can be a creature at the top of the food chain. This is something we humans are proud of. But if you think that you can rest assured at the top of the food chain, then you are wrong, whether it’s humans or others. Regardless of animals, being at the top of the food chain often means more difficult living conditions and potential dangers. Even for humans, there are still at least two "natural enemies."
Shouldn’t it be a blessing to be at the top of the food chain? How could it mean a more difficult survival situation? In fact, this is not difficult to understand. Because if an animal is higher in the food chain, the rules of nature are less friendly to it. For herbivores like , wildebeest and antelope, survival itself is not a difficult thing. They feed on plants, and plants are everywhere. Unless the natural environment becomes extremely harsh, they want to survive. The required energy supply is very easy. The only thing they need to worry about is the hunting of carnivores, and from the perspective of the entire population, the individuals hunted by carnivores are only a small part.
Large predators such as lions and tigers at the top of the food chain, they look majestic, but actually have to face more survival challenges. For these carnivores, obtaining food is a challenge in itself.
Is hunting difficult? It is really difficult. As we all know, cheetah is a famous "sprint champion" in the animal kingdom. As the fastest cat, the cheetah can be said to be an excellent hunter. According to existing statistics, a cheetah in excellent physical condition, On average, one predation is possible once every six times. Therefore, hungry due to missed hands is commonplace for these carnivores at the top of the food chain. Once they are old and weak, they may starve to death. In addition, being at the top of the food chain has to be challenged by another natural rule.That is bioconcentration. There are many pollutants in nature, such as chemical pollutants and radioactive pollutants.
When plants are contaminated by pollutants, herbivores eat the plants while ingesting these pollutants and accumulate them in the body.
When a carnivorous animal eats a herbivore, the pollutants accumulated by the herbivore for several years will enter the carnivorous body again, that is to say, in the food chain, as the level increases , The concentration of pollutants will increase accordingly. The higher the level in the food chain, the more pollutants are ingested. This is the role of bioaccumulation.
It can be seen that the higher the position in the food chain, the more the challenge of natural rules. In the earth's food chain, humans are at the top of the food chain. No animal or plant can pose a threat to human survival. If humans are willing, and can even feed on ligers, are there natural enemies for powerful creatures like humans? Yes, it exists. As a kind of intelligent creature, under the blessing of science, human beings are indeed capable of coping with the challenges brought about by natural rules. For example, we obtain sufficient food through planting and breeding, and organic cultivation to obtain pollution-free food, but still There are two "natural enemies" that we cannot deal with.
The first natural enemy of mankind is the "virus".
Virus is a low-level life form, and even many biologists believe that viruses are not life at all, but it is this kind of thing that has repeatedly brought major disasters to mankind. How can the virus threaten humans at the top of the food chain? Viruses have no strengths. The only advantage is that they are born fast. Living creatures evolve to make themselves better and stronger, thereby gaining stronger survivability,The nature of evolution is a random mutation, so the shorter the birth cycle, the faster they evolve, and the virus can breed for dozens of generations every day, so it has a higher probability of mutation, so we found that Soon after a virus, it may produce many different mutant offspring.
Since the birth of science, the ability of humans to fight against viruses has gradually improved. Is it possible to completely defeat viruses in the future? It may be possible, but even this does not mean that you can rest assured, because humans have another more powerful "natural enemy."
The most powerful "natural enemy" of human beings is human beings. In fact, it is not only humans, but any creature that is so powerful that it invalidates the rules of nature will eventually face its own challenges. .
The rules of nature are the shackles of powerful creatures. When a creature is strong enough to break through the shackles, it gains unlimited development ability. Infinite development is very terrible, which means that the consumption of survival resources will increase exponentially, eventually exhausting resources and leading to the destruction of the race.
In ancient times, anaerobic algae once dominated the earth. Because they are too adapted to the environment, there is no natural rule to restrict them, so they develop rapidly. They consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen, which will eventually turn the atmosphere into Carbon dioxide has been exhausted, and life on earth has entered a new period of development, but these anaerobic algae have withdrawn from the stage of history. If humans, like these algae, break through the shackles of all natural rules and gain the capacity for infinite development, will they end in the same way?
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