The two balls, one after the other, were about the size of tennis balls, and their bodies were covered in dark yellow phosphorus, as if they had been put together from a piece of armor.

When the ball rolled down, it hit a stone, and it suddenly stretched out and became a majestic little animal, and turned over as if it was drilling under the stone, and after two drills it did not get in, it lay down again and bit its tail with its mouth and turned into a phosphorus ball.

South African armadillo lizard!

Yang Shubao didn't realize that he would touch such a small thing at all, and Simba saw that the ball was fun and wanted to go up and slap it.

Seeing this, Lao Yang was frightened, and hurriedly grabbed its tail and pulled it back: "Don't touch it, don't touch them, if you dare to break the two of them for me, I will make you into lion meat ham!"

He excitedly called John, who hurried over and asked, "Is something wrong?"

"Look at this. Yang Shubao pointed to the two small animals that were still lying on the ground with balls.

John was also excited: "Dragons!

These two South African armadillo lizards do resemble dragons, they are lizards, their body shape is quite similar to dragons, and their appearance is very fierce and more like dragons, a domineering scale armor that grows from head to tail, and the armor is dense and hard, like the armor of Pippi shrimp.

Yang Shubao said: "This is not a dragon, this is an armadillo lizard, they are a kind of lizard, a particularly precious lizard, it is a first-class protected animal in South Africa, it is very popular in the international black market, you have to pay special attention to them, protect them, don't let them get hurt." ”

John said disappointedly, "Aren't they dragons? But judging by their domineering appearance, they should have the ability to protect themselves, right?"

Yang Shubao pointed to the two balls and said: "This is their self-preservation ability, don't look at them domineering, in fact, they are very timid and shy, once there is a wind and grass, they immediately drill into the cracks of the stones, there is no crack in the stones to hide, they use their mouths and tails to become a ball to defend." ”

The South African armadillo lizard is extremely tough, but their belly is very soft, and these little things also know how to protect the cover door, and what is made up of a ball in advance to protect the belly, which is very similar to the armadillo, so it got such a name, armadillo lizard.

These two South African armadillo lizards are considered to be adults, and they are estimated to have a length of more than ten centimeters from head to tail, and they will not grow very large, at most twenty centimeters, and they belong to small reptiles with many natural enemies.

John grabbed an armadillo lizard with one hand, and the two little things immediately spread out and rolled over and climbed up, raising their triangular heads and staring at John in a daze.

Yang Shubao looked around and said: "Look for anything else, this thing likes to live in groups, they are timid, at least they have to gather a dozen or so to be together to have a sense of security, since there are two big armadillo lizards here, there should be small ones around." ”

John put the two of them on the ground, and the two armadillos crawled to the termite nest to get the termites to eat.

Termites are their main food, and they also eat grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, cockroaches, etc., and these two armadillo lizards are obviously attracted to termites.

Yang Shubao applied the Ganlin technique to the Heim ant nest umbrella every once in a while, and the termites followed the light, so they reproduced quickly and grew quickly, and they more or less contained a little fountain of life in their bodies, which was very tempting for armadillo lizards.

John put them on the ground and wanted them to find their kindred, but the lizard's brain capacity was too small, and they were not very smart after domestication, so they didn't understand what John meant, and ran off to eat and drink again.

Yang Shubao wanted to go up and feed them a little fountain of life, but the two little lizards were frightened when they saw him approaching, and turned into two armored balls again and rolled down.

Simba stomped his feet urgently: What a cute ball, I want to play ballball.

Lao Yang slapped it in the head: "What kind of cuteness do you sell as a lion king?"

The armadillo lizard's nest was outside the reserve, in a sandstone field on the grassland, where they lived, and John followed him back, and came back with several small lizards lying on his stomach.

The animal was worth a lot, and John was now a walking little vault.

He brought back a total of nine armadillo lizards, seven of which were adults, and two of which were small, geckos-like, with a female lizard carrying them both.

Yang Shubao decided to get some stones to build a nest for the armadillo lizards, they like to live in the cracks of the stones, which is also the best way to protect them, so he conceived a simple rockery.

Armadillo lizards are small, and a small rockery one or two meters high can feed a large population.

He brought a small plate with him, and as he approached, the armadillos bit their tails with their mouths, and seven balls and two balls appeared out of thin air on the ground.

Yang Shubao couldn't cry or laugh: "Give you something delicious." ”

There was a shallow layer of water in the small plate, and he added five drops of the Fountain of Life to it.

As the fountain of life fell onto the plate, the armadillos immediately turned from balls to geckos, scrambling to lick the water.

The two little armadillos couldn't squeeze in, and they stumbled outside.

There are few stones on the grassland, so Yang Shubao first found some and put them in the ant nest umbrella area to build up, and when the armadillos are not preying on termites, they will run here to stay in the shade.

He continued to patrol the reserve, and when he made no new discoveries, he found that the newly transplanted egret flowers did not grow very well.

This made him wonder if egrets still like to grow in pots?

He didn't know much about this plant, but only had a cursory introduction, so he went back to the flora to take a closer look, and found that he had made a mistake, the African egret flower is a rare parasitic species in the vegetation, they have no chlorophyll and cannot absorb energy from the sun, so they have to parasitize some plants to absorb the host's water, sugars and minerals.

According to the flora, egret flowers prefer to parasitize the roots of Euphorbia plants, which often have tubers, so that under the soil, egret flowers release an enzyme that dissolves the host's rhizome tissue and attaches to it.

The solution to this problem was simple, he transplanted the egret flower into the vegetable garden and planted it next to the potato seedlings, which have very developed tubers, and the egret flower would parasitize them at that time.

Moreover, egret flowers can also attract and kill flies and insects, so that they can play a certain insecticidal role.

There are a lot of insects in the vegetable garden, but Yang Shubao is not worried about their flooding, the hornet colony will come to the vegetable garden every day to wander around, they will hunt insects for food, there is no way for them to survive in the insects.

After planting the egret flowers, he wandered around the vegetable garden again, and the tomatoes were ripe, the eggplants were growing, and the cucumbers were crawling all over the ground.

So he took off his clothes and tied them up as a bag, picked all the ripe tomatoes and cucumbers, pinched two more eggplants, and went back to get some meat to make eggplant boxes to eat.

Cucumbers grow too fast, and they may grow too much before they are picked for a day or two.

Yang Shubao opened the vegetable leaves and found a large cucumber thicker than his arm, this cucumber was really yellow, and he couldn't eat it at all, so he could only wait for it to be used as a cucumber seed in the future.