The strongest punches and kicks in the animal world

The legendary boxer Muhammad Ali may have been able to give powerful punches to his opponents in the ring, but some animals living in the wild could have been more violent.

There is not much that can elevate the level of adrenaline in the blood, such as violent quarrels, even if one is just a spectator watching what is going on closely, and he is engaged in devouring "popcorn" binge.

But if you want to see "fighters" in the fight and fight right to the end, look at nature around you. There are animals fighting to be crowned with more than glory, fighting in this case is to survive.

On the scene of nature, it has diverged from what it will see from animals that are more powerful and ferocious than others in terms of the ability to direct punches and kicks. Your surprise will be here for reasons that go beyond just the speed of these creatures and their skill in fighting.

According to what scientists have known so far, the title of the creature with the fastest punch may ever go to a type of marine crustacean called "mantis prawns" or "mantis shrimp." The creatures of this species use their specially shaped front limbs to attack their prey with a staggering and shocking force, to the extent that these crustaceans tear the water surface, causing internal collapses, which generate heat, lights and sounds.

Some species of this species have developed special species that take the form of warriors used for whaling, in order to stab them when necessary. While the other types of parties like brags crushed by competitors and magnanimity. These crustaceans are known to be able to break the glass of their ponds with one stroke.

Sheila Patek's laboratory at Duke University, North Carolina, specializes in the study of fast-moving animal movements. The research team in the lab discovered that "peacock mantis shrimp" can generate a force that reaches a maximum of about 2,500 times its body weight in no more than 800 microseconds.

Patek believes that the possession of this creature to this extraordinary amazing ability goes back to the parts of its limbs, which are divided into something like springs, levers and door locks.

In all the excess mantis shrimp, there is a four-part system connected to each other by a quasi-zigzag, the system that controls what the creature creates. Each of these sections presses on the next section, which accumulates energy emanating through the part that takes the shape of a bayonet.

Patek says it's a lot like the darting mechanism in the sport. "Mantis shrimps" store a flexible position before hitting it in a fast and strong way, like when you close a skateboard quickly.

These crustaceans are involved in competitions to control larger tracts of land. Still, Patek and her colleagues describe these competitions as "ritualistic skirmishes" rather than deadly battles.

These creatures begin their maneuvers by assessing the size and strength of each, and resort to the exchange of blows only as a last resort. In the rare times that crustaceans actually engage, the eggs begin to protect each one's stomach by crunching its armor-shaped, flake-shaped tail (called the dipper).

The winner of these confrontations is the creature who can withstand the majority of the strikes directed at him, just as did the character boxer Rocky Balboa, embodied by actor Sylvester Stallone on the screen.

Patek has also studied ants of the species known as the "trap jaw". It is called the name relative to the parts of his mouth that can be closed on the prey at amazing speed. These insects also fight to settle disputes between them. And "telegraph" each other with centuries of existing sensor, with a view to determining the hierarchy of the nest in which you live.

It is known that many social insects collide through the horns of horns sensing each other. Scientists have studied this behavior in ants, wasps and bees.

But insect contact centuries are not always indicative of an attack or attack. Insect control cells "honeybees" come into contact very quickly - for example - when you exchange food. But they are following them if any of them is to be determined.

In a study conducted in 2016, researchers used cameras capable of taking pictures very quickly, to record scenes of exchange of punches using sensor horns, among four species of ant "trap".

It has been shown that one of these species - and its native Florida state - is capable of directing more than 41 strokes to its opponent per second.

The team described the insect as an "fastest boxer whose number has been documented at all."

Among mammals, the brown rabbit may be the most famous animal in terms of its ability to direct punches.

Often such clashes occur between rabbits in the spring season with the start of the mating season. This is the origin of the English proverb, "berserk like a rabbit in March".

It was thought that fights were fought only among male rabbits because of their competition for females in the mating season, by beating each other on the head with her front legs.

But a recent study has shown that these "boxing matches" are often initiated by females when they are not ready to mate, and then choose to resort to violence to ward off "arrogant rhetoric." In any case, male rabbits must be persistent and insistent, because their female fertility period is short.

In Australia, the swollen biceps of male kangaroos indicate that they tend more to engage in mating and quarrels; In a kangaroo shelter in Alice Springs, an animal known as Roger lives up to the footage that is so popular with his muscles that he was able to crush a metal bucket one time.

According to a study carried out in 2013, some of the kangaroo males are developing too much of the results of so-called "sexual selection". The males of this animal exchange blows and struggle to resolve their competition for mating with females. Of course, males with larger muscles have a greater advantage.

But kangaroo is more pronounced in kickboxing, which combines punching and kicking in the legs as well. The dominant males hold on to their necks and use their tail to keep their balance in the direction of the blows with their strong legs that end with sharp pins.

Kangaroo animals use this kicking technique to defend themselves as well. This can be seen by many unfortunate people walking on foot with their dogs in Australia. As long as we talk about kicking, we have to say that a kick from a hoof will be more severe.

No doubt that anyone who has spent time with the horses knows how much you can kick a very annoying kick, especially if the horse pulls up its strength to kick a strong kick with its hind legs at once.

It is rumored that a zebra kick could pose a greater threat to those who receive it.

But the evidence that proves this is derived from the tales and novels no more. Wild animals are known to be more difficult to tame than horses, which may be a reason for the idea that their kick is more brutal than their horse-drawn counterparts.

The researcher Tim Caro of the University of California Davis devotes most of his career to the study of ruthlessness to the extent that he once masquerades as a zebra in order to study these animals in the wild.

In his book, "Zebra Lines," in 2016, Caro describes how a type of zebra known as the "zebrafish zebra" deals with animals that try to prey on it. A red-tinted red-haired red-haired film appeared in its release. But no records or scientific records indicate that these kicks were fatal.

Other animals can also be rotated, including ostriches and giraffes. I have documented facts for both animals - they are hurting - and even injuring - animals that prey on them and outnumber them. In 2016, the documentary "Planet Earth Part II" featured wonderful shots of Giraffe defeating a lion by carefully tapping a point into his body. It is no wonder that the giraffe has the ability to bear that harsh and dangerous punishment for the lion, bearing in mind that the "King of the Jungle" may have been working at the same time his fierce teeth in the heels of the animal's legs.

But such defensive moves are not meant to kill the enemy as much as they want to stop him. Aside from the possibility that a kick from this giraffe kicks - accidentally - the lion's backbone or jaw that leads to his death, kicks are often only a way to distract the predator, giving his long-legged prey the opportunity to escape, Safe.

Now, if you want to see really deadly blows, look at predatory creatures, especially those whose food is difficult to see.

Our date is now with a bird wandering pasture in sub-Saharan Africa, chasing his prey in silence, a "Flying Writer" or "Flying Secretary".

Predators describe this bird as a "long-legged ninja eagle". Although the shape of the bird may seem very laughable and ironic, it actually feeds on poisonous snakes, killing it with one very powerful kick on top of each.

In a study conducted in 2016, the researchers tried to estimate the kicking strength of a male bird of this type in captivity - and for some unknown reason called it - the name Madeleine. The researchers found that Madeleine managed to kick five or six times more than five to six times as fast as a human.

This method of hunting may have been used by birds who lived in South America in prehistoric times and well-known as "horror birds".

By the way, these creatures were huge and could not fly. Scientists say the species they belong to has very strong legs. The researchers concluded this result by analyzing the bone fragments they found.

This has led scientists to conclude that these "horror birds" may have used to prey on their prey with these powerful, bone-crushing kicks as a way to reach the nourishing bone marrow found inside the prey bones.

Source:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170605-the-most-powerful-punches-and-kicks-of-all-time