Live Wilderness Adventure - Chapter 851 Feline subfamily and sociality

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At the end of the day, Bi Fang fed four full meals, and he came to feed every three hours until ten o'clock in the evening.

From sheep to deer to rabbits, they are all the cheetahs' favorite food. Until the fourth time, Bi Fang brought sheep blood sausage, and the management staff did not have to stand outside the barbed wire.

The cheetah also lowered its vigilance towards Bi Fang, a man who was dangling in front of his eyes almost all the time, and just regarded it as a tough "breeder" for himself, but he was still a little unclear why his eating habits changed so much all of a sudden.

In the past, it only took one meal a day to be full, but now it has completely changed.

Early the next morning, Bi Fang got up at six o'clock to continue feeding, and the chain he pulled woke up the resting cheetah.

When Harley saw the uninvited guest, he vigilantly locked himself on the edge of the iron fence. After seeing the person coming in, he still didn't relax his vigilance. .

"Cheetahs can generally eat 2.5 kilograms of food per day. If they can't catch prey for a long time, they can even eat food equivalent to one-fifth of their own weight in the extreme state."

"In some areas in the Middle East, a tamed cheetah hunts for hunters. It is enough to give it a spoonful of blood. I changed Harley's food to one catty at a time, which is 0.5 kilograms. It is fed five times a day and the frequency is high. Dangle in front of its eyes and prolong the time we spend together."

"Look, Harley is already very familiar with my existence today."

After each feeding, Bi Fang would stay under Harley's gaze for a while.

From ten minutes for the first time, twenty minutes for the second time, and one hour for the fourth time, the relationship between the two parties is progressing rapidly.

[I understand, Shen Fang's body is actually Drew Yin! 】

[An excellent survival master, but also proficient in excellent animal taming skills, I am sure]

[I always fantasize that I am as powerful as Fang Shen, so that even if I have no money, I can travel around the world without worrying about getting lost or starving to death]

"After one night, today is our first feeding, so we should wait for half an hour. Today I brought it the liver of an ostrich. I hope it will like it."

"On the grasslands, the big cheetahs like to chase the antelopes the most, and those antelopes that run slowly and unresponsive are easy to be eaten."

"Then there are deer. Both deer and antelope are the targets of cheetahs. In grasslands where no antelopes are found, cheetahs will turn their attention to deer."

"The young cheetahs don't have enough strength and skill to eat antelopes and deer, so they can only chase small ostriches on the grassland to eat."

"There are also some smaller cheetahs who also like to eat rabbits. I choose their food according to their preferences. This is very helpful for bringing animals closer to you."

After eating the food, Harley licked the blood at the bottom of the bowl, and finally stuck out his tongue to lick his beard, and walked back and forth under Bi Fang's gaze.

After a quarter of an hour, he chose a place farthest from Bi Fang and lay down, bathed in the morning light, and yawned several times.

Bi Fang smiled when he saw this, and said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "In fact, there is one thing you may not know, that is, among all wild cats, cheetahs may be the closest relatives."

"If anyone in the live broadcast room is older, you may know that in the 1990s, many cubs were still released and ran around in the wildlife park in Shanghai, including cheetahs."

loved ones?

Hearing this, the audience's curiosity was immediately aroused.

【real or fake? 】

【What's the reason? 】

[Is the life of a cheetah in each hand going to come true? 】

[When Lao Fang mentioned the Shanghai Zoo, I seem to have a little impression. I seemed to be in elementary school at the time, and I saw little cheetahs running in the zoo. 】

[Fuck, is it true? This can't be bald? 】

[Is this too happy? 】

[Unfortunately, it is impossible now. 】

[fine]

"This is mainly due to two reasons, one is because cheetahs belong to the cat subfamily, and the other is because cheetahs have a social structure."

"Let's talk about the first point first."

Bi Fang imitated the appearance of a cheetah and sat cross-legged on the ground, lazily basking in the sun.

"Genus, family, genus, and order. Anyone who has studied biology should know this recognized species classification, but this is only the most superficial classification. If you are a professional student of biology, you will know that there is another classification between families and genera called Yake."

"Subfamily is also a level of biological taxonomy. The suffix of the Latin taxonomic name is usually -inae, between the family and the genus, and a family-level taxonomic level next to the family."

"A family can be subdivided into several subfamilies, each of which consists of a special genus within the family or several genera that are different from other attributes."

"The emergence of subfamilies is not meaningless, and it can help us further distinguish some of the wild differences between animals."

"Just like the cat family, this is actually a rather large classification. Lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, clouded leopards, cheetahs, caracals, wild cats, and domestic cats all belong to the cat family."

"But the cat family is a large category, and there are two subfamilies under it, one is the cat subfamily and the other is the leopard subfamily. The difference between these two species is very large!"

"The most intuitive thing is that the cat subfamily has retractable claws, is generally small in size, and does not make a roar. There are 12 genera in total; the leopard subfamily has non-retractable claws, generally larger bodies, and can roar. There are 2 genera."

Bi Fang's biological classification successfully aroused the audience's curiosity.

Lions, tigers, cougars, and jaguars, these well-known hunters have many superficial admirers, and they also know that these are the best in the cat family, but if they are subdivided into the cat subfamily and leopard subfamily, Looks like a Muggle.

Everyone didn't know what the difference was, and what was the relationship with the cheetah being close to people.

What Bi Fang said next is the key point.

"Cheetahs are actually something special."

"Although it has a leopard in its name, it is not a real leopard. It does not belong to the subfamily Leopardae, but a member of the subfamily Felinae."

"Even in the early years, both sides of the cheetah were not counted, and they formed a subfamily by themselves, called the cheetah subfamily."

"But now this subfamily has been cancelled, and the cheetah has been thrown into the cat subfamily, and there are only two subfamilies left in the whole cat family, so in fact, the cheetah is already a real big cat, a cat in the true sense. "

"What I said before is not a lie. Even if you don't look at it in terms of combat effectiveness, in terms of genes and performance, cheetahs are really very close to cats."

"The real top predators like tigers and lions are all members of the Panthera family. Can you understand the difference?"

[A bit lost, but I understand it]

【It means that cheetahs and cats belong to one family, while tigers and lions belong to another family? 】

[Good guy, it's called Leopard, not Leopard, isn't this a fool? 】

"Almost, the cheetah is genetically close to the slender cat. Its cry is meow~meow~, its limbs are slender, and its weight is less than fifty kilograms."

"The leopard is the real leopard. It is ferocious and has a low voice. It is the kind of subwoofer that cat lovers like most. It weighs 50-100kg and has legs. Thick, quincunx-like patterns, like ancient copper coins, also called leopards."

"The cheetah runs fast and does not have an advantage in strength. The size of an adult is not in its diet, so it is relatively friendly to people. Of course, it does not mean that it is not aggressive. Domestic cats can also scratch and bite people. Wild animals will only get worse."

"Leopards are different. Their running speed is only half that of cheetahs, but they often bully cheetahs. They are overwhelmed by strength and aggressive. They are fatal to people."

"To make a digression here, there is another animal with a bluffing name that is also a big cat, and that is the puma."

"It's also a big cat. It's about the same size as a cheetah. Its fighting power is stronger but limited."

"On the contrary, one of its distant relatives with a name that seems a little less compelling than it is from the Panthera subfamily, that is, the jaguar. This is actually the third largest cat in the world."

"Of course, the jaguar also has an alias, although it is not widely spread, but it can show some combat effectiveness and a deterrent effect. It is called jaguar."

[Lion: Can't even do a leopard, it's really embarrassing to the lion family (dog head)]

【Increased knowledge】

【too thin】

"Of course, there are some small problems with my statement, but you really can't expect those beasts of the Leopard subfamily to be more kinship than cheetahs. None of the tigers, lions, leopards, and jaguars are easy to get along with. A slap in the face may kill you life."

"For cats with hunting instincts, it is difficult to restrain themselves from attacking and tempting creatures that are weaker than themselves."

"The cat subfamily is generally small in size and has limited lethality. To put it bluntly, you don't care much about it even if it doesn't have relatives. It doesn't have any special thoughts about giants like humans."

[heartbroken]

【Speak softly】

[What about the second point? 】

[Yes, there is a second point, let’s talk about it quickly. 】

"The second point..."

Bi Fang looked at the time and found that half an hour had passed, so he opened the chain and got out of the cage, jokingly said.

"Sorry, let's wait until the second meal today to talk about the second point. Otherwise, after so many days, what if my inventory is emptied by you?"

The audience was dumbfounded.

[Good guy, don't bring such a broken update! 】

[You don't talk about martial arts!

! 】

Fortunately, only three hours to wait.

And Bi Fang did not choose to turn off the live broadcast this time, but fixed the drone on the barbed wire, and walked away after the camera was facing the cheetah Harley.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Bi Fang appeared in front of the camera again, continued feeding, and then sat directly in the cage, continuing the topic of the morning.

"I talked about the difference between the cat subfamily and the leopard subfamily in the morning. Now I will talk about the second reason, which is the sociality of cheetahs."

"Here I have to mention two representative creatures, one is a tiger and the other is a lion. The former is a well-known solitary beast, and the latter is also a well-known gregarious beast."

"And there is a particularly good example of the social animals tamed by humans, that is, dogs, and wolves should also be the most familiar social animals."

Dog, Bi Fang would like to say that it is the most successful animal domesticated by human beings, not one of them.

The fact that dogs can be domesticated is inseparable from the gregariousness of their ancestor wolf.

"Remember what I said about the necessary traits for animal domestication when I tamed Alpha?"

"One of the points in Jared Diamond's 'Guns, Germs and Steel' is that the species needs to have a social structure, or hierarchy, that allows them to accept subordinate roles."

"Dogs are the first animals to be familiar with humans. They are recognized as the first animals domesticated by humans, far earlier than other domestic animals, and they are the only animals domesticated by humans before the advent of agriculture."

【I remember this】

[It means that for animals, human beings have become a part of the group. 】

"In the process of wolves being domesticated into dogs, the most critical first step was taken by wolves. They chose us first, not the other way around."

"Due to genetic mutations, the 'safe distance' between some wolves and primitive humans has been shortened. These special wolves dare to approach the tribal camps of primitive humans in order to obtain food from the garbage dumps around the camps."

"In the beginning, there may have been wolves who followed the hunters to pick up some leftover food and bones. Then, some wolves that seemed less threatening, especially their cubs, were adopted and reproduced by people, thus starting the process of domestication .”

"During the life of primitive people, dogs can help people hunt and serve as sentinels, and dogs can also be protected by people. The most important thing is that they have a relatively stable source of food. As time goes by, the temperament of generations becomes more Docile wolves are picked out by humans, and dogs are born through this two-way effort."

[I know this, just like humans and wheat, there is actually a point of view that wheat tames humans so that it can reproduce itself all over the world]

【hiss! 】

【Like this? 】

【A bit terribly thoughtful】

[It was originally a two-way choice. If everyone chooses each other, they can all survive better. 】

"Among them, the group structure of wolves is a very critical condition for domestication. The ancestors of dogs have a clear hierarchy in wolves, and each wolf has a different status in the group."

"There will be a leader in each wolf pack, and the leader will be in charge of all the big and small things in the pack, including the distribution of food, the settlement of disputes, and even the reproduction of offspring."

"The head wolf also has the supremacy, and the rest of the wolves are absolutely obedient to him, and content with their own status in the group."

"Although after a long period of evolution, modern wolves and modern dogs have no direct relationship, but dogs still retain the social habits of wolves."

"But there is a difference. The objects that dogs live in groups are no longer limited to their own kind, but have expanded to the humans who raise them."

"What this means is that the dog already sees everyone in the family as part of its pack, and the dog generally assumes the status of the owner as the alpha wolf, which allows humans to manage the animal and establish control over them. leadership relationships are possible.”

Having said this, Bi Fang suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, and here's a point I feel it's worth mentioning, that in the world of dogs, kissing on the cheek and on the mouth signifies submission, and the kisser is often of lower status than the recipient."

"Everyone can try it, put your cheek to the side of the dog, and you will find that it will come over and lick your face actively. This is how they express that you are the boss, and it is a kind of submission."

"On the contrary, if you go to kiss it actively, you will find that the dog's expression is often more confused."

"I've seen many people express their love by kissing their dogs. It's nothing in itself. If the owner thinks it's okay, it's okay. But over time, it's easy for the dog to think that it's the boss."

"You will find that it is getting more and more unmanageable, and its temper is getting more and more irritable, especially some large fierce dogs, which are easy to cause accidents when taken outside. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com does not obey your command, because in its view , you are the one who should be obedient."

"So, even if you don't think kissing a dog per se is okay, try to be prepared not to let it get you into trouble."

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[Damn, let me tell you why my dog ​​is getting more and more disobedient!

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【Dear dog... don't you feel dirty...】

【I can not understand. 】

[However, what does this have to do with lions and tigers? 】

"Because if you substitute it from the perspective of gregariousness, you will find that it is actually safer to raise lions than to raise tigers."

"Cheetahs naturally empathize."

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