Hello everyone, welcome to watch the general pattern of popular science in this issue.
Speaking of African bison everyone must know more or less, they are huge and grumpy, even in the face of the most powerful predator lions on the African continent, they dare to fight back, even if it is a lion When the group encounters a herd of bison, they will choose to temporarily retreat. The African bison is called the most dangerous beast on the African continent by the locals, but it is such a violent bison, but it is only very gentle to one kind of bird. When people and nature are involved, they will find a few birds on the African bison, and even if they peck out the wound on the African bison, the African bison will not be angry at all. Why is this?
In fact, this kind of bird is called Niu Qiongniao. Not only is Niu Qiongniao not afraid of African bison, but it even dares to get into the nose of the bull to eat, so that the African bison has no temper at all. In fact, this is because Niu Qiongniao is helpful to bison. Because Niu Qiong bird specially eats fleas, lice and parasites such as blood-sucking flies and ticks on large herbivores, thereby reducing the burden on herbivores, African bison not only does not hate it, but also likes Niu Qiong bird very much. Coming, although it is said that Niu Qiongniao will peck out the wound on the bison, which will bring some pain to the bison, but it will unclog the cow's nose and eat the parasites in the nose and body. It is said that Niu Qiongniao can eat one a day. Hundreds of blood-sucking lice and 13,000 larvae, it is no exaggeration to say that it is an animal doctor.
And sometimes Niu Qiong bird will cooperate with herbivores. For example, when Niu Qiong bird finds a carnivore, they will make a sound to remind the feeding bison and help them escape the threat in advance. It is a kind of warning, of course. , Not all Niu Qiong birds are so kind. Niu Qiong birds sometimes deliberately injure the wounds of herbivores, causing them to produce more parasites, so that they have an endless supply of food, even if the bison has knots on their bodies. If it is scarred, it will deliberately peck and continue to produce parasites, and the ox qiong bird will also spread the virus, causing the herbivore to be covered with skin diseases similar to small stones. Of course, anyway, the ox qiong bird and ungulates Cooperation, for both parties, still has more advantages than disadvantages, so we only need to look at the laws of nature normally.
