When spring comes, the forest of Daxing'anling will appear wyvern birds walking in the snow, their colorful feathers appear particularly gorgeous, and will also make a chirping call to companions, its appearance makes "heavenly dragon meat, underground donkey meat" get the scene, and the flying dragon here refers to the flower tail hazel chicken, as one of the "three treasures in the mountains", it enjoys many reputations, in the animal kingdom, it is a famous hunting bird, many people are curious, obviously it is a chicken, why is it called a flying dragon? In fact, this is all given to it by human beings, from ancient times to the present it has been loved by human beings, but few people can really enjoy it, after all, it is a royal noble, why? Let's walk into its life together!
The flower-tailed hazel chicken belongs to the grouse family in nature, and there are too many aliases on the body, but the most well-known is the "flying dragon", we have various versions of the legend of the dragon, but the flower-tailed hazel chicken is from humans, mainly for two reasons.
One is that the flower tail hazel chicken has lived in the northeast region of China for a long time, and its name is "FeiYe Lenggu" in Manchu, translated into Chinese is "chicken on the tree", the harmonic pronunciation is similar to "flying dragon", the origin of this name is mainly related to its living habits, usually when there is nothing to do, the flower tail hazel chicken likes to stay in the tree, tired to find the young branches on the tree, seeds, etc. to feed the belly, as a chicken, it is reasonable to like to stay on land, but why does the flower tail hazel chicken want to stay in a high place?
Maybe it's because it's not likely to fly, so like to stand on a high place and look at the distance, it's like a chicken, it can't fly at all, just simply flapping a few times on the tree, using acceleration to run with the help of air to get up the tree, this is completely curious, normal wings can do.
The flower-tailed hazel chicken in the tree is not afraid of natural enemies, once it finds danger, they will choose to stay calm, find the opportunity and quickly flee, if the other party is a relatively weak animal, they will instead catch them in the opposite way and become their own belly food!
Because of the long stay in the tree, coupled with its own gorgeous feathers, after a long speech, let people come to the bird theory, this reason may be a bit far-fetched, but the next reason is more appropriate.
Since the literature records, the flower tail hazel chicken is a tribute for the emperor or nobles all year round, known as the "year tribute bird", the emperor in ancient times was called the true dragon Tianzi, and many foreign tribes want to give tribute often give priority to the flower tail hazel chicken, in the Qianlong period, this phenomenon is more frequent, because the meat is delicious, the Qianlong Emperor at that time after eating unforgettable, it was crowned with the title of "Flying Dragon in the Sky".
In fact, from the perspective of its own organs, it is not unreasonable for the flower-tailed hazelnut chicken to be called a "flying dragon", its neck bone is very curved, very similar to what we think of as a dragon, and there are also strange scales on its claws, similar to dragon scales.
However, in recent years, because the flower-tail hazel chicken has been crowned with the title of flying dragon, coupled with its own delicious flesh, it has also become the ghost of the lawbreakers, and gradually moved towards an endangered state, fortunately, in recent years, China has made a major breakthrough in its protection, so that it grows in the forests of the Daxing'an Mountains all year round, and the population has also developed faster.
Flower tail hazel chicken is not large, completely different from the domestic chicken, the personality is biased towards meekness, like to live quietly, distributed in the northeast region of our country, here is often cold ice and snow weather, but after the evolution of organisms, let it also adapt to this life, even if the ice and snow cover the branches, it can easily climb up the tree.
In terms of courtship, the flower-tailed hazelnut is dominated by one male and one female, less than a tendency to configure, very hidden during breeding, we can rarely see it, in the winter and after melting, they begin to come out to mate, at this time the male will be covered with beautiful bright red eyelids on the eyes to attract the opposite sex, and the female is to start building a new nest, when the two sides are mated, the female comes to the new nest to lay eggs, hatch the chicks, except once or twice a day, basically do not go out.
After the chicks are born, the female will take them out hunting, during this period, the female flower-tailed hazelnut is very fond of protecting the female birds, afraid that they will be hurt a little, there have been relevant personnel to do tests, encountered the female flower-tailed hazelnuts with the chicks out to forage, deliberately appeared as an enemy, when the first reaction of the female is to issue an alarm for the chicks to dodge, and then rush in front of them to pretend to be injured to lure the enemy to catch.
At this time, the researchers pretended to find the female flower-tailed hazelnut chicken, detoured to observe its behavior, and when the mother bird found that the crisis was over, she would stand up, make a grunting sound, call for the chicks not far away to return, and then take them back to the nest!
Such behavior is extremely great, with their own lives to protect the chicks, after all, the chicks after birth is very fragile, although relatively warm in the summer, but this season also often has a harsh climate, at this time the chicks have just grown feathers, at any time there is a danger to life, so as a mother of the female bird to them in every way to take care of them, as long as they survive this summer, they are relatively stable, you can leave the group, go to the outside world!
Since the mid-1970s, the population of the flower-tailed hazelnut has fallen off a cliff, and it is difficult to see them in the wild, mainly because the woods where the flower-tailed hazelnuts live have been extensively cut down, coupled with the human fascination with their fleshy quality, there has been a large-scale hunting, leaving them at risk of extinction.
So humans began to carry out artificial reproduction, one is to help the population to further spread, and the other is to meet the preferences of human beings, itself flower tail hazel chicken in addition to the meat delicious, gorgeous appearance also makes the feathers more valuable, can be made into crafts, but also can make the fluff into a cold filler, although the current artificial breeding is relatively small, but also can further help the flower tail hazel chicken to reproduce better.
Raising flower-tailed hazel chickens is actually completely different from raising poultry, because their digestive function is not sound, so it is necessary to control the temperature of the environment at all times, and when the chicks hatch, they need to be extra carefully cared for, otherwise once there is an infectious disease, it will lead to the death of multiple flower-tailed hazelnuts. And because of the rarity on the market, the current artificial breeding of hazelnut chicken is as high as 300 yuan a pound, I believe that in the near future, the realization of popularization can make the price drop, after all, everyone wants to taste the Qianlong Emperor's favorite "flying dragon meat"!
From the current trend point of view, the flower tail hazel chicken is listed as a national second-level protected animal, although there is no endangered risk, but it is also a wild animal that is prohibited from hunting, so if you want to try its delicious meat, you can choose artificially raised chickens, which is not much difference, but wild animals can not be hunted, love and care for wild animals everyone has the responsibility, I hope everyone can lead by example!