How brave is "Pinto"? Why are there still natural enemies?

When it comes to the fame of the Topping brother, it is no one knows, it is the Guinness World Records included them as "the world's most fearless animal", but also even leopards, lions, bison, zebras, and even mention the second brother of African "hyenas". The African bullies have not put in the eyes of a badger battle three tigers, three badgers sink aircraft carriers, five badgers fight God, ten badgers to create the century of exaggerated rumors, the flat-headed brother directly to the status of the African grassland hegemony, so the Internet also circulated such a sentence, Africa is not chaos, all depends on the flat-headed brother said. So today we'll take a look, how brave is the flat-headed brother? Why even the lions are not in the eyes?

The Flathead is a small and medium-sized mammal living in Africa, because of the black back and white, square head flat, the overall image is like a social brother in a suit, plus the natural way of doing things, and fearless courage to bear, so people are called the Flathead. It is an omnivorous animal under the genus of weasel, honey badger, mainly distributed in Africa, the honey badger is not very large, plus the maximum tail will not exceed 1 meter, height is usually about 50 cm, weight is 10-15 kg, usually like to inhabit the African grasslands and rain forest areas, with a certain nocturnal nature, mainly to honey, bee pupae, insects, rodents, frogs, berries It mainly feeds on honey, bee pupae, insects, rodents, frogs, berries, plant roots, and birds and snakes.

The honey badger is brave, not like other skunks as timid and cunning, it is naturally aggressive, even in the face of carnivores far larger than their own, but will not flinch, but will go up and confront each other, and often scare other animals to flee, it is because of this defiant character, as early as a few decades ago, the Flathead has been raised on the silver screen is known. In a comedy film called "God is also crazy", the hero inadvertently provoked a flat-headed brother, but unexpectedly vengeful flat-headed brother chases the hero across half the desert to complete the revenge, but also let people know for the first time this fearless animal, later after a variety of online bragging and flirting, coupled with frequent appearances in documentaries, only to make the fame of the flat-headed brother is growing, becoming a popular Human favorite online animal. But these are only the initial understanding of the Pinto, to say that the real fame, but also from the National Geographic Channel in 2002 released a documentary "Snake's Natural Enemy".

In the documentary, the flat-head wearing silver hair, is awe-inspiring, walking all tiger wind, only to see it unhurriedly walk to the side of the snake, directly from the snake's mouth to grab food, and then eat up, all kinds of behavior to say that the flat-head fearless, let people call courageous, even dare to snatch food in the mouth of the snake, simply do not want to die. Not only that, but after eating the mouse, Topping still feel not enough, they once again fell on the viper, scared the viper quickly bowed up, and the heart cursed: you are unreasonable, after grabbing my food still want to eat me, really think I am easy to mess with, said it will bite into the body of PingtouPictouong Topping fell to the ground poisoned, and the viper was also its last breath of strength! The snake was bitten to death alive, falling into two defeated.

I thought the story was over, but who would have thought that after more than 3 hours of rest, the original was poisoned and suddenly came to life, and then began to slowly take care of the snakes it had killed as if nothing had happened, it was like a dream because this snake is not small, it is not as well known as the black mamba, but is still one of the world's most notorious It is not as well known as the black mamba but is still one of the most notorious venomous snakes in the world. The viper is the most frightening local snake in Africa because it has a violent personality, the number of injuries the sum of all the African snakes combined is more than the number of humans killed every year, and its toxicity is very powerful, even strong bison and rhinoceros can easily poison, is even large beasts are afraid to mess with the existence of.

According to relevant records, the African aborigines used to capture the belly sibilant viper, tethered to the river where bison frequent, as a natural hunting trap, once a bison near the river to drink, will be belly sibilant viper bites fallen to the ground, and finally fall a fisherman's profit, so you can see how powerful the toxicity of the belly sibilant viper should be. But even so, the bulbous sibilant viper for the Flathead can only be reduced to a large spicy stick, so the fame of the Flathead even completely hit, not only known as the most fearless animal, but also known as the viper nemesis, turned into the world's most well-known animal loved by the public, so also derived from many classic honey badger beliefs, such as life and death, do not serve, you do not have to tell me who is opposite, there These are some of the most powerful mottos of life that have been passed down to this day.

So is Pinto as tough as the legend says? Why even poisonous snakes are helpless against it? There is a reason why the Pinto is fearless, tits eye structure is different from other animals, and its eyeballs seem to be a concave mirror, when looking at other animals, always feel that the size of the other side is smaller than their own, coupled with the natural fierce and aggressive character, so it is fearless, even when encountering lions also dare to provoke. On the other hand, it is smaller and thicker, and also carries the unique stink glands of the skunk family, and will emit foul-smelling gas when in danger, which makes it difficult for many large animals to get down, so they are not willing to bother with it, and for lions and hyenas, they are more willing to hunt for some larger prey, enough for the family to eat and drink, and are not afraid or unable to beat the Flathead, but do not want to get The lions and hyenas are more willing to hunt for something big enough to feed a family, not because they are afraid or can't beat a Flathead, but because they don't want to get into trouble.

As for it is not afraid of poisonous snakes is also a reason, not only because it is thick skin poisonous snakes difficult to pierce, the more important reason is that due to long-term snake eating and genetic evolution many times, the body of the flat-headed brother gradually produced a combination of the ability not with most of the toxins, so that it can significantly resist the toxicity of poisonous wasps, snakes, scorpions, and other toxins, if poisoned only need to sleep, so that the venom in the body to complete decomposition, neutralization can be safe and sound. But this ability is not immune, it also has a strong geographical limit and dose range, if the venom injection is too much, or beyond the growth range of toxic creatures, can also easily put the Pinto to death, so the Pinto in the hunt for food will often roll over, by the local poisonous snakes and wasps poisoned not a few, so those who say the Pinto seconds of the sky and seconds of the air is more in the flirtation, not it remorselessness invincible The first time I saw it, it was a great idea.

There is a strong phenomenon of fratricide between different groups of Pinto, especially when grabbing caves, the adult Pinto will not hesitate to kill other similar cubs, so about 50%thereof thecubswillbylbeenstrangleand,n only a few can grow to adulthood. Even as adults, the Pinto is not invincible. African rock pythons and leopards often feed on honey badgers, and we always hear that the Pinto is strong enough to prey on pythons, but we don't know that rock pythons prey on the Pinto more often.

The strangling power of a python is very large, adult African rock python can reach more than 4 meters long, strangling power is 2-3 tons, which makes it can easily kills crocodiles, antelopes, giant lizards, and other large creatures, even honey badger such thick-skinned animals true once it is entangled can not break free, and the honey badger also often take the initiative to send the head, to attract leopards and rock pythons and other large predators, for them the honey badger is true If they are overly hungry, they will not hesitate to hunt and kill Pinto. So in the final analysis, the honey badger's biggest natural enemy is itself, if not its sleeplessness to catch who bites who, the honey badger is not reduced to an endangered species.