Chapter 443: An Uninvited Guest
When it comes to Yellowstone National Park, it and its vicinity are home to some of the best wildlife habitats for megafauna in the native 48 states of the United States.
Yellowstone is home to nearly 70 mammal species, including gray wolves, lynxes, and grizzly bears, as well as other large mammals such as American bison, black bears, elk, moose, mule deer, white-tailed deer, goats, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and mountain lions.
The Yellowstone bison herd is the largest public American bison herd in the United States, and the Yellowstone bison herd is considered one of only four free-roaming and genetically purebred herds in North America, so Dongshanhe can see the bison three times in just one week.
In Yellowstone National Park, a hundred years ago in an effort to protect the elk population, the U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the purpose of "eliminating wolves, prairie dogs, rats, and other animals that are harmful to agriculture and animal breeding" on public lands, and the park service's hunters carried out these orders, and the North American wolf population has effectively disappeared from Yellowstone.
It wasn't until the nineties of the twentieth century that the federal government completely changed its perception of wolves, and the American Fish and Wildlife Service made a controversial decision that Canadian timberwolves imported from Canada were reintroduced to Yellowstone.
A 2005 survey conducted by the American Fish and Wildlife Service reported a total of 13 wolves in Yellowstone, totaling 118 wolves, compared to 326 in the entire Yellowstone area.
There are about 600 grizzly bears in the Yellowstone area, more than half of which inhabit Yellowstone, which is listed as a species at risk of extinction, but the American Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it intends to remove the grizzly bear from the list of endangered species in the Yellowstone area.
Elk are the largest large mammal in Yellowstone, numbering more than 30,000 individuals.
Eighty-five percent of Yellowstone's total area is covered with forests, and the vast majority of the trees are American black pine, a species of extremely vigorous tree that grows in Yellowstone, and the biggest disaster is forest fires. The diameter of each tree is about two meters, the height of the tree is thirty or forty meters, and the average age of the tree is two hundred years.
Gentian pine is another widely distributed tree species, which is highly adaptable and fast-growing, growing in a wide variety of climates and soil conditions, even on the most dangerous slopes where wildfires are frequent.
Spruce and subalpine fir are two types of trees that are widely distributed in the western part of the United States, climbing every mountain. However, both trees have a common weakness, they are very afraid of wildfires.
There are more than 1,700 species of trees and other vascular plants native to the park, and about 170 other species are considered exotic, including 8 species of pines and cypresses, 80% of all forest area is black pine forest, and other coniferous forests such as alpine fir, Ingman spruce, Rocky Mountain Douglas fir, and whitebark pine are found scattered throughout the park.
The two antelopes carried by Dong Shanhe are the pronghorn antelope that grows in Yellowstone National Park, and there are many of them in the park, so Dong Shanhe easily hunted two near the outermost part of the park.
The pronghorn has a branch that extends forward in the middle of the horn, so it is called a pronghorn. The body size is medium, the body length is one meter to one and a half meters, the tail length is about ten centimeters, the shoulder height is about one meter, the adult weight is fifty or sixty kilograms, the female is smaller than the male, Dong Shanhe easily carried the two ends out of the mountain.
The pronghorn is reddish-brown on the back, with a black mane on the neck, white on the belly and rumps, and black patches on the cheeks, face and sides of the neck.
"Hello melon eaters, I see it's getting late, you better go to sleep, it will take a while for me to complete the barbecue work, and you won't be able to eat it if I do it, and your gluttony will be seduced out by me in the middle of the night." Dong Shanhe threw the pronghorn antelope to the ground and said to the camera.
Hearing Dong Shanhe's words, the barrage in the video said, "Not sleepy, not sleepy." "Not hungry, not hungry. "I have snacks. "I just want to see the author's great craftsmanship. And so on.
Seeing this situation, Dong Shanhe was embarrassed to let these people leave, so he could only let them go.
Dong Shanhe couldn't eat the two pronghorned antelopes, but he couldn't put them into the space in full view of everyone, so Dong Shanhe had no choice but to say hello to everyone and throw the pronghorned antelope into the carriage of the raptor.
"I can't finish eating two, so I'm going to take one back to my daughter-in-law to taste, and one is very monotonous, so I'm going to go again, and we'll hunt whatever we encounter this time. Dong Shanhe said into the phone.
It was not so much a discussion, but rather that Dong Shanhe informed them, and these people who watched the video were also very excited, and they also wanted to see what Dong Shanhe could hunt this time.
Summer is very, the green vegetation in the mountains and forests is thick, and there are a lot of various animals, especially now it is more than five o'clock in the afternoon and almost six o'clock, and it is also the time for many animals to drink water, so Dong Shanhe quickly hunted four snow rabbits, in fact, Dong Shanhe also saw the white-tailed deer all the time, but Dong Shanhe felt that even if he hunted it, he couldn't eat it all, just think about it, instead of exposing his ferocity in front of these people, it is better to build his own image.
Forget about rabbits, after all, there are too many such things as hares, so no one said that Dong Shanhe hunted four of them.
The body of the snow hare is slightly larger than the grass hare. The body length is about half a meter, the tail length is five or six centimeters, and the weight is four or five kilograms, and the large ones can grow to about seven kilograms. The ears are shorter than those of rabbits, because in cold areas not only do you not need large ears full of capillaries to dissipate heat, but you also need to keep your ears tightly on your back to conserve heat. Its eyes are large and placed on either side of the head, giving it a wide range of vision, which can be seen forward, backward, sideways, and up at the same time. But the only deficiency is that the distance between the eyes is too large, you have to move your face left and right to see the object clearly, when running fast, you often don't have time to turn your face, so you often hit the wall, hit the tree, "wait for the rabbit" fable is probably based on this. Its tail is short, broad, and slightly rounded.
The color of the coat varies greatly from winter to summer. Winter hair is long and dense, with the longest hair on the side and abdomen, and the whole body is snow-white, thick and soft, and the hair on the side of the body is up to 5 cm, only the tips of the ears and eye circles are black-brown. The summer hair is light chestnut brown with black hairs, the top of the head and the back of the ears are mixed with a large number of short black-brown hairs, the tips of the ears are black-brown, the larynx, chest and the outside of the front and rear limbs are light yellow-brown, the chin, abdomen and the inner sides of the limbs are pure white, the bristles of the forelimbs and soles are light chestnut, and the back of the tail has brown markings.
Therefore, the snow rabbit fluff in winter is a very good textile raw material, but Dong Shanhe has no interest in it, after all, there are only four, and the rabbit skin is not intended to be retained, after all, it is the fluff of summer, which is not as good as the winter.
After doing all this, Dong Shanhe began the work of opening the intestine and breaking the stomach, Dong Shanhe, who had studied with Uncle Zhang for a period of time, coupled with the continuous practice in the space, the proficiency of opening the intestine and breaking the belly and peeling the skin and cramping was very high, and a pronghorn antelope and four snow rabbits Dong Shanhe didn't even use it for twenty minutes to get it all.
After doing all this, Dong Shanhe put the five peeled ingredients into the lake and washed them with water.
After cleaning, put it in a large plastic basin, pour in various ingredients to marinate, and wait for the flavor.
After finishing all this, Dong Shanhe began to light a bonfire, after all, barbecue requires charcoal.
The wood used for the barbecue is a branch of the North American black pine, and with the oiliness of the resin, it was quickly ignited.
A blazing bonfire is lit at the water's edge, and the red flames rise to the sky, causing all kinds of animals on the other side of the lake to panic and dare not come to the lake to drink.
Then Dong Shanhe heard the cries of various animals in the mountains and forests on the other side of the lake, but what does this have to do with Dong Shanhe.
After Dong Shanhe looked at the bonfire, he began to move the huge barbecue grill over, and the stainless steel barbecue grill was brought by Dong Shanhe from China, after all, he had space, not to mention storing these living utensils, even if Dong Shanhe was selling drugs, no one could find out.
After the barbecue grill was installed, Dong Shanhe skewered the pronghorn antelope, and the relaxed Dong Shanhe ** pronghorn was put on the barbecue grill, and the pickled pronghorn was smoked by the fire, and it suddenly became oily.
Then Dong Shanhe plugged the four snow rabbits with a small barbecue fork and put them on the fixed frame on the ground.
The process of barbecue is boring and interesting, and everyone in the video is also very interested in watching Dong Shanhe barbecue, after all, this is the first time to see a video of barbecue whole antelope.
Barbecue whole antelope, this grade is much higher than the roast whole sheep I saw outside the fake yurt.
Most of the goats that roast whole sheep are raised in captivity, which is comparable to this wild animal in the mountains and forests.
Even if you guess with your toes, you can tell that the taste of captive-bred goat meat is not as good as that of wild pronghorn.
Dong Shanhe looked down at the time, "It's really not early, are you really not sleeping?" Dong Shanhe asked the onlookers in the video.
Then the barrage full of videos flashed to "Not sleepy, not sleepy." "Not hungry, not hungry. "I have instant noodles and ham sausages. ”
Constantly oiling and applying sauce to the pronghorn and the four snow hare was very uncomfortable, because it was very hot by the fire and it was still summer.
Even if Dong Shanhe's body has been catalyzed, he is not a superman after all, and he can't completely feel the heat and cold.
Even Dong Shanhe felt a trace of heat, not to mention the foodies who watched the live broadcast behind their mobile phones.
"Okay, it should be almost, I'll taste it for you first?" After nearly an hour, Dong Shanhe observed that the pronghorned antelope was almost there, and as for the four snow rabbits, they had already been roasted, but they didn't eat it.
"The author is big, is it delicious, can you give me a courier if it's delicious?" "I want to eat it too, it's really fatal to release poison in the middle of the night." "Didn't you just say that there are instant noodles, what's wrong with it now?"
It's good to say that he took a dagger and cut off a piece of meat, pinched this thin slice of meat, and stuffed Dong Shanhe directly into his mouth.
"It's fragrant, it's so delicious!" Dong Shanhe spit out four or five interjections in a row.
"It's the first time I've eaten such a delicious barbecue, and it's really delicious. Dong Shanhe didn't stop the movements in his hand as he spoke, and continued to cut meat with a dagger.
Filling a plate to the brim, Dong Shanhe sat on a chair by the campfire and began to taste the fruits of his labor.
"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing I haven't done, and I'm going to do it now. Dong Shanhe suddenly remembered that he still had one thing to do, so he directly put the plate on the table, stood up and walked towards the bonfire.
"In the United States, there are very, very many forest fires, and every time I encounter a forest fire, I will suffer very big losses, so I must strangle the source of this disaster, if there is a fire and find out that it is my cause, I estimate that I will spend a hundred years in prison. Dong Shanhe is not alarmist, and there is a precedent for this in the United States.
However, because there are no lights in the wild, if the bonfire is completely extinguished, it will become pitch black, so Dong Shanhe just used a bucket of water to pour around the bonfire, and even so, it also made the bonfire a lot smaller.
After doing all this, Dong Shanhe returned to the table and began to eat, and the four snow rabbits were also quietly placed on the stainless steel plate by Dong Shanhe.
"A family, you have to be neat. Dong Shanhe also deliberately gave the four snow rabbits a close-up.
Immediately attracted all kinds of ridicule from the barrage, "People eat meat so interestingly, I can only play games." ”
Dong Shanhe's amount of food is still very large, especially after working for such a period of time in the afternoon, this kind of workload has long exceeded Dong Shanhe's usual.
Watching Dong Shanhe eat meat plate after plate, there were still thousands of foodies left who were dumbfounded.
"Six-six-six, the author is very hanging, one person actually ate three plates of barbecue, could it be that he hasn't eaten for three days?"
"I think so, the author is definitely a famous rice bucket, otherwise it would be impossible to eat so much?"
Every plate of barbecue, Dong Shanhe is full, a fifty-kilogram pronghorned antelope, after the intestines are opened, at least there are more than 20 catties, after the exam, how to say that there must be 20 catties, Dong Shanhe has eaten nearly half of it in half an hour, this is ten catties of barbecue.
I used to think that the pig's feet in it were ten catties of sauce beef when I went to the restaurant, but now I finally see that I can live.
Just as Dong Shanhe was drinking his drink, a beast roar suddenly came from the opposite side of the lake, and the huge beast roar resounded throughout the lake, and even everyone in the mobile phone could hear it clearly.
"I'm rubbing, there's a situation!"