666 Misconceptions about cougars
The cougar cautiously leaned towards Liu Wei, Liu Wei squatted in place without any abnormal movements, it circled around the left side of Liu Wei's body, and looked down to smell the smell of Liu Wei's body.
turned to Liu Wei, opened his mouth and shouted at Liu Wei's face, "Wow~"
Liu Wei reached out and fanned him in disgust, "It stinks!
The cougar didn't know what Liu Wei meant, and felt that this human being was very strange, neither afraid of it nor chasing it.
It got lost in thought.
At this time, Chubby seemed to understand the master's intentions, and made a momentum of wanting to fight, and barked at the cougar twice, "Wang~"
The cougar tightened, stepped aside, turned his head to face Chubby, and frowned.
Liu Wei stretched out his hand and patted the fat twice, "What's your name?"
Chubby snorted twice and hid behind Liu Wei.
The fit was perfect.
The cougar witnessed the human in front of him educating the barking dog.
It determines that the dog is hostile to itself.
Liu Wei is educating the dog again, the simplest logical reasoning, Liu Wei is caring about it.
When siblings were playing with each other as children, this is how their mother treated them.
The cougar felt the kindness from Liu Wei and moved his neck, and Liu Wei's smile was reflected in his two dark green eyes.
It looked at Liu Wei's face and lost his mind.
Liu Wei reached out and touched its forehead, it suddenly came back to its senses, tilted its head to bite Liu Wei, looked fierce, and showed an instinctive reaction to protect itself.
"Hahaha, you can't bite me, can you?
Liu Wei laughed.
After repeated attempts several times, the cougar also bit several times, and finally stopped attacking Liu Wei's right hand.
It gradually adapts to the temperature of the human palm.
It can feel the comfort of the palm of its hand as it caresses its back!
"Brothers, I succeeded!
Liu Wei smiled.
The cougar stood in place, his eyes looking at the river flowing below the meadow, and fell into thought, as if remembering something.
Liu Wei stretched out his left hand and touched its chest, and it glanced back at Liu Wei.
"This look is so handsome!"
"I really want to raise one!"
"Big cat, come and hug your sister, and your sister will give you a bath at night!"
"President Gao Leng!"
The shovel officials in the live broadcast room couldn't hold back their excitement, frantically picking out the barrage and giving gifts.
Liu Wei sat on the ground, and Chubby also squatted obediently on Liu Wei's left.
The cougar and Liu Wei looked at each other for a moment.
"What do you see me doing?", Liu Wei smiled, "I'm the same as you, although I look outstanding, I rely on strength to eat, and it's no longer possible to rely on face in this era where we live!"
"Phew~, it's shameless, the big cat is much better looking than you!"
"Anchor, it is necessary to correct it, you can't eat with your face!"
The audience laughed again.
Liu Wei didn't care, and continued to stroke the cougar, "Its hair is very dense, it feels very good, and its palm seems to have been stroked from cotton!"
It can't be envied by the audience again.
The cougar's eyes were once again staring at the flowing river, and he squatted beside Liu Wei, his face expressionless and a cold posture.
Liu Wei reached out and went around its back, tucked it under his armpit, and rubbed his face against its hair.
The cougar glanced at Liu Wei.
"Anchor, let go of that cat and let me come!"
"Woo woo woo~, give me a touch!
"If I had a cougar, I wouldn't have a boyfriend sooner!"
"Tut-tut, woman's mouth, deceitful ghost, I still don't believe that you reproduce with the beast!"
"Why the hell are you driving again, brothers, the recent investigation has been strict, a little more low-key!"
Liu Wei looked at the barrage and smiled, let go of the hand holding the cougar, and faced the live broadcast room, "Brothers, there are several misunderstandings about the cougar, and we must give you a science popularization."
Don't make such low-level mistakes when you brag and pretend to be bullshit. ”
"First of all, we all know that the cougar belongs to the feline family, and we usually habitually divide the cat into two categories, one is the big cat and the other is the kitten, so does the cougar belong to the big cat or the small cat?" Liu Wei led to the discussion.
"Big cat, of course!"
"Big is a big cat? laugh to death, the young lady is really educated!"
"Isn't it?"
"Laugh and cry, I'm also looking at it!"
"If you look at it in terms of size, the cougar is the second largest cat in North America after the jaguar, and the fourth largest cat in the world, which is larger than several felines and leopards we have seen.
However, in some domestic animal magazines, the cougar is classified as a kitten.
In the narrow sense of the big cat family, the cougar is not included, it refers to the cat family leopard genus, that is, we often mention the five species of lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, and snow leopards.
And the leopard genus is a very large species, divided into multiple subspecies, each with its own name, so many people will call it a big cat.
But this is not a concept of professional classification.
Let me take a look at the big cat in the broad sense, which refers to the big cats, which is also the point that I often tell you.
In various zoological literatures, experts have classified the puma as a species of big cats.
The academic community classifies cats according to their size, so the young lady's opinion in the live broadcast room just now is correct. ”
"See, Ah Wei said that I was right!"
"Although it makes sense, you don't have any knowledge at all!"
"You're just prejudiced against us girls!╯^╰!"
Liu Wei smiled: "According to the classification of the industry, there are seven species of big cats over 40kg, five species of leopards I mentioned just now, as well as cougars and cheetahs.
There are twelve species of medium-sized cats ranging from 10 kg to 40 kg, including two species of clouded leopards, four species of lynx, etc.
There are more than 20 species of small cats under 10kg, so I won't list them in detail.
The average weight of the cougar is over 40kg, and of course it's a big cat!"
"Thanks to Awekop, I have a holistic understanding of felines!"
"If you increase your knowledge, you can still learn knowledge, Meizizi!"
Liu Wei continued: "The second misunderstanding, is the cougar a lion a lion?
I can answer you for sure, it has nothing to do with lions, I have just told you, lions are leopard felines, there are only two subspecies of lions in the world, one is the African lion, the other is the Asiatic lion, when I was in India, I took you to see the Asiatic lion, if you still remember my popular science of the Asiatic lion, it is very good to distinguish the difference between it and the cougar.
So where did the name cougar come about?
Before the Western colonizers entered the Americas, the Indians called this animal by two names, one Inca called it puma, which is the name of today's famous sports brand Puma, and the icon of Puma is the cougar sitting in front of me!"
"That's it!"
"Finally see Puma himself!"
"I'm so excited!"
Liu Wei stretched out his hand and lifted the cougar up, "Look at it this way, it's like, right?"
"It's too similar!"
"It's the same!"
"I'll buy Puma in the future!"
"It's time for Puma to come out and pay for advertising!"
Liu Wei said with a smile: "Another name is the Tupi people's name for the cougar, called sassúarána, and later after several mistakes and abbreviations, it became cougar, neither of these words means lion, and the local indigenous people have never seen a lion, so they don't know what a lion is?"
Cougars are known as lions and spread around the world, after the white conquest of the Americas, in the early 16th century, when Columbus set foot on the American continent, the white people began to call this animal lions, because their fur is yellow-brown, and the color is very similar to that of lions.
In 1609, Garcilaso de la Vega, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca princess, wrote that the lion was not as big as the African lion and less ferocious than the African lion, and the locals called them puma.
That's why puma was called a cougar after that, and it's been until now!"
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