There are only more than 400 animals in the whole earth, only more than 200 animals in the wild, and one day suddenly 15 to 20 uninvited animals come to your home as a guest, and they refuse to leave when they live, are you surprised, surprised, frightened?
Sinda Mikkels of Tehachabee, California, had such a problem. She went on vacation last weekend and came back frightened on Monday, when a huge group of vultures took over her house, the roof and wooden platform were messed up, the screens were destroyed, half of the potted plants were overturned, and the lid of the outdoor bathtub was torn to the side.
Worst of all, her wooden platform was pulled by these high-efficiency manure makers to fill up with excrement, so hard that it would not fall off at all, and she had to replace all the planks.
Mikkels' daughter quipped on social media that there were only 160 condors in California (previous figures), but apparently one of them had decided to go to war with her mother.
Mikols was surprised and angry, feeling that his property had become a surreal magical world. Although her home was located in the wilderness of a semi-rural area of Thekhachabi Mountains, and there were often elk and moose hanging out on her property, it was the first time she had encountered such a blatant invasion and violent sabotage, which made her cry without tears.
Mikkels had to contact some vulture groups, hoping that they would help them come up with ideas to drive away the invaders, and finally drove the vultures to a nearby tree by knocking on water pipes, yelling, clapping their hands, etc.
Mikkels should actually feel lucky, because the California vulture and Andean condor, known as the condor, are commonly known as the South American New World vulture and the largest terrestrial bird in the entire Western Hemisphere. At the lowest, there were only 22 California vultures, and the U.S. government spent a huge price of $35 million and painstaking efforts to slowly restore their population to more than 400, and only 276 were released into the wild (2016), each numbered.
Come to think of it, it's certainly an "honor" to have nearly 10 percent of some kind of endangered animal on the planet visit your home at once.
So what happened to the California vultures that made them almost disappear from the planet, and how did they survive? This is truly a very sad history, and it is also a model for scientific protection of species in the United States.
The California condor, officially known as the California Condor, is sometimes called the California Condor, is 117 to 135 centimeters long, weighs 7 to 14 kilograms, has an average wingspan of 2.77 meters, and the largest is more than 3 meters, making it look like a small airplane. The California Condor is generally similar to the Andean Condor, with a slightly longer body length but a slightly shorter wingspan and a slightly lighter weight.
The California Condor looks about the size of a child, but the spread of its wings is incredibly large, and the eagle brother of Yang Guo in the Condor Hero is probably referring to this kind of creature. However, the California condor looks fierce, but it is a pure scavenger, they can fly to an altitude of 4600 meters, flying speed of 90 km / h, a day can fly 250 km, a wing can fly several km and ten kilometers, can be described as idle speed is amazing. But these powerful features of the California Condor are only for a humble thing - to find the carcasses of large animals, is it a bit of a waste of the name of the Condor?
Not only that, but this guy has a more despicable vice, because they have no sense of smell, can't smell carrion, and can only find carrion through other scavengers. So they fly high and see far, not to hunt or find food for themselves, but to monitor other animals, such as other smaller vultures or eagles, and to plunder their food. Once they spotted the animals flying in a certain direction, the Condor of California would rush over to chase them away and grab food until they could not eat enough to fly, and then they were satisfied.
Although the California condor is full of bullying and vices, and was more widely distributed in the southwest and west coast of the United States 500 years ago, the California condor matured late and the fertility rate was low, so it could only barely maintain the development of the population, and never prospered at all. With the advent of modern society, human poaching and egg stealing, power line strangulation, lead residues in animal carcasses, and habitat destruction, coupled with the thinning of its eggshells in the food chain, has led to a decline in the number of Condors in California, and it is about to become extinct when seen.
Scientists were so apprehensive that after extensive discussion and controversy, the United States finally decided in the 1980s to capture all california condors and raise them intensively to restore their populations.
In 1987, the last California condor in the wild was captured, and surprisingly, there were only 22 California condors on Earth, and they were sent to San Diego Wildlife Park and los Angeles Zoo for breeding. The Condor of California is monogamous, laying an egg every February or March, but if the egg is lost, they will also give birth to one. Scientists have taken advantage of this feature to secretly take their eggs and artificially incubate and raise them to lay one more egg, thus slowly restoring the population of the California condor, and by 2016, 446 condors had survived and 276 had been released into the wild.
Of course, the California Condor Conservation Program has also become the most expensive species conservation project in U.S. history after World War II, costing more than $35 million, equivalent to an average of $100,000 for a vulture, which is really the price of a small plane.
So look, although Mikkels's home was forcibly taken over by condors, Mikkels had no temper at all, and could only beat gongs and drums to break his throat to drive them away, after all, people are the symbol of California and native Americans, the favor of heaven.
Mikkels's daughter, fearing that the vulture might just be a strategic retreat, is watching the woods next to her, waiting for her mother to go to another party and then kill them all over again.