Chapter 382: The Bird with the Highest Intelligence

Listening to the old man talk about this, although the scorching sun was in the sky, he still felt a chill down his spine.

The old man continued: "I hastened to sit up and look up at the treetops, but I saw all the figures, only a few eagles, and I looked at them carefully, and was astonished—although they looked no different from ordinary eagles at first glance, but when I looked closely, they were very different - their heads were much larger than those of ordinary eagles, and except that their beaks were as sharp as those of other eagles, and in terms of their heads and eyebrows, they were very similar to monkeys, and they could be said to be a bit like people, and they were creepy to look at. It turns out that these eagles are not only strange-looking, but also able to make human voices like parrots.

At first glance, the voices sounded like people talking, but on closer inspection they weren't—they were muffled babbles, not a single clear word, but the tone, tone, and sound were too human-like.

I suddenly remembered that when I was a child, I heard my father tell me that in this mountain, there is a special kind of eagle called the 'monkey eagle', which has a head similar to that of a monkey, and is very intelligent, and can also make sounds similar to that of a parrot like a human.

However, this kind of 'monkey eagle' is a very fierce thing, and people will have bad luck when they see it, and I thought at the time, my own luck has been extremely bad, how bad can it be?

Therefore, after seeing this kind of eagle, I was not worried about any bad luck at all, but I was very curious about this kind of eagle, and I didn't expect that there would be such a strange eagle in the world.

In general, eagles are loners and rarely get together, but this is clearly not the case with this type of eagle.

Since then, I have often visited the area and quietly observed the 'monkey eagles', and after observing them for a long time, I realized that these 'monkey eagles' are really clever when hunting.

For example, there is a kind of tree in the mountains, every autumn, a lot of gum will flow out of the trunk, this gum is very sticky, as long as a little bit of it, it has to be a layer of skin to break free.

But strange to say, such a sticky gum does not stick to the leaves of this tree, if you accidentally get stuck with this gum, just crush the leaves of this tree, and then rub the sticky place, the stickiness will basically disappear, and, less commonly, the leaves of this tree are also very large - about the size of a cattail fan.

But there are very few such trees, and only in the depths of the mountains can one or two be seen occasionally. But the 'monkey eagle' can use this gum to catch deer.

You also know that in the mountains of this area, there is a kind of deer, this kind of deer is unique to our area, from the size and size, are very different from the deer in other places, and the meat is extremely delicious, which is also incomparable with the deer in other places, if you can catch such a deer, you will definitely be able to sell it at a high price when you go down the mountain, and some hunters have an income a year, and it is not comparable to the price of such a deer.

But this deer is becoming less and less common, and in recent decades, it has almost become extinct. And even if you see it, it is very difficult to catch it, because this deer runs extremely fast, how fast is it? Some hunters say that it can be as fast as an arrow.

But what I didn't expect was that these 'monkey eagles' had a way to catch them.

I saw with my own eyes that several 'monkey eagles' spread the leaves of this tree under the tree, so that the extremely sticky resin flowed onto the leaves.

They wrap the resin in the leaves, and then grab it with their claws, find a smooth stone, sprinkle the resin on it, and then on the resin, they will pull some, strange to say, when the sun shines, this kind of gum with on it, will emit a special smell, and what is even stranger is that this smell can actually attract the deer, as if the deer love to smell this smell.

When the deer want to break free, it is too late, although they try their best to break free, but the more they break free, the tighter they get, at this time, several 'monkey eagles' will fly over, and then stand on the body of the deer, grasp with their claws, peck with their mouths, and soon, a living wild deer will soon become a blur of flesh and blood, and become a pile of flesh and bones.

And that's not the end of it, when the 'monkey hawk' eats the venison almost, it flies away, and some wild beasts, such as wolves and jackals, smell blood and come over to eat the rest of the venison.

In the same way, as soon as these animals step on that kind of gum, they will also get stuck because they can't break free, and they will end up trapped there.

As soon as these sticky beasts died, the 'monkey eagles' would fly over, and strangely enough, they would not eat the flesh of these animals, perhaps because their meat was not tasty, but they would peck at the eyeballs of these beasts, and after eating them, they would fly away.

It seems that these 'monkey eagles' are very picky eaters, and rarely eat any meat other than the venison they are seen.

But the number of deer is too small after all, I have followed these 'monkey eagles' for more than a month, and I have only seen them eat venison once like this, and then the eyes of the two wolves that were trapped were also eaten by them, and other than that, I have never seen these 'monkey eagles' hunt on a large scale.

I thought it was incredible, eagles should eat a lot, if they eat so little in a month, how can it be enough?

It was about a month before I began to discover their secrets - at night, out of nowhere, they would catch some food to eat, at first because it was at night, I could only vaguely see what prey they were holding on to their claws when they flew from a distance, and sometimes that prey would make a sharp call.

After catching this prey, they will eat it in the nest. And every day or so, these 'monkey eagles' will prey on this way, it turns out that this is their main way of predation.

I remember that it was about one night around the middle of the year, the moonlight was very bright, and I could finally see the prey in the claws of the 'monkey eagle' more clearly - the shape and size were a bit like babies, and I was nervous at that time, and I wondered, could these 'monkey eagles' be catching babies to eat? But it doesn't sound like a shrill cry, because it's impossible for a baby to make that sound.

So what the hell could it be?

I couldn't help but be curious, so I climbed up to the cliff to see their nests during the day, when the 'monkey eagles' were all flying out.

None of their nests were built by themselves, but caves in the cliffs, some large enough for a person to enter and exit.

When I climbed to the mouth of the cave where the eagle's nest was, there was a strong smell of blood and sourness, which almost made me vomit, and I quickly covered my nose with my hand and forced myself to look into the cave.

In that cave, the bones were in disarray, and some of them had become white bones; On the bones of some corpses, they are drenched in blood, and there are skin and flesh that have not been pecked clean, which is shocking to look at.

What's even more frightening is the white skeleton, which really looks like a baby, but if you look closely, it is not, because except for the limbs and shape that are more similar to people, the head is not like it at all. I really don't know what kind of monster this is, saying that a monkey is not like a monkey, it opens from the shape of a head, and it is not a human, so what kind of monster is this?

This 'monkey eagle' is really weird, even the prey it eats is so weird.

I looked in again, and it turned out that there was a dark river in the cave on this cliff, and many of these bones had been thrown into that river.

As I was looking in, suddenly a monster crawled out of the bones, and I was so frightened that I almost fell off the cliff, only to see the monster the size of a baby, green all over, with two rabbit-like ears on either side of the head, and eyes as red as rabbits.

Isn't this just a little ghost? I couldn't help but scream, and quickly let go of the rope and descended to the ground, but fortunately the cliff was not high, only a few feet, and since then, I have often had nightmares, dreaming of that strange thing, until now, after so many years, sometimes I still dream, and then I am scared to wake up.

Later, I thought about it, that ghost-like thing should actually be the food that the 'monkey eagle' eats, and judging from the size and shape of those white bones, it is the bones of a ghost-like monster. ”

When the old man said this, it dawned on us that it was the cub of the amphibian, and it was actually the main food of the 'monkey eagle'. But how could the 'monkey eagle' catch so many amphibian cubs? Where did they get them?

According to the old man's account, from the process of catching deer by the 'monkey eagle', it can be completely known that this 'monkey eagle' has a very high intelligence, and it is really a "strange bird". "Then how did you catch such a 'monkey eagle'?" The female translator was also fascinated by what she heard, and after the old man Ouyang finished speaking, she couldn't wait to ask.

The old man was asked like this, as if he was reminded of his heart again, and said with a long sigh: "It's tragic enough, I think this 'monkey eagle' has such a high intelligence, and it is ferocious and abnormal, there must be no natural enemies, but I didn't expect that these 'monkey eagles' were also conspired against, and the means of this conspiracy were very high, so that almost all of these 'monkey eagles' died, fortunately, I rescued one, otherwise it would be completely extinct."

When the old man said this, we were taken aback, because we know better than the old man that this kind of 'monkey eagle' eats the cubs of the amphibians, then they must be the natural enemies of the amphibians, so the one who wants to destroy them the most must also be the amphibians.

But we all know that the intelligence of these amphibians is not high - unless it is a hybrid between amphibians and humans, but even if they are "hybrid" amphibians, their intelligence will never be higher than that of ordinary people, how can they come up with an "extremely clever" way to plot against "monkey eagles"?

Could it be that there are also high-ranking people among the amphibians?

We all listened attentively to the old man's continuation: "You may not believe what kind of 'monkey eagle' is so shrewd, that since I climbed the cliff to see their nests, when they came back that evening, they flew away as soon as they reached the entrance of the cave, and found a new nest, and never returned to that nest since."

Since I'm also a hunter, I can probably understand what this is all about - these carnivorous birds and animals are extremely sensitive to smells, and they all use their sense of smell to find food.

For example, if a wolf is downwind, it can smell prey within five or six miles.

Why did this 'monkey eagle' find me and go to their nest? They were obviously on the edge of the nest, smelled me, knew someone had been, so they moved right away and never went back to the nest, and one thing, these 'monkey eagles' did a better ......job."