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Chapter 292 Hunting ([-])

When the howling of wolves stopped.A deathly silence enveloped the desolate land again.Some of the puppies among the wild dogs who had just walked out of the camp this year ran to their "master" and lay down, trembling all over.

Even at this time, the members of the hunting party still didn't realize how serious things would develop-people knew that the one-eyed lone wolf was howling for help, but they didn't know how many beasts it would summon.

After the end of the world, the intelligence of animals has improved significantly. Although they have not yet developed language, they are already able to express more complex meanings through sound.Take wolves as an example, they not only howl to summon helpers, but also learn to make different howls according to different targets.Sometimes, the wolf feels that it needs only a few helpers to solve the target, so its whistle will be softer, and the sound will not be heard by animals farther away.When the wolf feels that the more helpers the better, then it will roar hoarsely, and even emit infrasound waves that cannot be heard by human ears.In fact, infrasound waves can travel farther than the human ear can hear sound.

To make matters worse, different kinds of carnivores can understand the meaning of howls among themselves.

Based on past experience, Luo Dayou chose a small slope within sight, and then led his team to retreat to it.The reason why we didn't lead the team back to the village was because we didn't have enough time.Rather than being forced to fight on the flat ground after being overtaken by a wild beast, it is better to prepare for defense earlier.

As more and more predators were summoned by the whistle, the hearts of the hunting team became heavier and heavier.

When the carnivores began to stir up and prepare to attack, there were already two Siberian tigers, six brown bears, fourteen wilderness lions and more than 200 Siberian plain wolves besieging Luo Dayou's hunting team—within about a thousand square kilometers. All large and medium carnivores are concentrated here.

In addition, there are a few sneaky small predators that roam the perimeter of the enclosure, such as red foxes, arctic foxes, sables, ermines, and weasels.These small carnivores usually run away as far as they encounter large and medium carnivores.But in this particular case, they obviously want to try their luck to see if they can get a piece of the pie-once the human team collapses and scatter for their lives, it will be their turn to pick up the bargain.

Luo Dayou has 34 experienced hunters, 100 rookies, and more than [-] wild dogs.

Wild dogs are less effective than Siberian plain wolves.

The Siberian plain wolf is the undisputed dominant species among medium-sized carnivores.They are very intelligent animals, perhaps the most intelligent animals other than humans.Contrary to what most people imagine, the brain capacity of domesticated dogs is 20.00% to [-]% smaller than that of wolves. Although it increases in the part where it gets along with humans, it will degenerate in the part that demarcates the regional map.

Siberian plain wolves are a highly social species. The number of wolves in a group is about five to twelve, but in cold winter it can reach up to about forty.Wolves are territorial, and the ranges of different groups do not overlap. They announce their range to other groups by howling.Siberian wolves are generally territorial, with two exceptions.One is to leave the group, and the other is "cooperative hunting".

Regardless of combat effectiveness or numbers, wild dogs are at a clear disadvantage compared to Siberian wolves.It can be said that if the wild dogs can entangle the Siberian plain wolf, it will be the greatest success.

The rookies are not so much a help in this kind of battle as a burden—even if they are asked to deal with small carnivores such as red foxes, there is no guarantee that there will be no casualties.

Therefore, the key to determining the outcome of the battle is whether the 34 experienced hunters can deal with Siberian tigers, brown bears and wilderness lions.

The Siberian tiger is also known as the Siberian tiger. It has several black horizontal stripes on its forehead, which are often connected in the middle, resembling the word "king", so it has the reputation of "king of the jungle".They are the largest cats.In the last days, the average weight of a Siberian tiger is [-] kilograms, more than four times that of a human.In addition, the Siberian tiger can climb trees and swim, so unless the target is to defeat it, it can only become its food.

A distant relative of the Siberian tiger, the steppe lion is slightly smaller.Although male lions have gained the reputation of "king of beasts" due to their exaggerated manes, adult male lions usually weigh no more than [-] kilograms.If you are singled out, then the wilderness lion is probably not the opponent of the Siberian tiger.However, this situation is rare, because wilderness lions live in groups, and Siberian tigers have always been solitary except for mating. When a single Siberian tiger encounters a lion group, it is wise to exercise restraint.Only when the newly grown male lion or the usurped old leader is kicked out of the lion group, unfortunately, it happens to encounter a starving Siberian tiger, then the ferocious wilderness lion may be attacked by a more ferocious distant relative.

The brown bear is one of the very few carnivores that can live in peace with the Siberian tiger.On the one hand, brown bears have a very mixed and herbivorous diet, and their diet overlaps little with that of Siberian tigers. Therefore, Siberian tigers drive away wolves and leopards in their territories, but ignore brown bears.Of course, this kind of "peace" is also won by brown bears by virtue of their own strength.Adult male brown bears in the wilderness generally weigh [-] to [-] kilograms.The bulging muscles on the shoulders of brown bears make their forearms so powerful that a single claw can snap off the back of a bison.With this terrifying attack, the brown bear can even swing several times in a row.

On rare occasions, Siberian tigers will eat female brown bears and their cubs.Attacks of adult male brown bears by Siberian tigers are rare, but not unheard of.However, when a Siberian tiger attacks an adult male brown bear, there is also a certain probability that the former will be eaten by the latter - the premise of this probability is that the Siberian tiger has been injured before or is very old.In fact, old and sick Siberian tigers prefer to attack humans, while male brown bears prefer to attack weak Siberian tigers.Although the frequency of brown bears preying on tigers is far less than that of tigers preying on brown bears, in bloody conflicts between adults, brown bears are more likely to win than tigers.

There are 22 of these three large animals combined.

On an optimistic note, only two of the six brown bears are large adult males.Of the other four, one is a female bear weighing about [-] kilograms, and the remaining three are larger cubs that can assist the female bear in hunting.Therefore, the actual combat power of six brown bears is only equivalent to that of three adult male bears.

(End of this chapter)