Are there really any large animals in the world that feed on stones?

It is said that there was a man named Pakirapa Hunagondi in India who ate stones every day. He can eat 3 kg of stones a day without eating. Can you believe it?

Anyway, I don't believe he killed me. I believe he was just playing dumb in front of everyone. Because almost all animal intestines cannot digest stones, especially humans.

So stones are not a delicious food for animals.

But this is not absolute. In the animal kingdom, a small number of animals occasionally eat small amounts of stones, mainly birds that help intestinal digestion, etc. In the microcosm,There are many strange microorganisms, some can eat stones and metals, and even treat ** as a delicacy, but they are microorganisms that are invisible to the naked eye.

Is there no animal in the world that can eat stones? Don't be discouraged because 2016Scientists first discovered a stone-eating Demodex called litoredo abatanica in the Abatatan River on the island of Bao River in the Philippines. Now scientists have studied it in depth and collected some 10-centimeter-long specimens.

According to scientists, in appearance, the algae is white and translucent, and there are some very large shovels on the shell, which can be used to dig and crush rocks. It has thicker teeth on the front that can drill through rocks like an electric drillThe limestone is then crushed and eaten, and the fine sand is digested and discharged. It is said that the length of an adult can even grow up to a meter.

In the past, a species of clam, similar to an earthworm, was found to be able to swallow wood, and was named Antigue, which was particularly fond of devouring wood from ships. The animal has a row of small, pointed teeth on its shell and a special type of wood storage and digestive organ called the cecum. Now scientists have found that litmus is significantly different from Antino.

Although the grouper did swallow large amounts of rocks and excrete fine sand, researchers were concerned about whether it could digest because it could not confirm whether it could extract the true nutrients from the rocks, which is to use bacteria in the gut to break down rocks into nutrients. So scientists are just beginning to study it.

The world is so big that even if he gnaws stones, there is still such a possibility.

This animal should not exist, after all, the stone cannot provide anything for life.

I don't think there is such an animal, because eating stones is not easy to digest.

Probably not, because according to the nutritional distribution, there is no such possibility.

I think it's very unlikely, because he doesn't have a place to absorb the energy.

Actually, no, it's just that the food looks like a stone, not a stone.

I don't think there should be any of this, there's no way to digest this.

I think there should still be this, but we don't know.

It should be impossible, after all, life on Earth is all amino acids.

I think there should be. After all, there wasn't a lot of food a long time ago. What do you think?

Chickens, ducks, and geese often eat small stones to promote the digestion of food in the stomach.

Chickens eat pebbles to help the stomach and facilitate digestion.

I don't know if it's true that you are, who am you?

Mimicry is relatively common in the animal kingdom. Many insects and reptiles are famous for their protective colors. There is also a mimicry expert in the plant kingdom, which is the stone plant.

There is a plant called the stone flower, which has the same appearance as a smooth pebble, so it is called "a living stone with a bright head". Its structure is very simple, the whole body is shrunk into a ball, two fat leaves like garlic cloves, facing each other on the top of a barely visible axis, and often glued together to each other, leaving a slit on the top, and producing golden flowers, very beautiful, much like wild chrysanthemums.

In the process of evolution, the stone plant adapted to the dry and hot environment, and the whole plant became small and fat, and formed the shape and color of the macro-simulated rock fragments. In this way, the contact area with the dry atmosphere can be reduced, the water loss can be prevented, and the water obtained in the rainy season can also be stored. Although the thick, fleshy body of stone plants is often a food object for animals to seek, they mimic the shape and color of pebbles, but they deceive the animal's eyes and avoid being eaten.

In this way, the stone plant survived safely.