"The Biology of Elsa" - Jane Goodall. ：

Poison Messenger - Poison Bird.

Poisonous monsters are omnivorous creatures that inhabit dark and damp areas, and their bodies are covered with gray-blue rubbery thick skin; crushed beak, with cone-shaped luminous organs on the top of the head, without auricles; The forelimbs have four fingers, and the posterior three fingers evolve into membranous wings; The hind foot has four fingers, the fourth finger is short at the heel; whip-like tail, with strong ductility; Adult specimens are approximately ten meters in length.

The Poison Bird is usually active at night, and its food includes insects, mushrooms, carrion, etc., in short, as long as it can smell food, it can be used to satisfy its stomach. Because of its mixed diet and the fact that the living area is mostly dark and damp, it is easy for the bird to eat stale or even poisonous food, but with its innate immunity, the bird can resist the erosion of toxins and accumulate them in glands called poison sacs in the neck; The toxin is mixed with a special body fluid and can be spit out as venom for self-defense or prey on insects, and the insects killed by the venom can maintain an intact shell, while the internal soft tissues are destroyed for easy digestion and absorption.

However, due to the rapid accumulation of toxins, the poisonous monster bird will also spray a large amount of poison in normal times, causing the water sources in its territory to be polluted and the plants to wither. If you find a dark purple water source or swamp, there must be a poisonous bird inhabiting it.

However, some individuals have poor detoxification ability, resulting in the skin being penetrated purple by venom, and is considered to be a subspecies of poisonous monster bird. Although the Purple Poison Bird is more poisonous than the Poison Bird, its rubbery skin is softer and its defense ability is reduced.

In addition to Venom, the crown is also a weapon of self-defense for the Monster Bird, and it can emit a dazzling light that temporarily blinds enemies. After sampling studies, it was found that the glitter of the monster bird was produced when a certain mineral in the crown of the head was crushed. The act of shaking the head of the monster bird before the flash is to smash the mineral. After destroying its crown, rare minerals and broken mineral fragments of the crystal system were indeed found. In addition to fighting enemies, the Poison Bird also attracts the opposite sex by flashing light during the breeding season.

Due to this ability to emit flashes, the Poison Bird often preys on cat lizards. For a species like the cat lizard, which is afraid of flashes, the flash and venom of the poison bird are deadly threats.

The Poison Bird has a high IQ, which is mainly manifested in two aspects:

One, the Poison Bird is one of several monsters that have been recorded to steal human belongings; The things stolen are also varied: from food such as insects, mushrooms, and meat, to recovery products such as healing herbs, analgesics, and bandages, to tools such as iron picks, insect nets, traps, armor, and swords. According to experienced hunters, the poison bird will eat it on the spot after stealing food or potions, and will bring it back to the nest after stealing tools; In addition, the Poison Bird seems to have a special penchant for glittering objects, many miners who went out to mine were stolen ore by the Poison Bird Bird, and some lumberjacks witnessed the Poison Bird following the Daimyo Shield Crab and collecting the black pearls that fell from its back armor; Glittering objects are also brought back to their nests, which is why mercenary groups that hunt Monster Birds can obtain a variety of rare ores and crystals and even priceless gems and gold in their nests.

There are two hypotheses about the motivation for collecting lumines, one is curiosity and the other is to attract mates during the breeding season.

In order to win the favor of their mates, the male will decorate the nest with shiny objects such as ores, and the females attracted by the male with the glitter of the crown will visit the males' love nest one by one, and the most gorgeous one in the nest will get the heart of the female, and then the male will leave the nest and continue to live, waiting for the next breeding period.

Second, the Poison Bird is the first monster that will play dead when discovered, and if it gets into a hard fight, the Poison Bird will choose to play dead, the difference from real death is that the luminous organs on the top of the head will have a faint flash, and if the hunter approaches unsuspectingly, it will be fatally attacked - usually a full spray of venom first, and then a head hammer will be connected.

The biggest natural enemy of the poison bird is the shadow spider, the shadow spider is not afraid of the flash of the poison bird and is immune to its toxin, after being targeted by the shadow spider, unless it flies away immediately, the poison bird can basically only wait to be tied into a dumpling by the spider silk, stunted by the anesthetic needle in the tail of the shadow spider, and then eaten to the skin. In some underground caverns, the giant silk cocoons hung from the roof of the caves by spider silk are the captured poisonous birds. The ancient dragon monster Xia Dragon also preys on poisonous monster birds.

It may be because of the pressure of survival, and the poisonous monster bird is prone to agitation. When angry or frightened, they can even lose their rationality and rush into spraying poison frantically, and many hunters suffer greatly because of this. Scholars from the Simic Guild dissected the remains of the Poison Bird and found a special bodily fluid containing unknown hormones that could be taken orally and had the effect of making users forget their fatigue; They also used the captured monster birds to conduct live experiments, and found that the poison birds injected with hormone body fluids all lost their minds and ran around, no different from when the monster birds were angry. Therefore, the Simic Guild scholars named this bodily fluid that can make the poisonous bird mad "Wild Walking Extract", and used it as a raw material to concoct a soldier-strengthening elixir - Forced Walking Medicine, which can make the soldiers who take it in a slightly hyperactive state and increase their physical strength. Later, Simic Guild scholars found wild leachables in the body of the sea dragon monster water diversion beast.

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"Mike! Mike! When is it? Didn't you say you're going to take Josh to class? Lena urged.

Agilyl was sent to Fort Longtalon, and no one in the house was up early except Lena. Normally, Lena could still talk to her daughter, but now that her daughter is gone, she gets angry when she sees the old and young sleeping head in the family.

Lena said as she pushed open the door and picked up her husband, who was still drooling on the bed. Michael shuddered and woke up immediately. Michael seems to listen to his wife most of the time, but in fact, Michael never fools around the big things, and as for some trivial things in life, he just listens to what his wife says. 'Hey. . . If only I could sleep a little longer. Michael thought to himself.

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