Great anti-hot moves are only available in animals

Peeing on the legs to cool, burying themselves in cocoons to sleep, hawking heat . are the 1-0-2 anti-hot ways of animals.

Discover the great anti-hot moves only animals think

Summer has come, a lot of you are feeling the atmosphere become hot and stuffy. At this point, we just want to have a glass of ice or sit in the air conditioner room to cool it down quickly.

With such modern facilities, many times we still feel 'melted ' and extremely upset. Meanwhile, other animals when faced with hot weather do not complain, irritable. Why? This is because they possess the following ' heat- ups'.

1. Urinate on legs to cool

The Marabou stork in Africa often lives in conditions of low water, under the scorching heat of the tropical sun. In extreme circumstances, this bird has devised a way of cooling that has '1-0-2' - that is, peeing on its legs.

The legs of the stork are where the ground is in contact with the highest temperature. At the same time, the Marabou stork is dark in color, making it easier to absorb heat from the Sun. For this reason, Marabou stork is cooled by urinating directly on the legs.

The urine of the stork contains water and uric acid, which has two main effects, on the one hand, the water will evaporate to remove heat from the legs. On the other hand, the amount of crystallized uric acid will cling to the legs, forming a white protective layer that reflects the extremely good sunlight.

The original color of the Marabou stork is black.White is the crystallization of uric acid on the legs

This is a very unhygienic but effective way of cooling. This has helped Marabou stork grow extensively in the world's hottest continent.

2. Go to bed to avoid getting hot

Western African lungfish Protopterus annectens is one of six surviving lung fish species in the world. They live in almost all freshwater environments of West Africa, Central Africa and the northern half of South Africa.

This fish has a primitive lung structure that helps take oxygen directly from the air, so they can live in wetlands or shallow areas of oxygen-deficient water.

However, such habitats in the dry season often evaporate the water, and this situation will last for several months before it rains. For other fish, if they are not burned by the sun, they will die from dehydration and lack of oxygen. However, lung fish is still alive and well in such hot and dry conditions .

When the water evaporates .

. lung fish will get into the mud and sleep in cocoons to cool

In fact, before the water where they live is completely dry, the lung fish will hide deep into the mud and secrete a lot of mucus covering the body, this mucus then hardens into a cocoon.

Cocoon pods only allow air to circulate, but holding water back makes the lung fish never dry. At the same time, because the ground below the temperature is lower than the outside so the lung fish keeps sleeping until the rainy season comes back to pick up the cocoon.

3. Cooling with tongue

For humans, when they feel hot due to outside temperatures or after heavy labor, excess heat is released through perspiration. Sweat glands are evenly distributed throughout the skin, making it possible to quickly remove heat.

However, for dogs - sweat glands are not widely distributed but only concentrated in the soles of the feet . Therefore, no matter how hot you are, you never see a dog soaked in sweat but only occasionally with their wet feet.

Don't think only people know what hot sun is!

With such a small number of sweat glands, dogs did not choose to cool with sweat like we did, but by the ' monopoly ' method of the species , sticking out their tongues and panting.

Strong breaths will help the saliva on the tongue and moisture in the dog's lungs evaporate in the same way that the sweat is cooled. At the same time, the amount of blood vessels gathered in the tongue and lungs of dogs is also very high, accelerating the process of circulating blood to cool the body.

So can humans apply this cooling method? The answer is possible but the effect will be far less than that of dogs. First, our tongue is small, so the cooling area is less. Second, the dog's salivary glands are specially made that cause the tongue to remain 'wet ', and if you try to breathe through your mouth for a while, you will experience dry tongue.

4. Change "fashion" according to temperature

Desert chameleon Chamaeleo namaquensis is found in one of the world's driest and driest deserts - the Namib desert, southern Africa.

The temperature here during the day can exceed 45 degrees Celsius, while the nighttime is below freezing. In order to survive in such a harsh land, creatures must have extraordinary abilities.

Desert chameleon is capable of not drinking water , taking only the necessary amount of water from food. In addition, this species also uses 'lightning-fast' color change to adapt to the large temperature difference between day and night.

In the early morning, when the ambient temperature is still low, the chameleon will transform the dark skin layer to be able to absorb the heat from the Sun.

When the temperature increases, the skin chameleon will fade more and more until it becomes white at midday to reflect most of the heat.

In particular, there is a time when this species also turns its body towards the Sun to become white to reflect heat, while the other half in the opposite direction is dark to absorb.

This makes us look at this, we can mistakenly think that these two chameleon attaches together, not a single individual.

Sometimes the chameleon is also 'colored' on each side

Protopterus annectens Western African lungfish