Chapter 1556: Sabretooth tiger preys on gianttooth pig

Chapter 1744: Sabre-toothed tiger preys on giant-toothed pig
A wild boar drinks water at a watering hole in the African savannah. Suddenly a huge crocodile sprang out of the water, bit the wild boar's head and dragged it into the water.
Of course, this is not always the case. In fact, most of the time, it is the big crocodile who just sprints and does not bite at all.
Because those animals who go to the river to drink water are also very careful. They know what dangers are in this water. Therefore, their awareness of prevention is also very strong. It's not that all crocodiles can prey if they want to prey on them. In fact, the success rate of this kind of ambush by the crocodile is not very high.
Such a lens, whether it is Zhao Zhongyao or Feifei, both of them have seen such a lens. With this situation, the two of them immediately thought of this situation.
Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei felt that next, what they two saw was that a monster suddenly came out of the water, and suddenly bit the head of the wild boar, and then dragged it into the water. .
Of course, there is another situation, even if some monsters appear in the water. But this big wild boar can also successfully escape. Because it already has a high sense of defense, it won't be easily caught by monsters in the water.
Now this wild boar is drinking water by the lake. It is drinking and watching the movement in the water carefully. It takes two sips and then lifts it up to see the movement around it. Obviously, it is very careful. It's like a thief stealing something.
Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei looked at this animal, and they also felt very funny. Just thinking that there would be a huge monster coming out of the water below. It's just that what kind of monster it will be, and what kind of result it will have, is unknown.
But just when Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei thought this way, another bush by the lake suddenly shook.
Then, I saw a huge yellow figure, rushing to the big wild boar drinking water by the lake at a speed that was too fast to cover his ears. Obviously this guy has been waiting for a long time, just wanting to ambush this big wild boar.
Although the speed of this figure is very fast, the reaction speed of this big wild boar is also very amazing. When it was drinking water just now, it looked up and looked around, just to guard against the movement around it.
When this huge yellow figure rushed towards this big wild boar. This big wild boar also jumped up at a very fast speed.
But no matter what, the yellow figure was not very far away from the big wild boar, only seven or eight meters away. In such a close distance, a large beast can completely catch the opponent by surprise.
This big wild boar is like this, although it reacts very quickly. But the beast attacked it faster. As soon as it was about to turn around and escape, it was bitten by the beast on its hind legs again.
The two beasts are playing a tug of war there. This big wild boar wants to escape. But this beast held its hind legs.
All this happened so quickly, within a second or two. Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei didn't react for a while. When the two of them reacted, they saw the two beasts tug of war there!
At this moment, Feifei could clearly see the appearance of this other beast attacking. When he saw it, he screamed in a low voice, ‘Saber-toothed tiger! ’
Zhao Zhongyao also saw clearly the appearance of another beast attacking, which was clearly a saber-toothed tiger.
This is a huge adult saber-toothed tiger with golden hair all over its body, which is a bit bigger than this giant-toothed pig. It just doesn't look as strong as this gigantic pig. The whole saber-toothed tiger is more like a big leopard on the African savannah.
But the saber-toothed tiger is still stronger than the leopard. And the head is also very special. The most obvious are the two pointed and long dagger-like teeth. This is also the real reason why it is called the Sabre Tooth Tiger.
The reason why the saber-toothed tiger has this strange appearance seems to be because it has two saber teeth, which can be used when hunting. Because of the two long saber teeth, it is not so easy for the prey to escape when it bites the prey.
Because the two long saber teeth pierce into the prey, it will cause a lot of damage to the prey, and it can make it impossible for the prey to escape. Because the two long saber teeth pierced too deeply into the prey, it would of course be very difficult for the prey to break free.
There is also the situation as it is now. The saber-toothed tiger bit the hind leg of this giant-toothed pig. Although the two saber teeth of the saber-toothed tiger did not penetrate into the flesh of the giant-toothed pig's hind legs. But the two saber teeth are like two locks, firmly locking this hind leg of the giant tooth pig. No matter how hard this gigantic pig struggles, it still cannot escape.
Of course, Zhao Zhongyao heard Feifei's scream. He carefully looked at this beast, and it turned out to be a prehistoric giant saber-toothed tiger.
When Feifei saw that a saber-toothed tiger appeared, she looked at Zhao Zhongyao and asked, ‘Dad, there really is a saber-toothed tiger here. We seem to have returned to prehistoric times. ’
After hearing Feifei’s words, Zhao Zhongyao said, ‘Yes, I also feel that we are back in prehistoric times. ’
‘Dad, do you know this saber-toothed tiger well, can you tell me more about this saber-toothed tiger? When Feifei saw this saber-toothed tiger, she wanted to hear the story about this saber-toothed tiger.
After hearing what his son said, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, ‘Okay, then I will tell you some more stories about this saber-toothed tiger!
After that, Zhao Zhongyao thought about it for a while, and told Feifei some stories about the prehistoric giant saber-toothed tiger.
The saber-toothed tiger refers to a variety of different species and is an offshoot of the evolution of big cats, living in the Miocene-Pleistocene period. It is mainly classified under the Sabertooth subfamily, Hyenatodonidae and Catelidae under the cat family, and includes two families of Marsupialidae. They lived in different periods of the Cenozoic and each evolved sword-like canine teeth. Their upper canine teeth can be up to 120 mm long, and even if they are closed, their canine teeth are still clearly visible.
Sabre-toothed tigers are generally stouter than today's cats and resemble bears. Most members of the sabertooth subfamily hunt for large herbivores. The saber-toothed tiger evolved into a saber-toothed tiger after its extinction during the Early Pleistocene. The Labria Farm in Luoshanji City, Country M is one of the most unusual fossil sites in the world. More than 2,000 fossils of Sabretooth Tiger, a relative of Sabretooth Tiger, have been discovered here, making people feel Have a deeper understanding.
The saber-toothed tiger and the tiger are both
brothers
, that is to say, the tiger’s
big brother
. Although the saber-toothed tiger is far away from us, its
brother
still exists. The saber-toothed tiger lived about 3 million to 10,000 years ago. The body is very large, and its teeth are about 120 mm.
Sabre-toothed tigers live in North America or Africa. Their prey feeds on their species from the African continent, which at that time was more than double the size of modern species. No matter how big it is, the saber-toothed tiger's forelimbs are muscular and extremely powerful. It can be brought down by the force of the forelimbs in the prey. Its deadly weapon is its teeth. 120 mm teeth pierced the animal’s throat, and within a minute, the prey immediately died.
It is the largest cat in prehistoric times. Sabertooth was extinct in the Early Pleistocene. The reason may be due to the competition between its cousin Sabertooth and its descendants and the relationship of climate change. Since then, Sabertooth and Sawtooth became the main big cats in the ice age. In the early Miocene, the saber-toothed tiger appeared, and later the saber-toothed tiger subfamily lived until the Pleistocene 1 million years ago.
It is an offshoot of the evolution of big cats, among which the most famous genus Sabertooth lived approximately 3 million to 10,000 years ago in the Pleistocene-Holocene period, and lived with the evolving human ancestors. It took nearly 3 million years. The size of the saber-toothed tiger is similar to that of modern tigers, and there are a few members of the genus Sabertooth that reach the size of a cave lion.
But its upper canine teeth are much larger than those of modern tigers, and even bigger than the fangs of wild boar males, like two daggers inserted upside down. The canine teeth of carnivores are a kind of lethal weapon to prey on prey. Normally, the upper and lower canine teeth develop evenly. When attacking, they can match up and down to kill the prey. However, the upper canine teeth of the saber-toothed tiger have evolved so huge, and the lower canine teeth are relatively degraded, disproportionately, so it may be specially used to deal with large pachyderm such as elephants.
Such special and grown canine teeth can be slaughtered into the depths of the prey's body with only one pair, and can expand the wound as much as possible, causing the prey to bleed and die. To adapt to this, the saber-toothed tiger’s skull and certain muscles of the head also changed accordingly, so that the mouth can be opened wider, so that the lower jaw and the skull can form an angle of more than 90 degrees, so that the pair of swords can be fully and effectively played. The role of teeth.
However, the development of this extreme specialization obviously has its disadvantages, that is, it greatly reduces the adaptability to the environment and prey. With the extinction of various large pachyderm herbivores in the Pleistocene, it is not good at running fast. The saber-toothed tiger has gradually become useless. It cannot compete with the more flexible and fully developed general carnivores, and with its prey, it has gone extinct.
Instead, modern tigers and other large carnivores appeared later. The sabertooth tiger subfamily is very large. The largest species of African giant sabertooth tiger is about 1 meter tall at the shoulder and weighs nearly 300kg. Although not tall enough, they have strong bodies, especially forelimbs. Its most eye-catching place is undoubtedly the head-two saber teeth up to 10 centimeters are deeply buried in the upper jaw, almost at the same level as the top of the head; the lower jaw extends downward with small protective leaves. Although this kind of leaf guard is good for protecting the protruding saber teeth, it also increases the risk of fracture and infection, and also causes the head to become heavier, which affects the flexibility of movement to a certain extent.
It may be precisely because the giant teeth of the saber-toothed tiger have some shortcomings in life that the giant teeth are slowly not adapting to life in the changing earth environment. Such super animals have disappeared in the long river of history.
Looking at Feifei, Zhao Zhongyao told Feifei some stories he knew about the saber-toothed tiger.
After listening to Feifei, he has a general understanding of this super animal. Watching the huge saber-toothed tiger facing a big wild boar. Feifei felt that this saber-toothed tiger would be able to defeat this big wild boar.
So Feifei said, ‘Dad, now this big wild boar can’t run away. It must become the prey of this saber-toothed tiger. ’
After hearing Feifei’s words, Zhao Zhongyao said, ‘This is not necessarily true. Don’t think that this saber-toothed tiger is bigger than this big wild boar. But wild boars are very strong and brave animals.
In the African savannah, the fighting power of wild boars cannot be underestimated. Although the lion and hyena are respectively called the big brother and the second brother on the African savannah. But the fighting power of the African wild boar is definitely not lost to the lion and hyena.
An adult male wild boar can single out a male lion. Not to mention lionesses and hyenas.
Therefore, on the lion and hyena menu, the wild boar is not in the front. Although the leopard often likes to prey on wild boars, it can only prey on wild boar cubs and dare not prey on adult wild boars at all.
An adult wild boar can wander around boldly on the prairie. Unless it encounters super herbivores like rhino elephants. There is no way, it has to give way. Why do people weigh several times their weight?
But if a predator like the leopard and cheetah wants to prey on an adult wild boar, it is very dangerous. If it weren't for hunger, they wouldn't dare to risk preying on adult wild boars.
However, if it is a strong lion, it is also possible to attack an adult wild boar. After all, in physical terms, an adult male lion can weigh twice as much as an adult wild boar.
In fact, in the animal kingdom, it is almost a world of bullying the small. Only if the human body is big enough, animals smaller than you will be a little afraid of you.
Even if humans are on the African savannah, if you encounter a large beast like a lion. You don't run away right away, but if you dare to yell at it, it is possible to scare it away.
Because people are erect animals. Although lying there, man is just an animal the size of a dog. But when a person stands upright, it is a very tall animal. Few animals are taller than humans.
So, if you encounter an adult lion in the African savannah, you must learn to challenge it bravely. If you just turn around and run away in shock, then you will really be in misfortune. Because you can't run the lion. Besides, there are weeds everywhere on the prairie. You can easily trip over the weeds as long as you run.