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Chapter 619 The 'evolutionary experience' of the desert elephant, did humans 'create' a new subspecies?
The elephant's nose has a very special structure, which is composed of about 10 muscles. It is a nose, and it is also a tool such as a straw hand. Even the communication between the same kind can also be communicated by touching the long nose.

In terms of these characteristics alone, human cubs are a bit hard to describe. They didn't point out any skills other than crying when they were just born.

In the picture of the live broadcast room, the naive and arrogant little hippo ran towards the baby elephant.

At least in the eyes of millions of water friends, this little hippopotamus looks like he has never been beaten by reality.

Yue'er asked curiously at this time: "Brother Yang, what we see now is the desert statue you mentioned before?"

Although in the Hanas Wildlife Reserve, the geographical location determines the climate conditions and landforms, which are better than the Namib Desert, but it is not far from the barren land.

Therefore, Yue'er's doubts are also the curiosity of thousands of water friends in the live broadcast room.

Lin Yang nodded slightly, and then shook his head again. His statement made the audience extremely confused.

Lin Yang went on to say, "Strictly speaking, they are the same."

Whether the desert elephant can be regarded as a subspecies branch of the African elephant, even in the academic circles, there is currently no clear conclusion.

Although the girl Yue'er is careless, she is still intelligent in nature.

She snapped her fingers and said, "I understand. In other words, desert lions just migrate to the desert and can adapt to harsher environments. African elephants may differentiate into subspecies that distinguish African elephants in many years, but at present It cannot be concluded.”

After a strong analysis, Yue'er raised her eyebrows, looked at Lin Yang with a smile on her chin, and almost wrote "boasting me" on her face.

In the live broadcast room, the audience blew a wave first.

"Sister Yue'er not only asked the question I wanted to ask, but also analyzed it the same way I did."

"In other words, desert elephants are just a group of African elephants migrating to live in barren land?"

"However, studies have shown that desert elephants have thicker feet than African elephants, which are good for storing water and are better at finding water sources. In essence, they should be regarded as the beginning of evolution."

"However, I think there should be a reason why desert elephants take risks independently and choose to survive in barren areas."

Before Lin Yang seemed to be about to speak, a surprising scene appeared in the live broadcast room.

In the footage recorded by the camera in the live broadcast room, the little hippopotamus, who was a bit naive and domineering before, moved his chubby body and slowly walked to the desert like a baby, perhaps because he was used to being protected like a pearl in the palm of the hippo army. Hippos are clearly not out to befriend baby desert elephants.

After getting close to the baby elephant, the little hippo suddenly leaned forward and bumped into the baby elephant, which was tens of centimeters taller than him.

Lin Yang couldn't help teasing: "Good guy, this little thing is trying to provoke trouble."

Yue'er seemed a little angry and said: "This little hippopotamus is too unreasonable. I thought it was cute just now, but it's too arrogant, so it's not cute."

Under the law of the jungle of nature, unless it is at the top of the food chain, under normal circumstances, unreasonable little guys such as hippopotamuses may be beaten by reality.

In the live broadcast room, most of the water friends have never seen such a scene. After all, for most people, such creatures as deserts are relatively unfamiliar, let alone desert cubs.

"The baby hippopotamus is too arrogant, how can he bully the desert baby!"

"The desert is like a baby: who isn't a baby?"

"This wave is a savage charge from a baby hippopotamus."

"Brother in front, what a goddamn savage collision, the old hot-blooded legendary player calls himself an expert."

In the picture, the baby elephant in the desert, who was just wandering around curiously, apparently got separated from the elephant herd.

When he saw the little hippopotamus approaching, the little guy didn't take it seriously. He didn't expect the little hippopotamus to greet him in such an unfriendly way.

Although the desert baby weighed several hundred kilograms, it was still a little staggered by the sudden and unsuspecting impact, and the desert baby staggered and barely fell down.

Grandma Nick glanced at the sunset skyline, and then she said kindly: "Before you stay overnight tonight, the accommodation has been arranged for you."

It was getting late, and the dusk scenery in Hades Reserve was really beautiful. Even before that, Mrs. Nick must have known that Lin Yang’s yacht was waiting for fuel supply at the Jinwan Port Wharf, and Lin Yang’s itinerary was realistic. There is no strict time schedule.

The most important thing is that no agreement has been signed on the acquisition of the Hanas Wildlife Sanctuary. This night is destined to be spent in this simple and natural place.

Yue'er looked very excited, she looked forward to: "Brother Yang, there must be a lot of stars at night here."

Lin Yang responded with a smile: "Then thank you Grandma Nick for your hospitality."

The old lady Nick was also gone, and she replied with a smile: "You will become the owner of this place in a short time, and I would also like to thank you for sticking to this place."

Instead, Grandma Nick turned her attention to the little hippopotamus and the baby desert elephant: "It is often said in Chinese that the reason why desert elephants become desert elephants has a lot to do with their migration path away from home. Maybe now They are just African elephants living in the barren desert, but it is believed that in a long time, they will evolve into a new subspecies of desert elephant due to the specific environment."

Grandma Nick frowned slightly, the orange-red sunset sprinkled on her white hair and wrinkles.

Obviously, the old lady's words made everyone, including Yue'er and the tens of thousands of water friends in the live broadcast room, feel a little puzzled.

In the live broadcast room, the little hippopotamus and the desert elephant are about to fight, perhaps because of the support of the hippo army behind him, the little hippo is not afraid at all in terms of momentum, even though the desert elephant is a bit taller than him.

Yue'er asked doubtfully: "According to Grandma Nick, the desert seems to have left home and came to a barren area to adapt to the environment. Is that true for Brother Yang?"

After saying this, the girl blinked her eyes and looked at Lin Yang curiously. Her expression was like that of a primary school student who has encountered a problem.

The tens of millions of water friends in the live broadcast room seem to have cleverly made up the picture.

"Obviously, ivory is a very valuable commodity. Before the relevant laws on animal protection are established, wild elephants are the target of profit for human beings."

"I agree with what my brother said earlier. Ivory has been a relatively expensive art material for a long time."

"I think it should be like this. When survival is threatened, elephants living in grasslands and jungles migrate to more remote deserts, and then there are groups like deserts, so if there is no business, there will be no kill qaq."

Lin Yang nodded slightly and said: "Actually, in the early African region, hunters hunted elephants not only for their ivory, but also for their meat and skin. Of course, the expansion and settlement of human beings also indirectly squeezed elephants. impact on the habitat of wildlife, especially the larger African elephants."

As Lin Yang said, activities such as human settlement in forests and the development of agriculture have directly or indirectly driven many herds of animals to isolated habitats.

Due to the rapid population growth in Africa, which can even be described as expansion, and the relative barrenness and aridity of the entire continent, in order to obtain available arable land, human beings have developed and destroyed forests and grasslands, which has reduced the habitat of wild animals.

The deterioration of the environment, regardless of the reason for hunting, and the destruction of habitats have led to a sharp increase in the natural death rate of African elephants.

After the 20s, ivory became the main product for people to hunt and kill elephants. Even in the turmoil of the international financial market, like gold and diamonds, it was regarded as a hard currency with stable value. Some big banks in the West even competed to buy and store.

In the early 80s, the annual turnover of ivory in the international market was about 130 million kilograms, of which more than 90% came from Africa!

At the same time, the price of ivory keeps rising. In just 10 years, the wholesale price of ivory has risen from US$13 per kilogram to US$156, an increase of 12 times!
Obtaining an ivory is equivalent to getting a considerable income, so some people regard elephants as movable gold boxes, ivory as coveted platinum, and ivory as a shortcut to getting rich. He did everything possible to hunt and kill elephants at the risk of his life.

That's why Grandma Nicole described before that those African elephants who went to the desert to survive were far away from home. They wanted to survive and came to the desert in another way.

Before this, water lovers were curious about what a desert elephant was, but after the baby elephant was recorded on camera, such an understanding made people sigh.

However, at this moment, in the screen of the live broadcast room, the desert baby, which was gradually approached by the hippo army, uttered a cry for help.

In the farther picture recorded by the camera, a large group of desert statues are rushing to the battlefield.

In the Hanas Wildlife Sanctuary where the sun is setting and the green trees are sinking, beside the river in the barren land, because of the uninvited guests coming from afar, you can see the dust flying all over the sky in the live broadcast room from a long distance.

At the same time, the water friends in the live broadcast room can even clearly hear the howling of the elephant.

"Is this desert baby's family coming?"

"Before I was very worried that the small desert that lost its way would be bullied by different groups because of the arrogance of the baby hippopotamus and the dispatch of the hippopotamus army. After all, the crocodile, which looked very mighty before, can only choose in front of the hippopotamus group. He ran away in a low-key manner. In contrast, this small desert is like a baby who obviously has no way of understanding what it means to be a good man who does not suffer from immediate losses." As soon as Yue'er finished speaking, Lin Yang nodded slightly.

All of this happened just as Grandma Nick said before, in the nature reserve, the strong and the weak can never be seen on the surface.

Because no one knows what will happen in the next second.

For this, the sand sculpture netizens in the live broadcast room seem to smell the atmosphere of watching the excitement, especially in this barren land of Africa, the game between wild animals is like a more vivid animal is a long board of restraint, and the people who eat melons It's a delicious bite, has the desert baby's reinforcements finally arrived?Now there is no need to worry about the little elephant being bullied. This arrogant and domineering little hippopotamus seems to be about to be severely beaten in reality.

Although the hippo army is indeed a coincidence, it is not at the top of the food chain after all.Just now, the cry of the desert to the baby is obviously a call for help from the parents. The little hippo runs fast, otherwise it will be too late. It was recorded in a live broadcast room, and the picture is simply a special edition of the animal world. It is really lively.

Obviously, after learning about the migration and survival of desert elephants, and how they may evolve into new subspecies due to external and human factors in the distant or near future, the tens of millions of water friends in the live broadcast room seem to be more I feel sorry for the desert that has left my hometown, and I have seen a baby hippo before, because there is a whole group behind it as a backer, and it is a little arrogant. People have reason to believe that this baby will become the next target of bullying by the little hippo.

Now it seems that the situation should be reversed because of the reinforcements from the desert elephant not far away.

In the live broadcast room, dust was flying all over the sky, and huge desert elephants appeared in Lin Yang's camera.

Elephants are large terrestrial mammals, and the African elephant to which the desert elephant belongs is the largest existing elephant group. When several adult desert elephants leave the country, the visual sense of oppression is still very strong.

In contrast, compared with African desert elephants, hippopotamuses of the same size are like small fat pigs, and the advantage in size is instantly lost in comparison.

Through the footage of the live broadcast room, the audience can clearly find that although desert elephants have almost no difference in appearance compared with ordinary African elephants, their legs, feet and pads, which are as thick as marble pillars, are relatively larger, at least in wildlife experts The study shows that the evolution of this physical trait can be used to attract a certain degree of water retention for the body, natural selection, and survival of the fittest.

In order to be able to survive in barren areas, the desert elephants, as the African elephant group, are undergoing subtle micro-evolution in their bodies.

Grandma Nick squinted her eyes, maybe it was because the setting sun was slanting on her face, or it might be because she was more concerned about the next situation of the baby desert elephant. Or groups of big hippopotamuses, which can be ranked among mammals in terms of physique alone.

Even though elephants and hippopotamuses can be easily seen even in zoos, at least this scene of desert elephants vs. hippopotamus is very difficult to see.

"There is almost no suspense. Let's think about what to have for dinner." Lin Yang joked with a smile.

In fact, Lin Yang did not exaggerate. The battle between two creatures with relatively large size disparity had already been judged before the battle started.

As soon as Lin Yang finished speaking, he looked very angry at the adult desert elephant whose baby was being bullied.

After the desert elephant approached the hippopotamus, its thick trunk showed a new use that shocked sand sculpture netizens.

In the footage of the live broadcast room, an adult hippopotamus weighing nearly one ton was helpless and was almost overturned by a desert elephant.

The baby hippopotamus who was arrogant and domineering before was instantly frightened and started to run away.

This scene stunned tens of millions of netizens in the live broadcast room. "Fuck! Is the desert elephant's nose so powerful? It has such great power."

"I always feel that desert elephants are relatively intelligent creatures."

"Desert elephant: No one knows how to protect calves better than me."

"Baby hippopotamus: Scared the baby to death, slip away."

"This scene perfectly interprets what it means that there are people outside the mountains and there are people outside the mountains. The reason why the little hippo is arrogant is because it has not met an opponent who can repair and educate it."

"I just want to say, well done!"

However, an even more unexpected scene happened immediately after.

In the screen of the live broadcast room, even the adult hippopotamus, which already weighs a huge amount, can hardly be mentioned in front of the even bigger desert elephant. It is like a younger brother.

To the surprise of all the audience, the desert statue actually overturned the hippopotamus to the ground with its thick nose.

Lin Yang mentioned before that the trunk of an elephant is composed of many muscle tissues, but most people have never thought that the trunk of a desert elephant is so powerful and powerful!
Yue'er opened her mouth slightly, apparently also frightened by the scene in front of her.

"I didn't expect elephants to be so powerful. I thought they were more docile in addition to their larger size."

In fact, elephants are not irritable, but because they see desert babies being bullied, they appear more irritable.

Protecting the calf seems to be the nature of animals, maybe this is maternal love.

Many sand sculpture netizens in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded.

"My God! This adult desert elephant makes me look at elephants with admiration."

"Protecting the baby, no matter what species, seems to be able to arouse the strong fighting power of motherhood, not to mention that the size between hippopotamus and desert elephant is not the same tonnage at all."

"Sure enough, what Grandma Nick said before, Feng Shui has taken turns, and no one knows which side will be the final winner."

"Baby hippo was beaten from reality qaq
. "

The arrogant hippo army and the baby hippopotamus had already lost their prestige at this time. After the desert elephants started to fight back to protect the baby elephants, a large group of hippopotamuses began to scatter.

In short, how majestic these hippos were when they bullied the crocodile, how embarrassing they are now when they are beaten by desert elephants.

Lin Yang joked with a smile: "It seems that if you want to survive in this wildlife sanctuary, you still need to keep a low profile."

Yue'er nodded repeatedly, then subconsciously rubbed her belly.

At this moment, in the footage of the live broadcast room, the last ray of sunset glow on the western mountain is reflected on this piece of sporadic green but still barren land. The river is flowing quietly, as if it has melted the orange-red sunset into it. In the barking river.

Grandma Nick picked up the collar, and then she smiled kindly: "After nightfall, the temperature will drop a lot, and the temperature difference between day and night here is still relatively large."

She went on to add: "It's time for us to go back, you need to eat and rest, hope you two can have a good night in Hanas."

Although Lin Yang and Grandma Nick had almost verbally reached a decision to acquire the Hanas Wildlife Sanctuary, they still needed to sign a series of contracts and obtain permission from the relevant local authorities.

Even with the convenience of remote operation in the future, no matter how efficient it is, Lin Yang and Yue'er are destined to spend the night in the Hanas Wildlife Sanctuary tonight.

And before officially taking over Hanas, Grandma Nick is still the owner here.

She obviously also understood that before that, she should entertain these two travelers from the East as a landlord.

In the picture recorded by Lin Yang's camera, the little desert baby who was lost before has returned to the group. Its mother gently stroked its back with her nose, as if to comfort her frightened child , and at the same time admonishing it, it is rash to leave the group because of curiosity.

On the other side, after encountering desert elephants, most of the arrogant hippo army fled into the river. Compared with head-to-head encounters with desert elephants on land, the river is relatively safer.

This small theater of conflicts in the animal world that took place on African land seems to have temporarily come to an end because of the separation of the two sides and the coming of night.

For the tens of millions of water friends in the live broadcast room, although Lin Yang did not record those rare creatures such as Lin Yang’s ocean voyages, only relatively common animals such as hippos, crocodiles, and elephants have left the country before. But what the audience sees is a more realistic and vivid picture.

"After the desert elephant baby is finally out of danger, it must follow its mother obediently."

"It is said that after the anchor arrived at the Hanas Wildlife Sanctuary, several animals recorded successively have a special thing in common."

"Brother in front, what do you mean by common ground?"

"The wildebeest that was first photographed by the anchor is actually not a horse, and the crocodile is not a fish. In the same way, the hippopotamus is not a horse qaq. What was in the mind of the person who named these animals?"

Lin Yang stretched his waist, he laughed and teased lazily: "Okay, the excitement is over, we can eat, sleep and watch the stars."

Yue'er said cheerfully, "I don't know how the food here is, hehe."

Then the girl asked curiously: "Grandma Nick, is there any local specialty in Namibia?"

Maybe it's because of adhering to the fine tradition of Lin Yang's live broadcast studio, Yue'er is still thinking about the gifts from sand sculpture netizens.

What she said made the water friends instantly excited.

However, Grandma Nick said with a smile: "Your question has stumped me. If there is any, it may be some dried animal meat products, including antelope and takin, but there are no such things in Hanas. "

Obviously, as a protection base for wild animals, even if the market sells artificially raised meat, it will not exist in Hanas.

Yue'er nodded slightly and said: "So that's the case, it seems that this wave of gifts can't be delivered."

When the last ray of sunset falls, the sky is replaced by a full moon and a sky full of stars.

It is far away from the hustle and bustle of reinforced concrete, and even except for the residence in the protection area, it is already pitch black as far as the eye can see.

Because of this, the stars in the night sky look extraordinarily bright.

(End of this chapter)