The golden eagle is the air overlord in the Qilian Mountains, it soars for nine days, overlooking the mountains, and its eyes have the power of rolling valleys, and all the animals on the land can hardly escape its eyes. However, its hard-hatched eagles were stolen by land animals climbing to the top of the cliff.
Who is so bold? The Golden Eagle included snow leopards, wolves, lynxes, and brown bears among the enemies, and painstakingly searched for evidence that they had stolen eagle chicks. But I definitely didn't expect that the herbivore hanging sheep (northern goat) stole its eagle chicks!
Is this possible? Hanging sheep, those wild sheep bouncing around on rocky hills? Aren't they grass-eating animals? How can they eat meat? In addition, although the golden eagle nests on the top of the cliff, there is no food dispute with the hanging sheep, nor territorial dispute. How could it kill a chick and eat it?
★ The greedy hanging sheep ate the eagle chick of the golden eagle
The golden eagle couple who lived on the golden eagle hammer of Qilian Mountain finally fed the hard-hatched eagle chicks to the time of the feather cover. By the time the golden eagle husband brought a fat hare back into its nest, the eagle chick was able to peck at the rabbit on its own.
The golden eagle husband and wife made a long roar, soared around the eagle nest for a week, and then flew together towards the far sky. In order to feed their offspring, they have not traveled for five months.
At this moment, a bloody hanging sheep climbed along the stone edges and crevices to the depression at the top of the cliff. It has been very hungry lately, particularly hungry, and often fascinated by the crows and magpies flying around the cliffs. Unfortunately, it does not have the ability of the golden eagle to catch these "flight attendants" to taste the fresh relief.
Today it smelled the seductive smell of the eagle chicks from afar, which seemed to be better than the smell of crows and magpies. The smell tempted it to jump on the two- or three-square-meter-large eagle nest built by the golden eagle with branches.
A chick no smaller than a newborn lamb is closing its eyes and recuperating. The eagle chick heard the movement of the hanging sheep ascending the nest, opened his eyes and looked at it warily: a goat eating grass. It closed its eyes arrogantly again. It often sits on the edge of the carved nest, overlooking some hanging sheep bouncing around on the rocks, nibbling on the moss on the stones, wild grasses and shrubs in the crevices of the rocks.
The hanging sheep looked up at the sky, and there was no trace of the golden eagle couple. It really couldn't resist the torture of the worms, kicking the eagle chicks in the head. The eagle was naturally domineering, and immediately jumped up and grabbed the legs of the hanging sheep with both claws, and pecked a piece of flesh with the hook mouth. The hanging sheep was furious, and stomped on the eagle with one foot, and with one bite, it crushed its head.
The hanging sheep looked up at the sky, and there was still no figure of a large eagle, so it quickly swallowed it up. In a few moments, a four- or five-pound eagle chick was actually eaten into its belly, and then jumped off the eagle's nest with satisfaction and flew away.
★ The golden eagle could not have dreamed that the hanging sheep could eat the eagle chicks
At dusk, with the sound of a dripping eagle, the golden eagle husband and wife flew back to the eagle nest at the top of the cliff. However, there is no trace of a chick in the two- or three-square-meter-large eagle nest.
Where are the eagles? It has not yet feathered, and it is not yet time to practice flying, unless it falls off a cliff. Therefore, the golden eagle couple immediately searched from the top of the cliff to the bottom of the cliff, but there was no trace of the eagle everywhere. Even if you fall to your death and are picked up and eaten by wild beasts, there should be blood on the ground or feathers or meat residue. But not at all.
The golden eagle couple flew back to the eagle nest again, only to find that there were carved feathers and carved blood that emitted a unique smell.
The eagle was eaten by a wild beast in the nest! Who can eat their own children? There are many carnivores, but those who dare to eat golden eagle cubs must have beasts that dare and can climb the cliffs.
It counts from large to small: Is it a brown bear? The smallest also has more than 200 pounds. Although they have the ability to climb rocks, they never venture to climb cliffs. Therefore, brown bears are excluded.
Is it a wild wolf? These guys are greedy and dare to eat anything. But no matter how greedy the wolf is, he does not have the ability to climb the cliff. Therefore, the suspicion of wild wolves is also ruled out.
The snow leopard lives on the snow line and is a rock climber, known for feeding on hanging sheep, rock sheep and pan sheep, and it is really impossible to catch wild sheep before sneaking down the mountain to steal a herder's sheep to eat. It seems that the snow leopard is the most suspicious.
Geese pass by, leopards over leave a trail. There must be traces left by snow leopards in the nest. So the golden eagle couple flew back to the eagle nest again and looked at it carefully.
In addition to the blood of the eagles on the branches of the nest, there are other animal blood stains, and there is a smell of fat. Look at the uneaten eagle mouth and tight eagle claws, there are even hairs. It's the hair of a hanging sheep! Could it be that the hanging sheep ate the eagle chicks?
★ The golden eagle locked on to a female hanging sheep
The next day, the golden eagle couple scouted around, looking for evidence that the hanging sheep had eaten the eagle chicks, but there was no evidence of the hanging sheep except for the beak of the eagle chicks in the nest and the few wool in the claws and a few drops of sheep blood on the branches.
The male eagle believes that this is a headless case: First, the snow leopard is the most likely to eat the eagle chicks, because it lives in this mountain. Second, snow leopards have the ability to climb into carved nests. Third, snow leopards eat meat. But so far there is not a single trace of evidence of snow leopards.
Although there is wool and sheep blood in the carving nest. But, first, although the hanging sheep has the ability to climb the eagle's nest, it cannot eat meat. Second, hanging sheep eat grass, golden eagles eat meat, and well water has never violated river water, not an old enemy.
The female eagle is persistent, allowing her husband to go out hunting and taking on the task of avenging her children herself.
A few days later, the Golden Eagle, in the absence of hopeless observation, adopted the method of fire reconnaissance. It skimmed low over the hanging sheep, and the many hanging sheep just looked up in surprise at why the golden eagle was like this, and only one hanging sheep always carried a few lambs to deliberately avoid the golden eagle.
★ The golden eagle tried to catch the blind hanging sheep's eye, but almost let the hanging sheep crash to death
The golden eagle deliberately swooped down on the hanging sheep, but the hanging sheep showed no further panic than surprise. Some even erected the long horns and aimed them in the direction of the golden eagle's swoop. Only the hanging sheep, as soon as he saw the golden eagle swooping, fled without a life. Something unusual must be a demon! Moreover, the golden eagle had already seen that the left front leg of the hanging sheep had a small fresh scar.
The golden eagle no longer hesitated, determined to catch the eyes of the hanging sheep. It screamed and suddenly landed on the ewe's head, but before it could settle down, the ewe had already crashed headlong into the cliff. The golden eagle broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly jumped and flew up, and the hanging sheep slammed into a stone. If the golden eagle falls on the head of the sheep, it will be smashed to pieces!
The golden eagle no longer dared to fight the idea of catching the blind hanging sheep's eye. And the ewe also calmed down at this moment, looking up at the hovering golden eagle, a look of "the eagle is what I eat, how do you want to do it".
★ The golden eagle scratched the back of the hanging sheep, but was injured by the hanging horn
The golden eagle knew that the sheep's head was a place that had to be avoided, so he grabbed its back. The claws of the golden eagle are unusually sharp, up to 8 centimeters long, and the grip force can reach more than 100 kilograms, once caught on the back of the sheep, the foot can be caught through the skin into the texture, and even the nerves of vertebrates can be scratched.
However, the golden eagle was so vengeful that it forgot the pair of long knife-like horns on the head of the hanging sheep. The horns of male hanging sheep can reach a maximum length of 1.47 meters and cover almost the entire back. Even the horns of the female hanging sheep are almost 1.2 meters long, because the ewe is only 2/3 the size of the male.
When the golden eagle swooped down and stretched out its sharp claws, it was about to grab the back of the female hanging sheep. The female hanging sheep looked at it kindly, shook the big horn on her head and swung it wildly, and actually made the wings and legs of the golden eagle ring with pain. The golden eagle was immediately dialed to the ground, and after a big defeat, it had to scream and fly back to the eagle's nest.
★ The golden eagle threw the little hanging sheep into the air and fell to its death on the cliff
After recuperating for a few days, the golden eagle once again sought revenge on the female hanging sheep. The golden eagle has a strong temperament and never suffers losses. Once you suffer a loss, this vendetta will be repaid! The eagle chicks that were about to be raised were very sad to be eaten, and now they have eaten the ewe twice in succession, and the female eagle's revenge is even more urgent. This time, it had already figured out a strategy for revenge.
In fact, the female hanging sheep also regretted provoking the golden eagle. It was annoyed that it should not have eaten the eagle of the golden eagle, but it really couldn't control itself at that time. Now the trouble must be faced. However, it never imagined that the blood debt it owed must be repaid with blood!
On this day, the golden eagle once again gave a long roar and gave the female hanging sheep a battle book: I am coming!
The female hanging sheep pedaled the stone edges, with her back against the cliff, holding her head high, and rushing outside. Several lambs weighing twenty or thirty pounds also waited like mothers.
The golden eagle swooped down, its body like a flying cannonball, with the whistle of the air current, shooting directly at the female hanging sheep. The female hanging sheep's head was lowered, and she aimed her horns like sharp knives at the golden eagle.
However, at the moment when the golden eagle was about to shoot at the female hanging sheep, its body tilted, opened its sharp claws, and suddenly grabbed a small sheep next to it and flew up in the air.
The little hanging sheep let out a mournful cry, but the golden eagle's steel claws had already pierced deep into its back, making it numb and struggling. The ewe leapt in the air, but did not reach the golden eagle at all, but fell under the cliff and rolled out a long way.
The golden eagle roared triumphantly, flying higher and higher, and with the last loose claw, the lamb fell freely from a height of several hundred meters, and the acceleration of gravity fell to the ground and fell into a meat cake. The golden eagle swooped down...
The animal world, such as the golden eagle preying on the hanging sheep, takes place every day. But what is unexpected is that the hanging sheep of the herbivores can actually eat the fleshy eagles! (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, senior journalist and writer, has published 42 monographs such as novels, written more than 200 TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles.) ）
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