527. Maybe it's a miracle (Happy New Year, everyone)
Kurutan said with admiration: "I look at the petroglyphs handed down from before, your tribe didn't take the war rhino with you when you left, but I didn't expect you to re-breed a stronger war rhino species." ”
Gu Cha sighed: "Yes, it's also luck, our ancestors went all the way north after breaking away from the ancient tribe, and then found this kind of big rhinoceros with longer horns, and took great pains to bring them back here from the far north......"
"North?" Yang Shubao subconsciously asked, "Where?"
Gu Cha shook his head: "We don't know exactly where, but they were brought by our ancestors from the northern region, and they are not the varieties of our grassland." Of course, if you look at it roughly, they are similar to the big rhinos on the grasslands, but they can grow taller and stronger. ”
"They're able to grow taller and stronger because of your bred animals, and it's not hard to understand that animals in captivity tend to grow bigger than in the wild," Yang said. ”
Gu Cha smiled: "But they are indeed different, if you see the bones left behind by their deaths, you will know, their skulls and dentition are different from the rhinoceros on the grassland, this is the unique war rhino given to us by the god of ten thousand beasts!"
As he introduced, some information slowly came to Yang's mind: these rhinos came from the northern region, and the skulls and teeth of these rhinos were different from the white rhinos that can be seen on the South African grasslands......
The rhinoceros on the grasslands of South Africa is the southern white rhinoceros, the largest living rhino species in the world, and the southern white rhinoceros is also found in his reserve.
And these rhinos know that they must also be white rhinos, and black rhinos are much smaller, at most about the size of their butts.
So, what kind of rhinoceros is this?
The only answer Yang Shubao could think of was: the northern white rhinoceros!
There are two types of rhinos, white rhinos and black rhinos.
In terms of overall numbers, there are more white rhinos than black rhinos.
There are two types of white rhinos, the northern white rhinoceros and the southern white rhinoceros, and the largest number is the northern white rhinoceros.
Now there are more than 20,000 white rhinos in the world, and the number of white rhinos in the north is more than 20,000, and the total number of white rhinos in the south is more than 20,000, just like Ma Yun and I have combined assets of more than 40 billion US dollars, and Ma Yun himself has more than 40 billion US dollars......
The northern white rhinoceros is scarce, scarce to the point of extinction.
In March 2018, the breed was nearly extinct when the last known northern white rhino Sultan died.
The reason why it is said to be near extinction rather than declared extinction is that people still have the luxury of hoping to find the northern white rhinoceros in the wilderness of northern Africa, although it is difficult.
The news didn't cause much of a stir around the world, because the northern white rhinos had nothing to do with human life, not even ornamental relations: if you want to see this behemoth, there are still 20,000 southern white rhinos in South Africa.
For ordinary people, the southern white rhinoceros and the northern white rhinoceros are very similar in appearance, and they are both the same view.
Of course, Yang Shubao knew the news, so he would be shocked: Is the white rhinoceros in front of him the legendary northern white rhinoceros about to become extinct?
It makes sense that the Timit had traveled to central and northern Africa thousands of years ago, and from there they brought back herds of northern white rhinos, and after thousands of years they lived silently in the grasslands, and finally in modern times they finally hid deep in the woods, hiding until now, and not even in the official view.
And the northern white rhinoceros they raised naturally did not enter the official field of vision, and naturally no one found out.
However, there are poachers who know that they raise rhinos and want to hunt rhinos and grab rhino horns, but they only find the tribe's territory, and then they encounter strong resistance and even pursuit, they do not see these rhinos, let alone hunt them successfully.
Naturally, the information about this batch of white rhinos was not revealed.
Yang Shubao took a deep breath, he squatted down and looked at the mouth of this big rhinoceros, the square mouth was very wide, and it looked really different from the white rhinoceros on his territory when he looked closely.
He had a vague realization that he might have been lucky enough to find a species in the woods that had just been declared extinct.
Neither Kurutantan nor the accompanying Gu Cha were aware of this, and the two of them chatted about the life and traditions of the ancient San people.
Time flows back for thousands of years, and the Sang people represented by Kurutantan and the Sang people represented by Ancient Tea are actually brothers who are on the wall, and once they meet, they will definitely start a life-and-death fight.
But thousands of years have passed, and that grievance has long been a joke, and it has even become an interesting conversation in the mouths of the two.
Yang Shubao released a little fountain of life to the big rhinoceros, and he continued to walk forward to check on the tribe of the war rhinos.
There are quite a few rhinos in this tribe, there are fifty or sixty female rhinos and baby rhinos playing around the river, and if they really belong to the northern white rhinoceros, then this species that is about to be declared extinct can escape from the extinction list and enter the list of endangered species.
White rhinos are much more docile than black rhinos, although they are much larger.
These rhinos have been domesticated and are more appropriate to people, and after seeing Yang Shubao, two small rhinos ran over to look at him from a close distance.
Yang Shubao fed them the fountain of life one by one, and if this was the northern white rhinoceros, then they would have to breed well.
The whole species depends on them.
They continued to visit, but Yang Shubao lost the heart to visit.
Taking advantage of the fact that Gu Cha was busy with one thing, he said to Kurutantan, "The Timit people are very concerned about the war rhinos, right?"
"Of course, that's what they believe," Kurutantan said. ”
Yang Shubao sighed and said, "I want to take away some of my faith, is there a way?"
Kurutantan was shocked: "You're going to take some of the rhinos with you? why, there are more rhinos in your tribe than here!"
Yang Shubao couldn't explain much, he said: "These rhinos may not be the same breed as the rhinos in my tribe, I have to take them out to show some insiders." ”
"You don't think it's a northern white rhino, do you?" Kurutan reacted immediately.
He had attended a prestigious university and reacted quickly, plus he knew the classification and survival of white rhinos, although Yang Shubao's explanation was vague, he still deduced the reason.
Mingren doesn't do dark things, Yang Shubao nodded.
Kurutan was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously said, "Can't it? This could be the northern white rhinoceros?" I think, I think, okay, it's really possible. ”
Yang Shubao said: "You just said that they will repay me?"
Kurutantan smiled bitterly: "They will definitely repay you and pay you, but if you want their war rhino, then I think it will be difficult, it will be difficult." ”
Yang Shubao clenched his fists and puffed himself up and said, "It's man-made, we have to try." ”