Chapter 144 Show off skills
Yue Feng touched a handful of feathers on the big black eagle's breast with satisfaction and asked with a smile: "Why is it running away?"
"No, it He is a wild animal. Isn’t it normal to run?”
“You run because you are afraid. If you are not afraid, is there no need to run?” Yue Feng continued.
“Well, the truth is right, but we have never done any training on this Eagle before, calling it far away and calling for a runner? How do you know that it is not afraid anymore and will not run away!”
Xiao Tao scratched his head, still filled with questions. Xiao Tao understood the explanation given by Yue Feng, but he still couldn't connect it with his behavior just now.
“The falcon is smarter than the eagle. In fact, the training has always been done, but it’s just a different way!
From the beginning of putting a hat on the eagle to letting it recognize the bait, it is all in disguise. Doing far-reaching training!
It’s just that the indicator for testing the training results has changed from hanging on the line to calling for a runner!
For example, I will show you now, and you can see for yourself! ”
After saying this, Yue Feng took out another spare meat roll from his pocket, placed the eagle on the ground, and then did not take off the eagle's hat, but took the fifth step out, and then blew Whistled for feeding.
The next second, a scene that surprised Xiao Tao even more appeared.
The big black eagle, which was completely blind with its hat on, heard the whistle, touched the darkness, stretched its wings, and boldly walked step by step towards the position where Yue Feng was blowing the whistle.
When he reached the front, Yue Feng touched the hook of Daheiying's beak, and then gave the piece of meat to Daheiying.
After rubbing the tip of the big black eagle's beak to determine the position of the meat roll, he took the meat into his mouth and swallowed it.
"Did you see? This is what gave me the confidence to take off my hat, spread my hat, and boldly go to the ground to train the eagle!"
Yue Feng put his right hand on the big black eagle's chest and pressed it up slightly. Ying noticed it and stepped onto Yue Feng's hand in a tacit manner.
"Holy shit! This...how did you do this!" Xiao Tao's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost.
Is it still training an eagle to allow an eagle to take the initiative to look for Yue Feng with its hat on and in a completely blind state, and to accurately eat the meat in its mouth? It feels a bit like magic.
“In fact, it seems mysterious, but the truth is very simple!
First point, the IQ of falcons is far higher than that of eagles. Why don’t I use this method to train the big eagle at home? Because it’s inappropriate!
Falcon raptors are very smart, they understand humans more easily!
For example, I feed the eagle with a hat on it as soon as it arrives home. Every time I feed it, I whistle to determine the conditioned reflex signal. Over time, the big black eagle knows that when it hears the whistle, it will Something to eat!
Later, I used the hat to hold meat and feed it to the eagle, so that it could adapt to the two different states of taking off the hat and wearing the hat.
Later, let it recognize the fake bait!
This fake bait is just like when we rolled the iron-backed red eagle last time, telling the eagle that if it catches the fake bait, it will get meat!
As time goes by, the eagle recognizes the fake bait as a solid one. Even if it goes outdoors and goes to the ground, the eagle is firstly not afraid of people. Secondly, it has a familiar fake bait in front of it and will have something to eat when it catches it.
Thirdly, during this period, the weight and physical condition of the eagle have been under my continuous observation!
If you have done these three points, you will be able to do the subject of naturally swiping bait and flying! ”
After listening to Yue Feng’s series of explanations, Xiao Tao was thoughtful. He could understand every step of Yue Feng’s actions, but when connecting the internal logic, Xiao Tao seemed to be unable to fully understand it for a while. Digestion.
"Then... now the eagle can let go and fly up and down for many times chasing the fake bait. What's next? What will be done later?" Xiao Tao continued to ask.
The corner of Yue Feng's mouth raised slightly: "Later, I will gradually guide the big black eagle to adjust the flight radius when it dives to chase the fake bait! When I feel that the time is right, I will let the big black eagle take off!"
After hearing this, Xiao Tao nodded and continued to ask: "When the big black eagle can coil up, we can try to take it into the selective logging forest area to form an eagle? Catching roe deer and deer?"
Yue Feng nodded: "The hunting method of the big black eagle is to kick rather than catch, which determines that its upper limit of prey will be very high.
In the large selective logging area forest farm outside the dense forest area, There’s room for it all!
With people joining in, there is no need for it to subdue or even kill the prey. It only needs to be able to temporarily entangle the prey like a hunting dog and wait for people to get close, that is enough!
Of course, this is my initial idea. What happens next depends on training in actual combat.
After all, this is my first time raising a large gyrfalcon. I have to slowly explore the specific upper limit of its potential!
What we have to do now is to touch the bottom of the eagle first without hurting it or losing it.
Anyway, my idea is very simple. At least the big black hawk can make up for the shortcomings of hounds going up the mountain and being unable to catch up with animals such as roe deer and deer in the snow! If it can be useful when meeting other mountain animals, that would be even better! ”
After listening to Yue Feng's reverie, Xiao Tao nodded.
He now somewhat understands what Yue Feng said to him before.
In this falcon hunting training, after the eagle exceeds the weight range of the rabbit eagle, the larger the eagle, the lower the cost performance!
After all, the bigger the eagle, the bigger the corresponding prey. However, the number of large mountain livestock is small, and there is naturally less space for the eagle to perform.
Coupled with the fact that you have a big killer like a gun in your hand, there are many options to choose from on how to hunt the target prey more efficiently, and falconry may not necessarily be a big advantage.
However, even if Yue Feng knew these truths, so what if the top-notch falcon that could only be owned by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was placed in front of him, could he still tie it at home and let it wait until death as a mascot? Yue Feng is not just pursuing that.
"Okay, don't think about it. It's freezing cold outside. The training subjects for Big Black Eagle are completed today. Let's go home early and stay there!" Yue Feng waved his hand and held the eagle up with Xiao Tao. Hurrying towards home.
In the next few days, the weather will be more suitable and the wind level will be relatively low. Yue Feng will bring the big black eagle to this open field once a day to fish for small dishes of bait.
The status of this big black eagle is very stable. After gradually becoming familiar with the rules of the small plate of bait, the flying posture of the big black eagle every day, including the radius of flying around the bait, is improving little by little. .
After reaching Yue Feng’s expectation, Yue Feng decisively gave the Big Black Eagle new training subjects.
I saw him carrying the big black hawk alone to the crop fields outside the village. After opening the hawk's hat, he quietly held the hawk on the empty ground.
A moderate north wind blew, and the big black eagle's instinctive memory awakened, and it quickly spread its wings into the wind.
A few seconds later, the big black eagle kicked hard on Yue Feng's hand and flew directly into the sky.
Yue Feng just watched quietly as Dahei flew higher and higher in the air, and then flew in larger and larger circles.
Seeing this, some people may be eager to ask, what is this for? Do you want to release them? The eagle has already flown away, hurry up and blow the whistle and call back. When it flies high and far away, if you call the eagle again and it doesn't listen, won't all the energy you have wasted for so long be in vain?
Of course Yue Feng is not letting the big black eagle go, but is moving on to the next training subject.
Yue Feng calls this subject fixed-point flying!
After a person has established enough intimacy with the falcon, the big black eagle leaves Yue Feng's hand and will not run away with the mentality of escaping for his life. Instead, it will take off and wait for Yue Feng to use the previously trained plan. Take out the bait.
During this waiting process, the big black eagle will fly higher and higher on the air current, and the radius of the circle will become larger as it flies.
This is a training subject that tests the heart of the eagle handler. If the eagle's heat is not good enough, or if you are a little bit unlucky, the risk of flying the eagle is still relatively high.
However, Yue Feng is quite confident in his falcon training skills. He is sure that he has put enough effort into the big black eagle, and the affinity between one person and one eagle is enough.
Lifting the rack day and night that day and night was his confidence, weighing the fish diligently and responsibly every day was his confidence, and the eagle food that was accurate to grams every day was also his confidence.
These meticulous factors will eventually be reflected and rewarded in outdoor practical training.
When the big black eagle flew to an altitude of about seventy or eighty meters, Yue Feng felt that it was almost done, so he slowly took out the fake bait from his pocket.
Bright bait, whistle!
The big black eagle flying freely in the air, when it heard the whistle and saw the bait in Yue Feng's hand, very decisively followed a smooth dive curve and rushed straight down towards Yue Feng.
This time, Yue Feng did not continue to speed up the bait to avoid the diving attack, but sold the big black eagle a loophole, and directly let the big black eagle dive down at high speed to kick on the fake bait. solid.
There was just a crisp sound, and a handful of miscellaneous hairs on the pheasant wings on both sides of the fake bait were kicked off.
The big black hawk, which succeeded in one strike, traced a checkmark-shaped trajectory at low altitude, adjusted its posture in the air, turned around, and landed smoothly on the ground next to the fake bait.
"Good kick!!"
Yue Feng whispered excitedly and clenched his fists tightly.
No wonder those princes and nobles are pursuing this Haidong Qingpanhun. The power of the kick just now was so special and enjoyable!
As the person who personally swung the bait, the sound of Big Black Eagle's tiger palm kicking on the fake bait rang in Yue Feng's ears. The effect produced by the superposition of this sense of power and speed was heard. After that, the blood surged uncontrollably, and it was extremely overwhelming.
The big black eagle has long been accustomed to the body movements, language and sounds of the owner next to him. He squatted on the bait and feasted, swallowing all the pieces of meat tied to the bait.
After half of the rations were eaten, Yue Feng blew the whistle as usual to let the eagle take it, then fed the other half of the meat roll with the hairy shaft to the eagle, and then took the big black eagle home.
In the next few days, Yue Feng will come to Daye every day to repeat this fixed-point flying subject.
Under Yue Feng's conscious control, the time the big black eagle flew in the air became longer and longer every day, from the first three to five minutes, to more than ten minutes, and then more than twenty minutes.
A few days later, the big black hawk hovered in the sky and waited for more than 40 minutes.
The truth that choice is greater than effort has once again been verified in Yue Feng's actual training. No wonder the ancestors admired the best falcon so much. This thing is smart and it is really easy to train. ah.
After two more days of intensive training, the Big Black Eagle can now hover in the air for more than an hour, flying at a height of about 70 or 80 meters, and with a circle radius of about 300 to 400 meters.
At this point, Yue Feng has passed the fixed-point flying subject, and Yue Feng continues to train on the next new subject, following the flying subject.
Following the circling is relative to the term fixed-point circling. The general meaning is that after the falcon takes off, it flies around and waits for the command to be issued in the Eagle Handle Pose. The Eagle Handle Pose will be performed during this period. Movement, the training requirement is to have the falcon move with the eagle when it detects the eagle's handle, and always keep it within a certain range above the owner's head.
If you switch to other falcon-like raptors with slightly lower IQs, the difference from fixed point to mobile following may not seem big, but the training period may be very long.
The emotional bond between the eagle and people is too shallow. After discovering that the person has left, the eagle may move autonomously. Beyond a certain range, the eagle cannot hear the eagle handle command, or there may be other things that attract the eagle's attention. If you pay attention, you will lose your eagle.
But this guy, Big Black Eagle, after his emotional reserve was suppressed, his affinity with people and his ability to obey training are quite high. He is especially smart and can easily understand what people mean.
Here, Yue Feng picked another sunny and windy weather suitable for outdoor flying training. After releasing the big black hawk according to the usual procedure, within a few minutes, he began to consciously move toward the southwest.
As he walked, Yue Feng raised his head from time to time to observe the flying performance of the big black eagle. When he found that the flight radius was slightly off, Yue Feng would blow a whistle.
Hearing the whistle, the big black eagle initially thought that it would be fed soon, so it returned to the sky above Yue Feng’s head to wait for the bright bait.
Yue Feng didn’t reveal the fake bait for a long time, and the big black eagle circled and waited patiently. Yue Feng continued to move his position, and the big black eagle continued to follow. It was just the first follow-up training, and the big black eagle left the village. He went to the production place outside and followed Yue Feng home directly.
This scene was a bit fantasy. Yue Feng showed off the fake bait in the yard of his home, and then blew the whistle again.
I saw the big black eagle that had been following in the air make another iconic vertical dive, hit the fake bait with one kick, and then landed at Yue Feng’s feet, stepping on the fake bait and lowering his head to face Meatloaf is a show-off.
When the meat on the fake bait was finished, the big black eagle was still not satisfied and watched Yue Feng suddenly open his mouth.
Quack, quack, quack!
The big black eagle, which had exceeded the training target, started to quack at Yue Feng.
While shouting, he also repeatedly turned his head slightly, and his subtle body movements looked very anthropomorphic.
How to describe it? It seems to be expressing, look at how well I do, give me more delicious food!
Eagles seldom squawk when kept at home. The only exception is that the milk eagle in Yue Lei's hand will beg for food and squawk. Unexpectedly, this big black eagle went to the village today. When I returned to Yue Feng's home following the training, I also started shouting.
The four dogs in the yard originally barked and wagged their tails when they saw Yue Feng coming home. However, after the big black hawk descended from the sky, these dogs seemed to have seen a fatal threat, and they all lay there and moved. Don't dare to move.
(End of this chapter)