Chapter 664 Catch the Rabbit
"Xiao, tell me, are you from the Japanese country?" Yingge couldn't help but ask Xiao Peng such a question.
Xiao Peng gave him a blank look: "Yingge, you should know the relationship between our two countries, if you don't want any gaps in our newly established friendship, I suggest you take back this sentence!"
"But!but!" Inge held back for a long time: "The Japanese cartoon I watched with my son has a Doraemon in it, are you sure you are not it?"
Inge was a little dumbfounded, well, I understand you bring a shotgun, I can accept you with wine, and I can endure it if you bring a bath bucket and dog food, but why did you come up with a miniature generator? This thing weighs dozens of pounds, aren't you tired?
Xiao Peng was sitting there with a dagger and sharpening a bamboo tube, still staring at the end, hearing Yingge's question, looking at the generator on the side: "Oh, you said this thing? I've been in Africa for a long time, and there is no electricity everywhere I go, so I made a habit and took him with me in the wild." ”
"Where's the food? you don't bring it?" Inge's eyes widened.
Xiao Peng was happy: "Dude, are you kidding? When you go to the wild, you still need to bring food? There is food everywhere here, isn't it? I saw five or six hares just in this moment! Don't you see a piece of turnip below? Rabbits love to eat that thing." And what's that yellow bula over there? Wild potatoes! Don't tell me you didn't see that. ”
Yingge was speechless, they were all from the military, so they naturally knew how to survive in the wild, but they didn't expect Xiao Peng to do the same.
"What are you doing now?" Inge looked at Xiao Peng's bamboo tube.
"What else can I do, prepare food!" Xiao Peng said, but he didn't stop the activities of his hands, still busy with the bamboo tube.
"With this?" asked Inge, puzzled.
Xiao Peng nodded: "This is a hunting method I learned from the Mandi people who live in the tropical jungle when I was in Sierra Leone, and there is a unique pika that is caught by this method." Okay, done!"
After speaking, he handed the finished tool to Inge, who frowned after reading it: "Can this thing catch rabbits?"
This is a bamboo tube, with several round holes drilled at one end to make a firing device, and if something sticks its head into the bamboo tube, it will trigger the firing device and catch the prey.
"Will this work?" said Inge would be skeptical, could such a rudimentary thing catch a rabbit?
Xiao Peng smiled: "Africans have used this method to catch rabbits for thousands of years, don't underestimate their wisdom, this thing can be described as a thief who does not go empty, there is prey in it, 100% caught." Actually, I still think this method is troublesome, just to show off to you, otherwise I will use a simpler way. ”
"What could be easier?" Inge was puzzled.
Xiao Peng smiled: "As far as you Eagle Country people still claim to be able to hunt, you can be a fart all day long except for shooting with a gun." Come, come with me!"
Inge noticed that Xiao Peng was still holding a few loopers made of wire loops and a few wooden sticks in his hands.
Xiao Peng walked towards the forest with Inge. The two didn't walk for long, but Xiao Peng suddenly asked Inge to stop, and Inge didn't know why.
Xiao Peng pointed to the grass on the ground and said, "Do you see the grass there?"
When Inge looked at it, there was a faintly visible path in the grass: "This is a rabbit stepping on?"
Xiao Peng nodded: "This hare has a quirk, that is, it loves to take the old road, as long as it is not disturbed and frightened, it takes the same road every day to go back and forth to the nest to eat. You see how I do it. ”
Yingge didn't blink his eyes, watching Xiao Peng nail the wooden stick to the ground and turn it into a wooden peg, then tied the steel wire looper he had just made on it, adjusted the height of the steel wire, about four or five centimeters above the ground, and after doing all this, Xiao Peng clapped his hands: "Okay, it's done!"
Inge looked at the wire ring hanging there: "That's it, what's the use?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "When it gets dark, the rabbit comes out to forage, you know that the rabbit has two sides of the eyes, right? They can't see the front at all, if you walk along the rabbit road, you won't notice the wire sleeve at all, and the head will be stuck as soon as you get in, and the rabbit is also stupid, if you are trapped, you only know how to jump forward, you don't know how to go back, and then the more you struggle, the tighter the sleeve is, until you lose consciousness." There are so many rabbits here, how can there be a shortage of food?"
Inge felt that his brain was a little insufficient, but the people of the Eagle Country loved hunting, but they all carried guns and dogs, so they could catch hares so easily?
Xiao Peng looked at Yingge's expression and knew what he was looking like: "Don't take your set of riding pistols and dogs to hunt as the best hunting method." You don't want to think about how people could catch rabbits before there were no guns and gunpowder? You can catch rabbits with a rope loop hanging on a wooden peg! Alas, there are many ways to catch rabbits. ”
"What else can be done?" Inge asked Xiao Peng as he looked at Xiao Peng looking for other rabbit paths to set traps there.
You go for a walk with that big LED flashlight at night, and you see a rabbit shining a light on it, and the rabbit likes to run within the range of the light, and then go up and catch it directly. Xiao Peng set a trap and replied without raising his head.
"Really, it's that simple?" Inge's eyes widened.
Xiao Peng pouted: "You must be from the city, you don't know these simple methods." Being a soldier is also a city soldier. ”
Inger coughed dryly: "Well, I did grow up in London. ”
"There are a lot of rabbits here, so you can catch them at night. Xiao Peng also placed the big bamboo trap that he had done: "It's done!"
Inge followed Xiao Peng back to the camp and asked curiously, "Aren't you also a member of the scientific research team? Why don't you put the camera in place? Everyone is busy looking for traces of the life of the Scottish wildcat, but here you are"
Xiao Peng pouted when he heard this: "Do you think I'm as stupid as them? A high degree really doesn't mean a high IQ! What do you call these stupid things? There are a total of 35 Scottish wildcats in the entire Scottish Highlands, but they want to set up a video camera along this forest river to find the whereabouts of the Scottish wildcats! Please, there are not 200 large and small rivers in the entire Scottish Highlands, but there are 18 rivers in the entire Scottish Highlands. ”
Is it no wonder that the University of Manchester has not granted Professor Clapton research funds to search for Scottish wildcats in such a large Scottish Highland?
"Then they are certainly not idiots, they know that this is not going to work, why should they do this?" Inge was puzzled.
Xiao Peng sighed and said, "This is also something that can't be helped, and there is no better way than that." It is important to know that this Scottish wildcat belongs to the branch of the European wildcat, most of the European wildcat lives in woodlands, the European subspecies mainly inhabits the coniferous forest, and the Caucasian subspecies mainly prefers broad-leaved forest belts. The exception is the Scottish subspecies, which often live in heather-covered wilderness or rocky moorlands. ”
"Wait, since they live in the wilderness, what are we doing in the forest now?" asked Inge.
Xiao Peng replied lightly: "Those who live in the wilderness are extinct." You see us here, not far from the river, there are many hares, this European wildcat is based on the environment to determine the diet, living on the European continent generally eat mice and birds, while the Scottish wildcat mainly preys on rabbits. Now the places where you look for Scottish wildcats are all places where turnips grow near water sources, and there are many rabbits in such places, and the chance of encountering Scottish wildcats is relatively large. The problem is that there are too many places like this in the Scottish Highlands, and I wouldn't do anything like this. Besides, there's no trace of the Scottish wildcat here, so why am I so concerned?"
"How do you know there are no Scottish wildcats here?" asked Inge, puzzled.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "At first glance, you have never had a cat, this cat is the same as a dog, relying on excrement to divide the territory, there is no smell of their life here at all, only domestic cats live here." Where there are Scottish feral cats, there will be no smell of domestic cats dividing their spheres of influence. Oh, and to explain to you, it's not that cats in the wild are called wildcats, the Scottish wildcats are a unique species, and the male can grow up to the size of a husky. ”
"So big?" Inge's eyes widened.
Xiao Peng nodded: "Otherwise, how can you catch rabbits and eat them?"
"Wait, how do you know there's no smell of Scottish wildcats here?" said Inge was now a curious baby.
Xiao Peng was walking back to the camp, Xiao Peng pointed to the two Scottish Deer Hounds lying there and said, "Otherwise, what am I going to do with them? Do you think I'm just letting them resist their luggage?"
Inge laughed, and he really thought so, "Oh, that's amazing, what a good pair of dogs!"
Xiao Peng stopped talking, in fact, he knew by his own smell that there were no traces of Scottish wildcats here. However, he said that his sense of smell was so acute, Inge would not believe it.
"Then why don't you tell them?" asked Inge, "aren't you watching them do their useless work?"
Xiao Peng laughed: "Do you think they will believe me if I tell them directly? You don't know these people who do scientific research, they only trust their own judgment, their own eyes, and not their own ears! For me, this is just a vacation, why should I make so much trouble for myself?"
Yingge was completely speechless, and looked at Xiao Peng: "What are you doing now?"
"Go to the river to get some water and take a hot bath, don't you think it's very comfortable to soak in hot water on such a cold day?" Xiao Peng had already walked to the river with the wooden bucket.
Yingge scratched his head, he is getting more and more unable to see through Xiao Peng now, this Nima is really here for a vacation!
He began to sympathize with Professor Clapton, and if he had one of these things, he would be angry.