Live Wilderness Adventure - Chapter 667 musk ox

Bi Fang walked among the trees, took off his gloves, and touched the cold trees one after another. Behind him was a 100-meter-high cliff, which was a natural city wall.

Nature is so vast, but the landscape is quite brutal. There is not a trace of green on the ground, and it is all covered by thick snow.

Standing in the forest in the North Pole, Bi Fang, as a human being, inevitably felt a little insignificant.

Looking behind, on the cliff, the huge inland ice surface forms a tongue of ice, which may fall from a high altitude under a storm at any time, smashing everything into pieces.

In Greenland, as far as the eye can see, there are endless wild places.

"The arctic region, in all respects, is quite extreme, only those species that can successfully adapt to the harsh climatic conditions here, with the huge difference between summer and winter, survive, there are no leaves and almost all trees are green. , absorb sunlight as much as possible and carry out photosynthesis.”

Bi Fang rubbed the body of the tree, which clearly left some scratch marks on it. He squatted down, shoveled away the snow on the ground, and found the moss community that had been eaten.

There are tooth marks on the edges of the moss, and it is clear that herbivores have visited and left their marks.

More snow was dug up, and soon, more traces were exposed, not only huge footprints, but also some long brown hairs.

Looking at the hoof prints on the ground, the audience felt a little deja vu.

【what is this? Reindeer? 】

[It looks very similar, but it seems to be a lot bigger. 】

Bi Fang dug up the remaining moss on the ground and shook his head: "It's not a reindeer, the reindeer doesn't have such a big body, these are the footprints left by the musk ox."

【What kind of cow is a musk ox? 】

[Blind guessing is a big cow]

【Can you eat? 】

"Musk ox is the representative animal of the Arctic tundra and the most northern ungulate on earth. Among ungulates, no animal lives further north than the musk ox, not even the reindeer. ."

"It is said that the undercoat shed by musk ox is 8 times warmer than sheep wool, and its outer protective coat is also the longest in the animal kingdom, even reaching 60 centimeters long, perfectly resisting minus forty degrees. low temperature.”

Bi Fang gave a brief introduction, and then pointed to the very clear footprints on the ground.

"The reason why you think the footprints of the two look similar is because it and the reindeer are both Artiodactyla, and both are ruminants, until the family is different, so the footprints look similar at first glance, but the two are different in size It's huge."

"Musk ox generally weighs more than 300 kilograms, and the reindeer is less than half of it. It is precisely because the musk ox is too large and likes to swarm, there are almost no rivals, and the deer are very domineering when walking, so they will often rub against them. trees, which is rarely the case with reindeer."

[Hi, three hundred kilograms? 】

[Damn, is it enough to catch one? 】

[Suddenly I feel that the 20kg target set by Lao Fang is not so outrageous. Is this one enough? 】

【Cluster? My DNA is moving]

The soil here is permafrost, and it is difficult for the imprint to disappear after stepping on it, which makes it difficult for Bi Fang to judge the time when the prey left.

Bi Fang closed his eyes, his nose twitched slightly, trying to catch the residual smell of musk ox in the air.

"The musk ox is called musk ox because both male and female musk oxes emit a musk-like smell, especially in males during estrus."

"But the smell doesn't come from specialized glands, but from their urine, which is why musk ox 'body odor' gets its name."

In the air, a fragrant scent quickly entered the nasal cavity along the air, but it was not obvious, so Bi Fang had to lie on the ground and try to identify it again.

【The taste is getting stronger】

[Damn, isn't that the smell of urine? 】

【Musk-flavored urine (dog head)】

[What's the matter, the **** is diluted a thousand times and still smells like jasmine]

[Ah, I know this, a certain chemistry teacher never gave his girlfriend jasmine perfume, and every time he saw someone using jasmine perfume, he would laugh without saying a word (dog head)]

"This is wrong."

Bi Fang opened his eyes and shook his head after seeing the barrage.

"Diluted feces still smell like feces, but it doesn't smell as much. Jasmine still smells like jasmine when it's strong, but it doesn't smell as good."

"This term comes from 'indole', which is indeed the odor component shared by feces and jasmine. Keene, former perfumer at Hermès, described the smell of high concentrations of indole as corpse odor, which I think is like the smell of sunburned cows in the countryside. Shit smell."

"But when dilute to 0.1% or less, it's not a full jasmine scent, or even a major component of a jasmine scent."

"Taking the pure oil of jasmine jasmine as an example, the odor components from high to low content have sweet fruit aroma, soft sweetness, dry tea smell, both grass and flower aroma, refreshing flower aroma, a kind of hay smell, and then It is indole, with a content of about 0.16%, and there are about twenty other odor components."

【? ? ? 】

Strong sacrifice read sacrifice. [This is something that people can smell? 】

This time Zhang Si. [Damn, this is real cowhide]

Bi Fang shrugged, these were all smelled by professional perfumers, and he couldn't do it himself.

Distinguishing smells requires a lot of training, not just a good sense of smell. UU reading www.uukanshu.com A person who has never smelled the fragrance of jasmine flowers suddenly does not know what it is.

With a strong sense of smell, it helps Bi Fang to track and search for enemies.

"Conversely, feces are also true, and it is not entirely composed of indole."

"If you are a real chemistry teacher, you should know that the smell of natural substances is inherently complex. It is normal for things that are far apart to have the same or similar odor components. Cheese, beef, pork, shrimp, eggs, Strawberries, cherries, and peaches also contain small amounts of indole."

"Can you admit that you actually ate it, er..." Bi Fang scratched his cheek and smiled, "Is that?"

[Fuck, I was confused for a long time, and finally saw the authoritative explanation]

[Cow, the truth depends on Lao Fang]

[So did you smell it? Is the musk ox still around? 】

Bi Fang nodded and picked up the stick beside him.

"As I said just now, the musk ox has a stronger smell during estrus, and its breeding season is from mid-September to October every year. After the summer's recuperation, the musk ox has accumulated a lot of energy. Females are mainly for reproduction, and males are also in the breeding season. Qiu's estrus fights for reproductive rights."

"At this time, the musk glands on the male musk ox's face secrete a strong-smelling secretion, which touches the plants on the ground through their legs to demarcate their own territory, and the female musk ox is enclosed in it and strictly controlled. Watch and protect, and no other male musk ox may occupy it."

Make a big tyrant. "As a result, the smell on the ground will be stronger, which is why we just got down on the ground."

"but......"

Bi Fang raised his head and looked at the sky.

it's getting dark.

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