304. The role of the bobtail eagle (ask for a ticket)
Lao Yang doesn't like snakes, but snakes are often an important link in the biological chain and an important role in the biosphere.
What's more, the rat plague is rampant in the reserve, and this batch of sand pythons came just in time, they like to catch rats the most, because of their size, they can drill rat holes, and basically the rat holes that they are targeting are wasted.
They eat rats without harming other animals, and that's what makes them good.
Zhang Jinjie also likes snakes very much, he said beautifully: "I haven't eaten a python yet, is this python meat more chewy? Is it thicker? Oh, it's delicious when you think about it, how can you say it in the words of our squad leader's hometown?"
Yang Shubao glanced at him with the eyes of Erha, what do you want with this thing?
They withdrew with two centipedes and a bunch of snakes, and Yang Shubao drove Jill and Zhang Jinjie back to the reserve, and then put the snakes into a high ground location.
Sand pythons love sand, as their name suggests, and they prefer to hide in the sand.
However, if there is no sand in the grassland, they will burrow into dry burrows, so in order for them to live well, they must be given a habitat that will not be disturbed by flooding.
After letting go of the snakes, he continued to look for centipedes, and Jill dug the ground with an iron pickaxe, and finally settled on a forest of acacias, and said, "It looks like there will be centipedes here, come, let's set a trap." ”
The three of them brandished iron picks and shovels and began to work, Lao Yang was confident, and directly dug two five-meter-long cross trenches, he buried chicken blood ice cubes in them, and took some cows into the water to chop them up and throw them in.
African giant centipedes like to eat insects and also like to eat carrion, theoretically Hong Qigong uses a rooster to catch centipedes that set is feasible, but the rooster stinks and is very disgusting, and in order to catch some centipedes but to give up a chicken, this price is a bit big.
Because Lao Yang didn't plan to eat centipedes, he dug this to satisfy Zhang Jinjie's wishes, so he must not pay the price of a chicken for this.
Waiting from the afternoon to the evening, Jill said, "You can dig it up, if there are big centipedes here, then there will be a few now, and that's enough for you to eat, right?"
"It's for him, I don't eat it. Yang Shubao explained.
Jill was incredulous: "You don't eat a giant centipede? It's a high-protein delicacy, and you can rest assured that it's not poisonous, because it has a carapace to protect it from parasites." ”
Yang Shubao smiled dryly: "Well, I know, the main thing is that I believe in religion, and the doctrine says that you can't eat centipedes." ”
Jill was shocked: "There is still such a sect? What kind of sect is this?"
"Make up nonsense. Zhang Jinjie smiled disdainfully.
The soil that had just been buried was very soft, so he simply reached out and dug it up.
Just dug a few times, he withdrew his arm as violently as a fire and gasped: "Hey, there's something down there, I've been bitten!"
There was a big centipede below, and when he shook his hand just now, he had already pulled out the head of the big centipede, but the big centipede bit not deeply, and he shook it off with a shake of his hand.
The African giant centipede is not a good stubble after all, Yang Shubao quickly took his hand and looked at it, a pair of small holes appeared on the back of his hand, and blood flowed out, not much, normal color.
Jill said: "Rinse quickly with alkaline water like soapy water, don't worry, it's fine, this centipede is not poisonous, and they don't have terrible bacteria and viruses in their mouths." ”
Yang Shubao brought him back and first used a scalpel to expand the wound that the centipede had bitten, and the blood immediately flowed out.
He asked Zhang Jinjie to rinse with a nozzle, and he rubbed the soap and put it in hot water to stir vigorously, stirred well, mixed it with cold water, and replaced it with soapy water to continue rinsing.
Zhang Jinjie asked: "Is there iodine or hydrogen peroxide? Give me another disinfection, why am I so unlucky, I have been injured twice in two days, alas, am I not in agreement with South Africa? When is South Africa's National Day? I have to calculate." ”
Jill shook his head: "You can't use iodophor or acidic disinfectant to disinfect, it's best to use soapy water." Believe me, there used to be a man in our tribe who was bitten by a centipede and then disinfected it with iodine, but his hand ended up rotten and had to be amputated. ”
"So serious?" Zhang Jinjie was stunned.
Jill scratched his head and said, "Well, I'll admit it, I'm bragging. ”
Zhang Jinjie: Life is bitter.
"Anyway, don't worry, as long as there are no festering wounds, redness, swelling and fever, it means it's fine," Jill said. ”
Yang Shubao said: "Forget it, don't catch centipedes, it's better to be careful, we are both rookies, how dangerous it is." ”
Zhang Jinjie resolutely said: "Help me up, there is revenge and no gentleman, it has bitten me, I have to bite it back, catch it and roast it, I must bite it hard tonight!"
Lao Yang shook his head again and again, having nothing to say.
The bobtail eagle brought back yesterday is wandering around the tree of life, this reserve has many rats and rabbits, and it has a round belly that eats, and it is already planning to stay here.
Yang Shubao went to drag it down, and then used a big centipede under the tree to teach: "Come, you can step on it for me when you see this...... No, it's not eating it, Nima spit it out for me, step on it, you just step on it!"
The bobtail blinked and quickly learned to hold the centipede with its claws.
So Yang Shubao took it to the woods, and they began to dig the earth, and the bobtail eagle stood by and watched stupidly.
Lao Yang has never paid attention to the underground world, and he doesn't know that there are quite a lot of big centipedes in his territory.
As the soil layer was opened, several large centipedes were frightened and swayed their bodies into the soil.
The big centipedes that came out were very striking, at least twenty centimeters, with black carapaces and yellow-white legs, and Lao Yang's scalp was numb.
The short-tailed eagle does not feel numb, it holds a large centipede with one paw, and steps up with another paw to hold another large centipede.
Seeing this, Jill stared wide-eyed: "Oh my God, what kind of bird are you? Catching a centipede bird? It's incredible!"
Yang Shubao said: "This is a short-tailed eagle, and it is very good at catching centipedes, so I specially brought it over." ”
The big centipede struggled frantically after being pinned, and they turned around to bite the short-tailed eagle.
But the claws of the bobtail eagle have hard and thick skin, it belongs to the snake eagle, and even the snake can't bite through their claws, let alone the centipede?
As the soil layer was completely excavated, one by one large centipedes appeared in front of them, and more than 20 large centipedes were harvested from such a trap, which is amazing!
Jill looked hot: "So you also raise centipedes?"
Yang Shubao said: "I definitely don't raise it, this place is just a lot of centipedes." ”
These centipedes were like small snakes, very plump and fat, and he felt that they were enough to eat, and he wanted to stop when he grabbed them.
Jill shook his head and said that it was not enough to eat, and he went to the other side of the grove and dug another trap.
Yang Shubao said helplessly: "If you dig now, you won't be able to harvest it today." ”
Jill said, "Wait until evening, hurry up and get to work, guys, we have a big meal to enjoy tonight." ”