In the countryside of the eighties, there was often an animal that was extremely disgusting.
Every night, they will show up on time and start to wreak havoc on people's crops, making people miserable.
Now, however, they have become an unattainable animal.
What's going on here?
The badger that everyone shouts and beats
The animal we want to talk about that makes people hate it when they mention it is the "pig badger" that people can often see in the 80s, and many places also call it "soil pig".
Back in the 80s, there were a lot of wild animals in the mountains, even more than now, and some wild animals would go to people's places to make trouble, such as stealing and eating people's livestock.
In order to prevent their livestock from being stolen, many farmers put a fence wall next to their chicken or pig pen, or install some glass shards.
However, the pig badger is not like these animals that steal food, it is not very interested in the animals that people raise, but is very "obsessed" with people's crops.
After sneaking into people's homes, hog badgers go in search of food and then go frantically foraging for food.
When many people hear the name of the badger, their first reaction is which pig breed it should be.
But this is not the case, the badger and the pig are not related to each other at all, the two do not even belong to the same species, but in appearance, the badger looks similar to a pig, especially its nose, which looks exactly like a pig.
Those who have heard the call of the badger can clearly feel that its cry is exactly the same as that of a pig, and this is actually the origin of its name.
Not only that, but in the center of the badger's face, there is also a very obvious feature, that is, a white vein, which is actually how to distinguish the badger from the pig.
However, the difference between a badger and a domestic pig is very large, so many people also call it "soil pig".
People in the seventies and eighties talked about badgers, and it was estimated that they could complain endlessly for a long time.
You know, hog badgers generally live in the mountains around the countryside, and they are active at night.
During the day, hog badgers rest in their own burrows, which are very secretive, but most of the time, hog badgers live in burrows that are not their own.
You know, the badger has very sharp claws and a very fierce temperament, if there is an animal that it is not used to, then it will attack directly, and then go to the burrows of other animals, and turn other people's into their own.
At night, it's time for them to hunt, and it can be said that the hog badger's schedule is exactly the same as that of an owl.
Their living habits are similar to those of pigs, they are omnivorous animals, whether they are earthworms in the soil or fish in the water, they are basically the "bag" of the pig badger.
And what they like most is the food in people's homes.
At night, hog badgers will sneak into people's homes to forage for food, or attack people's crops.
According to some old people, hog badgers eat grain very quickly, and in one night, they can waste an entire field, whether it is a sweet potato field or a corn field, all of which they like.
However, after seeing the badger, people are actually very helpless, because "they can't beat it".
You know, hog badgers themselves have very sharp claws, coupled with their vigorous posture, it is difficult for anyone to have the courage to catch them.
This has also created a situation, the badger does evil, people are worried, but very helpless, so many farmers as long as they see the badger, they will hate itchy, but in the end they can't do anything.
It can be said that as long as people saw pig badgers at that time, they wanted to kill them directly.
However, what people didn't expect was that the pig badger, which was once so disliked by people, turned out to be full of treasures all over its body, and now it has become unattainable for us.
Why has it become unattainable?
In fact, the rise in the value of pig badgers is actually inseparable from their own value.
In the nineties of the last century, it can be said that game was rampant, and people's love for "game" was very high, and the pig badger also appeared on people's tables.
At that time, people found that the meat of the badger tasted very good, and in addition, they often ran in the wild, and the meat was very firm, which was different from other meats.
At that time, some small farmhouse courtyards were very fond of stewed badgers in large pots, and when the smell of meat came out, people within a radius of several miles could probably smell it.
It has also been found that the meat of the badger is rich in protein, amino acids and various trace elements, which is very good for human health.
Perhaps it was at this time that it was discovered that the nutritional value of the oil extracted from the hog badger was very high.
What many people don't know is that badger oil is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which can be taken externally or orally, and it has a very big advantage in the treatment of scald and chilblains, which can be said to be a very magical existence.
You know, pig badgers look like they are fat and fat, so obviously, their fat content is also very high, which is actually the advantage of pig badgers.
When it comes to winter, hog badgers will hoard a very thick layer of fat in order to survive the winter, and this time is the best time to boil oil.
And the oil boiled out of the badger actually has a very professional name, that is, "batter".
In the past, in rural areas, if someone was accidentally burned, then pig badger oil would be used first to save the emergency, and it can be said that the effect of pig badger oil in treating wounds is certified by many people.
There is also data showing that the gall of the pig badger is still a good thing for clearing heat and detoxifying, and the curative effect in this regard is very obvious.
However, since the discovery of the role of the badger, people began to catch the badger in large numbers, which also led to a rapid decline in the number of badgers in a short period of time.
By the 90s, it was rare to see a badger.
The reason behind this, in addition to the pig badger's lifespan is only ten years, the biggest reason is caused by a large number of people's capture.
By 2000, the badger was included in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State Forestry Administration of China.
This also confirms the value of the pig badger, and it has also become a national second-class protected animal.
Not only that, but it was also included in the 2008 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
If anyone catches a badger in the wild, then it is considered an offence.
However, some people saw the business opportunities of pig badgers and began to breed pig badgers in captivity, which also brought them a lot of economic benefits.
In the beginning, the pig badger breeders did make a lot of money, after all, there were relatively few farmers at that time, and people's demand for it was relatively large.
And this also made the value of the artificially bred badger soar directly to about 1,000 yuan.
But gradually, when the number of farmers increased, the price of pig badgers was not so high.