Nabari squinted his eyes. His eyesight was not as good as his prime, but he was still much better than ordinary people.

He did not recognize the names of such wild cats, but they completely coincided with the images in memory and supplemented the vague part of the memory.

At this time, he was serious and smiled suddenly, and his mood became clear and relaxed. He let go of all responsibilities and burdens, and even felt that he was favored by the true God like never before.

His life was almost perfect, and as long as he brought others out of the desert safely, he would be truly perfect.

Wei Kang's mood was different from Nabari. He was so excited that he even worried about whether he would have a heart attack.

He set up a tripod and kept pressing the silent shutter. Although the dim light caused the film to be very high, each one was an extremely precious material.

Is this a primitive Egyptian cat?

He was not clear, nor was he sure what the original Egyptian cat was? There was no accurate definition.

Humans began to consciously breed domestic cats in a directional manner, producing the fur color and body shape that people hope for, and so far, no more than 200 years ago, humans began to breed dogs purposefully.

What he was looking for was a cat species with transitional nature in the history of domestic cat evolution, and he believed that such a cat species was most likely to exist in Egypt.

Just as the fence fox is the smallest canine animal, the sand cat is one of the smallest cat animals. Perhaps mammals in the desert can only try to reduce their size to survive.

The sand cat is a close relative of domestic cats with very close blood. There are four known subspecies, including the Pakistani subspecies that became extinct decades ago, while the North African subspecies were previously believed to exist only in a small area in southeastern Egypt. At this time, Weikang discovered a new subspecies at the junction between Egypt and Libya in the west.

Deep in the Sahara Desert here, it is far from Siwa Oasis and Kufura Oasis. In addition, this place should have been an oasis that has not been recorded in history and legends many years ago. It is reasonable to believe that these sand cats have lived here thousands of years ago and have been isolated from the world for a long time. Just like Australia hanging alone overseas, it retains the independence of species to the greatest extent.

It may be an exaggeration to say that these sand cats are living fossils, but they are indeed quite primitive species.

Similar to other types of sand cats, their ears are large, larger than ordinary domestic cats. Their appearance is not as big as that of the fence fox. However, their internal structure is different from that of ordinary domestic cats, and their hearing is extremely developed.

Their faces are neither pointed nor round, and their hair makes their chin look like the longitudinal section of a bowl, similar to an inverted trapezoidal shape, with very shallow mackerel patterns distributed on their bodies, so light that it is almost difficult to identify in the night. Only two forelimbs have two more conspicuous black rings on each.

Although Wei Kang's movements were very light, setting up a tripod and installing a camera would inevitably make sounds. He believed that these sensitive sand cats had heard their presence, but for some reason they did not choose to escape.

Yes, it must be because of Fina's existence.

Wei Kang looked at Fina with relief and worry. Fortunately, he came to Egypt to bring it with him this time, otherwise he would have returned empty-handed. At the same time, he also hoped that Fina would not have physical contact with the sand cats, otherwise it might be infected with bacteria, because these sand cats have lived here for a long time and have antibodies in their bodies, but Fina did not.

He didn't know that Fina lived here before.

There are many low dead trees and branches where the infrared camera is placed. These sand cats are not interested in climbing. Even if they jump onto the tree while playing, they just hold the trunk and stop moving, and then release their claws and jump down. They seem to be unable to climb trees, at least they are not good at climbing trees.

On the contrary, Wei Kang found that they were not just playing, but digging sand while playing, occasionally digging out some kind of small animal from the sand to eat, and even digging a shallow hole to drill in to find food, then drilling out the sandy head, holding a twisting sand dune gecko in his mouth, chewing it for a few chews and swallowing it.

Cats who are not good at climbing trees but are good at digging sand.

In order to isolate the high temperature on the sand, their claws have thick hair on the flesh pads, and their sharp claws cannot be retracted like other cats and are exposed outside at all times, perhaps just to dig sand.

In theory, sand cats are widely distributed across Asia and Africa, but in fact, people have not seen living sand cats in the wild for several years. They know almost nothing about the population of this rare animal, and no scientist has specialized in research on sand cats. Their population behavior and habits are basically zero. It is not that scientists do not work hard, but that they really cannot find wild sand cats. Even the photos of sand cats are repeatedly used several old photos taken many years ago.

Wei Kang did not think about the fame and honor brought by this discovery. He focused on recording their every move with his eyes and camera, because no one knew when they would disappear before his eyes.

He had only a small regret, and it would be great if he had woken up the students just now, so that they could also see these rare creatures with their own eyes.

He did not think of catching them and bringing them back to his country, because the habit of sand cats drilling into sand makes their respiratory system structure different from ordinary domestic cats. They cannot adapt to the air outside the desert, and a slight cold can kill them.

They should live here and live without disturbance from others.

Therefore, he turned off the GPS information of the photos in the camera settings, otherwise the crowded hunters and smugglers would extinct this unknown subspecies in a short period of time.

The sand cats are very timid, but this may be the first time they have seen humans and do not know how terrible humans are. One of the bold sand cats ran a few steps here under the control of curiosity, got closer, and stared at Wei Kang with wide eyes.

Wei Kang pointed the lens at it and repeatedly pressed the shutter.

After a while, it lost interest in the slightly bald middle-aged man, and flicked his tail and returned to his companion.

The moment it turned around, the shutter captured a clearer photo, with very light spots spreading along its side.

There are mackerel patterns and spots in the sand cat?

Wei Kang's heartbeat stopped and wanted to announce his joy to the world at this time, because other subspecies of sand cats only had mackerel patterns but no spots.

Although he still needs to enlarge the original image on the computer to confirm, he is already quite sure that he has achieved the goal of this trip.

He turned to Zhang Zi'an and smiled, as if he wanted to express something, perhaps because he wanted to make a "thank you" lip.

At this moment, a loud thunder-like sound came from the depths of the Sea of ​​Devils, and even the earth was trembling slightly.
Chapter completed!