Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 800 Charge

The Saharan wolves who wandered for a day and night were unbearably hungry, but looking around, the sub-zero shrubs and weeds were removed, and there was boundless loess. Apart from gnawing grass like fat lambs, the only thing they could do was dig the soil to find beetles to eat .

During the day, the Sahara is as hot as a teppanyaki, and even the beetles are buried deep in the ground, and there is no trace.

A few secondary wolves stopped and lifted their hind legs to itch. They bit the fur with their fangs, trying to drive away the damn fleas. Their slanted gazes drifted to the leading wolf from time to time, as if they were expressing dissatisfaction, but they concealed their dissatisfaction due to authority. Not sent.

The alpha wolf is the strongest and the most intimidating wolf in the pack. It is bigger than all the wolves in terms of size alone, and enjoys the service of the female wolf.

The shattered hairs were flying in the air, and they wished to shed their fur and relax, but thinking of the biting cold at night, the slightly loose hair follicles took root again firmly.

Hot during the day, cold at night.

This is the Sahara.

Just as a few secondary wolves were at the end of the team, secretly expressing their dissatisfaction, a deep wolf howl woke up the entire wolf pack.

The pack of wolves in twos and threes immediately got up their spirits, walked quickly to the head wolf, and looked into the distance vigorously.

There were three camels, two big and one small.

There wasn't a single tree for miles around, and the huge camel standing on the ground cast a shadow, making it particularly conspicuous.

come alive.

The smoke and dust billowed, and the wolves charged the little camel family, their green eyes gleaming with hunger.

【This wolf is a bit small】

[Indeed, it seems much smaller than what Fangshen encountered before]

[What kind of wolf is this, a desert wolf? 】

The drone can automatically zoom in on the scene, and the two sides in the confrontation seem to be close at hand, but the audience can see it more clearly.

The pack of wolves surrounding the three camels was large in number, but their quality seemed to be inferior, and their physique seemed to be more than a circle smaller than that of the arctic wolves.

Bi Fang himself is too far away, and there are not enough reference objects nearby. The only thing the audience can compare with is the camel under siege, so they are not sure whether the wolf is too small or the camel is too big.

Although the wolves were smaller, Bi Fang carefully counted them under the scorching sun and found that there were seventeen wolves!

Once any animal has more than five in the same space, it can form a certain degree of visual effect.

Think about meeting five dogs at home at once. Although the number is small, when you really pounce on them, you will have the inner feeling of so many.

The increase in the number of animals is not just an increase in numbers, which is why Bi Xiang has always disliked carnivorous animals living in groups, and it is always a difficult thing to encounter.

The large number of wild wolves made this charge look huge, letting people know that this small group of wolves should not be underestimated.

For this reason, Bi Fang did not approach rashly. After touching a little closer, he hid two hundred meters away, lying on the ground and watching the development of the situation. When he saw the bullet screen, he consciously began to explain the battle.

That's a desert wolf, also called an African wolf. You're right. They're indeed smaller, and much smaller.

I mentioned a Bergmann's law before, which means that for warm-blooded animals, individuals of the same species or close relatives of different species live in a cold environment and have a relatively larger body size.

Bergman believes this is due to the fact that as the body size increases, the relative body surface area of ​​the animal becomes smaller, resulting in a smaller body surface divergence ratio, which is better able to retain heat to adapt to the cold environment in high latitudes.

This rule is not a theorem, and it has great flaws, but as far as mammals are concerned, more than 90% of the species are consistent. So we can also easily deduce that the closer to the equator, the smaller the body size, Desert wolves are typical, they are not even half the weight of arctic wolves.

Although the desert wolf is called a wolf, it is not a wolf in the strict sense, but an independent species under the genus Canidae.

Bi Fang lay down on the yellow ground and briefly explained the origin of the gray wolf, which also gave the audience a better understanding.

Gray wolves, as group predators, are almost all over the world, but they only disappear on the African continent. The reasons for this are very complicated.

In general, wolf is the name of the gray wolf of the genus Canis, and the migration route of the gray wolf's ancestors, including gray wolves, has always been between Eurasia and North America, and has not entered Africa. The reason may be related to migration memory and environmental differences, which resulted in the absence of gray wolves in Africa.

Although this is the case, some of the early canids migrated into Africa, because there are still canines in Africa, and African wolves are one of them.

【Then why is it called a wolf】

[Maybe it's a language habit]

It is indeed a language habit. For example, African hyenas are called hyenas, but they are not actually canids. The hyena family under the cat-type suborder is neither a cat nor a canine. It is an independent species.

It's all a matter of translation and naming. In the past, the translation and naming were not rigorous enough. At first glance, hyenas looked like dogs, so people gave them names with 'dog'.

There are many similar problems left over from history, such as cheetahs are not leopards, and pumas are not lions. However, these names have been widely used as official names, so they will make mistakes and make no changes.

It is also because they are not wolves that there are some subtle differences in the habits of African wolves and wolves, such as flexible organizational forms.

The social organization of African wolves is very flexible. The size of the group varies according to the food available. If there is enough food to eat, a large group can be formed. If there is no food to eat, the number will disperse and become individual groups again. small group.

On the ground covered with coarse sand, the African wolves charged the camels over and over again, bringing up billows of smoke and dust.

The strange thing is that they are not in a hurry to attack, but rely on the flexibility brought by their smaller bodies to pass by the camel again and again, as if they just want to cause the other party to panic.

And judging from the camel's bewildered performance, this trick is quite effective. At least several times the camel wanted to break out, but was forced back by several wolves.

This is a common tactic of wolves 'blitzkrieg'.

Bi Fang was a little excited, such scenes are rare.

Look at how clever they are. Through non-stop charging, they try to cut up the small family group of camels. As long as one of the cubs is cut out, it will die!

The size of African wolves distributed in different regions varies greatly with geographical changes. The size of West Africa and North Africa is much larger than that of East Africa.

The country of the gentleman is in West Africa, so these African wolves are not that small, and there is also a reason for the camels to set off, which makes this attack look even more aggressive.

The smallest camel is the weakest link in the small group. When it has seen such a scene when it is still young, it can't help running wildly several times, but it is firmly protected by two big camels, one left and one right. The big camel is also not feeling well.

They won't last long.