Why do the poisonous snake beyond the face and not drink water in a month, why is the strongest cat in the desert endangered?

There is an extremely dangerous cat family in the desert, and it is cute to death by accident.

This cat is called sand cat. It is the abbreviation of desert cats or dunes. The sand cat is a cat family that highly adapts to the desert life, and it is the owner of the desert.

Do not drink water for a month, a strong body mystery

Everyone who raises cats in the family knows that cats will get various urethral diseases when drinking less water. However, the sand cat can not drink water for a month, and it is still healthy and bouncing.

The key to drinking little water for sand cats is of course its special physical function. The urinary system of the sand cat is more special, and even if it rarely urinates, it will not have kidney stones. Moreover, cats are hardly sweating. Therefore, once the sand cat has obtained water, it will leave all the precious water in the body.

In addition, in order to avoid rapid water loss at high temperatures, sand cats adopt the strategy of day and night. The ability of sand storage heat is poor, so the temperature difference between day and night is quite large. The maximum temperature during the day can reach 50 degrees, but after the sun falls, the temperature of the desert has dropped rapidly and can even be reduced to zero. At this time, the sand cat leaves the cave, and it will not heat up of heat stroke, nor does it need drainage to dissipate heat.

Finally, sand cats also have their own water storage strategy. In the long desert, the only source of the sand cat for moisture is the prey. Its digestive system will absorb the prey high -intensity and store in fat and blood. It is based on its own. In the case of sufficient food, sand cats will also dig holes in the desert to save prey inside, wait for food to lack, or lack water, and then eat the reserves.

Poison Snake Cling

If the desert cat only drinks water once a month, it is not great. The place where the sand cat is really powerful is that it can even draw water from the body of the poisonous snake. It is the "poisonous snake nemesis" in the desert! No matter how powerful the poisonous snake, it becomes noodles in front of it.

The sand cat is not large. It weighs about 3 to 7 pounds. However, the small body of the sand cat, large energy, the main source of food is snakes, and the successful hunting power reaches more than 80%.

You know, snakes living in the desert, including snakes, viper, etc., are the most poisonous snakes in the world. There are also snakes that know the fierce and good fighting snake at the name of the desert snake and the fierce Taiche. Being able to use these snakes as food, sand cats must have a bit of ability.

Snake's offensive speed is extremely fast. On average, it takes 44 milliseconds to 70 milliseconds each time, while humans blink at a time of 200 milliseconds. That is to say, during a blink of an eye, snakes can complete four attacks.

However, sand cats are faster than snakes. When it runs at full speed, it can reach 40 kilometers per hour. The speed limit of vehicles in some cities is only 30 kilometers per hour. In other words, this kind of kitten runs at full speed on the road, but it will be deducted by the traffic police.

Sand cats' winning snakes are also fast -winning. It will raise its claws, hit the snake's head quickly and quasiped, and faint or even kill the snake.

The teeth of the sand cats are also particularly sharp and strong. After the snake is unable to bomb, it will bitten the snake's back neck until the snake dies completely. Therefore, the nomadic people living in the desert call the sand cat "snake catcher" in their language.

Why do such powerful sand cats fall into endangered?

Unfortunately, such a fierce and cute kitten has become an endangered species. Sand cat was noticed by humans. It was still a matter of 1856. A French army noticed the sand cat in the North African desert, and then mentioned it in its own adventure memoirs. This revealed the prelude to the sand cat disaster.

In order to dissipate heat in the desert, sand cat's ears are very large. In order not to be damaged by ultraviolet rays, the fur of the sand cat is also very thick. In order to walk on the hot sand, the palm of the sand cat's feet is wide and thick. These characteristics were originally to adapt to the environment of the desert, but in the eyes of humans, there is only one word left -Meng!

In the nineteenth century, people were still unfamiliar with the concept of environmental protection. The emerging bourgeoisie is in the stage of pride and complacent. No matter what you see, as long as you can buy it, you must buy it. Driven by money, many people go deep into the desert to capture this kind of kitten.

What is even more amazing is that although the sand cats are fierce to snakes, they seem to be born close to humans. In front of the poachers, they are docile and emotional, and they even take the initiative to approach humans. Therefore, many sand cats were caught in the living room of the city.

Everyone knows that the desert is extremely dry and empty, and is completely sterilized by ultraviolet rays every day. And human cities are just the opposite: humidity, crowded, and rare sunshine. Sand cat's respiratory system has adapted to an environment with dry and less pathogenic microorganisms. Once they enter the city, many sand cats immediately suffer from respiratory diseases.

You know, in the nineteenth century, penicillin has not been invented. Even if humans have respiratory diseases, they can only rely on immunity, not to mention these kittens. Therefore, many sand cats died in cities far away from their hometown

There is a saying that the domesticated animals have long been domesticated, and the animals that have not been domesticated have their own unsassion. Therefore, when you see cute wild animals, you ca n’t catch home casually. Maybe humans are not malicious, but for these small animals, they are the disaster.

In 1940, sand cats announced the extinction in the wild in Pakistan. In the desert of other countries, it is becoming more and more difficult to see this wild cat. With the sharp decrease in the number of sand cats, many zoo have begun to study how to raise and breed sand cats under artificial conditions for the purpose of protection. As a result, scientists found that raising sand cats in the zoo is also very difficult.

Sand cats have high requirements for the environment. At the beginning, the zoo sand cats frequently infected respiratory diseases. Only some zoos that were originally in the desert area were successful. Later, scientists realized that the sand cat's requirements for extreme environments and began to simulate the desert environment, and sand cats gradually appeared in all parts of the world.

Secondly, the sand cat is a complete lone man. He likes to move alone. He is sensitive and suspicious, and is easy to be shocked. Only in the mating season, a female and a male will accompany them. Therefore, it is difficult for sand cats to successfully reproduce in the noisy zoo. In 2007, the Arab Emirates Zoo only successfully breeds 4 cat cubs.

To this day, more and more zoo that can successfully breed sand cats. However, there are fewer and fewer wild sand cats living in natural habitats. Although several countries such as Pakistan have listed sand cats as endangered species, they are strictly prohibited to capture, but there are still people who have raised sand cats for the benefit and even for traffic, causing poaching behaviors to continue.

In addition to poaching, the climate abnormal climate caused by global warming has also caused the habitat of sand cats to narrow quickly. The characteristics of sand cats exist to adapt to the desert. Once the environment changes, the original adaptability characteristics will immediately drag them back, making it difficult for sand cats to adapt to new habitats.

In the natural habitat of sand cats, many desert countries have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to protect these kittens. Kung Fu is reluctant to be in his heart. After more than ten years of extinction, the wild sand cats appeared in people's vision around 2017.

In the face of the desert elf, which is lost, this time, you must protect them!