Xiao Peng simply wanted to buy the golden eagle in the hands of the falconer here, but Yang Meng stopped him.

The falconer here is not a formal domesticated one, and he does not wear arm guards on his hands: he rounds the talons so that the golden eagle is not afraid of hurting his own arm when he stands on his arm.

Moreover, this golden eagle has its tail feathers and wings sheared, and it does not even have a 'foot trip'.

What are these 'stumbling blocks' for? Actually, they are two ropes tied to the talons of the eagle.

The little golden eagle is afraid that it will run away during training and will tie its legs with a rope, and after training, the golden eagle will not use a rope to bind it, but there are still two ropes on the feet, so that the golden eagle thinks that it is still tied, and it will not run away.

It's like those who travel to Siam and see a lot of elephant trainers, who put the elephant on a very thin stake with a very thin chain, and the elephant will not run away.

In fact, the chain and the stake could not restrain the elephant at all, but the elephant was tied there when he was a child and could not escape, so he had the idea of 'unable to escape' in his mind, and the golden eagle's 'foot' and the small iron chain that tied the elephant had the same effect.

Xiao Peng sighed: "I think of the 'grass harrier' we played when we were children." ”

Yang Meng and they are all children who grew up in the mountains, and they also grew up playing eagles. The 'grass harrier' they are talking about is not a harrier, but a sparrowhawk.

Many people say 'Harrier Eagle' and 'Harrier Eagle', thinking that Harrier and Eagle are the same thing, but in fact, there is still a certain gap between the two, including: Eagle, Falcon, Harrier are actually just relatives have a gap, if you count 'Falcon' and 'Eagle' even belong to distant relatives。。。。。。 But how to tell the difference is a matter for biologists, in the Han Kingdom this is the same thing, at most the big one is called 'eagle', and the small one is called 'eagle'. Another name for 'Sparrowhawk' in Zhushanzi is 'Grass Harrier'.

This is something that Yang Meng and they often played with when they were children, and the best one was raised by Xiao Peng. In fact, there is not much entertainment in their small mountain village, so playing sparrowhawk has become a hobby.

Sparrowhawk isn't that big. Counting the tail is at most forty centimeters, but this is really a powerful little guy, it is not a problem to catch a little rabbit, and the bird is held in hand. Later, after Xiao Peng got a motorcycle, their hobby changed from playing eagles to motorcycles.

The bottom line: the sparrowhawks they raised when they were children are dead of old age.

The sparrowhawks raised by their elders are generally raised for three or five years before they are released, and Yang Meng they are reluctant, that is to send these sparrowhawks to the end, the life span of the sparrowhawk is not long, that is, six to eight years, unlike the golden eagle, you can continue to raise a grandson of your own: the life span of the golden eagle can be as high as more than eighty years!

Of course, the Kazakh falconer will not raise the golden eagle to death, the traditional falconer will domesticate a golden eagle for ten or twenty years after climbing to the top of the mountain, slaughter a sheep, feed the golden eagle they have trained for the last time, and then remove the stumbling and release the golden eagle to let them breed offspring.

Seeing that Yang Meng was very interested in the golden eagle, GEE said amazingly: "You like eagles, or I'll get you some falcons to play?"

This sentence really scared Yang Meng.

What is a falcon? The national bird of Outer Mongolia, this behavior is similar to selling giant pandas in the Han Kingdom in Yang Meng's understanding, isn't this Nima looking for death?

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EE looked at Yang Meng's expression and smiled: "Don't worry, I said, as long as there is money here, there is nothing that cannot be bought." In fact, the falcon has always been an export commodity of Outer Mongolia. ”

"WHAT?" Yang Meng was startled when she heard this.

"YOU ALSO KNOW THAT DOMESTICATING FALCONS IS A FASHION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, RIGHT? IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE TO BUY A FALCON THERE, SO THERE ARE A LOT OF MONGOLS WHO HUNT FALCONS FOR MONEY. When the government sees this, we can't control the situation, how can you catch such a large territory and so little? So simply the government itself catches the falcon for export. It used to be exported thousands of falcons every year, but it turned out that this would not work, and the total number of falcons in Mongolia was only six or seven thousand, so in 2012 it was announced that the export of falcons would be banned for five years. Now that the number of falcons is high, it is natural that they are allowed to export again, and although the export volume is limited to about 200 every year, the actual number of falcons that go out is several times that of this! If you have money and don't make money, you are not a fool? It is not difficult to find a relationship to obtain a legal export quota of falcons, but the price is a bit expensive. 20,000 US dollars a piece, if you want to add a little more money, there is a way to disguise the Altai falcon as a Saker to get a legal export quota. ”

Yang Meng was completely stunned after hearing this.

Falcon birds are easy to domesticate, they are good hunting tools after domestication, and they are one of the favorite pets of those Middle Eastern tycoons: I don't laugh at you if you don't have a luxury car in the upper class over there, and I don't laugh at you if you don't have a mansion at home, but there are no good falcons at home?

There is another characteristic over there: first, first, they do not raise 'eagles', only 'falcons', which is the tradition there----- and there is no room for birds of prey like golden eagles to hunt; second, because the captive-bred falcons are slow to fly and have poor flying ability, so the good falcons are wild. This has led to the prevalence of falcon poaching.

Among the 39 species of falcons in the Falcon family, the three most popular among Middle Eastern tycoons are the spear falcon, the Saker falcon and the Altai falcon.

The cheapest of these three falcons in the Middle East is the Saker Falcon.

Because this thing is exported to Outer Mongolia every year, even though he is the 'national bird' of Outer Mongolia, it is the lowest price, and you can generally buy one for 50,000 US dollars.

And the falcon is difficult for them to get, after all, it is the national bird of Iceland, Iceland is not Outer Mongolia even sells the national bird for money, and the gold protected by others is expensive.

However, the falcon is also a traveling bird, which has also been found in the Han Kingdom. So there is the scene at the beginning of the movie "No Man's Land", Huang Bo is holding a photo, and there is a photo of a white-headed falcon in the photo, that is, a spear falcon!

Many people don't understand how so many people died for such a bird in the movie "No Man's Land". In fact, if you do catch a falcon -- and when you get to the Middle East, it's a million-dollar start? Do you think you're going to kill so many people?

Someone else said that what Huang Bo caught was not a falcon that was not worth so much money. Indeed, it was not a falcon that he had caught, but an Altai falcon, the smallest of the three falcons. It's true that it's not as valuable as the Gyrfalcon, and it's a lot smaller than the Saker, but when it comes to the Middle East, it starts at least $200,000! After all, there is no country for large-scale exports! So it's much more precious than the Saker.

It's not that Outer Mongolia didn't want to catch the Altai falcon export, but 。。。。。。 It's so hard!

As the name suggests, the Altai falcon lives in the Altai Mountains, but this Altai Mountains is northwest to southeast trending, Han

China, Kazakhstan, Tsarist Russia, and Outer Mongolia all have the Altai Mountains. The living area of the Altai falcon is mainly located in these places.

But the place where Huang Bo catches falcons in the movie is very interesting, like the Gyrfalcon and the Altay Falcon have become resident birds when they get there, and they are the kind that live locally! This is why Huang Bo can catch falcons there with a photo of the falcon. And in a few other countries? It's a traveling bird, flying everywhere and it's hard to catch.

But the huge profits made many people take risks, after all, the money from catching an Altai falcon and selling it was enough for ordinary families here to earn for ten years! I have to say that Yang Meng was a little moved after hearing this!

GEE looked at Yang Meng thinking and smiled: "Don't answer in a hurry, Yang Meng, let's have a good time first, and then talk about those things after having fun, what do you want to play?"

Yang Meng thought for a while: "Let's still hunt! My friends want to hunt, but they have been thinking about it for a long time." ”

After hearing this, GEE discussed it with Tubsimbayar and said, "Let's go to Segaleng, there are five legal hunting areas in our country, and there is one in the eastern part of Segaleng Province, which is less than 400 kilometers away. Although it is not a good season for hunting, there is still a lot of prey there. ”

Yang Meng smiled: "Okay!"

"But not today! It's too late unless we get on the road all night. "We'll stay here for the night today, how about we leave tomorrow?" asked GEE.

Yang Meng nodded after hearing this: "Very good arrangement!"

After all, this is a scenic spot, the activities arranged by the scenic spot are still very good, it is a song and dance show, a group of beauties wearing national costumes singing and dancing, as well as boxing performances, etc., coupled with local food and wine, Yang Meng and others really feel the ethnic customs of Mongolia.

"What kind of meat is this? It's delicious!" Xiao Peng was very happy to eat with a plate of meat.

Hu Er was stunned but said, "What kind of meat do you care about him? It must be delicious meat." According to my experience, if there is something delicious, you can eat it, if there is something delicious, you can drink it, and if others can eat it, you can drink it, so what do you care?"

"What I mean is that this meat is delicious, prepare more, let's eat it on the way!" Xiao Peng said.

Hu Er nodded stunned: "Well, let Mengmeng help us ask tomorrow!"

The two of them came out this time and felt the shortcomings of the lack of language, they didn't know English or Mongolian, and it was really inconvenient to communicate with people.

However, this does not affect their fun: the two of them are now wearing the robes of the Mongolian prince, and the two 'maids' on the left and the right are waiting.

And Yang Meng and they are also very happy, although everything here is performative, but how to say? This feeling of eating meat and drinking wine is really refreshing!

Because they were ready to go the next morning, Yang Meng and the others didn't play too late, and everyone was on point. Yang Meng got into the yurt early and went to sleep.

As a result, I didn't sleep long, and someone suddenly broke in in the middle of the night.

"YANG MENG, HURRY UP, SOMETHING HAPPENED TO YOUR FRIEND!" GEE SAID WITH AN ANXIOUS EXPRESSION.

Yang Meng rubbed her eyes: "Which friend?"

"That Xiao Peng and Hu Erstunned have an accident!"