Never try to fight with a kangaroo!

To say who is the "top flow" in the animal world recently? There is no doubt, the kangaroo below--

It is called Gangzi, a red kangaroo appearing in the movie "Lone Moon", who is greedy and irritable, and has a strong muscles that make countless gyms envy. Shen Teng's nose was swollen.

Picture source: "Lone Moon" movie trailer

If you watch this movie, I guess you must have the same curiosity:

Is the scene of "Kangaroo kicking Shen Teng" in the movie exaggerated or real? In real life, people can take the upper hand with the red kangaroos?

the answer is……

Let's sell it for the time being, let's introduce the Chi Great Kangaroo first.

The world's largest kangaroo

Chi Kanga Kangaroo, native to Australia, is also known as the red kangaroo. The scientific name is Macropus Rufus, which means a big red foot. For the male kangaroo, the name is very vivid because they are really "red and big".

Adult male red -brown or orange -red short hairs, the abdomen and limbs are lighter, and generally can reach 1.4 to 1.6 meters in height. Similarly, weight can reach 100 kg.

Has a 100 kg boxing competition has made you trembling?

Don't worry, in fact, the red kangaroo is a "boxer", more like a gimmick.

Because their upper limb structure is closer to the animals walking in the four -legged, and there are no shoulder joints and developed shoulder -length muscle groups that are not as prominent as us humans. Although it can be collected on the side, it cannot be placed outward.

In addition, their waist is also a straight piece, which cannot be flexibly twisted, so the boxing action in the boxing action, twist the waist, use the whole body forces to wave the hooks and punch, and the red kangaroos can be played. come out.

Picture source: National Geographic Channel

Moreover, the strength of Chi Da Kangaroo is about 300 pounds (about 136 kg), which is not much different from the boxing strength of our ordinary people, but the trained boxers can play more than 700 pounds (about 318 kg) heavy boxing. In this way, kangaroo is really not a qualified boxer.

Another good news is:

In the case of similar height, kangaroos's arms are about 50 cm in length, and an adult male arm with 1.8 meters tall can be about 75 cm. You must know that in the professional fighting competition, "wingspan" is a very important data, such as the famous boxing champion Ali, which is said to have 2.03 meters.

"One inch is long and one inch strong", if the two sides come out at the same time, the kangaroo's fist is half half of the fist, and the human fist has already hit the kangaroo face.

Boxer (×) Master Wrestling (√)

In fact, rather than a "boxer", it is more appropriate to call the real red kangaroo "wrestling master".

"Lock the neck and hold the neck" is the killer of the "wrestling master". Its movement is to lock the opponent's neck with a strong upper arm, so that the other party loses the balance and suffocate. If it is by the water, the Chi Da Kangaroo will also put the opponent into the water and drowns.

In the face of predators such as Australian wild dogs that are shorter than themselves, or kangaroos with long necks, this action has a wonderful effect. We see that kangaroos often leaned back when fighting, just to avoid being caught by his opponent to knock on his neck and lose the game.

But it's not so easy to practice this move.

The male kangaroos have particularly strong and developed pectoral muscles and biceps, which allows them to tighten their arms very hard to the inside of the body, hug their opponents, and prevent opponents from breaking free. How powerful is this tightening arm? They can even pursue an empty iron barrel.

Net red Chida Kangaro Roger Picture Source: @The Kangaroo Sanctuary Alice Springs

But when we are human as an opponent, this trick is not very good -because our neck is short! And our arm can be lifted to protect our head and neck. It is not easy to find the point where the red kangaroo wants to find.

At this time, the Diamond Rat's famous stunt- "strong King Kong legs" should be debuted.

Kangaroo's leg structure is a bit similar to the sparrow. Through a thick and long Achilles tendon, the kangaroo can accumulate gravity potential and developed thigh muscle groups at each time when landing, and then release at the moment of jumping. This efficient energy conversion method allows them to easily achieve "one leap three meters away" or "one jump three meters high".

When the goal of locking on their wanting to beat me, Chi Da Kangaroo will use thick tails as a support point, and use the strength of the whole body on the kick after taking off. This fierce kick can kick out the power of more than 750 pounds (about 340 kg), which not only eliminates the gap with the human boxer from the power, but the long legs also make up for the shortcomings of the short hands.

In the small gravity environment of the moon, Shen Teng flew a few meters away, and it was easy to make it easier. It was already merciless to not give him an internal injury.

And in addition to this supporting flying kick, kangaroos have developed two tricks on the basis of this:

One was to hold the other person's body or head and find that when the other party could not be pulled down, it kept raising the "Diamond Leg" to the other person's lower body. Although the power of Lianfa kicking will weaken, human beings, especially fragile abdomen, are difficult to fight in the face of such attacks. Humans who are not killed by kangaroo boxing, under the baptism of Lian Diamond legs, can not resist a few feet, and they can not resist a few feet. The defeat comes.

Another trick is to face the opponent when facing the goal that is larger than himself, and suddenly jumps up and jumps in the air.

The acceleration of running and the inertia effect brought by 100 kg of weight can crack the front windshield of the car, and it can also give a small mountain on the door.

Human beings want to fight against this blow, and it is definitely inevitable that injury is inevitable -you say you can run away? You can't run away from the kangaroo! The speed of people running can reach 60 kilometers per hour. Unless you are confident to run a car, it is not easy to escape from the pursuit of kangaroos.

In addition to these, the kangaroo's little boxing also "armed" five sharp claws. In the record of the wild kangaroos of the human war, the Homo sapiens were almost defeated under this claw.

It is really like Shen Teng in the movie. "Gangzi" who does not wear boxing gloves. The state of injury is definitely not like the kind of blue and purple hit injuries in the movie, but it should be like a height of one height. Mi Ba's cat scratched his head.

Therefore, don't worry about provoking a red kangaroo, unless you stay on the moon with the two of him in the world!

In the end, I will send you a large wave of muscles of the well -known net red red kangaroos "Roger". I don't know if it can sing if it can speak, "Brother's chest muscles give you ~"

Picture source: @The Kangaroo Sanctuary Alice Springs

Author ｜ Wing Wolf Elang

Review of the Institute of Animal Research, Huang Chengming of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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