Chapter 186 Jackal Blood and Golden Eagle
A few people followed to the door of the underground cellar, and Uncle Zhao put the wild boar down from his shoulders.
The wild boar landed on the ground, and the five well-behaved red dogs that had been following it a moment ago immediately surrounded it and bit at the oil-rich area under the wild boar’s belly.
The bite force of this red dog is obviously stronger than that of a hunting dog. Its sharp canine teeth can tear the belly of a wild boar with one bite, and it can pull off a piece of flesh with a shake of its head. The teeth are extremely sharp.
Uncle Zhao seemed to know the nature of his dogs. He took off the leg plug from his leg, cut off a long strip of meat, and then gave it to several dogs that were lowering their heads to chew the meat. One kick.
"Come here, eat meat!"
While speaking, he opened a small wooden fence next to him and threw the meat in. ,
The five dogs immediately got in, and Uncle Zhao instantly blocked the door and locked the dogs into this special kennel that was half underground and half above ground.
"It's a bit cleaner now, come in! I'll boil water for you to keep warm!"
While speaking, Uncle Zhao opened the fence door of the cellar and led several people out. Sunken steps lead into the house.
The area inside this cellar is probably less than two adobe houses. The room is dimly lit, with only a small window less than half a meter long. Near the northeast corner is a fire pit. Commonly used daily items are placed against the wall.
Because most of the structure is underground, and the location chosen is sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, it is much warmer inside the house than outside.
After the old man entered the door, he picked up an iron pot from the stove, turned around and went out to fill the snow, and then brought it in again.
Burning snow water is the most common way to get water in the mountains in winter. Just light the firewood and it will start in a short time.
You can tell at a glance that the old man has already adapted to life in the mountains, and his work is full of neatness.
After the water boiled, Uncle Zhao used an aluminum ladle to scoop a ladle of water and poured it into a can, and then said: "The conditions on the mountain are limited, and I usually don't have many people here, so you brothers take turns drinking! Drink some hot water and it will warm you up!”
Yue Feng did not drink water, but carried the bulk liquor that had been dragged on the sledge into the house.
"Uncle, I brought this to you specially before I came! Sanbai, it's not a valuable thing, don't dislike it!"
Seeing the ten-pound plastic wine barrel, Zhao Dashan was stunned: "Bring it to me? You don't know me, how could you think of bringing this to me!"
"Hehe, we came from home, the road is too far, we come and go every time It would be close to a day, so we discussed it before coming and planned to spend the night in the mountains
I heard from Uncle Chen that you have a local man who lives on the mountain all year round in Woniu Mountain, so I brought some wine in advance. If I can meet him, I will treat you as a younger generation to honor you! "
When he said these words, Yue Feng was not embarrassed at all. He had already figured out the tempers of these old-school hunters through dealing with Chen Pao. The more fake and fake they were, the more they looked at them. No, but it’s generous and generous, and people appreciate it more
“Okay! I stopped at the beginning of this month, and I was still thinking about waiting for a good day to go down to the mountains to get some wine, so that I could take advantage of my eldest nephew! You guys should spend the night peacefully at my uncle's place. There's not enough room for so many people to sleep on the kang, so just make do with a bunk on the floor. It's better than sleeping in a snow house! There are roe deer buried behind my house. Let’s stew the roe deer meat for dinner! ”
“Okay! By the way, uncle, do you still keep a red dog for hunting? Isn’t this thing too mature? "After talking about the business, Yue Feng brought the topic to Uncle Zhao's five jackals.
"You are not old, so your eyesight is not bad? Ever seen a jackal before? ”
Uncle Zhao was surprised to see Yue Feng recognize the jackal he had raised.
Although people often talk about jackals, tigers and leopards, they are not very common in the mountains, especially in the gathering areas around Xing'an Village, where there have been no jackals for decades. There were traces of Yue Feng, Zhao Dashan concluded from Yue Feng's age that he should not have seen it.
"Hey, I guessed it! Red hair, big tail, pointed ears, head and face like a fox, and a bit like a donkey in his barking tone. I heard it from my family before!" Yue Feng scratched his head, Said very humbly.
“This jackal is really not mature under normal circumstances. It was unexpected that I gathered these cubs together and understood them.
Did you see the jackal I called Red Dragon? That’s a jackal. Mother and son, and a very rare pair of mountain dog and jackal!
This pack of jackals is a matrilineal group. This bitch is the leader of the pack. All the younger generations only listen to the bitch’s instructions!
This female Chuan'er has half of the hound blood, so she is relatively obedient to people's orders. The other four are cubs that have not opened their eyes and are not full-month-old from another litter. Taking it to the mountains for hunting is like dragging it out! "
"A dog and a jackal? Can’t this thing be strung together? ”
Hearing Uncle Zhao’s explanation, Yue Feng was stunned, feeling that this information directly impacted his cognitive concepts.
Dogs belong to the genus Canidae, and jackals belong to the genus Canidae. In terms of biological classification, these two organisms are not of the same genus, so how can they possibly hybridize successfully?
Besides, these jackals are notoriously vicious and cunning, and they move in groups. If you want them to accept a mountain dog and successfully conceive, the probability is probably smaller than getting five million for two dollars.
“I heard from the elders that they can’t cross each other, but he is just a cross between a dog and a jackal. I don’t understand the specific reason!
Logically speaking, a mule cannot give birth to a mule colt. What?
But there are always exceptions. I heard from people of my grandfather’s generation that in their county, a female mule gave birth to a mule foal, and the mule foal even grew up and gave birth to a mule foal that was smaller than the mother’s. Even more majestic!”
Uncle Zhao’s explanation seems to be true.
There is reproductive isolation between different species, but many times, for species in the middle, the reproductive isolation is not reflected in the inability to conceive. Another possibility is that like a horse and a donkey giving birth to a mule, the resulting offspring is infertile, which is also reproductive isolation. A sort of.
If we get a little more detailed, it may involve the issue of chromosome pairing. Dogs and jackals both have 78 chromosomes. There may be a theoretically low possibility of successful hybridization in nature.
It is the same situation as a mule that originally had no ability to reproduce has a very low probability of being able to reproduce.
“This red dog has a sharp mouth, so it should be useful for hunting, right?” Yue Feng asked again.
Uncle Zhao nodded: "Yes! The teeth are really cruel. It is a bit like a honey dog. It is not big, but the teeth are cruel and smart!
These red dogs of mine can hunt down big wild boars weighing three to four hundred pounds without anyone’s help!
Normally, most of the hounds that go up the mountain to fight dogs are hanging pincers or biting pig mouths. Occasionally, there is a dog that can dig out the back door, which is considered rare!
All of these five red dogs can bite balls and dig out the back door!
In addition to being born with the ability to dig out the back door, they also run very fast. The roe deer is nicknamed Snow Flying on the Snow. Even the best hounds cannot catch up with the roe deer, but the red dog can!
These guys can also bite their hamstrings and jump more than two meters high without any trouble. In ordinary ravines, no matter whether the terrain is troublesome or not, it is almost as if they are walking on flat ground! ”
Speaking of his red dogs, Uncle Zhao started chatting and talked endlessly about the habits of these jackals.
"In that case, these jackals are better than the hounds we raise at home! They are smaller, so they must eat less!" "You are wrong about this, this jackal, Their metabolism is higher than that of dogs, and they are not tolerant to rough feeding. Except for Red Dragon, which is slightly better, the other four pure-blooded jackals can only eat meat. How to eat and pull out the corn noodles? They can hardly be digested. The more they are fed, the thinner they become. , they will become useless after being raised for a long time!
In addition, the obedience of these jackals is not as good as that of hounds. Smart dogs can understand human words and know how to advance and retreat. Once these jackals are seen, With blood and meat, obedience plummets!
For example, if the wild boar I shot today was dragged by a sledge, the four or five cubs would probably have to eat until they were completely full before they could listen to the rest! I dominate!”
"So that's it. It's similar to the several wolf-blood skewers I raise at home. They all need to eat meat!"
"Wolf-blood skewers? Wolf blood is good! If you raise that thing well, , much better than this jackal-blooded Chuan'er!"
Hearing Yue Feng say that he has a wolf-blooded Chuan'er at home, Uncle Zhao's love for dogs was aroused again. ask.
Yue Feng: "Uncle Chen helped me get it, from the big market..."
Yue Feng said patiently how he met Uncle Chen and how he bought the dog. Read it again.
"I asked Chen Erguai why he didn't go up the mountain to see me. It turns out that something like this happened!
The blind man killed the bear even though he missed it. It seems that this guy only went up the mountain to kill black hair. After accumulating virtue, the Mountain God doesn’t want to take him in for the time being!
His dogs have been given to you, and now he has changed his profession to being an eagle?”
Yue Feng nodded: “Yes, I helped him train him. A slow peach-tip hawk, he lets it fly at the foot of the mountain outside Tiantian Village to catch rabbits and pheasants! The pheasant hawk escaped a few days ago, and I helped him catch it again!"
" What kind of eagle is this eagle you are holding in your hand? I have never seen a pure black eagle in the mountains all year round!”
Speaking of eagles, Uncle Zhao focused on Yue Feng's big black eagle with his hat on.
"This big black hawk also has a story. When it snowed a few days ago, we..."
We are all people who like hunting, whether it is hawks, dogs, or Guns, or other things, just start a conversation and you can chat for a long time.
Uncle Zhao is both Chen Pao's brother and Grandpa Yue Feng's old friend, so Yue Feng chats quite freely and basically talks about everything he can.
When I heard that this big black hawk could recognize the sound of gunshots, follow people and fly overhead, and was the eldest of eight dogs in the family, I had to ask Yue Feng to demonstrate it on the spot.
While chatting and drinking water, several people also warmed up. Seeing that Chen Pao was in high spirits, Yue Feng simply carried the eagle and went out again.
Take off your hat and let it fly. The big black eagle circled overhead for more than ten minutes, rising directly to a height of 100 meters. Looking up from the ground, there was only a black dot left.
After having enough fun, Yue Feng took out the meat for the eagle from his bag. With a whistle, the big black eagle fell from the sky. When Uncle Zhao saw this scene, his eyes lit up and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes relaxed.
“Your ability to train eagles was inherited from your grandfather!
I know where there is a nest of eagles, can you help me train them later?
Living in the mountains all year round, hunting with a gun is still too expensive. If I can have a good hawk, then I don’t have to worry about bullets when hunting small things in the mountains and forests! ”
In any era, there is a certain limit to the density of livestock on the mountain. This is directly related to the maximum carrying capacity of the mountain forest ecology.
From this perspective, it is impossible for hunters to hunt every day Going up the mountain and hunting big animals every day, even if you can ensure a considerable hunting success rate in a short period of time, it is impossible to maintain it year after year.
After all, the conditions required for the survival of big prey are more stringent and must follow natural laws. Objective laws.
Uncle Zhao, who has been active in the mountains and forests all year round, knows the secrets here, the surrounding mountain fields within a few dozen miles, which areas have prey activities, and what is the approximate size of the population. He only hunts when he needs it.
From this perspective, if there is a falcon that can catch chickens and rabbits, the consumption of bullets will be much less.
After all, not everyone is like Yue Feng, who can find a way to get bullets without spending money.
This situation is even more obvious, especially since Uncle Zhao doesn’t like to deal with strangers and is too lazy to socialize.
"Diao? Is it a golden eagle?" Yue Feng asked with a slight movement in his heart when he heard what Uncle Zhao said.
“I don’t know what species it is, but it’s very big anyway. I’ve seen them catch rabbits, four or five pounds of rabbits, holding them with their paws, picking them up and running away!
They have a nest on the cliff side of Hanging Eagle Stream, and they hold a baby eagle every year. If you can help me train it, next year, I want to recruit a chick back from the nest! ”
There are golden eagles distributed in the Changbai Mountains. I heard Uncle Zhao say that if a rabbit weighing four or five pounds can be carried away in its mouth, there is a high probability that there are many golden eagles.
Yue Feng listened. Wan shook his head: "If you want to raise a falcon, I can help you get it next fall!
But this sculpture, to be honest, is not practical! "
Uncle Zhao said confidently: "The eagle must be more powerful than the eagle. Why is it not practical?
We have raised him since he was a child, and he will definitely be a relative when he is raised! When the time comes, it will be like your eagle, let it sit on top of your head and wait, and when it encounters prey, it will come down and catch it! ”
Hearing these remarks, Yue Feng felt a little helpless.
People only want to believe what they think is right, but many times, the truth is not like this.
Yue Feng After pausing for a few seconds, he organized the words in his head, and then said slowly: "The eagle is more powerful than the eagle, that's true.
But if you think about it, why is it that such a powerful sculpture cannot be seen moving in many places?
For example, today you shot a wild boar at the bottom of the Qiuzilin gully. Do you think the eagle can spread its wings?
We raise eagles to help us catch prey with the help of their claws. What matters is cost-effectiveness, not to compare which eagle is the most powerful!
Such as catching a rabbit or a pheasant, raising a big eagle is enough, so why bother trying to figure out an eagle? What do you think? "
With this explanation, Uncle Zhao understood what Yue Feng meant.
"You are right to say that. Most of the mountain animals are active in the woods. There are many In this situation, this eagle really can’t perform well!
It's up to you. I won't pay for Hinako next spring! "
"There are many problems with raising young eagles. It would be better to catch the older eagles in autumn and train them! Since you are old friends with my grandfather, I will help you!
I definitely won’t make the trip this year. The eagles have all migrated away. I’ll get one for you next fall! "Yue Feng promised very generously.
"Okay! Your kid has the same temperament as your grandpa, and he is very kind to his friends! !
I’m not asking you to help me in vain! Let's take a rest at home this afternoon. Let's have some drinks in the evening. Tomorrow morning, I'll take you to kill Xiongcangzi! ”
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