Chapter 1516 Deer Hunting
As soon as Zhang Zian turned around, he saw something moving at the limit of his vision in the mist.
He put down the kettle, picked up the telescope, adjusted the focal length, and when the field of vision became clear, he saw that the thing moved again, and it was a pair of smart ears.
His eyes moved downwards, and under the shadow of the leaves, he saw another pair of wet eyes, looking in his direction vigilantly.
"Good... has it really attracted the deer?" Richard murmured, staring at the small jar around his waist in awe, "This is unscientific!"
The elves were also inexplicably surprised and could not imagine how an ordinary little jar had such great magic power.
Zhang Zian knew that if he deliberately concealed it at this time, it would probably arouse public anger. He untied the small jar from his waist and placed it on a clean stone by the stream. After a morning of trekking, the jar was much lighter.
The elves surrounded them curiously, and their noses were so sniffed carefully, and said in confusion: "Why does it smell like... salt?"
Zhang Zi'an unscrewed the bottle cap and revealed the answer.
"That's right, it's salt, the cheapest salt I bought in the supermarket. And this jar is just the most common seasoning bottle. The holes in the bottle cap can appear after twisting, and then they will be blocked again." He turned the bottle caps over and let them see the internal structure of the bottle caps.
Just a seasoning bottle filled with salt can attract the deer?
If you say this is really an Aladdin magic lamp, maybe everyone will accept it more...
Zhang Zian raised his telescope and looked again, the deer was still there.
"This is a unique deer hunting method in Northeast China. I don't know if other countries have it, but at least the United States does not. Americans usually hunt deer hunting to enjoy the fun of deer hunting. They are simple and crude, but they also lack wisdom and ingenuity." He explained to the elves.
If cats are creatures that do not stick to grains of salt, then deer are creatures that are salt-loving, all because of their unique physiological structures and habits.
Cats are pure carnivores. The mice and small animals they eat contain salt in their bodies, and they basically do not lose salt due to sweating. In addition, their kidneys are not good at excreting salt, so there is no need for additional salt supplements.
Deer are pure herbivores, and plants do not contain salt, and salt is a necessity for them to live on, so we must try our best to replenish the salt in our body.
What should I do if I don’t have salt? I have to find salt. They not only live by water and plants, but also by salt.
Not only deer, goat, yak and other animals also like to eat salt, but deer likes to eat salt the most. You can even smell the smell of salt from a distance, and you will also work hard to eat salt from a distance.
People who work in cattle farms, deer farms, and sheep farms know that salt bricks are placed in these farms, specifically for cattle, deer, and sheep to lick salt.
Zhang Zi'an's method is very simple. He takes advantage of the deer's obsession with salt and fills the seasoning bottle with salt. This seasoning bottle will leak out of the hole when it hits the bottom with his hand. He hangs it around his waist. As he walks, salt particles keep leaking from the seasoning bottle. The leakage speed is very slow, but it can form an uninterrupted salt trajectory.
If a deer smells salt, it will definitely come to you according to the smell and lick the salt particles sprinkled on the ground along the way.
The deer must have walked much faster in the forest than Zhang Zian. Even when he walked while licking salt, he quickly caught up with him.
The old hunters in Northeast China used this method to hunt deer before liberation. Of course, salt in the past was very expensive and they were reluctant to waste it, so they would first look for saline-alkali land in the forest, and then lie around the saline-alkali land waiting for the deer to lick the salt cream. They may have to wait for two or three days, but for the survival of the family, it is worth it.
If you cannot find saline-alkali land in the forest, you may have to artificially create saline-alkali land, such as grinding the rock salt and sprinkling it on a clearing, and then burying traps and other trap mechanisms in the paths that must be passed.
Deer is very alert and has extremely sensitive hearing. You can often hear humans walking around one kilometer away and avoid them far away. This is why there are actually quite a few deer in national parks, but it is difficult for tourists and hikers to see them.
Zhang Zian knew that this trip to the United States would inevitably deal with deer, but if it was difficult to even see deer, how could he investigate?
He searched online and found that this traditional Chinese deer hunting method was both simple and efficient, and would not lose anything even if it failed. So after coming to the United States, he bought salt and seasoning bottles in the supermarket. After Feimas smelled the deer, he took it out and tried it, but he was lucky enough to succeed.
This method is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people in ancient China. It is logically feasible. He was unsure before, because there was no sea next to the deep mountains and old forests in Northeast China. However, the Pacific Ocean is the west of the redwood forest. Will the deer here be deer here not lack salt at all? If you want to eat salt, go to the beach to lick it, which seems good.
He considered this issue. Although seawater contains a lot of salt, the ingredients of seawater are very complicated. It is not only sodium chloride, but also potassium chloride, magnesium chloride, calcium chloride and other ingredients. Deer are not necessarily willing to risk leaving the forest and running to the open seaside to drink salty seawater. The taste is bad and there is a risk of being exposed to the muzzle of hunters. The temptation of refined salt to them is not completely replaced by seawater. They are more willing to eat salt in the forest.
As it turned out, his judgment was correct, and the salt and seasoning bottles bought for a few dollars worked perfectly.
After listening to his explanation, the elves were in a complicated mood.
"Man died for money, birds died for food, and deer... actually planted on salt." Richard sighed, saying slowly, "This matter cannot be known by American hunters, otherwise the deer will suffer!"
"I feel that the wall stands thousands of feet high, and there is no desire to be strong. Because of desire, there is weakness." Lao Cha learned some philosophy from it.
In fact, it doesn’t matter. Deer hunting is prohibited in both nature reserves in China and forest parks in the United States. Therefore, even if this method is spread, it will only give tourists and hikers a chance to feast their eyes.
As for poachers... Chinese poachers know this method, while American poachers just hunt a few deer sporadically to satisfy their desire to track and kill, and will not use this passionless and challenging method to hunt deer.
"What should I do now?" Lao Cha thought Zhang Zi'an was going to stop and study the deer behind.
Zhang Zian shook his head and continued to pack his luggage, "Let's keep going, don't worry about them, let them know that we have no malice, so that they will become bolder."
Chapter completed!