217 Hunting grounds
When most people understand animals, they rarely pay attention to what family they are, basically they know a name and understand the general habits.
But no one ever thought that there were other organisms under the category of Homo.
Looking at the lively live broadcast room, Wen Wanwan also had a smile on her face.
Compared with boring learning in school, this kind of popular science in the live broadcast room can undoubtedly attract this group of netizens more.
Maybe I still can't remember it after a long time, but after all, Wen Wanwan spent most of the month in the live broadcast.
Now this group of sand sculpture netizens has gradually learned about these things of animal protection imperceptibly.
If you see at least one animal, you will be able to speculate about some of its habits.
Wen Wanwan rubbed the snow area in her arms, then put it on the ground, and continued to climb towards the mountain with Xiaola.
The environment at the foot of the mountain is relatively badly damaged, but when the altitude exceeds 1,000 meters, the ecology makes Wen Wanwan breathe a sigh of relief.
At an altitude of 1,000 meters above sea level in the snow area, even if it is warm and late, you have to take a breath of oxygen from time to time to ensure the normal supply of the body.
And for most ordinary tourists, this height is basically the limit.
Very few tourists risk their lives to continue the climb, which also means that the large amount of plastic waste will not affect the ecology above Kailash.
After going around for a while, Wen Wanwan also squatted on the ground and took a small shovel to dig out the soil.
After rubbing it with my fingertips, I probably understood the current situation.
The soil is drained of nutrients due to the large amount of garbage at the foot of the mountain, and the roots of the grass buried below can already be clearly seen to be rotting in many places.
But that's only a kilometre away, and if it's up, it's a lot better.
"Have you counted the number of golden eagles on Kailash now?"
Xiao La heard Wen Wanwan's words, and thought for a moment before answering.
"One is from two years ago, and it was about 30 to 50."
Hearing this answer, Wen Wanwan also began to bring in and calculate step by step according to the formula.
Kailash's carnivores are not only golden eagles, but also Tibetan foxes and lynxes, which all eat meat.
Now, the grassland soil is not rich in nutrients and obviously does not support a large number of herbivores, which has led to the scarcity of herbivores.
Other carnivores are only on a downward trend now, but the golden eagle flying in the sky has to compete with so many animals for food, and it has become the first problem.
"Has anyone seen a snow leopard on Kailash?"
"Yes."
"How many lynxes are there?"
……
Xiao La can be sent to assist Wen Wanwan, these materials have long been memorized, and almost every question can get an answer.
After chatting for more than ten minutes, Wen Wanwan probably calculated a set of data.
The density of carnivores throughout Kailash is high, and almost half of the territory of the individual territories is overlapping.
It's no wonder that golden eagles can't find food, and this density of carnivores can only survive in extremely resource-rich areas.
If Kailash is still in the first stage and maintains an intact ecology, as long as you walk up the mountain, you can see a lot of animals everywhere.
But now that the ecology is declining, the density range of these carnivores has become a lifeline.
"Let's keep walking, I'm going to an altitude of 2,500 meters today, and I'm going to determine the activity of some herbivores there."
"Good!"
Xiaola has no objection to Wen Wanwan's decision, everyone is playing metaphysics, and their physical fitness is far beyond that of ordinary people.
When there are enough oxygen cylinders, it is not dangerous.
The two of them walked all the way up the mountain, although they didn't see any animals in the morning sun, but many traces could not escape Wen Wanwan's eyes.
As long as an animal passes by, it will inevitably leave traces in the forest, just like a lynx is in the moulting period, and the hair on their body will unconsciously stick to some leaves when they pass through the bushes.
Starting from 1,000 meters, Wen Wanwan has found traces of lynx more than 20 times.
And, crucially, Kailash is not just rabbits as a staple food for carnivores.
At a distance of two thousand meters, Wen Wanwan found a lot of bushes that had been gnawed, judging by the tooth marks and footprints left on the ground.
Most likely, a herd of more than fifty Tibetan antelopes.
When the two reached an altitude of 2,500 meters, Xiaola was already wearing a rough breath and leaning against a stone with an oxygen cylinder.
Some of them are real animals, and they only rested twice in the middle of the 1,500-meter altitude climbing trip.
Obviously, he is still a child, and he has only been in contact with metaphysics for two years, and his physical fitness is far from reaching the peak.
If the foundation is not good enough, it is not impossible to bury it directly on the mountain today!
Wen Wanwan found a place with a wider field of vision and sat down, picked up the map and began to draw it with a pencil.
The camera shone on the map, looking at Wen Wanwan's constantly marked lines and overlapping circles, and a large question mark floated in the entire live broadcast room.
However, showing it to the audience means that Wen Wanwan must explain it.
"We found traces of Tibetan antelopes at this point, and according to the animal water source theory, there are three water sources for them to live in this vicinity."
"The one on the left is very close to a few lynxes, which means there are only two water sources left for them to choose from."
"Coupled with the large population of the entire Tibetan antelope, this can be deduced from a general range of their movements."
After a pause, Wen Wanwan drew another dotted line, enclosing several circles.
"And this area is the hunting grounds, and it's a large hunting ground for all the carnivores combined."
Before coming up again, Wen Wanwan didn't expect things to be like this.
As a matter of common sense, animals usually have their own territory, and hunting is only carried out within their own territory.
But in front of him, Kailash had an unexpected situation because of the excessive density of carnivores.
All the carnivores form an extra-large encirclement that encloses all the herbivores.
Although he has reduced the scope of his territory, he has a hunting ground in a common area.
This also means that Wen Wanwan's work will be greatly reduced, as long as the ecology of this public hunting ground is enriched to ensure that herbivores can reproduce in large numbers, then the problem of the golden eagle will no longer be a problem.
(End of chapter)