Chapter 1539: Bonfire Wolves

It is not surprising to encounter coyotes in the virgin forests of North America. After all, you can encounter coyotes by chance in big cities, and it is normal to encounter coyotes in the forest.

No one knows exactly how many coyotes there are in North America. People only know that in 2013 alone, the US Department of Agriculture paid for and killed more than 70,000 coyotes for reasons such as protecting endangered species, protecting public safety, and controlling wildlife diseases. Wolves, and 4 million other wild animals.

These reasons are actually very easy to understand. Some animals are very adaptable to the natural environment, so they reproduce in large numbers, while the living space of some endangered animals will be crowded out. For example, the spotted owl is no match for the foreign owl population, and the number is getting smaller and smaller. If you want to protect the spotted owl, you need to hunt the exotic owl population.

Coyotes are one of the most successful species in North America. They have a strong ability to survive, and they adapt well to both natural and urban environments. It is normal for them to flood and spread across 49 states except Hawaii. It poses a serious threat to agricultural production, public safety, and endangered species. Therefore, the United States often holds competitions to hunt coyotes. However, if you want to kill wolves, you must have legal documents and procedures, and you cannot kill them casually.

Father Yang said that coyotes rarely attack people, which is correct, but rarely does not mean never. In fact, there have been more than 300 coyote attacks in California over the past few decades, mostly children and occasionally adults.

Once a 19-year-old girl was bitten to death by a coyote. Zhang Zian was worried that Megan would also be kissed by a wolf. Now he knew that Megan was caught by Lipett and the others.

He heard that coyotes were wandering nearby, and he was half relieved. Although he didn't know how many coyotes there were, at least it was better than meeting a black bear.

Femas didn't call the police loudly, because it had seen coyotes and knew that a single coyote was very weak. Even if a group came, it probably couldn't beat the elves.

Just another animal?

That smell is not completely unfamiliar to Femas. It has smelled similar smells in the forest, but it doesn't know what kind of animal the owner of this smell is.

The cat elves also left the tent. They heard that it was not a black bear, but another strange animal. Their curiosity was aroused. Anyway, they were all awake, so they went to see the excitement.

Femas led the way and walked towards the herd of deer.

Zhang Zian took the night vision device and flashlight, and of course he couldn't forget the bear spray and taser, and planned to go with the elves.

He just took two steps, but he noticed that Xinghai was still squatting by the campfire, and didn't go with the other cats.

"Xinghai,

Don't you go and see? he asked.

Xinghai stretched his waist, flicked his tail, tilted his head to look at the bonfire, and said, "Meow ~ the fire is about to go out~"

As soon as Zhang Zian left the tent, he saw that the bonfire was about to go out. He had slept for several hours, and there was no firewood in the middle. There were only some charcoal left in the bonfire, and there was a faint dark red glow in the gray-white ashes, and a few There is a pitiful little residual temperature.

He has been thinking about the coyote in his mind, and he just woke up from sleep and saw that the bonfire was about to go out, but he just "saw" it without any fluctuations in his mind.

So what if the fire is almost out?

The purpose of lighting the bonfire is to drive away the beasts while sleeping and prevent them from approaching. Now that he and the elves are awake, the deterrent effect of the bonfire on the beasts is far inferior to that of the bear spray.

The air was very cold, Zhang Zian rubbed his hands, he really wanted to go and see what happened right away. How many coyotes and other animals came besides the coyotes, but Xinghai squatted by the extinguished bonfire, like It looked like he wanted to keep warm by the fire, so he squatted down again, picked up the dead branches that had not been burned and put them into the campfire.

"Yeah, the fire is going out, let it burn again," he said.

Since it had just rained the night before, coupled with the fog, the branches were relatively damp. Instead of burning after being put into the bonfire, the thick water vapor made the bonfire that was already extinguished even darker, and it might be extinguished at any time.

No way, he turned back and walked to the side of the backpack, looked for solid alcohol from inside with a flashlight, found a can, took out a small piece from it, spread it evenly on a dead branch, and lit it with a lighter , Then stuff it into the campfire, and keep exhaling through your mouth to help the air circulate and bring more oxygen to the campfire.

With the support of solid alcohol, the bonfire quickly turned into a blaze, crackling flames, and from time to time, there was a loud crackling sound, and sparks splashed everywhere. It was the sound of the residual moisture inside the branches turning into steam and bursting open. .

"Xinghai, don't get too close to the fire, be careful of sparks splashing on you." He reminded.

Xinghai obediently stayed away from the bonfire, his silver-gray eyes reflected the bright red flames, and said happily: "Meow~ so warm~"

"Then... you can enjoy the fire here, and I'll go see what they are doing."

He was still quite worried about the elves who were watching the fun. After all, besides the coyote, there was another unknown animal, just don't be a big beast.

"Meow ~ Xinghai is going too~"

To his surprise, Xinghai seemed to have lost interest in the bonfire, and followed beside him wagging his tail.

So... doesn't it want to warm up?

Zhang Zian was a little confused, but forget it, it would be good to re-light the bonfire, so as not to light it again after watching the excitement later.

He and Xinghai trotted to meet other elves.

He didn't dare to turn on the flashlight, worried that the light of the flashlight would provoke the coyotes. Anyway, with night vision goggles, he wouldn't be unable to move an inch.

From a long distance away, he saw the scary eyes of the elves, so he walked lightly.

In addition, in the woods upstream of the creek, there are also several pairs of eyes shining, as if they are trying to make bad plans for the deer.

That must be the coyote pack.

Coyotes, like most canids, are social animals, but they tend to forage alone in the city, sometimes alone in the wild, and sometimes hunt in groups. There is no fixed form, which also shows that they are easy to adapt environment.

"one two three four five six……"

Zhang Zian roughly counted, a total of six pairs of shining eyes could be seen, maybe there were others in the woods.

These coyotes were probably also attracted by the smell of the deer, and planned to come over to eat meat, but they have not found a suitable opportunity to start.

But... what is the other animal?

Zhang Zian could only see the shining eyes through the night vision device, and he couldn't be sure whether the six pairs of eyes included animals other than coyotes, but logically speaking, there shouldn't be other animals mixed into the coyotes pack, right?

Woo~

woo woo~

I don't know which coyote started it, they suddenly howled.