Recently, a photo stung my heart.
In a piece of white snow, a red fox is holding a bloody arctic fox , intending to savor the delicacy he hunted.
Perhaps in some people's eyes, this is just the most common link in the natural food chain.
But in fact, red foxes and arctic foxes should not be the relationship between predator and prey at all.
Red fox and arctic fox, both belong to the canine family and the fox genus.
In terms of blood relationship, they are indeed called "close relatives".
However, this pair of close relatives is difficult to meet. The red fox's habitat is distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, including Europe, North America, Asian grasslands and North Africa, but because of the cold polar climate, the red fox has the farthest footprint It can only reach near the Arctic Circle.
And in the cold Arctic Circle, it is the world of Arctic foxes.
In most cases, the red fox and the arctic fox are "the king does not see the king", and they are in peace.
However, due to global warming, more and more red foxes are starting to "invade" the territories of their close relatives, Arctic foxes. The original "close relatives" have become competitors to each other. .
So, there was a scene where a red fox preyed on an arctic fox.
" man and nature " documentary when filming lemmings,A similar picture was also captured.
Climate change has reached an alarming level! Because of climate change and the expansion of the territory, the red fox started to culminate the Arctic fox! In the last second, the arctic fox, known as the "King of the Tundra," was lazily basking in the sun-filled snow. In the next second, a red fox rushed out suddenly, and the Arctic fox was chased and fleeing. Since the two foxes are very different in size, this is a one-sided pursuit of a red fox and a one-sided escape of the Arctic fox. #Climate change
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In the last second, the Arctic fox, known as the "King of the Tundra," was still lazily basking in the sun-filled snow.
In the next second, a red fox sprang out suddenly, and the arctic fox was chased and fleeing.
Since the two foxes are very different in size, this is a one-sided pursuit of the red fox and a one-sided escape of the Arctic fox.
Fortunately, this time the red fox did not catch up with the Arctic fox. The " tundra king" was lucky enough to get his life back.
If placed a hundred years ago, the scene of the red fox hunting the Arctic fox would be unheard of.
Just like we have never heard of lions hunting tigers as food, red foxes and arctic foxes should have their own prey instead of killing each other.
However, as the climate warms year by year, the red fox's range of activities expands to the north, and the Arctic Circle has also become its habitat.
The highly adaptable red fox came to the endless white ice and snow wasteland,Without the slightest discomfort, omnivorous, it is almost perfect "opportunist", earthworms, beetles , birds, hares and other ingredients are all coming.
In order to find more food in the Arctic Circle, the red fox's hunting list has also added the Arctic fox of the same level as himself in the food chain.
Faced with a red fox that is a circle larger than its own size, the only choice for the Arctic fox is to give up territory with sufficient food and retreat to a deserted corner lacking food.
What will be the fate of the Arctic fox by then?
only perishes.
In Himalayas , a snow leopard crawls behind the rock, waiting for the arrival of its prey.
It was not disappointed. Not far below the cliff, a single rock sheep appeared.
In an instant, the snow leopard jumped up, rushing through the layers of rock and biting the neck of the rock sheep.
But because it rushed too fast and the cliff was too steep, the snow leopard and rock sheep both fell down the cliff without stopping for a moment.
The two animals biting each other, like a boulder that rolls down, hit the rock wall again and again.
a full 35 seconds of falling process,The snow leopard has been biting the rock sheep, without letting go.
When it finally stopped, the snow leopard's back was already dripping with blood.
In fact, there is no animal at all that can give up its life for a bite.
But the snow leopard has nothing to do. The hotter and hotter climate makes him unable to adapt to the environment of the original territory. A thick coat of fur can withstand the low temperature of tens of degrees below zero, but it is more and more zero. Helpless in the hot weather.
Only when the temperature drops on a rare day, the snow leopard can show off its skills as the "king of the snow mountain".
The snow leopard hadn't eaten anything for a week before meeting the lonely rock sheep.
Otherwise, how could it possibly throw itself half-life in order to hunt the rock sheep?
Snow leopards are difficult to hunt because of global warming, but some animals eat their own kind because of global warming.
In the North Pole, there is a tarantula that relies on the external environment to regulate body temperature.
As the global average temperature continues to rise, the Arctic is getting warmer and warmer, and the size of tarantulas is getting bigger and bigger.
Just like fat people usually need more food than thin people, tarantulas that get bigger will also need more food.
Not only that, but in invertebrates, there is usually a positive correlation between the size of the female and the reproductive ability. The larger and larger tarantulas are likely to breed more offspring.
Therefore,In order to reduce the next generation of rivals, female tarantulas often choose to kill other tarantulas before swallowing them.
Although this "cannibalism" phenomenon has always existed in tarantula populations, with the warming of the climate, this situation is increasing, and it has even led to a situation in which tarantulas have become more reproductive. However, the number continues to decrease. Tragedies like
happen not only on land, but also on the ocean.
Climate warming will reduce the amount of oxygen in the sea, and marine organisms have to leave their original living areas.
According to calculations, the outer edge of the distribution of marine species is moving toward the north and south poles at an average speed of 72 kilometers every 10 years.
In the words of Professor Curtis Deutsch of the University of Washington : "Either flee or perish."
Remember the skinny span who cried countless people and survived on the 6span. Polar bear ?
Even the Arctic ice caps are beginning to melt, and the polar bears have nowhere to go.
Last summer, the highest temperature in Antarctica exceeded 20℃ for the first time.
Once a continuous glacier melted hundreds of kilometers, the satellite image released by NASA found that in just 9 days, 1/5 of the snow in Antarctica had disappeared.
and the high temperature appeared at the same time, and there is another weird scene——
The once white ice field,It turned red overnight!
Someone stepped on it curiously and found that the color under their feet was getting darker and deeper, as if blood was leaking from the depths of a glacier.
At the same time, there is also a sweet watermelon smell in the air.
The researchers hurriedly brought the bright red snow samples back to the laboratory. After analysis, they discovered that the reason why the snow turned red was due to the existence of a carotenoid-containing "snow algae".
Although snow algae can survive under ice and snow, they are in a dormant state and will not multiply.
But when the temperature rises and the snow melts, snow algae will wake up and multiply as the temperature rises.
At that time, the temperature in Antarctica was approaching 20°C, and the snow algae that had ended their hibernation revived in warm weather and occupied Antarctic snow at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Thus, there is a rare "watermelon snow".
What's more frightening is that the appearance of snow algae is not just a sign of temperature rise and melting of ice and snow. Their presence will also reduce the reflectivity of snow and further aggravate the melting of ice and snow.
Not so much that the amazing red and pink snow creates a human wonderland, it is better to say that the earth has been bleeding under the high temperature.
The most powerless thing is that we have no way to reverse climate warming.
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution,Electricity, trains, cars, airplanes, and even more delicious food... the infrastructure on which we depend, all the time, emits countless carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which eventually causes the earth's climate to become hotter and hotter.
However, in such a world where the "fox brothers" are mutilated by human factors, what will happen to the future of mankind itself?
We always lament that personal power is too small, but perhaps, after reading this article, you can choose to slowly start making some environmental protection choices.
Suppose you use 100 plastic bags a month. If you switch to canvas bags, you can reduce the environmental impact of 100 plastic bags in a month.
Even if you dislike the style of canvas bags and change them in two months, you only use 6 canvas bags in a year, but you save 1,200 plastic bags.
To alleviate climate warming, it is not necessary to ban thermal power generation and eat less milk and eggs, as Westerners say, but start from bit by bit, save water and electricity, and use public transportation more.
"Protecting the environment starts with me" should not be just a slogan.
Source: Micro-Sydney, INSIGHT Vision
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