Chapter 25 (Part I) The Iron Monster

"The cubs of wild boars, the taste is called a fragrant and tender! The color is the same as amber, and it is like real gold, and the entrance is eliminated, strong as snow, moist with slurry, and special and extraordinary. Ma Li hadn't eaten it himself, but he still boasted about it according to the feeling he imagined.

Roast suckling pig!

This is a big dish, suitable for large groups or high-end formal banquets, the status is equivalent to bird's nest shark fin, and it is definitely qualified as the main dish.

A long time ago, this dish was listed as one of the "Eight Treasures", and it was called "Cannon Dolphin" at that time.

"Big baby! Don't tease your little sister, the wild boar in the mountains is not easy to mess with, even the tiger has to be afraid of three points! It is not easy to eat its cubs, and even Grandpa has eaten it once or twice outside the mountains when he was young. Grandpa couldn't see it, and at the same time he was inevitably muttering in his heart, he wouldn't be hit by the crow's mouth of the big baby!

If you really encounter a wild boar, it's not easy to do!

I hope it's just a matter of thinking about it, and it's best not to encounter it, but if it does, it's a troublesome thing.

It's good to go up the mountain by yourself on weekdays.

Don't be said by the big baby, if you really encounter the steel monster in the mountains - wild boar, it will be really difficult to do, I'm afraid that the hunting bow in your hand can't shoot through the boar skin!

"It's not that the wild boar in the mountains, its natural enemy is the tiger, why does the tiger have to take care of three points?" Ma Li remembered that someone seemed to have mentioned it before.

I don't know if the wild boars in the mountains can be domesticated, if they can, they can completely adopt and domesticate these wild boars and bison, so that the family does not have to worry about eating meat!

The nutrition at home has completely kept up!

As for how to domesticate?

Ma Like has a boss cultivation system, and only needs to spend 10 reputation points to obtain the primary domestication skill.

Unless the domestication skill is not a beginner skill, but an intermediate or advanced skill.

Grandpa smiled and said: "It is said that the tiger and the wild boar are competing, although the tiger is extremely fierce and powerful, and it is originally known as the king of the forest and the king of beasts." But it doesn't have to be the tiger to win. You must know that wild boars are not bad. It has thick skin, and it is either armor made of mud or soft hedgehog armor mixed with pine resin rubber. Plus two sharp teeth on the side of the big mouth. It's not easy for a tiger to kill a wild boar!"

They have a robust body, stubby limbs, a long head, small and erect ears, a snout protruding like a cone, and a bare cartilage pad (i.e., arched nose) at the top;

Each foot has 4 toes, and the hooves are stiff, and only the middle 2 toes touch the ground;

tail is thin and short, canines are well developed, and in males the upper canines are exposed and flipped upwards to be fang-shaped;

Ma Li glanced at Grandpa and said suspiciously: "So that's the case! Are the tigers and wild boars about the same strength?"

The ears of wild boars are covered with stiff and sparse needle hairs, and the dorsal mane is long and stiff;

The overall body color is tan or grayish-black, with slight differences depending on the region.

The heavier ones weigh about half a ton.

A real thousand pounds!

"Wild boars are omnivorous, not in competition with tigers, and tigers are ferocious because of their foraging instincts. But if the wild boar is provoked, then the wild boar's lethality is not necessarily weaker than that of the tiger!" said Grandpa after a moment of contemplation.

Ma Li continued to ask: "Since the food of wild boars is very miscellaneous, does Grandpa know what wild boars eat in general?"

Grandpa said casually: "Eat everything you can eat, including grass, fruits, nuts, roots, insects, birds' eggs, rats, carrion, and even hares and deer cubs." You don't want to raise some wild boars, do you?"

Wild boars like to live in oak forests on sunny slopes in winter.

Because of the warm sunny slopes and the abundance of acorns under the leaf litter of oak forests, wild boars depend on them to survive the winter.

Once the acorns are harvested, a large number of wild boars will starve to death the following spring, which is also the natural culling of wild boars.

In summer, wild boars like to live close to water sources, especially in high mountains with low temperatures and natural pools, where wild boars often feed and bathe in muddy water.

Shady aspen, birch forests, larch forests, and spruce forests are also good places for wild boars to move around in summer.

Wild boars also have a much richer diet, including grass and worms in the soil, and sometimes steal bird eggs, especially those of grouse, pheasants, and chicks.

Although nests are generally well hidden, wild boars have a keen sense of smell and can smell the location of the nest.

Usually the female who hatches her eggs will fly out quickly, hoping to lure the boar away from the nest, but the boar, knowing that a nest of eggs is nearby, will continue to look for the nest until it is found.

Ma Li didn't want to explain more for the time being, shook his head and said, "How can it, just think about it! If you have that time, you might as well catch two more fish!"

Grandpa nodded and said: "This is also true, wild boars are not only difficult to catch, even if they are raised, they are not easy to raise, and the three heads will run away in two days, which is quite dangerous to say! Wild boars are not only good at preying on rabbits and mice, but also at scorpions and snakes. Of course, hungry male wild boars prey on young leopards and jackals. If you can't get it, children will eat it. A few years ago, a family in the back of our village raised wild boars, and as a result, their grandson, who was just a few months old, was bitten to death, and his face was bitten, that miserable!"

Ma Li was very surprised and said, "So ruthless? Even children eat it." Since wild boars are so powerful, what do even more powerful tigers eat?"

"No, doesn't it mean that the tiger is extremely fierce and powerful, and has the titles of the king of the forest and the king of beasts? How can it not even kill a wild boar?" Ma Li didn't know for a moment whether he was too light on the pig, or too much to lift up the tiger?

If you have the opportunity to domesticate even the tigers together, then it will not be too convenient to come to the mountains to hunt with you!

"Tigers don't easily catch adult male wild boars if they have other food. The wild boar itself is not easy to provoke, and its strength is not bad, not to mention that it has two sharp fangs. The wild boar is full and has nothing to do, and likes to roll in the mud pond and rub some pine resin under the pine tree, and the guy is like wearing a thick armor, and it is estimated that even if it fights, the tiger will have to work hard. "Grandpa is quite familiar with the habits of animals in the mountains.

"What kind of animals do tigers like to eat?" Ma Li asked, pushing the cart and looking at Grandpa.

Ma Li is looking forward to domesticating tigers in his heart, as long as he is stocked in the mountains on weekdays, and occasionally he goes into the mountains to hunt, and he can let the domesticated tigers help.

In this way, it completely avoids the domestication at home, which is easy to eat people!

"The main thing is to have a little meat, like a little white rabbit, a little squirrel or something, you can't look at it!" Grandpa smiled and said with a behemoth.

"Is it a wild boar?" Ma Li looked at Grandpa's gesture, this huge physique must be at the level of a wild boar.

"In addition to wild boars, there are also sika deer, bison, goats and so on! Its main food is wild boar, almost half of it eats wild boar, it may be that wild boars are easy to reproduce! Tiger predatory species include wild boar, red deer, moose, sika deer, roe deer, musk deer, hares, lynx, wolves, black bears, brown bears, etc., as long as they have meat, they like to eat, but in general, tigers will still avoid adult wild boars, big bison, these large animals!" Grandpa said casually as he walked.

"Oh, I see, compared to adult wild boars, other large animals are not very lethal!" Ma Li thought for a moment, and continued to push the cart as he spoke.