Literary life with cute baby

Chapter 539 The cartoons are all lies (12)

In order to answer Tangtanger's questions, Tang Shuang specially tuned up and watched the episode "The Mantis Eating Husband" in "Black Cat Sheriff" on the computer. On the other side of the sofa, covering her ears with her hands, staring vigilantly at Xiao Shuangzi, who was watching cartoons, as if worried that this guy would eat her, but the little person explained that she was afraid of this animation about praying mantises eating mantises She didn't even dare to listen to the movie, she was frightened today.

Tang Shuang simply put on the earphones and watched this episode. Well, how should I put it, most of the previous plots were okay, but at the end, it was a bit scary that the mantis girl ate up the mantis boy. The clothes are spread on the floor, and it feels like the whole body has been hollowed out by a strange force. This scene is like a person who is especially good at eating a big crab, and can still assemble a complete shape on the dining table. This person who is particularly good at eating is the gentle, beautiful, well-educated mantis girl, which is a bit infuriating to think about.

The mantis girl was relaying to the black cat sheriff what the mantis boy said was also very intrusive, why his grandma ate his grandfather before he gave birth to his father, and his mother ate his father before he gave birth to him.

After reading it, Tang Shuang took a sneak peek at the little man. This guy was staring at him intently. She spotted him at the first glance, and said a little nervously, "...what do you want?"

Tang Shuang turned off the tablet, took off the earphones, and waved to the frightened Tangtanger: "Come here, let's chat."

"What are you talking about? Candy'er doesn't want to talk about cannibalism." Candy'er refused to come over.

Tang Shuang: "...Don't talk about cannibalism, and no one can cannibalize. How can you think that someone can cannibalize? There is no such thing."

Tangtanger tilted his head and thought for a while: "The Lun family thought about it themselves. Praying mantises eat mantises. Will other small animals also eat small animals?"

"Of course it will. For example, lions eat antelopes, wolves eat rabbits, and small animals will definitely eat small animals. This is the law of nature."

Candy asked: "Then will they eat their own people? Like praying mantises."

emmm~ The fact is that in nature, there are indeed such situations, and there are quite a few. For example, in addition to praying mantises, there are also cockroaches, spiders, etc. During the mating process, the males may be eaten by the females. Called cannibalism.

The smaller a male is than a female, the higher the chance of being eaten.Of course, not all females eat males, and vice versa, but most females eat males, because for these animals, females have a higher status and role than males, and they bear the heavy responsibility of species reproduction. From this perspective , females need food more and need to be prioritized for protection.

This is sexual cannibalism, which mainly refers to cannibalism that occurs only during mating, and there is also pure cannibalism, the most typical of which is groundhogs.Groundhogs may seem cute, but every breeding season, they start to kill and eat their own kind, and in most cases, they only eat the offspring of their own kind that are close to them.Lions and chimpanzees also have males who kill their cubs, but they don't eat them.

The black cat sheriff cartoon that Candy watched is correct, but it magnifies this phenomenon. Although praying mantis cannibalism will happen, the probability is very small, no more than 5%, and there will be no males. A situation in which a praying mantis voluntarily eats a female praying mantis.Male praying mantises, like male cockroaches, flee when they sense they are going to be eaten by a female, rather than wanting to be eaten.

Of course, there are also male animals that are willing to be eaten. For example, there is a redback spider in Australia. They are willing to be eaten by females. It is eaten so that it can inject more sperm into the female and reproduce her offspring.

This is the survival instinct of creatures, and has nothing to do with ethics.

Tang Shuang was still young, so it was difficult to explain these relatively complicated biological phenomena to her, and there was no need to let her know these primitive and cruel facts, so Tang Shuang told her that no other small animals would eat her own.

Tang Shuang: "Praying mantises rarely eat mantises, they mainly eat crickets and aphids, so what is said in the cartoon is very wrong. In fact, the mantis girl didn't even know that it was a mantis boy at that time. She thought it was food. , and I was very hungry, so I ate it.”

Candy asked curiously: "The cartoons are used to deceive children?"

Tang Shuang: "Well, you can also understand it in this way. In fact, praying mantises are very cute. Did you know that Xiao Yezi raised many praying mantises before, and they are so beautiful. You must have never seen them before."

"Huh? Little Yezi raises mantises?" Tangtanger was really interested. He got up from the sofa and slowly approached Tang Shuang: "Why does he raise mantises?"

"Why do you keep praying mantises? Just like you keep goldfish, Little Leaf keeps praying mantises because of interest. There are praying mantises for sale in pet stores. This is a very cute little animal. Do you know that mantises and The little peacocks still have something in common." Tang Shuang tried her best to arouse Tangtanger's interest in insects, so as not to have a childhood shadow because of an episode of cartoons.

"Huh?" Tangtang'er opened her eyes wide, and she became even more curious, that the mantis is still the same as the little peacock?She made a gesture with her hand, putting it about the position of her nose, and asked, "That little peacock?"

This is comparing height, asking if this little peacock is Feng Yingxin's child.

Tang Shuang smiled and said, "It's not Feng Yingxin, it's the real peacock, the one in the zoo."

Candy asked in surprise: "The peacock is very beautiful, do peacocks eat their own people too? So beautiful but also eat their own people? Wow——"

Seeing her getting excited, Tang Shuang quickly said: "Don't eat, don't eat, what I want to say is not to eat, why don't you keep your mouth shut and just eat, you snack food."

Candy laughed embarrassedly, "The Lun family is a little hungry."

Tang Shuang: "Be patient, Mom will be ready soon."

Unexpectedly, Tangtang shook her head: "I won't eat it, I won't eat it even if I'm hungry, I'm afraid, I don't dare to eat it."

Look at scaring this little kid who "eats bigger than the sky".

"Did you know that the head of a praying mantis can turn half a circle? It's very powerful. It is the only one among the small insects that can do this, and no other small insects can do it." Tang Shuang told her interesting insect knowledge, so that she would not be so Fear.

"Is that so?" Tangtang'er grabbed a rag doll and spun it half a circle, "It, won't it break?"

Tang Shuang: "This is their ability. Only mantises and peacocks can do it. Praying mantises are actually very cute and funny. For example, they can often turn their backs to you, and then turn their heads to look at you 180 degrees, as if by magic."

Tang Shuang originally wanted to arouse Tangtang'er's interest, but after hearing the words, the little man immediately yelled, "Mom, it's so scary! This big villain, Xiao Shuang, is scaring children again!!!"

Jumped off the sofa and ran into the kitchen like a bunny to seek shelter from Huang Xiangning.

(End of this chapter)