Where are Fantastic Beasts?

Are you still looking for it in "Shan Hai Jing" and "Fantastic Beasts Origin and Interpretation"?

In fact, they are all around us, and they have a world beyond human perception. They're weird, they hold secrets, they've got super-senses, and they've got abilities beyond your imagination.

Amazing Animal Wonders poster

The Amazing Animals documentary is executive produced by legendary filmmaker and National Geographic explorer James Cameron, and narrated by Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award-winning Benedict Cumberbatch. The legendary team worked together to restore the extraordinary moments of extraordinary animals.

The English version was launched a while ago, and it was very popular among biology fans as soon as it was launched, with a score of 9.8 on Douban. Now the Chinese version is also online, the summer vacation is coming to an end, let the children watch a blockbuster summer vacation, just choose it!

To complete this documentary, the film crew traveled to 29 countries around the world and took more than 80 shots, including the jungles of Costa Rica, the rainforests of Khao Yai in Thailand, the pine forests of British Columbia, the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, the Bass Rock in Scotland, Tanganyika in Tanzania lakes, the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, etc.

With the supervision of James Cameron, a "technical fan", "The Spectacle of Animals" is comparable to a movie visual blockbuster, and the documentary adopts the most cutting-edge film production technology. Visually, each frame can be used as a wallpaper; auditorily, one second can make people feel immersive. With the support of the world's top special effects team, the audience seems to be transformed into the animals themselves, re-understanding the world from their perspective.

To put it simply, in the documentary, you can become a beetle to feel the on-the-spot disaster feeling of the bison running; you can also become a female firefly to watch the light show of the debut boy group brought by the male firefly!

The first episode at the beginning tells the story of cross-species cooperation. It is basically not like human beings negotiating diplomatic ink for several days. With a code word, a look, or even a gesture, they form an alliance.

Deep in the Canadian wilderness, there is an extremely mysterious animal known as the "Phantom of the Forest". It is the goshawk.

goshawk

How did the nickname come about?

It takes less than a second for the big brother to accelerate from a standstill to a speed of 64 kilometers per hour! It is the fastest-accelerating bird of prey. It has short, rounded wings and a 30-centimeter-long tail. It travels through dense forests with incomparable agility, which is similar to that of Garrison Ford flying a plane.

But the elder brother doesn't like the cold bedside, every time he strikes, he always feels that something is wrong...

It turned out that the small animals who were crushed by their strength joined forces to resist.

The chickadee, with its special eyesight and ability to adapt to dim light, was the first to spot a threat in the air and was the first to sound the alarm, a coded message reporting the goshawk's position and speed. The squirrels could not only recognize the chickadee's call, but also learned to imitate it. The sound was almost exactly the same. Within seconds, the alarm spread among the animals, and it was transmitted in the forest at a speed of more than 160 kilometers per hour, the speed of a bird. More than twice the size of an eagle...

goshawk

Daring! Gossip spreads fast!

The goshawk flew away, and finally let out a yell angrily!

"I hate making small reports the most in my life!"

So, you don't need to be mighty and strong to survive, because everyone is a friend.

Next up is the North American flying squirrel.

flying bat

It's kind of cool, with a furry flying suit that stretches from the wrist to the ankle called the fly membrane. The gliding distance is almost equivalent to the length of a football field. When landing, use the tail as an air brake. Humans call this kind of flight extreme sports, and people call it ordinary life.

But making a living is not easy. It is difficult to find food in the deep winter. The flying squirrel who loves to eat small mushrooms has to move from tree to tree. Like Guo Jing who was in the peach blossom formation, he fainted after a while. Where is home?

Little Flying Squirrel hastened to display its unique secret technique - sending out an ultrasonic emergency signal, and this signal is encrypted, most predators cannot receive it.

After the friends received the reply, Guo Daxia knew which way to go. Those who came out together must go back together, because if you go home late, you might freeze to death.

Recently, people have discovered another even more amazing hidden talent of them, that is, the luminescence of flying squirrels. Under the ultraviolet lens, it can be seen how they glow, absorbing moonlight of one color and emitting light of another color. The light from their dark bellies is thought to act as a beacon, allowing them to see their mates at night and follow them all the way back to the safety and warmth of their nests, where they huddle together through the coldest nights.

“Some animals take cooperation to another level, developing a strong sense of community so that the next generation can grow up safely,” the narrator concludes.

Here comes an animal that is both cute and terrifying.

Burrowing owl

The cute little burrowing owl has big eyes like copper bells, a round head, and a bulging belly. I can't help but want to touch it twice.

But its head can rotate 360 degrees. Every time I see this picture, it reminds me of Sadako...

Burrowing owl

The bison likes to use the openings around the owl's nest to clean their bodies. Why this habit is not mentioned in the documentary, I only know that this 1,100-kilogram behemoth can easily crush the nest, and the owl will be trapped inside.

Seeing a group of burrowing owl cubs hiding in the nest in panic and panic, my heart is already in a mess.

Burrowing owl

But the burrowing owl pups have done something quite amazing. They have mastered the art of magic, imitating the sound of rattlesnakes so close to perfection that they scare away beasts 11,000 times their size. The little imitators are working hard to grow into a member of the security force in the primary school group.

Seeing this, I immediately turned around and said to my five-year-old son, look, how important it is to master a foreign language!

There are also examples of four or two pulling a thousand catties.

The whistle acacia tree grows in the savannahs of eastern Africa. In addition to being covered with thorns like other acacia trees, it also has a special kind of thorn, which is swollen under the thorn and hollow inside. When the wind blows, it will make a whistle-like sound, hence the name. .

Giraffe and whistle acacia tree

The reason why the acacia tree is full of sharp thorns is to prevent herbivores from eating them, but the tongue of a giraffe can easily avoid the thorns and eat the young leaves of the acacia tree. The thorns of the acacia tree live in A small brown ant whose abdomen can be lifted up, so it is also called belly-lifting ant. When the giraffe eats the leaves, the ants will swarm to the giraffe, bite the giraffe desperately and spray the venom, forcing the giraffe to leave.

Of course, animals are united by more than conflict.

Warthogs live with all kinds of parasites, and blood-sucking ticks and lice hide out of their reach, so they need a little help. Warthogs can weigh up to 150kg and have sharp tusks that are often on alert, but in this Ugandan village, asking for help is all about being friendly.

The nearby meerkats are so communicative that they have one of the most complex animal languages, using a vast vocabulary of vowels and syllables to discuss where to find food.

warthog and meerkat

As long as the warthog rolls over and lies flat, the meerkat will understand! This is to invite it to eat. Meerkats have a sense of smell 1000 times more sensitive than humans. They can smell the subtle smell of blood, and then catch protein-rich parasites. Great cleaning, this strange relationship only exists in two places on the earth, and both are human habitation places.

Naturally, not all animals turn skills into great love, and there are also sinister and cunning ones.

In the deep sea, cichlid fish release a pheromone when they are about to lay eggs. The cuckoo catfish, which has tactile skin all over its body, will quickly perceive this weak signal.

Then, they take this opportunity to sneak up on the cichlid fish: eat the eggs produced by the cichlid fish, and take the opportunity to lay their own fish eggs, mixed in with the cichlid fish eggs. Mother cichlid fish will rely on instinct and collect both kinds of eggs without discrimination. Then use a special ability: keep the fish eggs in your mouth until they hatch and grow up. It's a pity that the cichlid mother who was deceived adopted the cuckoo baby in this "mobile nursery". The fast-growing baby cuckoo will soon treat the baby cichlid as a Work is food, one bite at a time.

Seeing this, do you think you understand nature?

Actually not necessarily.