221. Little Dragon (2/10)
The two balls rolling down one in front and one behind are about the same size as tennis balls, and are covered with phosphorus armor in dark yellow, just like they are pieced together with nail pieces.
When the ball rolled down, it hit a stone. It suddenly stretched out and turned into a majestic little animal. It turned over like drilling down a stone. After drilling for two times, it didn't get into it. It lay down again and bit its tail with its mouth and turned into a phosphate ball.
South African Armadillo Lizard!
Uncle Yang didn't realize that he would encounter such a small thing. Simba saw the ball and thought it was fun, so she wanted to go up and slap it.
Seeing this, Lao Yang was frightened and quickly grabbed its tail and pulled it back: "Don't touch it, don't touch them. If you dare to break them for me, I will make you into lion ham!"
He went to shout John excitedly, and John hurried over and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"Look at this." Yang Shubao pointed at the two small animals that were still lying on the ground and loading balls.
John was also excited: "Dragon! Two young dragons!"
These two South African armadillo lizards are indeed somewhat like dragons. They are lizards, which are quite similar to dragons. They look very fierce and more like dragons. They have domineering scale armor growing from head to tail. The armor is dense and hard, similar to the armor of the Pipi shrimp.
Yang Shubao said: "This is not a dragon, this is an armadillo lizard. They are a kind of lizard, a particularly precious lizard. They are a first-class protected animal in South Africa. They are very popular on the international black market. You have to pay special attention to them, protect them, and not let them get hurt."
John said disappointedly: "They are not dragons? But seeing that they are quite domineering, they should have the ability to protect themselves, right?"
Yang Shubao pointed to the two balls and said, "This is their ability to protect themselves. Don't look at their domineering appearance, they are actually very timid and shy. Once there is any movement, they will immediately drill into the cracks of the stones. If there is no cracks of the stones, they will use their mouths to hold their tails and turn them into a ball to defend."
South African armadillo lizards have extremely tough armor, but their belly is very soft. These little things also know how to protect the door. If you have any balls to protect the belly, they are very similar to armadillo, so they got the name of armadillo.
These two South African armadillo lizards are considered adults, and are estimated to be more than ten centimeters from beginning to end. They will not grow very big, at most twenty centimeters. They are small reptiles with many natural enemies.
John grabbed an armadillo lizard with one hand, and the two little things immediately spread out and turned over and climbed up, raising their triangle heads and staring at John blankly.
Yang Shubao looked around and said, "Look for any other things. This thing is very fond of people. They are timid. At least they have to get together to feel safe only if they are together. Since there are two big armadillo lizards here, there should be small ones around."
John put them on the ground, and the two armadillo lizards crawled towards the termite nest to dig out termites to eat.
Termites are their main food, and they also eat grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, cockroaches, etc. These two armadillo lizards are obviously attracted by termites.
Yang Shubao applied the Ganlin technique to the Heim Ant Nest Umbrella every now and then, and termites benefited from it, so they reproduced quickly and grew very quickly. They also contained a little life spring in their bodies, which was extremely tempting for armadillo lizards.
John put them on the ground and wanted them to find their own tribe, but the lizards had too small brain capacity and were not very smart after being domesticated. They didn't understand John's meaning and ran to eat and drink.
Uncle Yang wanted to go up and feed them some life springs, but the two little lizards were scared when they saw him approaching, so they turned into two armored balls and rolled down.
Simba stomped her feet in a hurry: What a cute Qiuqiu, I want to play Qiuqiu.
Lao Yang slapped it in the forehead: "What cute do you Lion King do?"
The armadillo lizards' nest is outside the reserve, and there is a sandstone land on the grassland, where they live. After John went back, he came back and lying on his body.
This animal is very valuable, and John is now a walking treasury.
He brought back nine armadillo lizards, seven of which were already adults, and two were very small, like a gecko, with a female lizard carrying them two.
Yang Shubao decided to get some stones to build a nest for the armadillo lizards. They like to live in the cracks of the stones, which can best protect them, so he conceived a simple rockery.
The armadillo lizard is small, and a small rockery that is one or two meters high can support a large ethnic group.
He brought a small plate and brought it over. As he approached the armadillo lizards, they bit their tails with their mouths, seven small balls and two small balls appeared out of thin air on the ground.
Uncle Yang was so amused and crying: "Give you something delicious."
There was a shallow layer of water in the small plate, and he added five drops of life fountain.
As the spring of life fell into the plate, the armadillo lizards immediately turned from balls to geckos, rushing to lick the water.
Two little armadillo lizards couldn't squeeze in and jumped around outside in a hurry.
There were few stones on the grassland, so Yang Shubao first found some and put them in the ant nest umbrella area to build them. When the armadillo lizards did not prey on termites, they would run here to stay here to enjoy the cool air.
He continued to patrol the reserve, and now there was nothing new to discover, and then he found that the newly transplanted egrets were not growing very well.
This made him feel quite strange. Do egrets still like to grow in flowerpots?
He didn't know much about this plant, but just read the introduction briefly. So he went back to look for the plant story and looked carefully and found that he had made a mistake. African egrets are rare parasitic species in vegetation. They do not have chlorophyll and cannot absorb energy from the sunlight. They have to parasitize some plants to absorb water, sugars and minerals from their hosts.
The flora story says that egret flowers like to parasitize at the roots of Euphorbia plants, which often have tubers at the roots of this plant. In this way, under the soil, egret flowers will release an enzyme, dissolve the host's rhizome tissue and attach to it.
It is simple to solve this problem. He transplanted the egret flowers into the vegetable garden and planted them next to the potato seedlings. The potatoes have very developed tubers. Then the egret flowers will parasitize them.
Moreover, egrets can also attract and kill fly insects, so that they can play a certain role in insect killing.
There are many insects in the vegetable garden, but Yang Shubao is not worried about their flooding. The hornets come to the vegetable garden every day. They can hunt insects for food, and there is no way out for the insects.
After planting egret flowers, he strolled in the vegetable garden again. The tomatoes were ripe, the eggplant grew, and the cucumbers were creeping all over the ground.
So he took off his clothes and tied them as a bag, picked all the ripe tomatoes and cucumbers, pinched two more eggplants, and turned around to make some meat to make eggplant boxes and eat them.
Cucumbers grow too fast and may grow too hot if they are not picked in a day or two.
Chapter completed!