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"Hey, trypophobia is defeated!"

"So many killer bees sting it, doesn't it hurt?"

"It tastes so delicious!"

"This is the strong man at the top of the food chain!"

Liu Wei was also a little timid.

If there were so many killer bees flying towards him without auxiliary tools to drive them away, they would definitely kill him.

However, Brother Flathead looked like he hadn't eaten enough and didn't want to leave.

“Brothers, Brother Flathead is an all-terrain athlete, and there is no place on the grassland that he can’t reach.

Its claws are thick and even longer than those of a black bear. We know that black bears are famous tree climbers. With their thick and powerful claws, they can carry a body weighing several hundred kilograms up a tree.

The flat-headed brother's body weight is only one-tenth that of a black bear, and the trees on the grassland can't stop him at all.

It usually squats around trees at night, because the leopards that move on the grassland will carry the captured gifts to the trees. When the leopards go out for a walk, it will quietly climb the trees to steal food.

If it happens to happen to it, it will not be frightened and will use its courage and life-threatening spirit to fight with the leopard. Relatively speaking, the leopard is one of the most feared opponents of Brother Flathead on the grassland, but it also The leopard will not be easily subdued, but a long fight will often make the leopard give up.

In addition to rodents in the trees and underground, it can't escape its appetite. Even creatures like porcupines, which are covered with spikes, will find ways to challenge them. It doesn't often hunt them, but mostly drives them away. Porcupine, seize its burrow.

In his opinion, the porcupine's burrow is much better than the one he built himself!

The bees we see now in the rock crevices cannot escape the fate of being harassed by it.

Then the question comes

Where does it come from with the courage to be so bold?" Liu Wei raised the topic.

"That's right! With such a small body, the strength and bite force are not strong!"

"Courage alone is not enough to dominate the African savannah!"

"Most brave players have tragic endings!"

"Is it really completely immune to snake venom?"

After Liu Wei mentioned it, the audience in the live broadcast room asked questions one after another.

Where does Brother Flathead get the courage?

While it was still enjoying the food, Liu Wei said, "Actually, Brother Flathead doesn't have a strong desire to attack when facing a powerful opponent. In his mind, he thinks that making the most ferocious appearance can scare the opponent, which is a bit of a bluff." the meaning of.

Herein lies its cleverness, bluffing can cause the opponent to hesitate and then create an opportunity to escape from the scene.

In our human terms, its psychological tactics are very slippery!

But relying solely on strategy and tactics,

It is not enough to escape from the mouths of top predators on the grassland such as lions and leopards many times.

It also has a comprehensive set of defense mechanisms.

One is physical defense. Here I will combine it with Brother Pingtou’s ability to resist poison to give you popular science.

The physical defense mechanism is very simple. The flat-headed brother's fur is hard and thick, and the hair can stand upright and prick the mouth. This coat can resist the bites of lions and leopards, and can also resist the punctures of venomous snakes' fangs.

There are three main types of highly venomous snakes that live on the grassland. One is the venomous snake of the family Gastroderidae, the other is the venomous snake of the family Viperidae, and the third is the venomous snake of the family Viperidae. The fangs of these three venomous snakes are very fragile and difficult to bite through The flat-headed brother's fur, so when it preys on venomous snakes, many of the attacks launched by the venomous snake are ineffective.

Large carnivores such as lions and leopards have strong strength and bite force, but they are unable to show their abilities in front of Brother Flathead. x

Because the flat-headed brother's fur and muscle tissue are not connected together, this means that even if the lion bites its body, it cannot control its body. The muscle tissue will still move at will. The flat-headed brother knows that he has no way out. When walking, it will counterattack, relying on this unique body structure to constantly bite its opponent.

Even if it cannot kill a powerful opponent, it will suffer defeat.

Therefore, although the flat-headed brother does not have the ability to kill lions and leopards, it has a defense system entangled with it. It may take an hour or two for them to kill a flat-headed brother.

In contrast, it is better to catch food that is larger and can satisfy the appetite. "

"You are not afraid of strong opponents, but you are most afraid of difficult opponents!"

"It sounds like I don't think it's worth messing with the lion!"

"Brother Flathead still has something!"

Liu Wei went on to popularize science: "Let's talk about its other defense mechanism, chemical defense.

First of all, I'm not sure. It can even be said that the current experimental results cannot prove that Flathead Brother is immune to all venomous snakes.

After all, there are too many types of venomous snakes in the world, with different venom toxins, different amounts of detoxification, and different living environments. These reasons determine that Flathead Brother’s understanding of snake venom is one-sided.

As far as the African grasslands where it lives is concerned, it is resistant to the venom of poisonous snakes in its living environment.

According to experimental research at the University of Minnesota, the muscle-type nicotinic alcohol-choline receptors of Flathead Brother have mutated and evolved the ability not to bind to neurotoxins! "

"what"

"Anchor, please say it again, it's too long and I can't remember it!"

"You don't understand even if I tell you, it's just that you're awesome!"

"The medical student said he understood, Ah Wei, please continue!"

Liu Wei smiled and said: "In the Minnesota experiment, neurotoxin, the main component of cobra venom, was used. When I popularized the knowledge about King Cobra, I have already talked about neurotoxin in detail, so I won't mention it here.

Experiments have shown that the muscle-type nicotinic ethanol choline receptors of animals such as flatheads, wild boars, hedgehogs, etc. do not bind to neurotoxins, which means that this toxin has no effect on their bodies. x

In addition, Flathead Brother can also neutralize metalloproteinases, and metalloproteinases are the main components of hemorrhagic toxins, so it is resistant to both neurotoxins and hemorrhagic toxins, but the resistance is limited. Experimental data shows that Flathead Brother can withstand snake venom. The upper limit does not exceed 100g of dry poison. This amount is very alarming. Only a few venomous snakes can eliminate such a large dose of dry poison at one time. It is easy to kill an adult.

You should have seen the documentary "The Ultimate Honey Badger". After it was bitten by a poisonous snake, it lay on the ground and slept for a while, and then woke up. It was not like the rumors on the Internet that everything would be fine after a sleep, but At that time, the amount of venom detoxified by the venomous snake, to be precise, the amount of venom injected into Brother Flathead's body was close to the upper limit of 100g, which put him in a brief coma.

The body's functions need to function over a long period of time to resist the toxic effects of venom.

The snake that bit him in the documentary was the giant viper, which ranks among the top five venomous snakes in Africa and is extremely lethal. "

"I just said it's impossible to be bitten by a snake and be fine after just sleeping!"

“The online bragging is so fierce!”

"Thank you Awei for clearing up my doubts!"

"I was thinking before that if I was bitten by a venomous snake, if I lay on the ground and took a nap, I would be fine when I woke up."

"Just wait for your family to come collect the body!" div