Chapter 285: The Story of the Passenger Pigeon

Wang Zhao gave Ao Guanhai and Pu Yan the North American traveling pigeon brought back from the world of Shenji, this bird is famous in the biological world, commonly known as the passenger pigeon, is the most famous representative of extinct birds in modern times.

North American passenger pigeons live in North America, there were as many as 5 billion passenger pigeons living in the United States, American pioneers in the wilderness when driving a carriage to meet the flock of passenger pigeons to cover the sun for several hours, each flock can reach more than 100 million, the name "passenger pigeon" also comes from this, the English name in the "ger" means "people who pass by".

Before Europeans came to the North American continent, there were as many as 5 billion passenger pigeons, by 1914. The last passenger pigeon, Martha, stopped breathing, witnessing the death of the Americans, as well as the rapid extinction of a huge species under the destruction of humans.

In the 17th century, shortly after the discovery of the American continent by Europeans, the passenger pigeon became the food of the pioneers because of its delicious meat, and the nightmare of the passenger pigeon began.

Large-scale commercial killings began, in New York in 1805, and a pair of passenger pigeons sold for two cents. The meat of the passenger pigeon was transported by train from the western United States, and the poor people of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries often saw no meat other than the passenger pigeon. People often lay a large number of nets, hunt passenger pigeons on a large scale, or shoot at the passenger pigeon flock with a gun, a large number of corpses fall, often hunt too much and can't eat and cause waste, some people even drive groups of pigs to eat in the passenger pigeon carcasses everywhere, after the slaughter, bird feathers and blood stains everywhere, a large number of passenger pigeons died.

In the 40s of the 19th century, Birdwatch in the United States found that the number of passenger pigeons was declining too fast, and they decided to find a way to protect them.

In 1857, some scholars introduced a bill to the Ohio Legislative Assembly to protect the passenger pigeon. However, a special committee of the Legislative Council refused to legislate to protect the passenger pigeons on the grounds that "the number of passenger pigeons is huge, the habitats are everywhere, and the feeding grounds are wide and open".

70s of the 19th century. After the end of the American Civil War, ornithologists had difficulty finding large flocks of passenger pigeons. There are also fewer and fewer records of wild passenger pigeons found in various places.

In 1878, in Pytoski, Michigan. 50,000 passenger pigeons were killed every day for 5 months.

In 1896, a flock of about 250,000 passenger pigeons was hunted, the last known large herd of passenger pigeons.

In the mid-90s of the 19th century, passenger pigeons were very rare. After that, the field records of the passenger pigeon were almost gone.

At the end of the 19th century, conservationists began to call for the protection of passenger pigeons, and legislation was passed in Michigan prohibiting the use of bird nets within two miles of the nesting sites of passenger pigeons, but this law was not strictly enforced.

On March 22, 1900, in a woodland on the outskirts of Pike County, Ohio, a 14-year-old boy hunter used his air gun to shoot down a wild passenger pigeon, the last recorded case of a wild passenger pigeon to date.

The last remaining pair of passenger pigeons left this world after leaving behind a young chick and a few unhatched eggs. Their chicks were given the name "Martha", after Martha Washington, the wife of the Founding Father of the United States.

At noon on September 1, 1914, the caretaker came to Martha's loft to inspect it, and saw Martha crouching on the roof, motionless looking at the sky outside, Martha's body was given to the Smithsonian Institution, which owns 140 museums, and was made into a taxidermy for preservation, but not for public display.

The Americans killed a passenger pigeon with a large population of 5 billion individuals. If the environmentalists of the past had the fighting power of the environmentalists in the United States today, the passenger pigeon would not have had such a fate, and it only took more than 300 years for a huge species to drop from 5 billion to 0 individuals.

If the Americans talk about China's environmental protection, the Chinese can definitely slap the face as long as they talk about the American passenger pigeon, and the Americans have nothing to say.

For example, Americans say: Chinese, you all have PM25 in the air. The Chinese say: Americans, you exterminated the passenger pigeon; The Americans said: Chinese, you are discharging sewage indiscriminately. The Chinese say: You have exterminated the passenger pigeon; The Americans said: Chinese, you have serious smog and heavy industry pollution exceeds the standard, and the Chinese say: Americans, you have exterminated the passenger pigeon; The Americans burst into tears: Big brother, let's not mention whether the passenger pigeon is good! Let's just say that you have exterminated the white rhinoceros; Chinese can also say: the white rhinoceros is indeed extinct, but there are not many white rhinos, but there are 5 billion passenger pigeons, so that you can kill them all in 300 years, big brother, you really can!

For the stalk of the passenger pigeon, you can't reveal the scars of the Americans, once 5 billion passenger pigeons, the passenger pigeon with a strong reproductive ability, with the 'number of survival' strategy failed, was killed by the Americans to 0, the strongest human death process, was done by the Americans.

Now Ao Guanhai suddenly saw that Wang Zhao gave him a pair of passenger pigeons, the mood can be imagined, this is like China's baby fish or giant pandas extinct for many years, people can only see these legendary animals in books, but suddenly a foreigner gave the Chinese government a pair, that is definitely a heavy gift!

Pu Yan didn't care much, but Ao Guanhai was really happy. He thanked him repeatedly, and couldn't wait to ask Wang Zhao where he had found the passenger pigeon.

Wang Zhao told him that the passenger pigeon in modern society is indeed extinct, but this does not mean that the passenger pigeon of other worlds is also extinct, as long as you go to other planes, you can find animals and plants that have long been extinct, the passenger pigeon is nothing, the Europe of the Xianxia world even has Western dragons, elves, dwarves and orcs, as for the dragon flying unicorn and other mythical beasts in the east are not uncommon, as long as you travel through the past, sooner or later you will be able to see the various species in those legends.

Ao Guanhai and Pu Yan know a little about the situation in the Xianxia world, in the information that President Xi gave them last night, they introduced the scene of Taiping Town and the topography of the nearby countryside, and attached the simple physical constants and chemical reactions of the Xianxia world, the standard atmospheric pressure in the Xianxia world is the same as that of the modern world, there is no difference in the speed of light, there is no difference in gravity, and most of the physical phenomena are the same, but in addition to having more unknown animals and plants, having legendary creatures and cultivating civilizations, there is no more content in the information that Mr. Xi gave them.

So they didn't know some details, but now after listening to Wang Zhao's introduction, they realized that there were so many unusual things in the Xianxia world, and there were even all kinds of legendary creatures, no wonder Mrs. Xi was able to raise a little fairy.

Ao Guanhai and Pu Yan thanked Wang Zhao for the gift, hurriedly said goodbye and left, and Wang Zhao waited for them to leave, first asked about the birth of the little fairy, when he learned that the little fairy conceived by Mrs. Xi not only has a high knowledge and IQ, but also can sing, can release the magic of life, is very good for the body of Mr. Xi and Mrs., he is very pleased, to the two of them one by one.

Mr. Xi and his wife also really liked the little fairy, and treated her as their own daughter, and smiled from ear to ear for Wang Zhao's congratulations, and thanked Wang Zhao for sending them the seeds of life.

After the greetings between the two sides were over and they began to get to the point, Wang Zhao informed Mr. Xi of his new discovery, a new world entered the eyes of the traversers, and a new goal was added to China's dimensional journey.

A world of the late Qing Dynasty with Shenji as the protagonist and crystal dust as the basis of science and technology.

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