This year is the Year of the Ox, so there is more and more talk about cattle. Two days ago, when I went online, I saw someone say that "there is the hardest bone on the scalper", the hardest bone can withstand 1500 --- 2000 kilograms of pull, known as the hardest bone in the animal.
So, does the scalper have the hardest bone on his body? If so, where does the bone grow? Let's talk about this topic.
Scalper is an ordinary cattle breed inherent in China. Because the coat on the scalper is mainly yellow, it is called a scalper.
There are many excellent cattle breeds in China, and the more famous cattle breeds mainly include Qinchuan cattle, Xixiang cattle, Nanyang cattle, Luxi cattle, Jinnan cattle, Yanbian cattle and so on. However, no matter which kind of cattle, its body length is about 1.5 to 2.5 meters, its weight is about 200 to 350 kg, all have the characteristics of tall, muscular, adaptable and good breeding performance. Since ancient times, it has been raised as an important domestic animal for peasant servants.
Cattle, like horses, donkeys, and mules, are domestic animals that can be enslaved. However, in the method of serving envoys, there is a difference between cattle and horses, donkeys, and mules. When people are serving horses, donkeys, and mules, they will use a wooden splint to clamp on the part of the front blade to give power or pull to the front blade; while when people are serving to make cattle, they use a curved wooden stick (commonly known as a rope head) to put it on the shoulder blade of the cattle to provide power or tension to the shoulder blade. In general, scalpers are capable of pulling objects --- 2000 kilograms. It can be seen that the scalper does have the hardest bone on the body, and this hardest bone grows at the junction of the neck and the body, that is, the shoulder blade.
How hard are the shoulder blades of cattle?
We are familiar with tortoiseshells. In ancient times, people would engrave words on turtle shells for memorization, so in our impression, many words were carved on turtle shells.
In fact, important ancient memories are not engraved on the tortoiseshell, but on the shoulder blades of the cattle. It is said that the oracle bones that are now relatively well preserved are "Eastern Yue Analysis, Feng Yue Jie; Southern Yue Jia, Feng Yue Wei; Western Yue Yi, Feng Yue Yi; □□□□, Feng Yue Yu." This line is engraved on the shoulder blade of the scalper. And it is precisely because this line of writing is engraved on the shoulder blade of the scalper that this line of writing can be better preserved, and the text engraved on the turtle shell or other animal bones (such as deer bones, tiger bones, skeletons, etc.) is now somewhat blurred. This shows how hard the shoulder blades of cattle are.
It is said that a square centimeter of tortoiseshell can withstand a weight of 350 kilograms; a square centimeter of tiger bone can support a weight of 330 kilograms; a square centimeter of deer bone can withstand a weight of 310 kilograms; a square centimeter of skeleton can withstand a weight of 300 kilograms; a square centimeter of horse bone can withstand a weight of 280 kilograms, and a square centimeter of cattle shoulder blade can withstand a weight of 460 kilograms. This shows how hard the shoulder blades of scalpers really are.
Of course, the shoulder blades of buffalo are also very hard, and in general, a square centimeter of buffalo shoulder blades can withstand a weight of 420 kg. However, the hardness of the buffalo scapula is slightly inferior to that of the scapula of the cattle. Therefore, the shoulder blade of the cattle should be called the hardest bone of all animals.