Chapter 9 Ten points for grass

Walking out of the temple, this beautiful day is the beginning. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not far away, several earthen towers appeared in the forest.

It's just a pile of soil, erected on the ground, it doesn't look like it's naturally formed, maybe people abroad are not familiar with it, but people in China are too familiar with this, those are rammed earth.

"Ant nest!" This is an ant nest built by termites.

Termites are not as destructive as everyone thinks, in the natural environment, there are no dams, no levees, they have to build their own nests.

"It's an ant nest, a termite nest, it's hollow, it's all over the place, it's tough, it's not like the environment, it's actually a kind of rammed earth. ”

"Rammed earth is a material used in ancient Chinese architecture as a strong, dense and less crevice pressed mixed mud block for house construction. China has been using this technology for a long time, from the Neolithic Age to the fifties and sixties of the last century, it has been used on a large scale. The foundations of many large civil engineering structures are rammed earth, including ancient cities, tombs, Great Walls, etc. ”

"Although this ant nest is an earthen tower, it does not have a spire, which is the characteristic of an ant nest in the forest, and if it is a grassland ant nest, it will be more like a cone. ”

There is actually a reason, although the spire looks like a shelter from the rain, but it is actually an illusion, and once the top of the tower collapses, water will flood the nest and termites will suffer from the extinction. With a flat top, the water will not gather, but it is thick, and heavy rain will not make it collapse, and it can survive for a long time.

Just as Fang Hong was about to leave, a big thing walked in.

This guy is all black, with a white markings on the top of his head, and his whole body resembles a squirrel, with a large fluffy tail with pointed hairs, and its head to mouth is very pointed, almost the shape of a gas station gun head.

"Anteater!"

"Anteaters, mammals, only 3 genera and 4 species, are found in the Americas. The snout is long and pointed, the mouth is tubular shaped, the tongue is retractable and mucus, suitable for licking and eating insects, the ears are small and round, the forelimbs are strong, the third finger is particularly developed, and the sickle-shaped hook claws, the hind limbs 4~5 toes also have claws, the skull is slender and fragile, and there are no teeth. Likes to eat ants, termites and other insects. ”

"This litter of termites is finished. ”

The anteaters are definitely here to eat termites.

"Brother Gun, I think the anteater looks pretty good, give me a few points. ”

Before Fang Hong could answer, ID Dashan Heishui brushed three sentences in a row: "Give the grass ten points, don't give the grass zero points." ”

"Fat boy, it's just an anteater, you go and have a look. "Dashan Heishui also often mixes in the live broadcast room, and his nickname is Fat Boy.

"It's been a long time since I've seen the fat boy. Fang Hong rarely greets a specific water friend, but the last time the fat boy appeared was a long time ago, and he is also a big gift giver.

Dashan Heishui: "What, I went to write a book recently, and I didn't have time to be amused in the live broadcast room." ”

Fat Boy: "What book?" The climax came, and a water friend with ID Fat Boy took the initiative to ask.

"Pig farming in the countryside of rebirth. ”

"......" Fang Hong: "I'm Cao, sing and post advertisements in the live broadcast room, be careful to ban the account." ”

"I'm Nima, open two numbers, one question and one answer to advertise, 666. Sailors complained.

Fang Hong: "Speaking of which, I remembered a joke, one day Xiao He and Zhang Liang were discussing Xiang Yu's battle, Xiao He thought that the overlord fought beautifully, so he asked Zhang Liang, military advisor, look, if you lead the troops, there is a few chances of winning this battle, Zhang Liang stroked his beard, gave good grass ten points, and did not give zero points. ”

"What a cold joke. ”

The anteater walked to the nest, paced around a few times, and finally brought its long mouth close to the nest, and a long tongue popped out of it, as if it had reached into the nest passage, and then retracted in seconds, and popped out again.

"Anteaters have mucus attached to their tongues that can get ants and termites out of their nests. ”

"Cute my face is bloody. ”

Fang Hong: "Like penguins, they feel cute from a distance, but they can only feel stinky when they get close, they have a strange smell on their bodies, and they will fart stinks, I don't want to get close to them, and they are not so safe." ”

Although the giant anteater is only 25 kilograms, they are very dangerous.

"I used to think that anteaters were big when I watched them in TV documentaries, but then I realized that because the trees in the Mesoamerican forests are relatively thin, they look like anteaters are big, but in fact they are not that big, but they have very strong claws. ”

Just recently, in northern Brazil, someone was attacked by anteaters and died directly.

The vast grasslands, forests, and mountains south of Central America are the habitat of anteaters, and there are no natural predators, if any, that is, pythons and humans.

Among them, how many casualties can the forest python cause to the anteaters? The distribution of the forest worm and the anteater are only a little bit of a margin.

Therefore, human expansion is the greatest natural enemy of anteaters.

Due to habitat destruction, anteaters have to migrate and attack when they encounter humans.

This is not yet the case in Honduras, where 75 per cent of the country is covered by forests.

Fang Hong looked at the anteaters: "The whole world is full of ants, but only the region from Central America to northern South America has anteaters, which shows that there are really a lot of ants here." ”

Anteaters are very fast, and their tongues make piston movements.

"Their tongues are fragile and basically use them like chopsticks that we use to dip in salt. ”

"Brother Gun, you said that you have been interested in anteaters for a long time, right?"

"You want to eat?"

Fang Hongbi pointed at the middle finger: "Okay, let's move on, it won't be eaten for a while." ”

"The anteater's fur is very thick, and ants can't bite through it, and when it encounters it, the ants are not even qualified to resist, including the rumored most powerful ants...... Marching ants?"

The reason why the question mark was used at the end was because Fang Hong really saw the marching ants.

"Damn, marching ant, run away!"

The rumored marching ants are ferocious and eat everything, and a large animal is emptied in a few moments.

In fact, like piranhas, this is all a dense phobia, even if the ant's upper jaw is powerful, it is only a little big, and it takes two or three days to decompose and move a sheep clean, let alone a person.

It's a big deal to run a little way and jump into the river.

Of course, if you're in shock and there's a team of marching ants around, you're out of luck.

"There is nothing surprising that marching ants are found all over the world and in our country. "The strange thing is that the legendary marching ants that eat everything are about to be extinct in many places, and there is no legendary posture that sweeps the earth, when the continents are separated, that is, the world is still Pangea, and when it is still in the age of dinosaurs, marching ants have been born alone, this creature has not changed for more than 100 million years, and it is still like that.

As for the proof, it is simple, there are marching ants all over the world, there is no change between them, it is certainly impossible to separate origins, and ants cannot cross the ocean in the era when the continents are not connected, unless, they exist when there is no sea between the continents.

The marching ants in front of them are spinning in circles.

It's not going around in a circle.

Rather, it is a watermelon-sized area with a large number of marching ants, which are doing spiral movements.

Circle by circle, it is getting closer and closer to the center of the circle, and the center is squeezed into a ball.