In all fairness, these three young birds are really ugly------ how come there is no hair on the top of their heads? The feathers on his body are black, and the feathers on his neck appear to be wearing a fur-collared leather coat. Let Xiao Peng evaluate these birds, Xiao Peng can only use three words to describe them: ugly, very ugly, very ugly!

What the hell is such an ugly thing?

Huey smiled and introduced, "You know about the California fires some time ago, right?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "How can I not know this?" This Southern California fire, also known as the 'Thomas Mountain Fire', is the largest fire in California's history, and the fire area is equivalent to the sum of the two cities of New York and Boston! The fire itself is terrible enough, and it encountered a dry and strong 'Santa Anna' gale, and the fire spread at an explosive speed.

More than a thousand buildings were destroyed. The fires burned down millions of dollars worth of homes in wealthy areas of Santa Barbara County, destroyed local farms and avocado farms, and caused huge losses to the local livestock and beekeeping industry. The entire Southern California has caused huge economic damage.

Huey explained, "These are the treasures that someone brought out when they escaped from the scene of a fire in Southern California, or I wouldn't have gotten them." ”

"What the hell is this?" Xiao Peng asked, puzzled.

Huey gave the answer: "California vultures!"

Xiao Peng whistled, this Nima is really a rare thing! Being able to get a California vulture shows the great ability of this Huey. Don't look at this thing as it's really ugly, but it's worth a lot of money!

Because it's so rare, it's one of the rarest birds in the world, especially for many California Indians, and it's an important role in traditional Indian mythology.

The California vulture is one of the largest flying birds in North America, second only to the Andean vulture and albatross. There are also few birds in the world that are bigger than it.

However, California vultures are much more precious than those guys, and there are probably no more than 300 California vultures in the world right now. This was only possible after decades of strict protection, and from 1971, the California vulture was listed as a bird protected by the California Endangered Animals Act! In 1973, the killing of the California vulture was clearly legislated as a federal crime! In 1975, the California Vulture Group was established and a rescue plan was drafted!

But even so, the number of California vultures is still decreasing, and in 1985, there were only nine California vultures in the entire world!

Because of this number, it is no longer realistic for California vultures to breed naturally in the wild, so the population can only be kept in captivity, just like the South China tiger population in China.

The California vultures are so difficult to breed that they don't start laying eggs until they're six years old, and they can only lay one egg per litter, and it takes about two months for an egg to hatch until the young birds live with their parents until they're two years old. Their slow reproduction rate makes it extremely difficult for them to reproduce.

But it has a habit, that is, after birth, if the young bird or egg is lost or removed, the parents will 'double hatch the egg', lay a new egg to replace the lost one, researchers and givers are to take advantage of this feature, take the first egg to raise artificially, so that the parents can regenerate the second egg, so that the fertility rate is doubled.

In order to save the California vultures, the Stars and Stripes did their best. In order to protect the California vultures, the Stars and Stripes established the most expensive species protection project in the history of the Stars and Stripes since World War II, and even because the California vultures are scavengers, California even passed regulations requiring hunters to prohibit the use of lead bullets when hunting in the wild!

As a result of these conservation measures, California's vulture population has rebounded, with more than 300 remaining in the wild, and they have released them back into the wild to allow them to return to their wild life. After several years of hard work, it has also paid off, and now in the wild, the California vultures have been seen again. Of course, the numbers are still scarce, and every nest of California vultures is under strict monitoring by scientists.

In the area where the California fires broke out, there were three wild nests of California vultures! The adult bird could escape the wildfire, but what should the young birds do? Even if the nests of the California vulture are all on the cliff face, it is unlikely that they will be burned by the fire, but what about the smoke? So the people retreated, and the adults flew, leaving three poor young birds there to die.

The only possibility for them to get out is that the person in charge of keeping watch over the nest there stole and ran away to Huey's pet farm for most of the Stars and Stripes.

"Why?" Xiao Peng asked, puzzled.

"What, why?" Huey didn't know what Xiao Peng meant.

Xiao Peng expressed his confusion: "Such a precious California vulture is even for you to sneak around, right?"

"Of course, this is a real Stars and Stripes treasure! Do you want to buy a bald eagle? Even if it's our national bird, I can get you one in a minute! But this California vulture is different, even if you have money, you can't buy it, and all buying and selling is strictly forbidden. To be precise, I don't plan to sell these three California vultures, but I plan to raise them myself. Huey said.

"Then why did you sell it to me?" Xiao Peng asked.

Huey smiled, "After watching the scene just now, I believe that they are definitely better in your hands than in my hands." And if they are really in my hands, I can only let them live in an iron cage for the rest of their lives to watch them, and if you can bring them back, I think the best choice is for them. ”

Xiao Peng whistled: "You're letting me smuggle!"

Huey shrugged: "I didn't say that. They have a regular identity!" After speaking, he took out a stack of identification documents, Xiao Peng looked at it and laughed out loud, and it was written on it that Kangdo Vulture. It is often referred to as the 'Andean Condor' that lives in South America.

The Condo vulture is famous and is the national bird of several countries in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador. is a close relative of the California vulture. The biggest difference between the two is that the Condo vulture is larger, and the male adult Condo vulture also has a large sarcoma above the beak.

However, the status of these two things is very different, and many wealthy people in the Stars and Stripes keep Condo vultures as pets. Although the Condo vulture is also a rare protected animal, who made you not reincarnate? In the Stars and Stripes, as long as it is not a rare protected animal from their own country, what can't be bought? As long as you have money here, you can even buy the Siberian tiger you want, not to mention this Condo vulture? The whole of South America is the backyard of the Stars and Stripes, okay?

It is no exaggeration to say that except for a few animals, there is really no one in the Stars and Stripes who can't be pets.

It's not a bad idea to use a Condo vulture to pretend to be a California vulture, these two things looked alike when they were kids. Just like the Siberian tiger and the South China tiger when they were young, how many people can tell the difference?

Xiao Peng scratched his head: "Huey, how can you be sure that this is a real California vulture and not a Condo vulture? ”

Huey smiled: "Don't worry, Xiao, the difference between these two vultures will be able to distinguish when they grow up to a year, and the male Condo vulture will be able to grow sarcoma on the beak of the bird." At that time, the difference between the two was obvious, and the three young vultures were probably about five months old, and the difference could be separated after another seven months at most. That's why I'm selling them when they're small, but if they're big, I'll have to keep them. ”

Xiao Peng shrugged: "Seven months? At that time, these little guys were really Condo vultures, so what should I do?"

Huey smiled and waved his hand and said: "I have been in this business for more than twenty years, it is impossible to smash my signboard for a business, and I can also see that you are not the kind of person who is not bad for money." There's an iron rule that every kid in the Stars and Stripes grows up with, don't mess with the rich------ unless I want to die with you, believe me, I haven't lived enough, and we don't have that much hatred. ”

Xiao Peng also laughed: "I see that you are also very rich, okay? Such a big pet farm is open, and it is very accessible, you can get any pet!"

Huey waved his hand: "The cost is also high, sometimes some businesses have to be done at a loss, just like that black panther, I sold it for 65,000 US dollars, but the price in my hand is 50,000 US dollars, and then I have to get an identity or something, and the money to feed it during this time, it probably cost me 70,000 US dollars." ”

"Then why did you sell it?" Xiao Peng asked puzzled.

"If I hadn't sold it, wouldn't there have been so many Tigers players coming to me to buy pets? Huey said with a flat face.

Well, that's also true, all people who feel that life is not good, almost all of them are caused by too much comparison. Those rugby players are poor and rich, and they simply don't have the ability to plan their assets. If you buy it, I'll buy it too! It's like this for cars, it's like this, it's like this for houses, it's like this for pets.

Alexandra looked at the three California vultures and hesitated for a long time and said, "Honey, do you want to buy such an ugly bird?"

Xiao Peng smiled, women are really creatures who like to look at their appearance. But for pets, there is a difference in aesthetics, just like the Eagle Country Bulldog, those who like it feel very beautiful, and those who don't like it think it's ugly!

Xiao Peng now looks at the three California vultures and feels like it, and after watching it for a long time, he thinks it's also quite handsome.

"Ally, do you think they're ugly?"

Alexandra nodded without hesitation.

Xiao Peng laughed: "Isn't it just a bald man? This is to make it easier for them to eat. It's convenient to stick your head out of the anus of an animal in search of food!"

Alysandra almost threw up after hearing this, and Xiao Peng continued: "Besides, it's cute to see a bald person when you're used to it, isn't the fierce son a bald man?

Yang Meng, who was far away in Los Angeles, was spraying paint on the spearman mecha he made there, when he suddenly sneezed: "Eh, who thinks of me?"