Chapter 657: Short-faced Bear

Pavlish, the Ross girl, said: "I used to be rich and powerful, and I knew how to make a face, but I can't think of these people who didn't care about these things at all. ”

Catherine said, "What's so strange about that. The more aristocratic and rich people are, the more they want to keep their power, so those nobles and rich people have a lot

Proposing to you is a matter of course. On the contrary, you are still a little naΓ―ve, believing in the so-called love, you are stupid, you are a big fool. ”

Pavlish, a Ross girl, said: "I admit that I am stupid, but now I am bent on marrying a real man, a general of the Tang Empire. ”

Catherine said, "Have you found a marriage partner?" ”

Pavlish, the Ross girl, said, "I don't have one yet, and I'm counting on you to introduce me to it!" ”

Catherine said, "Are you going to let me be united with that Plum Gang Pavilion?" Then I'm going to hell. ”

Catherine laughed, and she said, "You use yourself to save this man, maybe everything is not as bad as you think." ”

Rose girl Pavlish said: "No way, if you don't want me to turn into a wisp of green soul, don't mention this matter to me again, I can't stand it when I see that Mei Gangting, he doesn't pee to see his own behavior, he still wants to get me, it's a pipe dream." ”

Catherine said to the Rose girl, Pavlish, "Didn't that lewd man Jia Wusong insult you in the first place? Why, you can't look down on this Meigang Pavilion that can be cleaned up by you! ”

Ross girl Pavlish said: "When you see a catfish mouth like Mei Gangting, you should be careful, people with this mouth shape. In the eyes of the local scholars of the Tang Empire, they are typical villains, and they must not be entrusted for life. ”、

Catherine said: "You are so powerful, why don't you see that Jia Wusong is a scumbag?" ”

Pavlish, the Ross girl, said: "No matter what Jia Wusong says, he is still good-looking, and of course once such a person does evil, he will be a great traitor. This was also proven in my later encounters. ”

Catherine said, "I said you have something good! You're so superstitious. ”

"One always has to have some faith," said the Ross girl, "but I don't think you'd say that the Plum Gang Pavilion would be cleaned up by me." Anyway, I watched him and he was disgusted. ”

Catherine said, "I see, the world is so cold, you just look down on people with catfish mouths." ”

The Ross girl Pavlish said: "This guy is definitely not a good person, I put the words here. If you get close to him, you will definitely be killed by him. ”

Catherine said, "Forget it, let's not talk about it, there has been another monster in the ice lake recently, and this monster is a short-faced bear. At six meters tall and weighing two and a half tons, this short-faced bear is terrifying. ”

Bai Cunxiao and Tang Zhangwei found Catherine and said, "We're going to fight short-faced bears, do you want to go?" ”

Catherine said, "Isn't the short-faced bear supposed to be in the administrative region of the Americas?" Why is it here? ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "I don't know. ”

The main prey of short-faced bears is the American bison and bighorn bison, so they are sometimes called "bull bears". Short-faced bears have existed in both North and South America, and the North American short-faced bears at that time mainly included two species, the giant short-faced bear) and the Pygmy short-faced bear).

In addition to its large mouth full of sharp teeth, the most striking feature of the giant short-faced bear is its long limbs, which are about two and a half meters above the ground on their backs when they usually walk, and more than six meters when they stand on their hind legs.

However, although the giant short-faced bear is more than the American ancient brown bear of the same period

Taller, but not as heavy as people think, because their limbs are long, but they are relatively "slim" short-faced bears are undoubtedly the strongest in the bear family, they are agile, and their strength is not inferior to other bears such as cave bears, and their diet covers all mammals on the North American continent at that time.

This bear was the largest land carnivore in the world at the time. Due to the construction of the hospital, the construction workers coincidentally dug up the remains of the giant bear. Paleontologists estimated the bear's weight by measuring the fossil's leg bones, and after further bone analysis, scientists found that the cause of the male bear's death was due to various traumatic injuries, which showed that it was most likely due to a fight with another male bear or encounters with other large carnivores.

Modern bears are much smaller than prehistoric bears, with the largest recorded male polar bear weighing only 1,002 kilograms. This species of bear only became so large after a landward migration to South America, where they appeared about 2.6 million years ago. At that time, because there were no predators of their size in South America, these bear species had a large source of food, and their size gradually became huge. At their peak, these bear species are the world's largest and most powerful land predators. The results were shocking to the fact that the world's largest bear was not the largest bear in the group, and there were many bears bigger than it at the time.

The giant short-faced bear belongs to the subfamily Spectacled Bear, which originated in the New World. Short-faced bears are further divided into two types: giant short-faced bears and short-faced bears.

Another "differentiality" of short-faced bears is that almost all late bears walk with their toes bent inward, so they always look "hobbling". Short-faced bears, on the other hand, have evolved a straight walking stride, which allows them to move easily and quickly. The short-faced bear is intimidating to other animals, so it sometimes snatches prey from other predators instead of its own prey, its huge molars can crush the animal's bones, its slender limbs allow it to walk quickly for long periods of time, and it occasionally plays the role of "scavenger" when food is scarce.

In the early Pliocene, the Akebono bear lived in Europe, and by the middle of the Pliocene, one of the descendants of the Akenoera came to North America, where it evolved longer limbs in order to better chase its prey, becoming the so-called running bear. There are two main evolutionary paths of running bears: one is the spectacled bears that still exist in the dense forests of South America, their body structure is relatively close to their original ancestors, and they eat plants as their staple food; The other group developed radially (although to this day we have not found a direct ancestor of the American short-faced bear), one of which evolved into the most dominant predator on the North American continent, the short-faced bear. (Short-faced bears have even made their way to South America and have successfully evolved into the South American short-faced bear family, which includes carnivorous beasts with huge canine teeth.)

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