Chapter 22 022: Climbing the tree

The leopards on Yangziling are golden leopards, which belong to the North China leopard subspecies. Male leopards are slightly smaller, about one meter long and weigh 50 to 60 kilograms, while female leopards can weigh up to more than 70 kilograms.

Leopards are medium-sized cat predators, which are slightly weaker than tigers and lions, but they are more agile and have stronger predatory capabilities than tigers and lions.

Various wild beasts underground, such as wild boar, deer, roe deer, musk deer, etc., are their prey, while monkeys, flying squirrels and even some birds in the trees cannot escape the prey.

They also particularly like to eat dogs, and often go to people's houses down the mountain to steal dogs.

Although dogs can bite wild boars and bears fiercely, when they encounter a leopard, they will basically crush them. No matter in terms of agility, attack power, bite force or speed, they are far behind the leopard.

If attacked in a group, the leopard can still climb the tree, but there is nothing you can do against it.

Wang Tianxiao has been in the mountains for more than 20 years and has only seen leopards twice.

Once when he was patrolling the mountains, he saw a leopard standing on the opposite hill from a distance. There was a cliff between him and the leopard. At that time, he was extremely frightened and worried that the beast would suddenly jump over the mountain stream.

Another time, a leopard took away the child of a worker in the forest farm. The entire forest farm teamed up to chase the leopard, and finally blocked the leopard in a cave and smoked it to death inside.

Of course, it's possible that he wasn't really smoked to death, but that he just didn't appear.

For beasts like leopards, one den in the forest is enough. Any more will destroy the ecological balance, so the probability of encountering them is very small.

"Maybe not..."

"Uh... uh... uh oh..."

Wang Tianxiao was about to comfort his younger brother when suddenly bursts of piercing and eerie screams came from not far away.

It's like a child who keeps saying he's hungry, and it sounds like the sound of some kind of hawk or falcon, but if you hear it too much, it sounds like a poor puppy that's been injured.

"This shouldn't be a dog, right?" Wang Tianxiao shrank his neck and asked nervously.

Wang Tianxiao's eyes changed slightly and he shook his head slightly.

"Sure enough, it's a wolf." Wang Tiancheng was dumbfounded. If what he heard just now was a leopard and this time it was a wolf, would the two brothers still be able to walk out of this mountain and see the sun tomorrow?

He placed all his hopes on his brother.

But when he saw Wang Tianxiao's serious expression, he still shook his head, "It's not a wolf, it's more terrifying than a wolf."

"What is that?"

"It's a jackal."

"Isn't a jackal the same thing?" Wang Tiancheng was a little confused.

Wang Tianxiao asked his brother to lower his voice.

It is normal not to recognize the sound of jackals. If they were not in the mountains, many people would never see a jackal in their lives. Even like Wang Tiancheng, they think jackals are just a thing.

But in fact, jackals and wolves are two different species.

Jackals and wolves both belong to the canine family, but jackals look more like dogs, so some people call jackals jackals.

The body of jackal is much smaller and lighter than that of wolf. The average jackal only weighs more than ten kilograms, and the heaviest one only weighs about twenty kilograms. Their legs are also much shorter than that of wolf, and most of them are covered with fine red hair, which looks a bit like a fire fox.

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However, if you think that it is not strong because of its small body, then you should underestimate it. The fighting power of jackals is much stronger than that of wolves. If other factors are not considered, a wolf cannot defeat a jackal at all.

It can be said that the jackal is the ceiling of combat power among canines. If we have to compare, it can only be the hyena on the grassland.

But jackals and hyenas both sound like dogs, but they belong to different families. Jackals belong to the canidae family, while hyenas belong to the hyena family.

They are all ferocious, but jackals are more intelligent. For example, they can also act. Put a weak jackal in danger, deliberately lure the prey close, and then other ambushed jackals will swarm up when the time is right, performing a "fairy jump."

The reason why jackals are ferocious is that they have to go through a lot of cruel competition since childhood to survive. Weak jackals will be bitten to death by adult jackals.

Jackals that can grow up are naturally extremely ferocious. Wang Tianxiao saw a group of jackals killing each other with his own eyes, and he is still frightened to this day.

They are gregarious animals, living together and hunting together. There are almost no animals that they dare not attack, but if there is an internal conflict, they will bite them to the death and be really ruthless.

Once, on his way back from Ziwu Mountain, Wang Tianxiao saw three jackals attacking a red deer halfway up the mountain.

Red deer are already considered to be very strong and powerful among deer, especially adult red deer. It is difficult for two or three hounds to deal with it.

But when he saw the jackal, he still had no choice but to run away hastily.

Three jackals were assigned tasks. One was harassing the red deer repeatedly in front, so that the red deer could not run too fast. One jumped on the red deer and kept scratching the red deer's butt, making the red deer unprepared. The last one was fast.

**. After the red deer’s internal organs come out, they will soon be entangled in the branches, losing their fighting power, and then they will swarm them and feast on them.

The night wind was brisk, and only then did Wang Tianxiao really feel a hint of coolness.

He didn't understand why such a ferocious beast as a jackal came to the outside of the mountain. Could it be because it was too cold in the forest and there was no food to hunt?

What bad luck.

He was also a little nervous, after all, he hadn't fought these things in many years, but the young brother was already trembling with fear. If he showed any cowardice again, the two of them would really have no fighting power.

Most ferocious beasts are afraid of people. They will observe people's eyes and movements. Once they show the slightest timidity, they will become bolder. If people show bravery, they may retreat because they are unpredictable.

"Don't be afraid, as long as your brother is here, everything will be fine." Wang Tianxiao encouraged his younger brother, taking the gun from behind to the front and looking at the gunpowder and iron sand inside.

Because he was prepared to kill a rabbit, he didn't pretend much, and it would definitely not be enough to deal with a jackal. He refilled the gun powder, stood up, shook his neck, and moved his wrists and ankles.

After being transferred from the forestry farm to the nursery in his previous life, he said goodbye to the mountains. It had been more than ten years since he had been exposed to this dangerous feeling. Now he was both afraid and a little excited.

Wang Tiancheng also started warming up with his brother.

My limbs tend to stiffen easily in cold weather, and it gets aggravated after sitting under a tree for a long time.

Somewhere ahead, two kinds of cries continued to come and go.

There was a "meow".

A moment of "uh...uh...uh uh".

It looks like they are still fighting.

It has been impossible to decide the winner for a long time.

What surprised Wang Tianxiao was that there was only one jackal making a sound instead of one after another. When they hunt, they usually stay in groups and rarely stay alone. Even if they find prey separately, they will call their friends with their calls.

There are very few situations like this where no partner shows up after calling for a long time.

Could it be a lone jackal?

Wang Tianxiao had a thought in his heart.

If the jackal himself is old and his fighting ability is weakened, he will be kicked out of the team. If he does not leave quickly, he may be bitten to death by his younger companions.

It's just that the old jackals in the mountains usually run deep into the mountains, and there are still relatively few that sneak into the outer reaches of the mountains.

"What should we do now, brother?" Wang Tiancheng was horrified by the cry.

Wang Tianxiao thought for a moment, looked at the big tree next to him, and thought in his mind: "Go up the tree."
Chapter completed!