Chapter 245: Pangolin

Not long after the sun set, everyone finally rushed to the place designated by Chu Jiaqiang. Three or four kilometers are not very far, but these roads are not easy to walk, and it took more than an hour to complete.

At this time, except for Chu Jiaqiang and Chen Wu, everyone felt a little exhausted. On this road, Chu Jiaqiang opened the way in front, and used the mountain knife to cut a way to clear the vines, shrubs, and miscanthus that blocked in the middle, so that these people could easily enter.

After so many years, the original path is long gone. Brother Lu once said: There is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road. In fact, the reverse is also true, there is a road in the world, but if no one walks, there is no road, or it is not a road.

Everyone found that it was not bad, leeward, there was a small flat land, there was a small stream not far away, and there was no worry about the water source. More importantly, there was a wooden house, although it was very simple and somewhat dilapidated. But at least it's better than the barren mountains and forests outside, and it's safer to sleep.

"I can't walk anymore, you can do it, the cooking boss! I really don't have the strength. Zhou Furong complained bitterly, and the secret path knew that he would not follow. This guy thought it would be fun to go into the mountains, but this time he finally realized how naïve his idea was.

Chu Jiaqiang was very speechless, he never expected this guy to cook. At noon, this guy was also motionless, belonging to the kind of meal that opened his mouth.

"You can still move, can you? Don't play me dead! Chu Jiaqiang turned to Chen Wu.

"How can I, am I that kind of scoundrel?" Chen Wu smiled, and squeezed his eyebrows at Zhou Furong, his implication was that Zhou Furong was a scoundrel.

But at this time, Zhou Furong also pretended to be deaf and dumb. Anyway, you won't die if you say a few words, and you can still get some cheap.

"That's fine! The others will rest for a while, or find some firewood nearby, and I will go out with Chen Wu to catch some game and come back. Chu Jiaqiang said. He was just about to go out when the snow eagle and the goshawk flew over and caught a pheasant each.

"What a good helper, Xiaoxue! Take Xiao Hei and go around again. Catch a few more. Zhou Furong coaxed the snow sculpture to help with the work. But the snow sculpture didn't eat his set, but shot at a glance, even Zhou Furong felt weak.

Chu Jiaqiang instructed the snow sculpture to catch a few more. And let the others clean up the pheasants. Naturally, everyone will not shirk these jobs, Chu Jiaqiang and Chen Wu opened the way in front just now, and now they are in charge of cooking. It's already embarrassing for them.

"Is it a rat or a hare? Good guys, they dug so many holes. Chen Wu and Chu Jiaqiang didn't go too far before they found that there were caves everywhere in this area, and they couldn't help but be a little frightened.

Chu Jiaqiang felt a little strange in his heart, these holes were neither like rat holes nor harat holes. He glanced around and saw that the environment was not suitable for large-scale colonization of hares and rats. First of all, the food is not sufficient, and it is impossible to reproduce so much.

"It's quirky here! What could it be? Chu Jiaqiang himself couldn't say clearly.

Just when Chu Jiaqiang was thinking hard, a strange creature slipped out of a soil hole. I saw that it was long and narrow, and its whole body was covered with scales. The limbs are stubby and short, the tail is flattened and long, the back is slightly raised, the head is conical, the eyes are small, and the snout is pointed. Baidu's [x] [h] [s] [h] [u] latest debut

Chen Wu and Chu Jiaqiang exclaimed almost at the same time: "Pangolin! ”

The pangolin was immediately frightened and retracted into the burrow. Don't dare to bubble anymore. Chu Jiaqiang and Chen Wu were both very shocked, pangolins are not too rare, and they are not as rare as giant pandas, which is not the reason why they are shocked. What shocked them was how many pangolins live here. Large and small earth caves, since the discovery just now, there are at least seventy or eighty holes, right? How many more are ahead is unknown.

"Why do you have all the stuff here?" Chen Wu was dumbfounded. Before the mountain boar pass. What is the alder forest just now? Pangolin Valley?

"What's the use, you ask, of me? I'm not an expert. Let's go back! Inform them that we will go in other directions. Chu Jiaqiang took Chen Wu and walked back.

Hearing that there were a large number of pangolins, those experts who were originally weak were suddenly full of energy, and Chu Jiaqiang wondered if they were pretending to be sympathetic to them just now.

"Let's go! Check it out! How can pangolins live in groups! It's incomprehensible. "These experts can't turn the corner, pangolins have a lot of food needs and like to eat termites. According to Chu Jiaqiang's description of Chen Wu, not to mention termites, even grass roots can be eaten by them.

Actions speak louder than words! Soon these experts looked like they were hell-. There is no doubt that these soil caves are pangolins, and they can't be distinguished, and they don't want to be experts and professors on their heads! It's just that how can pangolins live in groups? It's not scientific!

"Spread out and see what makes the pangolins come together here." Fu Lao commanded. This scene is really weird.

When Chu Jiaqiang was young, he also saw it two or three times, and someone in the village caught it to make soup and let some women who gave birth to children eat it, which is said to increase milk.

According to Tao Hongjing's "Notes on the Classic of Materia Medica", the pangolin is an anteater, which "can land and water, come ashore in the middle of the day, open the scale armor as if dead, lure ants into the armor, that is, close and enter the water, open the beetle ants are all floating, surrounding and eating." ”

Is this really the case with pangolins? In order to clarify this problem, Li Shizhen followed the hunters into the deep mountains and old forests to conduct pangolin dissections, and found that the animal's stomach was indeed filled with undigested ants, proving that the record in the Materia Medica was correct. But Li Shizhen found that pangolins were not lured by scales, but "often stuck out their tongues to lure ants to eat". He revised the erroneous record of this in the Materia Medica. At the same time, he collected the medicinal value of pangolins among the people, and recorded a passage of "pangolins, the king does not stay, and the woman eats milk and flows for a long time".

Pangolins inhabit various environments such as woods, shrubs, and grasses in hilly and mountainous areas, but rarely in rocky mountains and bald mountains. Dig a cave to dwell, lie in the day and come out at night, can climb trees and swim in water, when the enemy is frightened, wrap his head in his abdomen, and heel in a ball. Poor hearing and vision, sensitive sense of smell. The food is mainly termites, but it also eats black ants, ant larvae and larvae of other insects. Male and female cohabitation during estrus. After mating, they are separated, and the pups are bred by females, and the farrowing period is mostly in winter, with 1 litter per litter.

"This thing is said to be very replenishing, but it's a pity! With so many zoologists present, it's hard to catch one and eat one. "Zhou Furong has long heard that this thing is one of the delicacies of the mountains and seas, but unfortunately he has never eaten it.

In fact, if you really want to eat, it's not that you can't eat it. As long as there is a market and there is demand, there will be supply. As long as the price is affordable, even giant pandas dare to steal one to cook for you to eat! It depends on whether you have money in your pocket and whether you dare to eat it!