New Articles About Animals : Chemical Warfare In The Animal World

There is chemical warfare in human wars,and there is also chemical warfare in the animal kingdom. Many animals have"chemical weapons" such as venom, anesthetic, corrosive, and adhesivefluids, and often engage in life-and-death struggles. Here are new articlesabout animals.

Learn about the chemical weapons of animalsin new articles about animals. The venom they secrete generally contains twotypes of neurotoxic and blood poison. The former acts on the opponent's centralnervous system to stop his heart beating, the latter is through the opponent'sblood circulation system to destroy its tissues, and eventually kill him. Forexample, there is a kind of poisonous wasp in Africa, once the queen found thetarget can be attacked, it will send a chemical with a special smell, eventigers, lions can not escape life. There is also a wasp, the venom contains"alarm pheromone", which can be spread through the air to the nest ofwasps. If someone kills a wasp, it can provoke the wasps in the nest 5 metersaway to fly, and sometimes a few wasps can kill people allergic to bee venom.

The weasel has a stinky butyl mercaptanstored in its body, and when it encounters an enemy attack, it will release afart containing butyl mercaptan, and the enemy will not be able to resist, soit will take the opportunity to escape. And the cat's face and buttocks bodyglands emitting odor in the legs of people, so it can identify the owner therefrom afar. Black-tailed deer often release scent to confuse opponents when theyencounter them. The swallow-tailed phoebe can also use chemical weapons toimplement collective defense. It has a pair of bright red or orange tentacles(called maiden glands) located immediately behind the head. Under normalcircumstances, the antennae are hidden in the sac, and when attacked, they willsuddenly extend and emit an extremely foul-smelling lipid acid secretion.

The tentacles are normally hidden in thecapsule, but when attacked, they will suddenly extend and emit a foul-smellingfatty acid secretion. When a group of swallowtail butterflies are flyingtogether, if one of them is harassed at the periphery, the colony will eject atthe same time, forming a circle of chemical "smoke" around them tofight off the offenders more effectively.

Although the termite is small, it has avariety of chemical defenses. One of them is the injection method, whichinvolves injecting toxins or anticoagulant oil into the wound while biting the opponent,causing them to die from poisoning or bleeding. This is the method used by thegiant termite or army termite. The second method is the brush method, where theupper lip evolves into a "paint brush" and brushes the oil-like venomonto the opponent's body, making it impossible for them to get out and die. Thethird is the spray glue method, this glue is similar to pine resin, containingbinder, stimulant and venom, the opponent can not move after sticking to thisglue, have to wait for death.

You can learn about them from new articlesabout animals. Some animals, in order to "save money", simply rely onthe results of stealing other plants and animals to weaponize themselves. Forexample, when a large birch butterfly caterpillar eats a plant of the genusMalvaceae, it accumulates in its body a toxic substance called kalenei, whichprotects it from being eaten by predators from childhood until it becomes abutterfly.

Monkeys, wild boars and other animals inthe leader can emit the smell of other male animals submissive, as long as thesmell of this smell, even if they do not meet immediately obedient, do not dareto "talk nonsense". There is a kind of wolverine bear found smallanimals immediately urinate, with urine on the ground in a large circle, theanimals in the circle, such as in the magic, it is difficult to escape from the"forbidden circle" with all their might. What's even more amazing isthat even the fierce leopards and wolves outside the circle don't dare to crossinto the "forbidden circle" to fight for it when the bear is huntingsmall animals in the circle. The smell of the bear's urine makes some animalsdizzy and frightened.

In fish, octopus under attack can sprayink, you fish can spray luminous liquid, so as to confuse natural enemies, theyhave taken the opportunity to escape. These also belong to the category ofchemical defense. The most interesting thing is that, because the fish's senseof smell is extremely sensitive, some stronger than the hounds a thousandtimes, it is easy to sniff out their fear (or disgust) of the smell. The watercontains one part in 80 billion of a human secretion - the smell ofL-hydroxyalanine, fish can also smell out. Former U.S. President George H.W.Bush loved to fish, but the fish always rarely took his bait. Why are the fishafraid of President Bush? Researchers found that Bush's fingerprints on thefishing rod contains this levorotatory hydroxyalanine. Fish smell this smell,it is natural to retreat.

We learn about the properties of animalsfrom new articles about animals. Some animals have a surprising concentrationof up to 20% formic acid in their spray. There is a cockroach that can spraytearful poisonous gas. And there are some moths, beetles, millipedes, with theability to create highly toxic substances hydrogen cyanide, and some insectswill spray ketones, phenols and other irritating substances, self-defense.

Sea snails living in the depths of theocean, can spit out a mixture of hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid saliva,not to mention animal muscles, is a drop on the rock will also make it smokeand vaporize. Therefore, sea animals including whales, sharks and crocodilesare afraid to mess with sea snails.

The internal organs of puffer fish arehighly toxic, and they can also excrete highly toxic fish eggs. Pufferfishpoison is 120 times more toxic than the chemical drug sodium cyanide. If otheranimals in the sea swallow it or its eggs, they will quickly die of nervenumbness and poisoning.