My Live Life at the Zoo

Chapter 332 The Bird Who Guided Li Xiao to Find Honey

The worm in front of me is about the size of a thumbnail, and its whole body is black and yellow, with occasional yellow stripes.

I saw it shuttling among the bright flowers of eggplant, looking diligent.

If you look around, you will find this kind of bug between the petals of several eggplant trees nearby.

Li Xiao couldn't help grinning.

After dreaming about being bitten by a snake, it indicates that something good will happen, which is really accurate!
They hit each other one after another!

Li Xiao suddenly changed his mind, took out a few more vacuum bags from his backpack without hesitation, and happily picked eggplants.

Li Xiao sat down contentedly after keeping everything bulging in vacuum bags.

Seeing Li Xiao's painstaking efforts to pick so many mountain eggplants, the tourists in the live broadcast room became more and more puzzled, and started to comment.

"Director, didn't you just say that mountain eggplants are easy to break, especially in this environment, so you can't pick too much, why is this now?"

"Yeah, director, why did you suddenly pick so many?"

"This stuff is so sour, you can't eat it all the time, right? It will ruin your stomach!"

"The scheming frog keeps touching your belly. It must be because the head of the garden is pregnant and sour, so the head of the garden picked so many sour eggplants!"

Facing the tourists' teasing, Li Xiao didn't mind, but winked at the camera slyly, and said: "I just said that because I didn't have the means to save it. But it's different now, I suddenly found out There's a natural preservative cum premium seasoning around here.

The opportunity is rare, so naturally we need to pick more and save more. "

Natural preservatives?
The tourists in the live broadcast room were confused again.

But this time they didn't scramble to ask questions.

Because after watching this period of time, they already know that Li Xiao likes to play tricks, and will never reveal the answer until the critical moment.

This is also a small surprise.

So no matter how you ask, Li Xiao will keep his mouth shut.

That being the case, the tourists can only obediently wait for Li Xiao to reveal the answer himself.

And now, keep watching and you're done!

Because the skin of the eggplant is very delicate, the most fearful thing is to squeeze it. If you are not careful, it will turn into juice. Therefore, Li Xiao deliberately put a few bags of eggplant in the net bag on the side of the backpack, so that you will not be afraid of being crowded. The inside of the bag was squeezed.

Li Xiao was not in a hurry, and sat on the spot to rest for a while. After Xiao Hei and Guo Er had eaten enough, he followed those dark brown flying insects with yellow stripes, and followed them quietly.

For Li Xiao, this is a severe test.

Because at noon, the leafy forest is extremely warm, and the temperature is rising every minute. Even though Li Xiao took off a lot of clothes on purpose, but with a heavy backpack on his back, he still has to stay in the forest. Traveling through the woodland with complex terrain, the consumption of physical energy is naturally quite rapid.

The most important point is that the little flying insects are flying around without any purpose at all.

But no matter where they fly, Li Xiao will keep up with them.

I'm close, afraid of being disturbed.

It's far away, I'm afraid I'll miss it.

Not long after, beads of sweat trickled down Li Xiao's forehead and temples.

Sweat dripped from Li Xiao's eyes from time to time, in order to ensure that his vision would not be affected, Li Xiao had to wipe it constantly.

In the warm forest, there are already many kinds of mosquitoes. Even though Li Xiao's body is different from ordinary people, and the perception of various organs is even more extraordinary, but he wants to accurately track one of them in a complicated environment. The flight trajectory of a small flying insect is still very difficult.

If you were an ordinary person, you might not be able to walk five meters, and you would lose your target.

Are you working hard?
The answer is naturally yes!

But for the sake of appetite, Li Xiao thinks it's worth it!

After all, when tracking, you can also enjoy the scenery along the way, and have a better chance to meet other animals and plants.

This can be considered hard work!

About half an hour later, Li Xiao found that there were more and more small flying insects around him.

That means he's looking in exactly the right direction.

at this time……

Ye Sha and Guang Sha woke up from their sleep, spit out the letter and gently licked Li Xiao's cheek.

"Fizz!"

Night Fury: Hungry!
Guang Sha: Let's eat, we want to eat!
It just so happened that Li Xiao was also tired, so he sat on a boulder and took a short rest.

At the same time, he took out the big meat worm and started feeding Ye Fu and Guang Fu.

Li Xiao, Xiao Hei, and Guo Er were not hungry because they ate too many mountain eggplants just now, so now Li Xiao only needs to take care of the two-headed flash-scale python.

Compared with ordinary baby snakes, this double-headed flash-scale python has a bigger appetite and eats a lot more.

They were born just one day ago, and they have already shown their "big stomach king" attribute.

It would take at least a day for an ordinary snake baby to digest such an obese big meat worm.

But Ye Fu and Guang Fu will be hungry again after a few hours of eating.

I don't know if it was Li Xiao's illusion, Li Xiao also found that today's double-headed python is a little thicker than when it just broke out of the shell yesterday.

The growth is a bit fast, beyond Li Xiao's imagination.

After Ye Fu and Guang Fu were full again, Li Xiao got up and prepared to continue following the little flying insect just now.

Can……

"Chirp!!!"

Accompanied by a bird cry, a dexterous figure descended from the sky and landed on a big tree beside it.

"Fizz!"

Night Fury, Light Fury: Food!food!Catch it!

Li Xiao: "..."

The two of you are too gluttonous, and you have just eaten your fill when you start thinking about other animals.

Why, do you still want to improve the food?

Because the sun was too poisonous, Li Xiao subconsciously covered his eyes with his hands, then raised his head and looked at the bird that appeared suddenly.

I saw that this bird is very cute. Its beak is light cherry pink white, its belly is covered with gray fluffy feathers, and its wings are brown and white, with a few bright yellow hairs mixed in.

The most special thing is that under its small black eyes, there are two white hairs that look like white faces.

Those who didn't know thought it had long eyelashes attached!
This is……?
As the camera turned, the tourists in the live broadcast room were also very curious after seeing it.

"What kind of bird is this? It looks really strange and beautiful!"

"It doesn't seem to be afraid of people, it's still staring at the director!"

"It's another bird that I've never seen before. I feel like I've lived for more than [-] years in vain!"

"I can't help it, we people are just making up numbers in the world, and it was Nuwa who made it out of mud at the beginning!"

When the tourists in the live broadcast room were talking about it, the bird was already bouncing around and approaching Li Xiao.

It may be the first time to see humans in this virgin forest, and it is also full of curiosity.

After a while, it landed on Li Xiao's other shoulder.

Li Xiao tried his best to control Ye Fu and Guang Fu, lest they could not hold back and pounce on them and take a bite.

Observing the bird closely, Li Xiao already had the answer in his heart.

"This bird is called a honeybee."

Li Xiao said with a smile: "The honeybee is a small gray bird that lives in the African jungle. It is slightly larger than a sparrow. It is the only vertebrate that can feed on beeswax. There are many yeasts and yeasts in its crops. Other bacteria help it break down beeswax into absorbable fat.

The honeybee can guide honey hunters and honey badgers to hunt wild beehives, and then eat the honey and beeswax left by honey hunters and honey badgers, so people also call it an indicator or guide bird.

The honeybee is very good at finding beehives in the forest, but they are too small and have limited ability to destroy the beehives alone to obtain food.

So when they find a beehive, they will jump and call to find honey badgers or honey hunters.

When the honey badger or honey hunter destroys the hive, the honeybee will fly down the branch and eat the remaining honey in a leisurely manner. "

"Damn! Are you so smart?"

"It even knows how to ask for help, this kind of bird is not easy!"

"Today is really the first time I heard the director talk about this kind of bird, it's a bit unbelievable!"

"Actually, there is no need to believe it, because now our country is developed, and there will be special honey collectors and machines to collect honey, but it is different in the relatively backward primitive tribes in Africa."

Li Xiao patiently said: "People there are never short of honey to eat, and it once aroused the curiosity and suspicion of scientists from various countries, and some people went to observe it in person.

This person is the ornithologist Herbert Friedman. When he inspected some areas in Africa, he found that when hunting honey, the primitive people did not go directly to the forest to find the hive, but always went into the forest first. Listen attentively.

After a while, a small bird flew out of the dense forest and circled over the hunter's head. This kind of bird is a honeybee.

The primitive man who hunted honey smiled happily when he saw it, and the honeybee hovered over the primitive man's head for a while, and then flew to the depths of the dense forest with chirping calls.

At this time, the primitive man quickly followed the little bird. The honeybee seemed to be a guide specially for the primitive man, and it would stop from time to time, singing and guiding the primitive man to keep up with him.

Sometimes, it will fly over the heads of the hesitant primitives and circle around, as if urging the natives to hurry up.

In this way, the ring honeybee led the primitive people to find the wild bee hive.

There are about seven kilograms of honey in a hive, enough for primitive people to enjoy for three or four days.

Whenever the honey hunt is over, the primitive man will never forget the bird guide. He will leave some of the honey he finds for the honeybee to show his gratitude, and at the same time leave some beeswax.

For a long time, in their primitive culture, Xiangmibu was the god they worshiped.

They implement strict protection for the honeybee. If someone dares to kill a honeybee, his ears will be cut off at the least, and he will be executed if he is serious.

Some tribes even predict good and bad luck according to the behavior of ringing honeybirds.

When the honeybee is attacked by natural enemies, the primitive people will do their best to help the honeybee.

This is said to be because the natives believed they would be punished by the gods if they stood idly by when the honeybee needed help.

As for honey badgers, they are not as smart as humans. Every time honey badgers peck their heads, they stimulate them to chase themselves, and finally lead them to the hive.

Finally, I will tell you an unsolved mystery about the honeybee. Like the cuckoo, the honeybee is a nest-parasitic bird. Once the young bird is raised, it will leave the nest without the teaching of its biological parents. , they have the ability to guide honey badgers or honey hunters! "

"Maybe this is what we Chinese people say about dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and the son of a mouse can make holes."

"Things engraved deep in the genes, you can't do without admiration!"

"Then the ringing honeybee in front of you also came to ask the head of the garden for help?"

"Of course!"

Li Xiao smiled even more happily, and said: "I will follow this honeybee now, and I will definitely get sweet honey!

What I was looking for just now is honey. The reason why I didn’t tell you is because the bees I used to find the target are really too small. If they don’t live in groups in one place, it is difficult to take a clear picture. .

So I thought I'd show you guys after I found the hive.

But before I found it, the ringing honeybee took the initiative to come and lead me the way.

Luck is something really mysterious and mysterious sometimes! "

Thinking of eating eggplant dipped in sweet honey soon, Li Xiao rubbed his hands excitedly, and quickly followed Xiang Miji.

This time, with the bird leading the way, Li Xiao felt much more relaxed.

After walking through the forest for another ten minutes, Xiangmiji finally stopped on a big tree in front of him.

Fearing that Li Xiao would not understand what he meant, he continued to jiojio and chirp.

Ring Honey: Here!here!Here it is!
"Here it is, start working!"

Li Xiao took out the saber from his waist, pushed aside the spring, and went forward with the saber to study the tree carefully.

This big tree is very old at first glance, the trunk can only be hugged by two adults with open arms, and the bark has turned black.

And the strangest thing is that this big tree is half dead and half alive.

One half is still growing vigorously, while the other half is completely dead.

Li Xiao went around to the dead side and observed carefully.

A crack was found here, and the small flying insects at the beginning were actually wild bees.

Unhurriedly, Li Xiao used his saber to carefully pick apart a part of the bark near the crack, and in an instant, the true face hidden under the bark was revealed.

It's a huge patch of mini hives!

The two words, a big piece and a miniature, sound contradictory, but they don't actually conflict.

The reason why it is said to be a large area is that it is densely packed with honeycombs as far as the eye can see.

This is just a small part that Li Xiao picked up. I can't believe how much there is if I continue to pick.

The reason why it is called mini is because in people's impression, the hives of bees are very large, but the hives hidden in the tree trunks in front of them are only the size of a palm, and they look small and exquisite.

"Wow, there are so many beehives, the director has made a lot of money this time!"

"We must give Xiangmiji a credit!"

"Fresh wild honey, I'm a little greedy!"

The live broadcast room is already boiling.

Li Xiao was even more excited.

It's just that no one noticed that in a tree hole not far away, a pair of dark eyes were closely watching every move here.

(End of this chapter)