Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 797

As a small episode, the topic of skin color quickly enlivened the atmosphere in the live broadcast room.

After a pause, Bi Fang brought the topic back on track.

About the content of this live broadcast, I don't think anyone is unclear, right?

[Know, know, Sahara Sahara! ! 】

[Desert of Death! 】

【Huge scabies on the earth! 】

As a super desert with an area comparable to the entire China, the name of the Sahara is known to everyone.

It is like a huge and ugly scar, lying conspicuously on the land of Africa, and has become a well-known forbidden area for life.

Some people say that you will truly fall in love with the oasis and life only after experiencing the test of life and death in the Sahara Desert.

Just from the corner of the information revealed in this discourse, one can glimpse the cruelty and wildness of this world.

Challenge yourself and understand the true meaning of life, this is what Bi Fang has been doing.

Everyone has long been looking forward to this.

That's right, before crossing Point Nemo, I have already made everything very clear. This time the live broadcast is crossing Point Nemo plus crossing the Sahara. The overall time limit is 120 days, so strictly speaking Let’s just say, our live broadcast is only a third of the way through.”

Bi Fang pointed to the desert and Gobi in front of him.

Everyone has seen that there is a desert in front of us. You guessed it right. The location where Lao Mu and I are now is at the northernmost tip of Burkina Faso, and this is also the southernmost tip of the Sahara Desert.

I divided the desert into two levels. The first level is similar to the Gobi. Although the environment is harsh, there are still people living there. The ground is covered with shrubs and even grass. The second level is as you imagined. , full of sand dunes, a real no man's land.

According to the data, the Sahara is actually a very big concept. It almost occupies the northern part of Africa. This is the entire Sahara Desert, but it is surrounded by a large circle of first-level deserts. Only the center is truly uninhabited. area, which is the second level of desert.”

Our entry point this time is in Burkina Faso. Shortly after entering from here, we can directly enter the core area of ​​the Sahara.

And the preliminary plan for the subsequent route is from Burkina Faso→Mali→Algeria→Niger→Chad→Libya→Egypt, across the entire core of the Sahara, of course, in the middle

The Sahara Desert is about 4,800 kilometers long from east to west, and 1,300 to 1,900 kilometers from north to south.

The so-called crossing is naturally from east to west, not from south to north. If you don't play with those empty-headed ones, you just want to challenge the most ruthless ones.

According to the map, the route chosen by Bi Fang is roughly inserted from the lower left corner of the Sahara, then reaches the central line, and then traverses the entire east and west. The route is more than 5,000 kilometers long.

But we only have 80 days left, and the time is too tight, so my plan is to catch a camel before setting off.

[666, Fang Shen makes a move, it must be extraordinary! 】

[I remember that Lao Fang used to say that there are very few camels, and they are all protected animals. Does this thing mean that you can catch it if you catch it? 】

[It's cool, just after watching Nemo Point, come to a Sahara, is this happiness? 】

This involves conceptual issues. Mugalen asked me the same question just now, so I think it is necessary to do a simple science popularization.

Wild camels, wild camels, and domestic camels, these are actually three things. The first is a protected animal, and the number is indeed rare, but the latter two are not.

With Bi Fang's explanation, the audience in front of the screen gradually had a clear concept.

Wild camels and domestic camels, if there is no reproductive isolation, can even be said to be two species.

Because the genetic difference between the two even reaches 3%, which is 00.5%~1.4% higher than the genetic difference between humans and gorillas!

Domestic camels do become wild after escaping, but they cannot be said to be wild camels. The two have diverged into two different species as early as 800,000 years ago.

However, the so-called gene difference is greater than that between humans and chimpanzees, which can indicate that the two have been diverged for a long time, but it cannot be considered that the relationship between it and domestic camels is farther than that between humans and chimpanzees, because the statistical caliber is different.

There is reproductive isolation between humans and chimpanzees, but there is no barrier, no isolation, between domestic camels and wild camels.

In areas where wild camels are distributed, domestic camels are not allowed to be stocked, in order to prevent domestic camels from bringing genetic pollution to wild camel populations.

Wild camels are rare and protected, Bi Fang has no idea about this.

But Bi Fang not only has wild home camels, but also has many ideas!

Compared with wild camels, wild domestic camels are undoubtedly much easier to tame, and they are more common in the Sahara Desert. They are not rare creatures at all, and the number may even reach hundreds of thousands.

Those domestic camels that have escaped from the environment have reproduced in the desert generation after generation. Although they are extremely wild, they still have something completely different from wild camels deep in their genes.

In fact, camels have very few natural enemies, and their combat effectiveness is extremely high. Once there is a suitable environment, they can multiply wantonly.

Just look at Australia, where millions of feral camels are overrun.

At first, Bi Fang didn’t intend to catch wild camels, but wanted to buy one directly, or choose the life-saving camel named Naren that he met in the Qaidam Desert, but he was strangled naked. And come back to see your peerless camel.

The camels that have been domesticated or even come into contact with them are undoubtedly the best choice, which can reduce many accidents and shorten the running-in period.

But after Bi Fang thought about it, it would be too boring to do so.

Anyone can buy a camel and pay some money, but how can you still have the cheek to say that you crossed the Sahara by yourself?

If you want to do it, you have to do it thoroughly, and truly accomplish all this with your own ability.

Since his debut, Bi Fang has never used such a large amount of external assistance, and this time is no exception.

Compared with the many entanglements that Bi Fang had in his heart, the audience was not surprised by Bi Fang's choice, on the contrary, they thought it was very Bi Fang.

That's what a real man should be.

As a porter, Mugalen came out to join in the fun and left quickly. Bi Fang wandered in this semi-desert area alone with a backpack on his back.

Camels are called the ships of the desert because they are hard-working, and there is a lot of fat stored in their humps, which can be decomposed into water and energy, allowing them to go without water or food for a long time, but this does not mean that they No water, no food.

Wild camels are just as afraid of people. Therefore, semi-desert areas with few people but large plants are their favorite. Let's look for them here, and we should be able to meet them soon.