Chapter 468 of the main text volume, the big one-horned rhinoceros

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"What rhinoceros?!"

As soon as he heard that this group of soldiers was going to take the 'rhinoceros' away, Su Ming immediately became anxious, and asked Lyudmila urgently: "What rhinoceros, is it the most famous one...... Whining......? ”

Before he could finish speaking, his mouth was gagged by a small paw. The koala crawled along Su Ming's clothes to his shoulder, a small paw scratching his face.

Su Ming picked up the flesh on the back of the koala's neck, as if he was carrying a kitten, the koala hung down on all fours, and looked at Su Ming with two shiny little eyes.

"Don't make a fuss." Su Ming threw the koala to Nangong Huang, Nangong Huang stretched out his hands and caught the little guy in the air, and the little guy began to climb along his clothes.

"Is it a big one-horned rhinoceros?" Su Ming was finally able to finish his question.

Among the many animals at the Baghdad Zoo are two star animals: the great one-horned rhinoceros.

The big one-horned rhinoceros is also called the Indian rhinoceros, this rhinoceros is super mighty in appearance, with wide folds on the shoulder blades and under the neck and at the joints of the limbs, so that the body looks like wearing a piece of armor spliced together from metal plates, very close to the ancient Chinese armor shape, there is a thick and short, but very hard rhinoceros horn in front of the male nose, so people also call it "big one-horned rhinoceros".

The adult big one-horned rhinoceros is definitely a behemoth, weighing nearly two tons, and the shoulder height is more than an adult, the second largest animal on land in Asia, only smaller than the Asian elephant, and it is also the fifth continental animal in the world after the African elephant, the African forest elephant, the Asian elephant, and the white rhinoceros on land.

The rhinoceros is more unlucky, on the dry fight, few animals in the world can do it, even if the Asian elephant and African elephant are larger than it, it may not be the opponent of the rhinoceros, and the rhinoceros horn running at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour is hit hard, and the elephant has to vomit three liters of blood.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty, and the problem lies in the horn of the rhinoceros. Rhino horn is worth 5 to 10 times more than the same weight of gold in the international market!

Although pufferfish toxin is also valuable, it needs to be purified by high technology, and rhinoceros horn does not have this problem, killing the rhinoceros with one shot and sawing off the horn.

Driven by huge profits, the number of rhinos of all kinds is rapidly decreasing, and in the former rhino habitat, it is common to see rhino carcasses that have their horns sawn off and die on the side of the road.

The two large one-horned rhinoceros at the Baghdad Zoo are also endangered, with only about 3,000 left in the world. Of course, the white rhinoceros is more precious, the problem is that there is only one white rhinoceros left in the world, and it is protected by four heavily armed police officers 24 hours a day in Kenya, and Su Ming will definitely not be able to get it.

"Of course it's the two big one-horned rhinos, and there are only two rhinos in the zoo!" Lyudmila said.

"them!" Su Ming was furious.

Perhaps the great one-horned rhinoceros is not as precious as the white rhinoceros, but for Su Ming, and even for the whole of China, the significance of the great one-horned rhinoceros is even more important.

A large part of the purpose of his trip to Baghdad was to come to the two big one-horned rhinoceros, and he had made up his mind before he came, no matter how much money he spent, even if it was a trap and abduction, he must bring the two big one-horned rhinoceros back!

Even Director Song personally told him that other animals can be bought if they can, and it doesn't matter if they can't buy them, only the two big one-horned rhinoceros must be brought back!

Because the big one-horned rhinoceros, in addition to the nickname of the Indian rhinoceros, there is also an alias: the Chinese rhinoceros!

The Chinese rhinoceros is a collective term that refers to three species of rhinoceros that grow in China, the other two are extinct, and only the great one-horned rhinoceros remains.

The tragedy is that the Chinese rhinoceros has become extinct in China itself!

Chinese people have a feeling that rhinoceros are not abundant in China, and rhinoceros are all imported species. In fact, China used to be the country with the most rhinos in the world.

It is recorded that as early as the Yin Shang period, rhinoceros was widely distributed in all parts of China, and even in the Central Plains, there were large herds of rhinoceros in the Jianghuai region, at that time it was extremely normal to encounter rhinoceros in the wild, and today it is similar to meeting rabbits in the mountains, maybe the probability is greater.

Since ancient times, the rhinoceros is a treasure, the meat can be used for food, the horn is a sharp weapon, and the rhinoceros skin is the best armor in the period of underdeveloped metallurgy, which can resist the attack of knives, arrows and other weapons, and is the superior material for making shields and armor.

Wu Gexi was rhinoceros armor, and the car was wrong and short-handed.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many rhinoceros in the Yangtze River Basin, and the rhinoceros leather armor was even the standard configuration of the soldiers of the Wu State.

Tang Taizong liked to raise rhinoceros very much, but unfortunately the level of cattle raising was too poor, raising one head and dying the other, wasting a lot of money. Wei Zheng said to Lao Li, as a monarch, you must figure out your strengths and weaknesses, you are the best emperor in the past and present in terms of governing the country, but your level of raising rhinoceros is too stinky, so you should focus on your strengths: governing the country, rather than raising cattle.

Wei Zheng's criticism is so pleasant, Lao Li laughed, and said You are too right, brother should be a good emperor quietly, and send all the rhinoceros back to their original places of origin and release them.

Several emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty also liked to raise rhinoceros, elephants and other large animals. It is recorded that the animal trainers in the court at that time could make dozens of rhinoceros elephants line up and walk in front of the emperor in turn to salute, and the scene was quite spectacular.

It was not until after the Ming Dynasty that rhinos began to decline in a large area, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, only Yunnan still had sporadic rhinos in the country. The real extinction of rhinos in China was after the Republic of China.

The heart is a little clear, and the moon is ...... These are all poems from rhinoceros in ancient China.

Once the world's largest rhinoceros habitat, China itself, in modern times, but no rhinoceros has been found, which makes people sigh.

Therefore, Su Ming must bring these two Chinese rhinoceros back!

The argument in the zoo continued, the group of soldiers with guns, surrounded the zoo staff in the middle, and one of the leading officers, in a very fierce tone, several people in zoo overalls explained with horror on their faces.

"Too bold, the government army dares to come to the national zoo to snatch animals?" Nangong Huang said in surprise.

Zhao Yun was not surprised, and said: "It's the same as the warlord melee in our country, during the war, the heads of these soldiers were pinned to their belts, fighting for the government, and the military discipline was poor in peacetime, and the government turned a blind eye." ”

"Maybe it was the government's acquiescence, and the Iraqi government didn't have the money to pay the army, so it let these big soldiers mess up and let them find their own way to get money." Su Ming snorted and said to Adnan, "You go and ask them, what's going on, why do you want to rob the rhinoceros?" ”

Adnan jumped out of the car, walked to the group of soldiers, and as soon as he said a few words with a humble face, he was pushed away by a big soldier very roughly, and he took a few steps back and fell to the ground with his butt. (To be continued.) )