At nine o'clock in the morning, Bi Fang came to the iron fence on time to feed.
After two days and more than double-digit enhanced memories, the cheetah has gained a considerable understanding of its new "keeper".
The smell, appearance, and shape were all so familiar that the cheetah stood up before Bifang even reached the iron fence.
Different from the previous times of alertness, looking at the cheetah's constantly sweeping tail, you can see that this is not a sign of fright, but a sign of joy.
Harley the cheetah is looking forward to his second meal of the day.
The audience in the live broadcast room poured in early for no other reason. As early as the last feeding the next night, Bi Fang informed the audience that today he would try to have a certain degree of physical contact and simple interaction with the cheetah.
Although after the first feeding at six o'clock today, the audience did not see any of the big scene they were looking forward to, and they couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. However, when Bi Fang made it clear that the contact would be during the second feeding, he felt that he had been "let go" before.
"The audience still came as scheduled.
【Is the big one coming?】
[I woke up at three o'clock in the middle of the night and saw nothing. Now it's six o'clock, so I won't be let go, right? 】
[Good guy, brother, where are you from? The time difference is so outrageous]
[Don’t be afraid of sudden death, just endure it like this]
【Ruthless person】
【To be a tough guy, be tough!】
"I originally planned to put the contact behavior on the second feeding. I made it clear yesterday that you didn't listen carefully."
Bi Fang inserted the key into the keyhole, turned it twice, and unlocked it with great difficulty.
The door lock has been exposed to wind and rain for a long time, causing the chain lock to become rusty. It takes several attempts to open it every time.
"The reason why it should be done specifically during the second feeding is actually very particular."
Pulling out the chain, Bifang pushed the door open and entered. Harley's tail next to him was wagging faster.
[Be particular about? What is particular about?]
[It must be another small detail that I don’t know.]
[Say it quickly and let me open my eyes.]
Bi Fang came to the food bowl, picked out the dead branches and leaves inside, wiped them briefly and said:
"I feed Harley once every three hours. After the first two times, his hunger level will be limited in the next few times. But if it is the second feeding of the day, it happens to be the time when his hunger level is the strongest.
"
【Ah, why is this?】
【Why is the level of hunger limited?】
After Bi Fang wiped the food bowl clean, he poured all the flesh and blood in the bag into it. At this time, Harley's tail was shaking so much that it was almost an afterimage.
It was so hungry that it couldn't wait for Bifang to leave before going up to eat.
But what Bifang did next was somewhat unexpected to Harley. He did not leave immediately, but stayed where he was.
For a moment, Harley was a little anxious, but Bi Fang calmly started talking to the audience.
"I wonder if you have had such an experience, that is, if you eat while playing with your mobile phone, you will find that your appetite is smaller than usual?"
【Um, I didn’t pay attention】
【Is there any? I don’t feel it】
[It seems to be a little bit. I usually eat box lunches at work. If I eat while playing with my mobile phone, sometimes there will be one or two chopsticks of rice left? 】
[Hiss, from what I said earlier, I seem to have a point too.]
"One of the reasons for this is that eating while watching mobile phones will put the brain in a state of excitement, which will have a certain inhibitory effect on one's own gastrointestinal motility, reduce the secretion of digestive juices, and affect the digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients."
"However, this is not what I want to talk about today. What I want to talk about is another reason, that is, by extending the eating time, you will feel full more easily."
"Satiety is a feeling controlled by the hypothalamus of the human body. When eating to a certain level, the satiety center is stimulated, which will convey to the brain a feeling that you do not want to continue eating, and you will not feel hungry."
"But if you eat quickly, a large amount of food will accumulate in the stomach in a short period of time, and the stomach's nerve reflexes will not have time to report to the brain, so it is easy to overeat."
“Nowadays, most people go to work or go to school and pursue quick fixes. It is easy to eat quickly and then overeat. However, if you are distracted while eating, it will naturally prolong the entire eating process, which will naturally make it more difficult.
It’s easy to feel full.”
"Actually, cheetahs are the same. They eat five kilograms of meat every day, which can be divided into five times and one meal. The effects are completely different."
"By the fourth or fifth time, the cheetah is not very hungry anymore. The food itself is fat and plump internal organs. The energy obtained by Harley is quite sufficient, and the brain does not send a strong enough eating signal to the body."
"But the first three times, especially the second time, are when the cheetah's hunger signal is strongest."
"At this time, after a whole night of digestion, the cheetah's belly is already empty, and it has also eaten for the first time, which arouses the desire to eat."
"It's like you opened a bag of potato chips, then thought about your weight, and told yourself to only eat a few bites, but after you actually eat it, you rarely finish the whole bag without finishing it.
Really stopped."
[I looked at the corn flakes on hand and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they were not potato chips (dog heads)]
【It’s me.】
【(angry from shame)!】
【Start today and lose weight!】
Bi Fang put his hand next to Harley's food bowl and never left. As a result, Harley didn't dare to get too close and kept wandering four or five meters away.
Many viewers broke out in a cold sweat.
For cats, this distance is just a matter of jumping.
Especially when Bifang is still in a crouching position, which is extremely inconvenient for exerting force or dodging, it becomes even more dangerous.
"My purpose is to let Harley approach me proactively, use its appetite to enhance its initiative and necessity, and at the same time reduce the threat I pose in Harley's eyes by squatting in a posture that is inconvenient for exerting force."
"I wonder if you have noticed that people who are afraid of cats or who keep their distance from cats are more likely to be favored by them."
"This is because cats don't feel threatened by them."
"For cats, the human body is too big. When they see a cat, they pounce on it, which often brings a sense of oppression to them and makes them feel uncomfortable."
"Furthermore, cats will do a scent survey before approaching unfamiliar things. If you are too proactive in looking for cats, this process will be ignored. Instead, cats will think you are in danger and avoid you."
"It's best to retreat in order to advance. The cat will approach you out of curiosity."
"Cheetahs and cats are similar, so the corresponding methods are similar. After two days of feeding and familiarization, I have successfully made Harley familiar with my scent. It's almost time to accept the results today."
The audience in the live broadcast room were a little dumbfounded when they heard this.
[Good guy, this is a high-end game]
[Touch a big cat, it’s all because of your selfishness]
【Is this a laning match? 】
[Now that I’ve learned it, go fight the wild cats in the lane community!]
[Alpha: He is so warm, I cry to death]
[Naked choke plus horse hug wrestling, a series of moves, right? 】
Bi Fang was delighted: "The situation is different. Harley was raised by people and has the foundation of family members. If we use gentle methods, we can quickly close the distance."
"But if we do it like Alpha, it will prolong our familiarity time."
In front of the food bowl, Bifang and Harley were at different times, just staring at Harley's soles, his eyes slightly wandering.
He even turned his body slightly, not facing the cheetah head-on.
Harley, who was originally hesitant, felt a little more courageous when he saw this. "If you are not familiar with animals, don't stare at them all the time. They will regard them as a threat. Remember what I said before? If
When you encounter a ferocious beast in the wild, don’t panic, just stare into its eyes as soon as possible, that’s why.”
"Staring is a self-protective behavior, which means 'I know you saw me, if you want to prey, you'd better find another prey'."
"Among predatory animals, except for cheetahs, which rely on hard pursuit, most rely on surprise attacks."
"Although you may not be able to catch up from the front, the hunting success rate will be much lower. For predatory animals, if you fail to hunt several times, you may not even have the strength to hunt. If you are lucky, you can pinch your nose and eat some scavenging, and eat some berries.
If you are unlucky, you may get injured while grabbing the leftovers, and if not, you may be really doomed.”
"So for most predators, if their prey spots them, they have to reassess whether it's cost-effective to continue pursuing them."
"So when animals face potential attackers, if they are not very sure that they can win or escape, they will often stare at each other and wait for the opponent to retreat."
"This is why many outdoor books will tell you that when you encounter a lone predator, you should look into its eyes, stay alert, and don't move."
"If the beast is not completely confident or is hungry, it has a high probability of retreating - after all, there are not many wild beasts that have eaten humans, and it has no idea of the probability of being injured if it attacks you."
"Some hats used in the wild use reflective paint to draw a pair of eye-shaped patterns on the back of the head, which can also reduce the chance of being attacked by predators."
"But now that we want to get close to each other, we naturally have to do the opposite."
With the multiple functions of squatting, avoiding sight, turning sideways, familiar smells, and deep memories, Harley, who had been raised by humans, finally began to try to get closer, driven by his own hunger and the temptation of food.
When he saw Harley approaching slowly, Bi Fang couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and stopped talking to avoid any unexpected effects from his voice.
Animals and humans are different.
Human beings have rational thinking, therefore, an individual’s acquired growth experience often has a great impact on personality.
In animals, on the contrary, acquired influence only accounts for a small part. Many behaviors are caused by nature and are not easy to change.
As the animal caretaker said yesterday, leopards are naturally neurotic and aggressive, and this cannot be changed by raising them since childhood.
Compared with nature and acquired experience, nature is basically the dominant factor.
It is this characteristic that makes it easy for humans to predict the behavior of animals. For most animals, they can make a general determination.
For example, cobras are aggressive even if the opponent is much larger than themselves.
Big-eared foxes are timid by nature, even if they are just a little mouse.
Cats like to hunt, and it is difficult not to attack creatures that turn their backs on them.
Under such a tone, prescribing the right medicine can work wonders.
But this method is not 100% correct. No matter how small the acquired impact is, it will indeed have an impact. Sometimes some animals will be exceptions.
An experienced hunter never leaves everything to the nature of the animal.
Fortunately, Harley was not the exception. It followed every step planned by Bifang, thus avoiding a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Under the nervous gaze of the audience, Harley slowly, repeatedly, and hesitantly arrived less than one meter in front of Bifang.
At this location, the food bowl and Bifang's throat, the cheetah can reach out with its claws if it wants to.
Bi Fang raised his eyelids slightly and moved his gaze up to Harley's chest. From this position, he could clearly see the cheetah's muscles squirming and judge its possible next movements.
A distance of half a meter seems to be Harley's limit.
For a while, the two sides were in a stalemate.
Even if Bifang was squatting, it was a bit too much pressure for Harley.
If another breeder had done the same thing as Bifang, he might have been able to have close contact with Harley, but if he had been replaced by Bifang, it would have been a bit less interesting.
Bi Fang, who has spent a long time in the wild and interacted with various wild animals, has an aura that is completely different from that of ordinary people.
This is a rather vague thing, but it does exist.
Just like two people who have been together for a long time, even without looking at their expressions, they can vaguely feel whether the other person is depressed or excited.
This is especially true for sensitive animals.
Harley lowered his head and raised it repeatedly, his nose twitching slightly as he kept catching scent molecules, but couldn't make any further moves.
Outside the iron fence, I don't know when a lot of people were already standing.
They gathered around here, watching the interaction between one person and one animal, not even daring to swallow their saliva, for fear of disturbing the scene and ruining all their efforts.
Bi Fang and the cheetah were separated and facing each other, with a wooden basin filled with blood food sandwiched between them. The smell of blood spread to all directions under the influence of the wind, and an indescribable atmosphere was constantly taking place.
During the stalemate, a finger tapped on the edge of the food bowl, making a crisp sound, breaking the silence.
Harley was so shocked that he shrank his head and his whole body leaned back, but his limbs were firmly nailed to the ground and did not move.
Bi Fang's index finger rested on the edge of the food bowl, and he pushed forward slowly and forcefully. Finally, after dragging a distance of about ten centimeters on the ground, it stopped.
This scene allowed Harley, who was leaning back, to regain his composure. Looking at the nearby rice bowl, stronger curiosity and appetite surged up.
The atmosphere changed again.
Just when everyone was about to lose their nerve, the cheetah finally lowered its head completely, stepped forward and smelled Bifang's fingers.
"coming!"
Barry outside the iron net was a little excited when he saw this scene.
In the feline world, nose-to-nose is a form of greeting.
As a human, you can stretch out one of your fingers and gently touch the cat's nose as a greeting, and then keep your finger still.
If the cat comes forward and smells the finger, or licks the finger, it means that it is willing to interact more with people.
On the contrary, if it just smells it and then retreats, it means it is still very unfamiliar with humans and needs more time to accept humans.
The cheetah paused for a moment, as if thinking several times, and finally stretched out his tongue to lick it, then retracted it like lightning, focusing more on the piece of meat.
Soon, the sound of sharp teeth and chewing pieces of meat was heard.
A big hand also pressed on the cheetah's head, sliding along the hair to the neck.
The cheetah seemed to be just focused on eating, without any awareness or resistance.