Chapter 1545: The Smell of a Cat

After resting enough, Zhang Zian dismantled the tent, packed all the things, and continued to set off.

Fimas was still running ahead, but it was not responsible for leading the way, it was only responsible for sniffing suspicious smells.

Zhang Zian compared the electronic map in the game, and moved towards the flickering light cluster, but there was no road in the forest, and he often had to make a detour while walking, and sometimes it was not close.

π, who got a new toy, followed closely behind Femas.

Before, when he heard some noise in the woods, π would be nervous for a while, but if a small animal was suddenly driven out of the grass by Femas, π would be scared and hide behind Zhang Zian.

Now that π has a handy self-defense weapon in his hands, he longs for some small animal to jump out of the woods and let him try his hand. The forest has been quiet, but it makes him scratch his ears and cheeks anxiously.

Zhang Zian is not worried that it will be in danger. Although there are some ferocious beasts in the redwood forest, it may be because the temperature is too low all year round and there is always fog. There are very few snake sightings here, and there are definitely no poisonous snakes, so He didn't bring any snake protection either.

The deer are still following them. If there is a herd of deer in the rear, there is no need to worry about black bears or coyotes suddenly appearing behind them.

The head deer's injury has recovered a lot, but the wound scratched by the bear did not heal so quickly, and it will take at least a month to fully recover.

The deer group and Zhang Zian seem to have formed a tacit alliance, not just a relationship of feeding salt. Both parties are beneficial to each other. This can be regarded as a symbiosis in a certain sense, just like the coyote Same thing with the American Badger.

Today's weather is the best day since entering the forest. Although it is not completely clear, it is cloudy, but at least part of the blue sky can be seen, and there is no fog. The air is dry and cool. This dryness is compared to the previous few days. There is no direct comparison with the dryness of the Egyptian desert.

When it was almost noon, Femus, who was walking in the front, stopped suddenly, straightened his body and stared ahead.

Both Zhang Zian and the elves knew that it might have discovered something new, and they all raised their vigilance. π even clenched the stick in his hand.

He first looked back at a herd of deer. The head deer did not react abnormally, and stopped to eat the grass leisurely.

"What's wrong?" He walked over and asked Femas in a low voice.

Femus turned his head and glanced at the cat elves suspiciously, and said, "I seem to smell a cat."

"Cat smell?"

Zhang Zian was also taken aback when he heard that.

How can there be a cat smell in the forest?

Fina and Old Tea also came over, sniffed it carefully, and gave strong support to Fei Masi's words.

"It really smells like a cat." Old Cha agreed.

Fina didn't deny it either.

Although dogs are famous for their sense of smell, cats’ sense of smell is not worse than dogs’, and may even be a little better than dogs’. He has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, but it only serves himself.

Take Fina as an example, it’s hard to imagine that it will take the place of Phimas, go ahead and overcome obstacles as a pioneer...

Zhang Zian raised his head and looked around the nearby branches, "Could it be a bobtail cat?"

Just like the coyote is a canine species native to North America, the bobcat is a feline species native to North America. It is a large wild cat. It is not the same thing as the Japanese bobtail cat in pets. To avoid confusion And misunderstood, called "North American bobcat" is more appropriate.

The North American lynx is widely distributed in three countries in North America, the exact number is unknown, and there is no danger of extinction for the time being, and it is often legally hunted during the hunting season.

After being attacked by black bears and coyotes, North American lynx can only be regarded as a piece of cake. Although this kind of wild cat is very fierce and will even attack people actively, they are not social animals. If they appear alone, they may not be able to beat π with a wooden stick. So nothing to worry about.

Wild animals are either in groups, large, poisonous, or pose little threat to humans.

Hearing Zhang Zian's explanation, even though his explanation sounded reasonable, the elves were not completely convinced.

"Are you sure it's a bobcat?" Fina asked suspiciously.

This question... Zhang Zian didn't see it with his own eyes, so how could he be 100% sure? Of course he didn't dare to make a promise. If he made a mistake, he would lose the conversation.

"If it's not a lynx, what else is it? Is it a puma?" he asked rhetorically.

Cougars are called mountain lions by the locals. They are much larger in size and weight than North American lynxes, twice as long as North American lynxes, and are more threatening to humans, so the forest park notices specifically point out cougars and black bears These two beasts.

The logo of a famous sports brand is a prancing white puma on a black background.

There is another name for the puma, the American golden cat, so if you have to say it...is it a cat?

These are the only cats that can be named in the North American wild, including a series of subfamilies.

Fina and Lao Cha exchanged glances with each other, and exchanged glances with Femas. They seemed to disagree with his conclusion.

"What's the matter? Just say what you have to say." He was a little confused by their ambiguous attitude.

Richard grabbed hold of the words and added: "Quack! Let go if you fart! Fart and shit! Have fun in shit! Joy begets sorrow!"

Zhang Zian raised his hand to strike, "I'll make you feel sad first!"

It was Femas who said, "What we smell is not the smell of wild cats, but like... the smell of domestic pet cats."

Zhang Zian was laughing and playing with Richard, and he couldn't help being stunned when he heard this.

Deep in the forest, with the smell of a pet cat?

Is it really a pet bobtail cat? how is this possible!

But looking at the expressions of Fina and Lao Cha, it seems that Fei Masi is not joking.

Of course, the smell of pet cats is different from that of wild cats. Humans can't smell this difference, but elves can.

"Is it a stray cat?" He suggested a possibility.

Femas and the others shook their heads in silence, because they were not sure either.

Domestic cats, stray cats, and wild cats, there is actually no clear transitional definition of the three concepts. Is a domestic cat a stray cat after wandering outside for a few days? Stray cats have been left in the wild, are they considered wild cats?

There are a lot of stray cats in the United States, but even if they are stray cats, how did they wander into the depths of the forest? There are a variety of ferocious predators along the way, including coyotes, badgers, mountain lions, bobcats, and large birds of prey such as hawks and owls, all of which will prey on small domestic cats.

Zhang Zian scratched his head, unable to understand the question.

"Forget it, don't think too much, just take one step at a time." He waved his hand and said, "Let's move on, if there is a cat, maybe we can meet it."