Chapter 857: Lineup

Day three of feeding the cheetah.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Bi Fang came to the iron fence on time to feed.

After two days of enhanced memory with more than double digits, 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 feeding 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 6 o'clock today, the audience was not able to see any of the big scene they were looking forward to, and they couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. However, when Bifang made it clear that the contact would take place 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. I shouldn'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 it was you who 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 next to him waggled his tail faster.

【Essential? What’s the point?]

[It must be another small detail that I don’t know. 】

[Say it quickly to 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 every three hours. After the first two times, his hunger level is 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 an afterimage appeared.

It was so hungry that it couldn't wait to wait for Bifang to leave before going up to eat.

But what Bifang did next was somewhat unexpected to Harley. He didn't 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]

【Have it? I didn’t feel it]

[It seems to be a little bit. I usually eat box lunches at work. If I eat while playing with my phone, sometimes there will be one or two chopsticks of rice left? 】

[Hiss, having said that before, I seem to have a bit of it too. 】

"One of the reasons for this is that eating while looking at your mobile phone will put the brain in an excited state, which will have a certain inhibitory effect on your 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 say 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 itself was not very hungry. The food itself was fatty internal organs. The energy obtained by Harley was quite sufficient, and the brain did not send a strong enough eating signal to the body."

"But the first three times, especially the second, are when the cheetah's hunger signals are 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. 】

【(Get angry from shame)! 】

【Start today, 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.

This distance, for cats, is just a matter of jumping.

Especially when Bifang is still in a crouching position, which is extremely inconvenient for him to exert force or dodge, 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 some smell research 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 better to retreat before advancing. 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 selfishness]

[Is this a laning match? 】

[I learned it, now go fight the wild cats in the community! 】

[Alfa: 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 and 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 looked away from each other and just stared 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, gained some courage after seeing this. "If you are not familiar with an animal, don't stare at it all the time. They will regard it as a threat. Remember what I said before? If you encounter a beast in the wild, don't panic. Keep an eye on it as soon as possible. Its eyes are like this.”

"Staring is a self-protective behavior that means, 'I know you saw me, and 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’re not lucky, you’ll get injured while grabbing scraps, and if you’re not lucky, you’ll be doomed.”

"So for most predators, if their prey spots them, they have to reassess whether it's a good idea to pursue 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."

"That's 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, there is a high probability that it will retreat - after all, there are not many 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, Bifang couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and stopped talking at the same time to avoid the sound having unexpected effects.

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 due to 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 trick 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. He followed every step Bifang had envisioned, which avoided a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Under the tense gaze of the audience, Harley slowly, repeatedly, and hesitantly came to less than one meter in front of Bifang.

At this position, the food bowl and Bifang's throat can be hooked by the cheetah's claws as long as the cheetah wants.

Bifang raised his eyelids slightly and moved his sight up to Harley's chest. At this position, he could clearly see the cheetah's muscles wriggling, so as to judge its possible next move.

Half a meter distance seemed to be Harley's limit.

For a while, the two sides were deadlocked.

Even the squatting Bifang was a bit too stressful for Harley.

If another keeper made the same move as Bifang, he might have been able to get close to Harley a long time ago, but Bifang was a little bit off.

Bifang, who has been in the wild for a long time and dealt with various wild animals, has a completely different aura from 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 repeatedly lowered his head and raised it again, his nose slightly moving, constantly capturing the odor molecules, but he could not make any further movements.

Outside the iron net, many people have been standing there.

They gathered here, watching the interaction between a man and an animal, and they dared not even swallow their saliva, for fear of disturbing this picture and making all the previous efforts go to waste.

Bifang and the cheetah were separated and confronted on the left and right, with a wooden basin full of blood food in the middle. The smell of blood spread to the surroundings under the influence of the wind, and an indescribable atmosphere was constantly happening.

In the stalemate, a finger knocking on the edge of the food bowl, making a crisp sound, broke the silence.

Harley was startled and shrank his head, his whole body leaned back, but his limbs were firmly nailed to the ground and did not move.

Bifang placed his index finger on the edge of the food bowl, pushing forward slowly and forcefully. Finally, after dragging about ten centimeters on the ground, he stopped.

This scene calmed Harley, who was leaning back. Looking at the food bowl so close, his curiosity and appetite surged.

The atmosphere changed again.

Just when everyone was about to give up, the cheetah finally lowered his head completely and came forward to smell Bifang's finger.

"Here it comes!"

Barry, who was outside the iron net, was a little excited to see this scene.

In the world of cats, nose to nose is a way of greeting.

As a human, you can extend one of your fingers to gently touch the cat's nose as a greeting, and then keep your finger still.

If the cat comes forward to smell the finger, or licks it, it means that it is willing to interact more with people.

On the contrary, if it just smells and then retreats, it means that it is still very unfamiliar with people and needs more time to accept humans.

The cheetah paused for a moment, as if it had thought for a few times, and finally stretched out its tongue to lick it, and finally retracted it like lightning, focusing more on the piece of meat.

Soon, the sound of sharp teeth chewing the meat sounded.

A big hand also pressed on the cheetah's head, sliding along the hair all the way to the neck.

The cheetah seemed to be only concerned with eating, without any awareness, and did not resist.