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In August of the Caotan Wetland Crane Heron Conservation Area on the banks of the Songhua River in the foothills of Changbai Mountain.
I came here by car with my Russian business friends. Outside the conservation station cottage is a lonely meadow.
The night is dark, and the crescent moon is like a hook. The sound of crickets arguing is often accompanied by the ghostly cries of night owls. Suddenly, a long howl of a steppe wolf came, desolate and long. Then, one, two. Gloomy and bleak.
I said, the steppe wolf is finally the overlord of the steppe again! Congratulations.
A friend took a sip of old roasted knife wine and said: I see that you have written so many snow wolves in changbai mountains, I don't know how big the biggest wolf you have ever seen is? I stretched out my arms and weighed them up and said: The largest hunting dog, which is about a meter and a half long from head to tail.
Friend asked: Have you ever seen a lion wolf? A wolf as big as a lion? I burst out laughing at the old roast knife wine that I had just drunk and said, "You're talking a lot!" A wolf is a wolf, no matter how big it is, it cannot become a lion, what is a lion wolf? Sensational!
Friend Zhengse Said: Don't be blind. Word of this was widely spread in Russia last year. The specific location is in the Republic of Bashkortostan in the Ural region of Russia. At that time, I went to this place to do business and was told by a friend that recently, a lion wolf appeared in the mountains, and it was not easy to go to the countryside.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="83" > ★ lone wolf appeared for the first time, slaughtering 13 sheep with the strength of a wolf</h1>
The Ural region refers to the Ural Mountains and its vicinity in Russia, with undulating mountains and abundant rivers, and the straight Ural Mountains stretching from north to south for 2,000 kilometers, separating the European part of Russia from Eastern Siberia, and passing through the supposed dividing line between Europe and Asia.
In the spring of 2020, a flock of sheep grazing on the banks of the Ural River was attacked by a lone wolf. The shepherd was a very tough man, and when he heard the barking of the shepherd dog, he immediately waved the sheep shovel in his hand and ran towards the lone wolf that had come down from the mountain.
However, the wolf was too fierce, and as soon as the shepherd dog greeted him, he was crushed to the ground by one claw and bit his throat. Then, like a devastating rarity, 13 sheep were bitten down in a row. The wolf was fierce, and almost all the sheep had a broken throat, and would never take a second bite.
The shepherd man's eyes were red, and he swung his sheep shovel at the wolf's head. As a result, there was a cracking sound, and due to excessive force, the wooden handle of the shepherd's shovel broke from the root. The wolf's head was not shattered. The shepherd man exclaimed: What a copper-headed iron head!
The wolf was furious and pounced on him with a roar. The shepherd man struggled to poke at the oncoming wolf with the handle of the shepherd shovel in his hand. The wolf was so powerful that it turned him over, and then left him to pick up a sheep and go away. The shepherd man found that this wolf was much larger than the average wolf. He remembered the wolf claw that pounced on him as big as a human palm.
In the evening, the shepherd reported to the village chief the news that a giant wolf had appeared on the banks of the Ural River and had killed 13 of his sheep in one fell swoop. The village chief laughed at him that he must have been frightened and misread. How can a wolf be that big? How could a single wolf bite 13 sheep? It's safe to say that there are five or six wolves coming!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="82" On the third day of >★, the yaks in the neighboring villages were bitten and the cows were bitten to death</h1>
Two days later, cattle herders from neighboring villages reported that a lone wolf had bitten his yak and killed two cows.
The superior leader will be suspicious: The day before yesterday, a shepherd in a certain village said that he saw a lone wolf with a huge body, and a wolf killed 13 sheep alone, and said that the wolf's claws were as large as a human's slap. This message is somewhat sensational. Where in the world is there such a big wolf? Could it be a leopard? But it's about wolves! Unexpectedly, today the neighboring village reported that a "giant wolf" had bitten his yak and two cows. What is a yak? It was an uncastrated bull, a breeding cow, physically strong and grumpy, and even if a tiger came, it would dare to fight it. Can a wolf bite it? Ghosts believe!
The manager did not believe it, drove to the scene, and sure enough, he saw a yak standing on the edge of the pasture, not eating or moving, his nostrils spewing rough air, the bull's eye staring at the egg, and a deep wound behind his ass, as if he had been torn off a piece of meat the size of a fist. The yak was in pain. Veterinarians are treating the cattle with the help of several herders. Nearby, more than ten meters apart, lay two cows, both with broken throats.
Next to one cow, a calf circled around the dead cow. The other was a pregnant cow with a bulging belly that it seemed that it would not take long to calving. On the grass beach wetland, several clear wolf paw prints were left. The manager measured it with a ruler, and sure enough, it was beyond the footprints of the average wolf. But this is really not the plum footprint of tigers and leopards!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="81" > A ★ week later, a stallion was bitten to death</h1>
Friends said that the case of the giant wolf killing sheep and cattle in this story was reported step by step, but it did not immediately attract attention. Because in recent years the whole of Russia has been rampant. Herders and grassroots cadres exaggerate the fact that some wolves are harmful, and even ask for more government subsidies. Moreover, it was a "giant wolf" who was reported! It is enough to say that wolves are bigger, so why use "giant"? Originally, the European gray wolf was a large individual population of wolves, and no matter how big it was, it would not be as big as a lioness, right?
When the relevant departments at a higher level were preparing to send personnel to the countryside to investigate, the message of the telephone report came again: a stallion purchased at a high price from a certain farm was killed by a "lion wolf"!
The manager yelled at the phone: Can you talk by a little bit? The first report was "big wolf", the big lone wolf who had never seen it, and then the case reported was "giant wolf", "giant" to what extent? Today, you actually say that it is a "lion wolf." Why don't you exaggerate as wolves as big as Siberian tigers? oh! Today's report is "lion wolf", maybe in a few days there will be a report "tiger wolf"!
The subordinates were reprimanded and very aggrieved, and had to say: the value of this stallion is not to mention, its size is also one of the best in the European horse herd, and now the stallion's throat has been bitten off, and the crotch has been pulled open. Now lie in the stables, please ask the superior leaders and experts to come to the scene to investigate!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="80" > ★ expert inquest: it is a giant wolf that has never been seen</h1> before
When the manager of the county-level department, the equivalent of China, arrived at the farm, many people were watching around the fallen horses.
The experts who came with them immediately began the inquest. From the wounds, bite marks, teeth, bite force and footprints that had been circled by protection, the tall stallion was indeed killed by a giant wolf. It is not an exaggeration to say that this giant wolf is a "lion wolf". Because judging by all the tooth marks, wounds and hoof prints, this giant wolf is similar to the medium lioness, and the length from head to tail will not be less than 2.0 meters! The weight will not be less than 90 kg!
The manager exclaimed: The wolf was bigger than he knew. It is said that the largest North American gray wolf is no more than 2 meters long and weighs no more than 75 kilograms, so why would we have such a big wolf in the Ural region? Could it be a change?
Experts tell managers: Anything is possible.
So the management immediately ordered: organize a special hunting team to immediately kill this "lion wolf", so that it will not continue to endanger the herd.
But experts worriedly told managers that the wolf's hunting trajectory, from the banks of the Ural River to the farm, was getting deeper and deeper into the densely populated countryside and closer to the city. To avoid it hurting people and become habitual.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="79" > ★ helicopter reconnaissance for a week, but there was no trace of a giant wolf</h1>
The manager knew that once the "lion wolf" approached the city and injured people, the responsibility was great. So he immediately asked for instructions to dispatch a helicopter to reconnoiter.
His superiors quickly approved his request.
The manager invited several hunters from a nearby village to board the helicopter with them. Because hunters are familiar with wolves' habits after all, if they have their guidance, it will be easier for drivers to fly to places where wolves often haunt.
However, after searching in the air for a week, this huge "lion wolf" actually disappeared!
Was the original judgment wrong? But the experts and hunters told him that it was really a wolf as big as a juvenile lioness. Put in the midst of wolves and you can see it at a glance!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="78" > ★ news came again, and a young girl on the outskirts of the city was eaten by a "lion wolf"</h1>
Afraid of what's coming! On the seventh day that the helicopter was expanding its search into the mountains, news came from the ground. A 14-year-old teenage middle school student on the outskirts of the city was bitten to death by a giant wolf on her way to school this morning and dragged into the woods. By the time the crowd chased into the woods to search for rescue, the girl's chest and abdomen had been eaten by the wolf...
So the helicopter immediately flew toward the airspace, but after circling for a few weeks, it did not find any trace of the "lion wolf".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > ★ the chief executive of Russia's Ural region ordered that the killer of this giant wolf be rewarded</h1>
Almost all hunters in the Ural region, who received the prize for the capture of this "lion wolf", took action. If you kill this wolf, you will not only get a high bonus, but also get the glorious title of "Wolf Hunting Hero", why not!
In two days, dozens of wolves were killed. But there is no trace of this "lion wolf" at all.
Eventually, the "lion wolf" was spotted by an experienced werewolf hunter.
On that day, the wolf was chased by many people after eating the girl. Chase it day and night. Soon, it sneaked outside a school and was followed by the hunter when it tried to catch the students.
The giant wolf thought he was lurking well. As long as the students scatter after school, then the student who passes by here is its hunting target today.
It squints its eyes and dreams when it's bang! With a gunshot, the giant wolf fell to the ground! (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a native of Qingdao, Shandong, is a senior journalist and writer, who has published 42 monographs on novels, tourism literature, reportage literature, history and culture, tourism culture, poetry appreciation, enterprise management, market analysis, success studies, and talent studies, written more than 200 episodes of 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. ）