Chapter 195: Four are not like clouded leopards
Xu Ling swept away the pheasants in the bushes, and there were still a few nests of wild eggs! It was too rare to meet so many at once! This must be their nest! With the excitement of the great victory, Xu Ling wanted to leave, but an uninvited guest came to the right, and it seemed that he also wanted to see if he could hunt pheasants.
A viper, nearly one and a half meters long, which is considered an adult in the viper family. At first, he kept sniffing the air at the edge of the bushes, and then slowly burrowed into the bushes. It was very quiet, and it seemed that this viper was also a veteran, having done this kind of thing more than once. Xu Ling didn't care anymore, there was nothing in it, and if you wanted to find something to eat, you had to find another place!
Jumping over a few weeds and bushes quickly, Xu Ling began to pay attention to his movements when he was approaching the foot of the mountain, after all, there were two springboks grazing at the foot of the mountain, but they were extremely vigilant, and their ears were shaking slightly anytime and anywhere. As soon as you hear a noise, immediately raise your head and look around, unsure of your safety, and never eat grass again. And the four feet are tense and ready to run away at any time!
Xu Ling slowly approached under the cover of shrubs and grass, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he was more than ten meters away, the two guys were all within his sensing range, and they couldn't run! After cleaning up these two guys, Xu Ling aimed at the elk again, commonly known as the Four Divine Beasts! These guys were once widely distributed in East Asia. Later, due to natural climate change and human factors, it was almost extinct in the last years of the Han Dynasty. During the Yuan Dynasty, in order to be used for hunting, as long as the remnants of elk that could be found were captured and transported to the royal hunting garden for raising. By the middle of the 19th century, only a group remained in the Nanhaizi Royal Hunting Garden in Beijing. It's a pity that when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded the imperial garden of the Old Summer Palace, it was captured cleanly, plus killed, and it disappeared cleanly in China, and it can be said that Cao Lao and they hunted in the fifties and sixties were the only wild populations found.
The invaders brought the elk back to Europe, where they were purchased and bred to 255 by the British in 1898, and some of the individuals were returned to China in 1983. More elk then returned to their hometowns, and some were released into the wild. But the release site is not here, it is the Yancheng Wetland Reserve in Suzhou Province and the Shishou Elk Nature Reserve in Beihu Province, which has expanded the wild population to two or three thousand!
Can Xu Ling not be excited when he sees this, this is the first place where pure wild elk has been found so far! Xu Ling has always thought that Grandpa Bai Xue and they are desperate to hunt. I didn't expect it, there are quite a few! I didn't see all of them clearly, there should be three populations here, and I thought that the three herds of elk were not in the same place. They graze leisurely in the sunset, and occasionally run to the bushes or thorn bushes to eat the young shoots.
Xu Ling was a little worried that he was not on this side, they were all on the other side! This would inevitably alarm other animals if he passed, and it would be impossible to get all of them into space. The roe deer is the most vigilant, and it will run wild at the slightest breeze. Even other creatures will run away. "It's a little tangled, let's try it!", Xu Ling thought for a while, simply made a disguise, and followed the example of the special forces on TV to tie the branches and leaves and weeds all over his body, revealing only one eye, and his face was painted with green sap!
Slowly follow the bush cover and walk to the opposite bank, the distance is not short. In a small plain with a radius of 2,000 meters, even if the stream is not wide, the size of the two sides is not average, and it will take more than ten minutes to walk at this speed.
Cross the creek. Xu Ling breathed a sigh of relief! During this period, occasionally a few hares ran to his side to graze, and there was also a one who gnawed on the buds of the branches on his feet in a daze without knowing Xu Ling! This made Xu Ling feel funny, but he didn't expect that his disguise was quite successful! What Xu Ling didn't find was that it had something to do with his temperament. As Bai Lao said, there is an aura that makes people feel like they are out of the dust!
There were a few roe deer behind the bushes in front, which was also what Xu Ling needed. Xu Ling was puzzled that the roe deer rarely came out in groups, so how could they get together today. Slowly moving to the side of the bushes, Xu Ling's psychic sense was finally able to completely surround them. Just when Xu Ling wanted to put them into the space. Suddenly, another predator appeared on the opposite side of the roe deer herd: a guy like a leopard! The whole body is pale yellow mixed with light black, and there are cloud-like dark markings on the sides of the body, hence the name. The pupils are rectangular and the teeth are sharp. The length ratio is the largest among the existing cats, and biting and killing a roe deer is the same as playing! But why is it not chosen at this time, the elk is a roe deer, which may have something to do with its weight. These guys will not weigh more than 40 kilograms at most, and it is obviously easier to drag a roe deer of thirty or forty kilograms than to drag an elk of one or two hundred catties! It is even a question of whether they can be dragged or not, in case of a leopard or a tiger. Its efforts were in vain!
In order to prevent the clouded leopard from startling the snake, Xu Ling suddenly jumped out of the grass and was about to pounce on the roe deer at the moment when it all entered the space, only to see the other animals around Huo Di startled, because when he saw that the predator was about to escape, he suddenly found that it was gone! But animals are animals after all, and after a while, they lowered their heads and went to graze vigilantly.
Xu Ling let out a sigh of relief, afraid that the animals would be frightened away in large numbers, which would cause a chain reaction. The spirit entered the space to soothe them and moved them to the grassland. Springboks are now grazing leisurely, depending on the situation, they are very adaptable, there are no natural predators here, and the aquatic plants are lush enough, and they are happy! But when the clouded leopard joins, their good days will come to an end, and this guy will last three or five days at most. Of course, it is impossible for Xu Ling to let it be caught, the catfish effect can be there, but if you put a big catfish in a few grass carp seedlings, you will be shot to death with a tail!
The clouded leopard seems to be a national first-class protected animal, and the few of them are about to become extinct. Xu Ling felt that this was a contribution to protecting it. It's a pity that there is only one here, otherwise it would be best to make a pair.
Next, Xu Ling slowly approached the two groups of roe deer nearby, perhaps thanks to his temperament and camouflage, although he passed by many animals, he was not alarmed. These hares are not of much interest to Xu Ling, and there is already a lot of space! These two groups add up to exactly seventeen, counting the first batch of 23, which is a large group!
"These guys have ugly fur. The roe deer, formerly known as musk deer, is widely distributed in our country, like broad-leaved forests, broad-leaved coniferous mixed forests, and coniferous forests. My favorite is the place where Xu Ling is located, shrubs and thorn forests, because this kind of place is rich in food, the vision is still open, and there are shrubs and thorns that can block the huntsmen when they are chasing, so they often rest in this kind of place for the night. As for why it is in groups, because the roe deer are in heat in winter and spring, it is also possible to gather together in advance.
The roe deer's fur is dark brown, and with flesh-colored spots, it is extremely easy to confuse predators when running through bushes, thorn forests, and dead leaves under trees. Just like the zebra in Africa, it is a protective color! And the highest value of the roe deer is musk, male musk deer begins to secrete musk after two years old, about 10 years old is the best secretion period, each musk deer can secrete about 50g. After the musk sachet is dried, the musk taken out by cutting the sachet is a dark brown granular substance, which does not smell very good, and can only be removed after being treated with alcohol.
Although there is only one point of musk sachet, experienced veterans can take it repeatedly, but this requires the use of herbs to reasonably supplement the nutrition of the male musk! Musk has a special aroma and bitter taste after drying, and can be made into spices and medicines. Musk balm is estimated to be known to everyone and is very fragrant. But it is not clear whether there is musk or not.
However, although things are good, some people should not use them, such as pregnant women, smelling too much or using it is easy to lead to miscarriage, break blood and dispel blood stasis, and the effect is very strong.
After dealing with it, Xu Ling looked at the elk herds on the left and right, there were two groups on the left, and there were more than thirty of them in a rough count!
Xu Ling looked at it and still felt that he had gone to the right first, the time was not early, so he hurriedly arrested some and rushed back to the mountain, Bai Xue was not at ease where he was! This time Xu Ling unconsciously quickened his pace, and when he was about to approach, he stepped on a small pit carefully, and just a dead branch broke with a "crackle". Xu Ling's face changed, and he chuckled in his heart, and saw a person not far away who didn't notice it and flew away, and he also screamed in panic, which frightened the four people not far in front of Xu Ling and fled in all directions, disappearing into the distance!
Xu Ling sighed helplessly, and said to himself: "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." I didn't pay attention to the failure of the rescue. He shook his head and calmed down again, trying to stay calm.
Looking back, the animal on the other side was unaffected, but raised its head and looked at it vigilantly for a while. Obviously, it's a little far away, and I don't know what is going on.
Although Xu Ling still accelerated his pace this time because it was getting dark, he was highly concentrated, and tried his best to use the grass and shrubs to avoid the sight of the animals. Xu Ling was also unsure if the other group would escape if this group of elk disappeared. So choose the largest number. Fortunately, Xu Ling approached them a few meters away without being alarmed, and after cleaning up these and then looking at the few on the edge of the stream, they did not escape, but the two leading elk looked at this side with some confusion, and watched vigilantly for a while before continuing to graze!
Xu Ling lurked for a while, feeling a little anxious, seeing that the sun had sunk into the mountain, the shadow of the mountain was getting longer and longer, and the sky was beginning to darken, maybe these guys would leave here and go into the forest.
Seeing that they all began to bow their heads and eat grass, Xu Ling bent down and ran towards them quickly, and he couldn't care if he was shocked, in case they all ran away, he would find someone to reason with. It's a pity that Xu Ling's movement is really a bit big, and in the end he still ran a few, counting the ones caught earlier, a total of 20, which is not a lot! )