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亚洲大象的粪堆可能是最臭的家,却是一些青蛙最喜欢的住所。研究人员首次发现,亚洲大象的粪便里竟然生活着三种青蛙。大象粪便简直就是一个良好的生态系统,大象就是优秀的生态系统工程师,它通过自己的活动改造了周围的环境,控制其他生物可利用的资源,对维持生态系统的稳定起着举足轻重的作用。大象对环境有很大的影响作用,首次被发现,是因为人们观察到,非洲象在觅食时,常常拉断树木,使树干出现裂缝,从而给树蜥蜴提供了栖息地,而改变了周围的生态环境。科学家随即对亚洲象进行观察,他们检查了大象粪便,居然在5堆象粪中发现了6只青蛙。其实科学
The dung heap of Asian elephants may be the most stinky home, but it is the favorite residence of some frogs. For the first time, researchers found that three kinds of frogs lived in the excrement of Asian elephants. Elephant excrement is simply a good ecosystem. Elephants are excellent ecosystem engineers. They transform the surrounding environment through their own activities and control other bio-available resources, playing an important role in maintaining ecosystem stability . The effect of the elephant on the environment was first discovered because it was observed that African elephants often pull off trees and fissure their trunk when foraging, thus providing habitat for tree lizards and changing The surrounding ecological environment. Scientists immediately observed the Asian elephants. They examined the elephant’s droppings and found six frogs in five heaps of dung. In fact, science