Chapter 526 A False Alarm
There are several neat scratches on the dry and wrinkled bark.
Bifang stretched out his hand and pressed it on the tree, grabbing with his five fingers. The audience could clearly see that no human hand could make such a big scratch, so the owner of the claw mark was definitely a big guy.
[Bear? Is there a bear nearby?]
[Damn it, let me check quickly, is Lao Fang the first person to find the clue now? ]
[It seems so]
[Awesome, it's turned on during hunting! ]
The audience started to make a noise, but Bifang shook his head and waved for the drone to come closer.
Under the light and shadow, Bifang stroked the scarred bark and looked down at the nearby soil: "It was left there a long time ago, at least a month ago. There are no footprints on the ground. It should have been left by a black bear passing by."
"Normally, claw marks would have scratched through the bark, revealing the white trunk. Now the trunk has turned black, having oxidized for a very long time. It's impossible to find a black bear based on this."
"Unless its territory is nearby, but this is obviously not possible because apart from this scratch, there are very few traces of other large animals nearby."
It turns out to be fake!
The audience was greatly disappointed.
I thought Boss Fang would be the first hunter to find information about the prey in the morning.
However, the sudden appearance of the black bear paw prints also reminded everyone that there are indeed black bears in the Japanese forests, and there are a lot of them.
Bifang shook his head and put his thoughts aside.
"Continuing with the previous topic, some people asked why bears like to eat honey. In fact, honey is not the main food for bears, but honey is very important to bears."
Bifang chatted with the audience while walking, which is his usual style.
This is a test of concentration. One needs to observe the surrounding environment while checking the barrage in time and responding. Most people don't have this ability and may trip and fall while walking.
Bifang felt that based on this point, he had to develop a skill to do two things at once.
"Bears eat a variety of foods, some of which are difficult to digest. Honey can promote digestion and absorption, improve the bears' own immunity, and quickly replenish their body energy."
"Secondly, bears must rely on body fat to convert into energy to sustain their physical needs when they enter hibernation."
"Among all nutrients, sugar is the easiest to convert into fat. For these reasons, bears naturally like to eat honey very much."
"In addition to ant nests and honey, there are many other places that are easy to observe, such as some bushes that have been trampled, which may be the work of black bears."
Bifang explained in detail the various possible clues, and casually picked a small red fruit from a branch nearby and put it into his mouth.
"Hmm, it tastes good, sour and sweet."
[What the hell, what did Boss Fang put in his mouth? ]
[What the hell is this? You just eat it without any worries of getting poisoned? ]
"Don't be nervous, it's just a raspberry, a member of the raspberry family. It's said to be aphrodisiac and replenishes energy."
Bi Fangyao still remembers that when he followed the old professors into the forest to conduct research, the most common wild fruit he ate was blackberry.
Picking the raspberries from the nearby bushes one by one, Bifang said: "In June, July, or even August, if you want to eat something good in the wild, you can try to find raspberries, because not only are all species of the genus Rubus edible, but most of them are delicious."
"Most fruits that have not been cultivated artificially are not tasty, they are sour and astringent, and some may even be slightly poisonous, so it is really rare for the blackberry to evolve itself to be delicious."
"The characteristics of the Rubus genus are very easy to remember: shrubs or woody vines, with prickles on the veins on the stems and backs of the leaves, and the fruit is a berry-like aggregate fruit developed from multiple free carpels. In simple terms, it looks like a pomegranate fruit aggregated together, and it is very soft and tender."
"I won't tell you what the flowers look like, but seeing the flowers of the raspberry tree in the wild means you are two months early."
Bifang picked the small fruits from the bushes one by one, putting some directly into her mouth and others into her small bag.
Ripe raspberry fruits are juicy and delicious. The only drawback is that some types are too sour, but this is rare and the one in front of me is obviously not.
It is also easy to eat, just pick it off and put it in your mouth. However, the flesh of wild species is too tender, and it is impossible to store and transport it. It will easily be crushed if piled together, so it is rare to see any deep processing. Even if someone grows it, they basically just pick it.
"However, it is easy to identify Rubus and start eating it, but it is very difficult to determine what kind of plant you have put in your mouth, even for experienced plant taxonomists. I don't even know what I just ate."
The classification of the genus Rubus is a global problem.
According to different classification systems, this genus has 250 to 700 species worldwide - the numbers give you an idea of how much disagreement there is among taxonomists on this genus.
Just like eating squid, when surviving in the wild, you don’t need to remember what plants you can eat, you just need to remember what plants in this genus you can’t eat.
"Among squids, only the flame squid is poisonous, but all species of raspberries are edible. This is a simple way to remember it."
Once after eating wild blackberries, Bifang wanted to do his job as usual, but encountered a roadblock.
A teacher he respected gave him the following advice: "Why don't you completely abandon the existing species classification, first use molecular methods to build a phylogenetic tree, and then reclassify the species."
But at that time, Bifang estimated the difficulty of sampling, counted the limited funds in his pocket, and gave up silently.
I didn't expect that until now, I still can't come up with a suitable species. Although my wallet has become fatter, I am no longer very interested in classifying plants.
"The species I have now has a single leaf with very few prickles. The fruit is also single, and it has a sweet and sour taste that is hard to describe. I feel it smells a bit like some kind of pesticide, but it is very light and does not affect consumption. Perhaps it can be called 'pesticide Rubus'."
[Hahahaha, isn't this too casual? ]
[Pesticide Rubus, I never thought I would get this name in my life]
[By the way, what was the name of the species that Lao Fang discovered last time? 】
【Billy's crocodile.】
[Ah, yes, yes, that’s it, it’s very flooded]
"What's wrong with the Pseudosuchus bifidus?" Bifang was puzzled and said seriously, "Many creatures are called this, such as Pseudosuchus bifidus yeast and Pseudosuchus egg-horned ants. The egg-horned ants don't have a queen yet and are a kind of army ant. It's pretty cool, isn't it?"
[Ah, yes, yes, yes]
[When can I see the Pisces crocodile in the zoo?]
[Yes, does Lao Fang know the news? Didn’t you discover this? ]
"How should I know?"
Bifang shook his head. He didn't know the specific information, but it seemed that there was no intention to develop the place. Instead, they protected .
Even Bifang was informed not to tell others the exact location.
But it doesn’t matter, it has nothing to do with me anyway.
The only information we know is that the one that was brought back at the beginning is very tenacious. It was kept in a laboratory with a large space and someone feeds it at a fixed point every day.
It is said that the intention is to bring a female alligator for breeding and further observe the behavioral habits of this creature.
