"Let's see, what kind of animal is this", today, a reader broke the news in the group that a mysterious red animal was found in the wild in rural Tongzhou.
Let's look at the picture below, the whole body of the wow is almost all red, a pair of thief bright thief big eyes, two ears, like two horns erected, especially the big red shiny tail, it is really soul-destroying.
So everyone's brain was wide open, some people said it was a squirrel, and the whistleblower retorted: "Not a squirrel, bite and kill several chickens." ”
According to the exposed readers, this little monster was caught in the Wang Lou field in Tongzhou County and taken away by 110.
"This little monster can fly." The villagers tried to catch it in the field, and it took half a day of effort, and finally it was fastened with a cage.
What kind of magical animal is this, it looks like a squirrel, it can fly, and it is so big that it can bite a dead chicken, it is amazing, it has no wings, how can it fly?
Therefore, inspired by the readers in the group, TongzhouJun found information and found that this mysterious animal was actually the protagonist of our childhood texts, "Cold Horn Bird"...
The cold trumpet bird is not a bird, but a compound-toothed shrew, because it uses the valves of the body to glide from a high place, so it is often misunderstood as a bird.
The compound-toothed shrew, also known as the orange-footed shrew, the yellow-footed shrew, the cold-horned bird, the cold-horned insect, and the cold-horned shrew, is a rodent that inhabits mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests at an altitude of about 1200 meters.
Nesting in tall tree trees or in fissures in steep rock walls, it is a forest animal endemic to China, mainly distributed in Hebei, Jilin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet and Qinghai in China.
The compound-toothed shrew is a plant-eating animal, feeding on the leaves, bark, seeds of cypress, oil pine, and kernels of pecans and apricots, as well as the leaves, skins and fruits of other plants. Hold food with your forefoot when eating, and stand still on your hind feet.
On May 1, 2016, during the scientific expedition of Shuanghe Cave, the "First Long Cave in China", the Sino-French joint expedition team encountered a cute small animal - "Flying Cat", the scientific name of which is "compound-toothed shrew". Its limbs are connected to the skin of the abdomen, spread like wings, and can glide down from a height.
The species is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016 ver3.1 - Near Threatened (NT).
In China, it is included in the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State that are beneficial or have important economic and scientific research value".
The compound-toothed shrew is not only very good at enjoying life, but also has cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder, no matter how far it goes to forage, it always has to return to a fixed cave to excrete. This "excretory hole" is generally not far from the residence, but it is not close.
Therefore, when it comes to the compound-toothed shrew, it will be associated with its habit of "foraging for a place in a thousand miles", the feces are concentrated in one place, people pick up their feces, remove impurities and dry them, which is a taste of Chinese herbal medicine.
It inhabits mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests at an altitude of about 1200 meters, so how can it be found in plains like Tongzhou? Were they fleeing pets, or were they released by someone, or were they dropped during transportation, or did they sneak off to the plains from Lingshan and Yunmengshan, which are higher in Beijing?
I don't know, walking into science into your uncle, will it broadcast five episodes in a row.