Chapter 494: Gentle and Brave
The two bison approached the window, and Lisa was visibly scared, and she was afraid of Odom last time......
Rose is obviously not afraid, Chitu has been loyal to her side! However, Chitu was a little weak in his heart, and he didn't know if he could win one-on-one......
Tang Hai is naturally not afraid.
In Johnny's words, he once threw Dongfang Red into the universe with his hand, counting from one to infinity, twice, and that there is no species in the world that has evolved, and all living things are species that he allows to exist......
How could Tang Hai be afraid of bison?
Strangely enough, Noon is not afraid either! I also want to reach out and touch the cow's nose!
Tang Hai suddenly remembered that there seems to be a festival in Thailand called the Running Bull Festival, and many Thais are very fond of cows and beef......
The bison in Canada and the United States, like the wild horses, came from Europe.
More than 10,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, the narrowest part of the Bering Sea froze and formed a road, and the European bison dragged their families to North America.
There were also bison in North America, but they were too small to compete with European bison, and they were slowly eliminated.
The European bison is an invasive species, but when an invasive species is integrated into the ecological chain, it eventually becomes a native species.
The European bison has become an American bison, because of its huge size, strong attack power, high defense, and very fast speed, which can reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, which is not weaker than a horse! They even have their own weapons!
Soon the bison population was enormous, with an estimated 65 million at its peak a century or two ago, far more than any other large mammal......
But then, the United States appeared!
Why should a cowboy be called a cowboy riding a horse? Because they kill oxen!
The American bison population was at its lowest point a century ago. In 1903, there were only 21 animals! In 1905, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the protection of animals!
Even after a hundred years of conservation, the American bison population has been slow to recover. More than 10 years ago, it was tens of thousands......
But now the bison population has recovered!
Without it, BSE saved them!
BSE was originally not an American business. It was the British who first appeared, then the Belgian countries, and then the United States......
It was believed that the American bison was more resistant to disease, had more meat, and had better meat quality, so some people started raising American bison! That's how the numbers really come up! Now the big farm has tens of thousands of them!
Although there are still many people who resist bison as eating endangered animals, their numbers have really increased, although 80% of them are in feedlots......
The total number of American bison has exceeded 300,000. The number of ethnic groups is increasing at a rate of 20% per year, which is a very frightening rate.
The biggest feature of this kind of cow is that it is large, nearly 3.5 meters long, and the shoulder height is 2 meters, the weight in front of Tang Hai is about 1200 kilograms, and the giant horse of Chitu is only about 400 kilograms......
The big head is full of hair, and even the mouth is full of hair, and it looks extremely vicious!
Tang Hai stopped the car, and Rose knew that Tang Hai wanted to feed it. No matter how fierce a cow is, after all, it is also a cow, not a tiger or a lion, and it will not think about eating people.
Rose had just flipped out of the loaf of bread in the car, holding a slice and about to feed it. The big bison had his eyes fixed on the bread, his breath became short, and his head was stuck behind himself......
Rose reached out. It waits with its mouth open to eat, completely devoid of the self-esteem of the largest wild mammal in North America......
Noon is also feeding over there. From time to time, she exclaimed, it was licked by a bison.
There was a lot of food in the car. Everyone was still wondering, but now they know that Tang Hai was going to feed the animals......
The big bison was eating with his head sideways, and suddenly he noticed that there was bread in the car!
Immediately regardless of the image, he desperately stuffed his head into the car, causing several exclamations and laughter in the car, and Lisa yelled to close the window, Rose initially fed it piece by piece, and finally had to feed it piece by piece......
When the last bread in the car was fed, and even some small dried fish were fed together, the big cow and the little cow stuck their heads into the car window, stretched out their long fat tongues, and licked Rose and Noon flatteringly......
Finally, he waved his hand to let the two enthusiastic big guys leave, and the car slowly started again.
There are a lot of bison in this area, I heard that there are two kinds of bison in the forest, bison and steppe bison, but in fact, both eat young grass and hay, and do not eat shrubs, and there used to be Siberian bison that could eat, but now if you want to control the growth of shrubs, you can only raise goats.
The bison have no sense of territory, and they drive slowly and see a lot of random walking, they look a bit like yaks, like a mountain, eating slowly while walking, Tang Hai thinks it is very cute......
It's not just Tang Hai who thinks so, the four girls know that they like it when they take pictures frequently.
Jennifer hasn't fed much since just now, and she has been taking pictures until now, and the heirs of Guanxi must have a lot of good photos in their hands......
As the largest mammal in North America, the American bison itself is extremely aggressive, and what Tang Hai saw just now was gentle and close to people, but soon saw a more ferocious ......
Not cruel to people, but cruel to yourself!
Summer and autumn is the mating season, just in that yellow earth, both have a ton of American bison fighting, huge heads against each other, from time to time to shake the horns, this thing is much more terrible than the horn knife! Equal to 10 Tyson-level people fighting with weapons!
With a bang, a pile of hair fell like catkins.
I saw the gentleness of the American bison just now, and now I saw the ferocity of this gladiator, and the women were a little frightened.
Only Jennifer held her small camera steadily, still with a smile on her face: "In the mating season, all beasts are like this, only the strongest males are qualified to give birth to offspring, and females will watch quietly...... Some women in humans will sympathize with the weak, but the beasts will not, they know how to give birth to better children......"
Several people knew this truth, but looking at the scene in front of them.
Tang Hai wanted to step forward to stop it, and then ......
"Damn! The one next to it also has horns! Two strong pure men are fighting like this, actually to compete for? Tang Hai was scared when he found out about this.
Jennifer had a black line on the door of her head: "Boss, take a look again." ”
Tang Hai look at it again, there is no little Jiji!
"Two strong men fight for eunuch ......"
"Look again!" Jennifer is going crazy.
"Bah, cows have horns, too? No, it's the horns of the cow that are so big! ”
When Tang Hai was stunned, the smaller American bison was knocked over, and he saw a wound appear on his face, and he screamed in pain and fled......
That's a good ending, at least not disabled.
The victor walks up to the heifer with pride.
Tang Hai smiled: "How similar are animals and people! There's nothing to see next, so let's go. ”
"When I'm done filming this 'Meaning of Life' ......," Jennifer held up a small camera and pointed it at the bison couple who were about to run errands.
Rose, Lisa, and Noon all looked at her in amazement, and the three girls were stunned.
Tang Hai drove ......
…… (To be continued......)