38. Ginseng
Receiving the meaning of the cub, the tiger mother lovingly lowered her head and licked Lin Qian's little brain.
Cub, mom knows that you are filial, but plants are really not something that tigers love to eat.
Medicinal herbs such as ginseng and reishi are instinctively known to be beneficial to wild animals, but under normal circumstances, carnivorous beasts do not eat them.
Wild animals, based on their instinct and desire to survive, often eat the leaves, flowers, fruits, stems, and roots of plants.
Over time, animals are naturally able to distinguish the characteristics of various plants.
For example, when injured, animals will actively seek out herbs to eat, which are used to promote physical recovery.
Not only are the herbs for treating injuries and detoxification, but the animals also know more or less about them.
Like common diarrhea, even domestic dogs know to go to the grass to find grass to eat and treat themselves for gastrointestinal problems.
The ancients learned a lot of herbal knowledge from animals, such as perilla grass, which can cure diarrhea, that is, Hua Tuo saw that there were hares to eat, which could cure abdominal pain.
"Huh~" Seeing that the tiger mother was indifferent, Lin Qian was a little anxious, the tiger mother didn't eat, and he and the courage didn't dare to try.
You can't let him keep this ginseng in his mouth, right? How tiring that is!
But this fresh ginseng, Lin Qian was reluctant to throw it away, so he immediately took the ginseng in his mouth and tried to hand it over to the tiger mother.
Seeing the cub's insistence, the tiger mother expressed her helplessness, but after all, she lowered her head, rolled the plant she didn't like into her mouth, and swallowed it in her stomach.
Lin Qian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and his little head rubbed the hair on the tiger mother's chest.
Courage stood aside and witnessed the whole process, his little head tilted slightly, and he saw the tiger mother eating ginseng.
The little tiger went to the bushes and came back with a mouthful of grass in his mouth.
"Wow~" Mom, Mom, I'm also bringing you something to eat!
The tiger mother looked at the moist weeds and leaves, and the tiger's paw slapped her courage, and the little tiger instantly turned its feet to the sky.
"Roar." Let's go, it's time to move on to a new home.
The tiger mother let out a low roar and immediately turned to leave.
If you stay here, you will have to eat as many plants as you want!
Courageously turned over and stood up, screaming behind his mother.
As if complaining aggrieved, "Mom, you are partial!" ”
Lin Qian looked at his stupid younger brother and wanted to cover his face a little.
This is a fool.
However, after this experience, he accepted the idea of picking herbs, the tiger does not like to eat plants, and he has no way to store them, so it is better to let the herbs continue to grow in the soil.
You must know that the higher the age of the herb, the better the medicinal power.
And now that there is a magical energy in the forest that is changing plants, maybe they will be able to eat mutant ginseng and mutated Ganoderma lucidum in the future?
Mutated herbs should always be more effective than mutated weeds.
Although the sky is clear, the torrent has not subsided, and you can still hear the deafening sound of rushing water when you walk near the river.
The tiger mother, who had not eaten for two days, was already feeling hungry, and she turned her gaze away from the river and into the dense forest.
There may still be opportunities to pick up corpses by the river, but it's certainly not new. If she could, tiger mothers would still prefer to eat bloody meat.
After walking a few hundred meters, a humming sound came from the river.
The tiger mother stopped in the bushes on the bank of the river and narrowed her eyes slightly.
I saw that in the silt field next to the river, there was a male wild boar wrapped in mud excitedly.
The wild boar was covered with jet-black bristles, and the protruding back was sparsely distributed with needle hair, which was now mostly covered with muddy water.
It shaved the dirt with its short hooves, stirring the mud and stirring the mud, and it was very excited.
The boar snorted triumphantly as it stirred with the mud and murky waters, clearly pleased with its masterpiece.
Its sun-facing side had dried up, and the mud had congealed into plates and stuck to its hair, and the soil had fallen down its rough skin.
This is how the mud armor on the boar's body is formed, and this dirty mud provides it with protection.
Wild boars are usually active at night and rest during the day.
Because of the high overlap between their schedules and those of the top predator, the Siberian tigers, they are inevitably included in the Siberian tigers' menus, and they have become the second best food and grass in the Siberian tigers' diets, second only to red deer.
Therefore, the tiger mother is no stranger to wild boars, and even it is familiar with the habits and evasion methods of this prey.
The wild boar in front of him has long tusks, it is a male wild boar that has just reached adult, and according to its current size, it is not difficult to suppress.
Well, all that's left is the timing of the attack.
Lin Qianhe had the courage to look at the swarthy behemoth below and was a little nervous, the wind brought the breath of the river, which was mixed with the smell of wild boars.
The two tiger cubs quickly discerned that it was an adult male wild boar that they could not provoke at the moment.
Tigers can not only tell the age of their kind, but also the age, male and female of their prey through their sense of smell.
I have to say, this is a very amazing talent.
As soon as Lin Qianhe saw the state of the tiger mother, he knew that this big guy was going to become a delicacy for their family.
The two tacitly agreed to lie on the ground and not drag their mother back!
The tiger mother looked at the well-behaved tiger cubs, and immediately cheered up and turned on the hunting mode.
Although wild boar is a common food on the diet, it is not so smooth to hunt.
In the past, when the tiger mother hunted wild boars, the wild boars were often allowed to escape because of the lack of size suppression, but now the physique comparable to that of the male Siberian tiger has made the tiger mother more confident.
But she remains cautious and never arrogant.
The colorful tiger is slowly approaching, but the wild boar bent on stirring the muddy water is unaware.
It still struggled to arch at the dirt around it, trying to coat it all over its body.
The successive rainy days washed away its previous mud armor, and now that the sun is shining, of course, the male wild boar must immediately put a thick layer of mud armor on himself.
Slowly approaching the prey and walking to the best attack position, the tiger mother launched an attack without hesitation, and the Siberian tiger's attack has always been sharp and crisp, never dragging mud and water.
At the same time as pounced on the boar, the tiger mother's claws also pressed the boar's abdomen in an instant, and like a hot knife cutting butter, the sharp tiger claws tore the pig's skin effortlessly.
Warm blood slowly spilled out of the wound with internal organs.
"Whew!!"
In the face of the sudden attack, the wild boar did not react, and the pain in its abdomen stimulated it to wail.
The mother tiger ignored the boar's terrible howl, and it pulled it again, completely disemboweling the boar.
The wound was getting bigger and bigger, and the wild boar screamed and struggled, but its strength was not as strong as that of the huge female tiger, and it was pressed down by the tiger mother, unable to move.
The tiger mother pressed the prey to death, and the tiger claws pressed hard again.
The male boar's howl suddenly reached its climax, and then he snorted twice and was no longer alive.