Seeing is believing, hearing is false.
Zhang Zian heard a wolf howl last night, but he had never seen a wolf in the wild, let alone heard a wolf howl in the wild. He could only judge from the sound that it was obviously different from a coyote's howl. He thought it might be a wolf.
The reason he wasn't sure was that the gray wolf in California had been extinct since 1924.
As for the wolves he saw in the zoo, they had long been fed to the point where they had lost their wildness and wouldn't howl even once.
Now, he saw this strong North American gray wolf with his own eyes. What was even more strange was that there was a collar on its neck. What was going on?
Someone raised a gray wolf as a pet?
This was not the Middle East. Whether it was the rich in the United States or the rich in the Middle East, they all preferred to raise big cats to show off their wealth. If you raised a gray wolf, people would probably think it was an impure Husky …
As the gray wolf confronted several coyotes, its body moved, and Zhang Zian saw more details of the collar through the binoculars.
It was a collar with a signal transmitter.
It was similar to the collar he had worn on the fennec fox in the Egyptian desert.
He understood that the gray wolf had either been released into the wild by the scientists, or it had been captured by the scientists. After anesthesia, it was put on a collar and released into the wild, just like what they had done in the Egyptian desert. This collar with a signal transmitter was used to track the gray wolf's migration route and physiological characteristics.
After the local gray wolves in California became extinct in 1924, the next sightings of gray wolves were in Shaskiyou County in 2015 and in Larsen National Park in 2017. They were named by scientists as the Shasta wolf pack and the Larsen wolf pack. The former gray wolf family of seven disappeared in 2016.
Could it be that the disappeared Shasta wolf pack had actually quietly run into the Mahogany Forest?
This was very possible. Gray wolves had very good endurance. In order to find food, they could run more than 30 kilometers a day. As long as they avoided humans, it was very easy for them to migrate across regions. It was speculated that the members of the Shasta wolf pack and the Larsen wolf pack might have come to California from Oregon in the north.
As for the collar on its neck, it was reasonable to say that after wearing it for a period of time, it would automatically fall off, making it convenient for scientists to retrieve it. However, sometimes it would get stuck and could not fall off as expected. As a result, it could not be retrieved even after it ran out of power. This was very normal. Machines could malfunction, and gray wolves usually did not take care of and maintain their collars when they were living or hunting.
Of course, other possibilities could not be ruled out. For example, this wolf was also a lone wolf from Oregon. After it grew up, it could not always stay with its parents. It had to go out and explore, establish its own business, territory, and family.
So the wolf howls last night, did they come from this wolf? Or could it be that this wolf was also attracted by the wolf's howl?
The coyote that was bitten in the neck couldn't even make a sound because its trachea was blocked, and its struggle was getting weaker and weaker.
The other coyotes divided the work. Two were in the front to attract the attention of the gray wolf, and the other three ran to the side and back of the gray wolf, trying to use the tactic of besieging Wei to rescue the besieged by attacking the gray wolf to rescue their companions.
The old Chinese saying said that wolves had copper heads, iron legs, and tofu waists, which meant that the waist of a wolf was very fragile. In fact, this was true for most land vertebrates. It was impossible for the ribs to cover the waist, otherwise it would not be able to turn around flexibly. The waist of a human was also very fragile.
The gray wolf was not stupid. It would not give its weakness to the enemy, but it did not want to give up the prey in its mouth, so it simply dragged the coyote in its mouth and ran.
The coyotes followed closely.
The gray wolf ran for a while, put down the coyote in its mouth, showed its fangs, and growled to scare the coyotes away. When the coyotes retreated, it picked up the dying coyote and continued to run, fighting and retreating.
Both sides were not interested in Zhang Zian. Just like that, they quickly disappeared into the woods.
He waited in place for a while. The coyotes and gray wolves seemed to have no intention of coming back in a short time, but after a long time, the coyotes might come back and continue to eat the deer carcass.
"I'll go over and take a look. You wait here." He let the elfins stay where they were because it was dangerous to get close to a sick deer.
He quickly took a few deep breaths, then took a deep breath and held it. He quickly walked to the deer carcass — he held his breath not only to avoid the smell of decay, but also to avoid inhaling the possible presence of aerosols.
"Quack? What are you going to see? This deer has no horns. It's probably a female. You're not interested! "
Richard, the only one who was not at risk of infection, cherished its life. It fluttered its wings away from his shoulder and fell to a branch to comb its feathers.
The back abdomen of the deer was dug out from the chrysanthemum by the coyotes, and the intestines and other internal organs were all dragged out. The green and purple color was unbearable, and he deliberately did not let his eyes fall there.
The smell of the internal organs was probably spreading, and it might attract other scavengers, so he had to move quickly.
He went around to the other side of the deer and saw its ears.
When he looked through the binoculars, he noticed that there was something on the ears of the deer carcass, but he couldn't see it clearly because it was too far away. Now, he could see it clearly. It was a yellow ear tag, the kind usually used to mark deer on farms.
He picked up his phone and took a few photos, including the deer's entire carcass and the specific location of the ear tag. Then he trotted back to the edge of the clearing, exhaled the foul air in his lungs, and took a few quick deep breaths to even out his breathing.
"What did you go see, you idiot?" Richard flew back to his shoulder. This bird's mouth was really like Tang Seng's, never idle. The other elfins knew that he was going to say something, and they were all waiting to hear.
"This deer may be a deer waiting to be slaughtered in the slaughterhouse," he said. He said, but both he and the elfins knew that it was impossible for a deer brought into the slaughterhouse to escape from the three-meter-high electric fence.
Therefore, this deer should not have escaped from the slaughterhouse. Otherwise, it could have been written in the book The Shawshank Redemption. Most likely, after the slaughterhouse was struck by lightning and could no longer operate, it was released by Peter and the others.
Peter Lee could not return the slaughterhouse to normal in a short period of time. It was estimated that it would be shut down for three to five months. What about the live deer that had just arrived that day? It was not realistic to keep them. They did not prepare feed, and they were not that responsible. They might simply open the gate and let the deer go, leaving them to fend for themselves.
According to the known information, if one deer in the farm was infected with the prion protein, it was likely that all deer would be infected. On the other hand, if one deer in the wild was infected, the probability of other deer in the same forest being infected was only one-third.
In any case, the beasts that fed on deer in this forest might be out of luck.
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