are not in good health take the initiative to provoke the most poisonous spiders, half of them will be basically fine after being bitten, and of course, they will not become Spider-Man.
The palm snake didn't regard Fang Hong as a threat, and Fang Hong wouldn't treat it as a threat, just avoid it.
After Fang Hong advanced for a while, he took out the map: "We are in this position now, if we go straight, we should be able to enter this mountain range before nightfall, but if we turn over from this side, we will be close to the Atlantic side, so I am going to go north from this side." ”
"Brother Gun, can you tell me the destination this time? ”
Although this time it is said that this time I am specifically here to see the secret realm of Maya, but there will be a destination anyway.
"For the first half of the journey, I'll follow this place north and then go around to the northwest to Saldova where there is the famous active volcanic group of Mesoamerican volcanic arcs. It's the arc of the arc, the four volcanoes are exactly on the same half-arc of the circle, and when we get here, we head towards Guatemala. ”
"Brother Gun got a visa?"
"Of course I got it, otherwise Honduras is so small and would have walked out in a few days. ”
Fang Hong has strong stamina, and the distance he travels every day is long, Honduras is really not big, and it is easy to walk through.
The size of Honduras is about 110,000 square kilometers, but the place where Fang Hong set off is already very far north, about 200 kilometers away from the border, with Fang Hong's footsteps, he can leave the country in three days, so Fang Hong deliberately chose to detour, because the chosen route can maximize the understanding of the natural environment of Honduras, and then cross the border to Guatemala.
Even in the tropics, even if there is an ocean on the left and right, the sunset will still come.
"I'm going to find a campsite quickly. ”
This time, Fang Hong did not bring a tent, and brought his own rainproof tablecloth and non-slip mat.
The old way, find a big tree to hang on.
If you can't find a big tree in a short time, then you can only find a vacant lot to build one with things like branches and palm thatch, but poisonous insects gather here, and Fang Hong doesn't want to do this.
Palm pit vipers like to stay on palm leaves, and if they use palm leaves for camping, and with such a large heat source inside, they will definitely attract snakes.
In the tropics, it is easy to be approached by a snake while sleeping, not that it wants to attack you, but that it is more comfortable to sleep next to people, which is very common in India, Africa, and Central America.
But if, in the middle of the night, you accidentally roll over and press the snake, it will be different, wait to be bitten.
Therefore, if it is not necessary, Fang Hong is very reluctant to sleep on the ground and build a shelter with palm leaves.