In the mysterious Fuhe Rainforest Prairie, on the fifth night after the rainy season ends, thousands of giant prehistoric dung beetles will emerge from the soft ground.
After heavy rains, some magical prehistoric herbivorous creatures, such as mammoths weighing thousands of tons, prehistoric bison, Titan zebras, giant goats and other creatures will greedily eat the new plants on the grassland.
On this magical earth, apart from the ancient mythical beasts Taotie and Pixiu in Eastern myths and legends, which have no anus and can only enter and exit, as long as they have a digestive tract, no matter what kind of creature they eat, they will inevitably excrete feces outwards.
The amount of feces excreted by thousands of giant herbivorous creatures every day is extremely staggering. Take the huge prehistoric mammoth as an example. A mammoth weighing over a thousand tons needs to consume 50-80 tons of feces every day.
food.
Even if these foods are fully digested in their bodies, they will produce seven to eight tons of waste materials, which are piled up on the grass as big as a house.
You must know that the vast Fuhe rainforest grassland contains not only mammoths and other plant-eating creatures, but also a large number of bison, zebras, goats and other creatures.
Each type of these creatures has an extremely large population, numbering in the tens of thousands.
They excrete hundreds of thousands of tons of feces every day on the Fuhe rainforest grassland. If these feces are not cleaned up in time, within a week, the grassland will become a dung dump filled with huge mountains of feces.
These feces cover the grassland like cement, hindering the growth of plants. Animals have no food source and will die and become extinct in large numbers, which will cause a devastating blow to the ecological environment of the grassland.
Therefore, every time the rainy season ends on the Fuhe rainforest grassland, a large group of organisms will begin to eat and excrete on a large scale on the grassland. This season will become a carnival feast for dung beetles.
Every day, when those huge prehistoric herbivorous animals wandered around the plains, the "dung-pushing army" composed of prehistoric giant dung beetles would come out like beggars, following behind those animals in a mighty manner.
, waiting for them to excrete feces.
Whenever fresh excrement falls on the ground, those armored generals will rush forward and climb up the dung mountain to roll dung balls.
If you are lucky, you can make a big dung ball. These dung balls will be rolled to their nests and hidden in their caves to serve as food for their children.
It is worth mentioning that among the thousands of dung beetle species in the world, the prehistoric giant dung beetles living on Titan are the hardest-working "dung haulers" in the world. They live longer than dung-rolling cows in other parts of the earth.
It's even harder.
Because on the mysterious continent of Titan, the competition between creatures is quite fierce and cruel. Here, there is no place for lazy and weak creatures, so the dung-rolling cows living here are busy making and carrying dung all their lives.
balls, earning them the reputation of "nature's cleaners."
In the process of searching for dung, these prehistoric dung-rolling cows, which can weigh up to half a ton, will perform various martial arts on the vast grasslands. Some smart dung beetles will squat in places where cattle, horses and sheep excrete dung.
, when the excrement of cattle, horses and sheep has just been excreted from the body, they will immediately jump onto the mountain of fresh dung, work hard to dig out, rub and roll the dung.
Despite this, the habit of eating feces every day still does not seem to satisfy the taste of dung beetles. Just like humans, when they eat feces every day, they will always have enough. Sometimes, these armored generals also want to change their tastes.
In fact, for most dung-rolling cows, whether it is rotten meat, rotten fruit, fungi, or dead animal bodies, these giant beetles that existed in prehistoric times are happy to accept and enjoy all kinds of debris.
All waste and waste are collected according to the order, it is simply a garbage treatment plant.
As the saying goes: A thousand mouths have a thousand flavours, and everyone has their own preferences for radish and cabbage. Some dung beetles have very unusual recipes. This kind of dung beetle is a parasitic dung beetle.
Because they parasitize other organisms, the parasitic dung beetles are not very big. Most of them only weigh about two or three kilograms, and the largest only weighs four or five kilograms, which is less than the weight of an old hen in the countryside.
A dung beetle weighing two to three kilograms is considered a giant insect in human eyes, but don't forget that this is the magical continent of Titan, where a mushroom can grow to weigh several tons.
On the Titan continent where giants are overrun, the parasitic dung beetle, which weighs only two or three kilograms, is undoubtedly a kind of "bacterial" and "microbial" existence. This kind of dung beetle is different from those prehistoric beetles that weigh hundreds or thousands of kilograms.
Compared with the giant dung beetle, it belongs to an insignificant branch.
They like to live on the back of Titan snails, a kind of prehistoric giant snail weighing two to three tons. While hitchhiking, they feed on the mucus secreted by the prehistoric giant snails. They get something for nothing in their life. They are a member of the dung beetle race.
Alternative existence.
In addition to these passive ordinary dung beetles, there is also a large and extremely aggressive hunter-type giant dung beetle living in the deepest part of the Fuhe rainforest grassland.
Different from those passive dung beetles, this kind of dung beetle is extremely aggressive and predatory. They don't stupidly follow animals and wait for each other to poop like other dung beetles. On the contrary, this kind of "hunter-type" giant beetle
Mantises will actively hunt ants, centipedes, millipedes and other insect creatures. Once the hunt is successful, they will decapitate the prey with their hard teeth and roll the fat-rich prey body into the underground nest for storage.
From eating carrion, rotten fruit, dead animal carcasses, to eating live ants, centipedes and millipedes, these magical armored generals are of great help to the ecological environment on the grassland.
Without the help of these "cleaners", it is foreseeable that the entire grassland will be covered with a thick layer of feces. At that time, plants will not be able to grow, and animals will die in large numbers due to lack of food, and the entire grassland will stink.
There are mountains of dung and bones everywhere. It would be a very bad sight.
With the presence and help of these armored generals, not only can animal feces on the surface be quickly and effectively removed, but all important nutrients in the feces can also be brought back to the soil, improving the soil structure and making the soil more fertile.
At the same time, these hard-working armored generals can also help spread plant seeds in the grassland and reduce the breeding and spread of pests and parasites, thereby making a significant contribution to the ecological environment and balance of the grassland.
The iron beetles on the grassland are very courageous. They don't seem to care about the appearance of Lin Shuhang and Crazy General. They turn a blind eye to these two behemoths and work hard to push their own dung balls on the grassland. Because these insects know
, in nature, no creature dares to regard itself as food.
Eating oneself means eating feces indirectly, so these dung-pushing bugs are not worried about being harmed by the outside world. They push huge dung balls and pass by Lin Shuhang and the Crazy General one after another, not looking at them.
One look, extremely arrogant.
"Damn, these dung beetles are so arrogant? They don't even look at me?" Lin Shuhang was surprised when he saw the dung beetle pushing a ball of dung past him, because in his consciousness, he was already
The giant, who was nearly sixty meters tall, was countless times bigger than the other person. Logically speaking, in nature, small creatures would be afraid of larger creatures, but today was an anomaly.
Of course, Lin Shuhang had no intention of harming these dung-pushers. These armored generals played with excrement all day, and their bodies were covered with excrement. No one wanted to deal with excrement.
After watching for a long time, Lin Shuhang lost his temper. After calling out "Crazy General", he began to move forward towards the vast grassland.
The grassland is extremely vast and desolate. The deeper you go into the grassland, the more dung mountains and dung bugs you encounter.
Hundreds of armored generals pushed giant dung balls much larger than their bodies, rumbling past them like steamrollers. The scene was very spectacular and shocking.
Walking on foot is often the most physically demanding way of traveling. After walking for twenty or thirty kilometers deeper into the grassland, Lin Shuhang could no longer walk and stopped there to complain.
"Damn it, my feet hurt after walking for so long!" Lin Shuhang couldn't help complaining about Lianlian: "Damn it, you shouldn't be walking on this kind of ground."
How great would it be if I could get an off-road motorcycle and ride on this vast grassland?
Lin Shuhang was thinking this, and he accidentally saw a group of prehistoric zebras grazing leisurely on the grass in the distance. He had an idea and thought about those prehistoric zebras.
"Crazy General, are you exhausted too?" Lin Shuhang said to the equally exhausted Crazy General beside him: "This grassland is really too vast. We can only cross this grassland on foot. We must get two mounts.