The first possibility: the egg falls into the bottom of the pit like a stone.
the second possibility: elephant oak chestnut uses its long nose to send eggs to the bottom of oak chestnut.
The third possibility: ...
Fabres tells us:
The possibility of the first guess is zero. Because the tunnel is extremely narrow and full of "crumbs and flour" prepared by the elephant mother for her children, it is impossible to fall directly.
the possibility of the second guess is also zero. Elephant oak chestnut elephants don't lay eggs openly and then hold them with their long noses (beaks). If it does this, the delicate egg will be squeezed and die when it is put down in a narrow and blocked tunnel.
what the hell is going on? Fabres would never take it for granted to draw a conclusion at will. This time, it is useless to rely on observation alone. He can only adopt the method of anatomy. He cut open an elephant-like acorn elephant, and the result made him stunned: < P > So that's it! It turns out that the elephant oak chestnut elephant has its own special spawning tools. It has the same thickness as the drilled beak. Wherever the beak is drilled, this inner beak-egg detector will drop the eggs. After its tunnel was completed, he turned around, put the end of his abdomen on the small hole, stretched out his inner beak and drilled into the tunnel. After the eggs are placed, this tool is gradually recovered and retracted into the abdomen, which is also watertight. When it was done, the elephant mother left contentedly, but the observer didn't see the mystery with wide eyes.
The process of exploration is tortuous and full of difficulties, but Fabres tells us with actions that if you persist, you will eventually find out the truth you want.
There's another question: Is the nursery that the elephant's mother is trying to find for her babies absolutely safe?
no.
if it's just an acorn that hasn't been punched by the elephant chestnut elephant, it's a vegetarian dish, but once there are larvae in it, isn't it a meat dish? This meat dish is a favorite of blackbirds. Therefore, in autumn, when berries begin to be in short supply, these larval acorn elephants become the delicacies of blackbirds, which are so delicious that they are much more delicious than the bitter olives.
As a kind of delicious food, the elephant chestnut elephant satisfies the snakehead's pursuit of delicious food and ensures them to survive the long and cold winter. It is an important link in the biological chain of nature.
Don't underestimate this tiny elephant oak chestnut. Their existence plays an important role in the ecological balance of nature. Besides meeting the winter needs of blackbirds, it can also regulate the disorderly growth of plants.
Oak is generous, and it produces a huge number of oak chestnuts every year. There are so many oak chestnuts, what does the earth do with them? Lack of space in the forest will suffocate, and too many trees will harm all trees.
don't worry, there are elephant chestnut elephants! It laid its eggs in the green oak chestnut early. If the blackbird didn't cook a good meal, the babies would climb out of the small hole after eating all the food in the oak chestnut. For cleaning up the surplus materials, the insects of Elephantidae have strong action power.
Of course, the elephant elephant can't keep the ecological balance. The abundance of oak chestnuts attracted more consumers, including voles, jays and, of course, people, who picked large baskets of oak chestnuts and fed them back to pigs. People, who are the most greedy, will not stop like small animals.
Written outside Insects:
Although Fabres's elephant elephant is funny and cute, and has a "motherly heart", the elephant elephant elephant in reality always makes farmers gnash their teeth. Because it is a pest that is extremely harmful to the output of nuts such as chestnut, it has always been the enemy of chestnut farmers. Any chestnut chosen as a nursery by the elephant oak chestnut elephant will be full of insect dung, which can neither be eaten nor used as seeds. However, in the long-term struggle between man and elephant, chestnut farmers also mastered the countermeasures according to their living habits. It is not difficult for them to take careful precautions, take care of chestnut trees, do a good job in the prevention and control of oak chestnut elephants, and protect their labor achievements under the mouths of these greedy insects. Therefore, although it is a "pest", we should regard it as an ordinary member of nature, like Fabres, as a kind of living thing and a little life.