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Chapter 851 Feline subfamily and sociality(1/2)

The second meal, the third meal, the fourth meal...

At the end of the day, Bi Fang fed four times. He came over every three hours to feed her until ten o'clock in the evening.

From sheep to deer to rabbits, these are all cheetahs' favorite foods. Until the fourth time, Bi Fang brought sheep blood sausage, and the management staff no longer had to stand outside the barbed wire fence.

The cheetah also let down his guard against Bifang, a man who was almost always hanging around in front of him. He just thought that he had changed into a tough "keeper", but he was still a little unclear as to why his eating pattern suddenly changed so much.

In the past, you only needed one meal a day to be full, but now it has completely changed.

Early the next morning, Bi Fang got up at six o'clock to continue feeding. Pulling the chain woke up the resting cheetah.

When Harley saw the uninvited guest, he latched onto the edge of the iron fence with vigilance. After seeing the person coming in, he still did not relax his vigilance. However, compared to the state of hairiness that he had just met yesterday, he was much better. He was just walking around the iron fence.

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"Cheetahs can generally eat 2.5 kilograms of food per day. If they cannot catch prey for a long time, they can even eat food equivalent to one-fifth of their own weight in extreme conditions."

"In some areas of the Middle East, tamed cheetahs hunt for hunters. Just giving it a spoonful of blood is enough. I changed Harley's food to one pound at a time, which is 0.5 kilograms. He feeds it five times a day with high frequency.

Hang out in front of it and extend the time together.”

"You see, Harley is already very familiar with my presence today."

After each feeding, Bifang would stay for a while under Harley's gaze.

From the first ten minutes, the second twenty minutes, and the fourth one hour, the relationship between the two parties is progressing rapidly.

[I understand, Fang Shen’s true identity is actually Dru Yin!]

[An excellent survival master must also be proficient in excellent animal training skills, I am sure]

[I always imagine that I am as powerful as Fang Shen, so that even if I have no money, I can travel around the world without worrying about getting lost or starving to death]

"Today is our first feeding after a night, so we just need to wait for half an hour. What I brought to it today is ostrich liver. I hope it will like it."

"On the grassland, large cheetahs like to chase antelopes the most. Those antelopes that run slowly and are unresponsive are easily eaten."

"Then there are deer. Deer and antelope are both targets of cheetahs' attacks. On grasslands where antelopes are not found, cheetahs will turn their attention to deer."

"But young cheetahs don't have enough strength and skills to eat antelopes and deer, so they can only chase small ostriches on the grassland."

"There are also smaller cheetahs that also like to eat rabbits. I always choose the food they like. This is very helpful in getting the animals to get close to you."

After finishing the food, Harley licked the blood at the bottom of the bowl with unsatisfied intention. Finally, he stuck out his tongue and licked his beard, and paced repeatedly under Bifang's gaze.

Until a quarter of an hour later, he chose a position farthest away from Bifang and lay down, bathed in the morning light, and yawned several times.

Bi Fang smiled upon seeing this and said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "Actually, there is one thing you may not know, that is, among all wild cats, cheetahs may be the most loved ones."

"If anyone in the live broadcast room is older, you may know that in the 1990s, many cubs were still roaming around in the Magic City Wildlife Park, including cheetahs."

Relatives?

Upon hearing this, the audience's curiosity was immediately aroused.

【real or fake?】

【What is the truth?】

【Is it possible to live a life of having a cheetah in each hand? 】

[When Lao Fang talked about the Magic City Zoo, I seemed to have some impression of it. I seemed to be in elementary school at the time and saw a little cheetah running around in the zoo. 】

[Holy shit, is it real or fake? Isn’t this supposed to attract bald people? 】

【Isn’t this too happy? 】

【Unfortunately, it is not possible now.】

【Careless】

"This is mainly due to two reasons. One is because cheetahs belong to the subfamily Felinae, and the other is because cheetahs have a social structure."

"Let's talk about the first point first."

Bi Fang directly imitated the appearance of a cheetah and sat cross-legged on the ground, lazily basking in the sun.

"Phylum, order, family, genus, species. Those who have studied biology should all know this recognized species classification, but this is only the most superficial classification. If you are a professional student of biology, you will know that among families and genera, there is another classification called

Subfamily.”

"Subfamily is also the first level of biological taxonomy. The suffix of Latin taxonomic names is usually -inae, which is between family and genus, and is a family-level classification level second to the family."

"A family can be further divided into several subfamilies, and each subfamily consists of a special genus within the family or several genera that are different from other attributes."

"The emergence of subfamilies is not meaningless, it can help us further distinguish some very different differences between animals."

"Just like the cat family, this is actually a quite large classification. Lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, clouded leopards, cheetahs, caracals, wild cats, and domestic cats all belong to the cat family."

"But Felidae is a large category, and there are two subfamilies under it, one is Felinae and the other is Leopardae. The difference between these two species is very big!"

"The most intuitive thing is that animals in the subfamily Felinae can retract and retract their claws, are generally small in size, and do not make roars, and there are 12 genera in total; animals in the subfamily Leopardinae have claws that cannot be retracted, are generally larger in size, and can emit roars, and there are 2 genera."

Bi Fang's biological classification successfully aroused the curiosity of the audience.

Lions, tigers, cougars, leopards, these familiar predators all have many superficial admirers, and they also know that these are the best in the cat family, but if we further subdivide the feline subfamily and leopard subfamily,

Looks like a muggle.

Everyone doesn't know what the difference is and how it has anything to do with cheetahs being close to people.

What Bi Fang talks about next is the key point.

"Cheetahs are actually a very special thing."

"Although it has leopard in its name, it is actually not a real leopard. It does not belong to the subfamily Leopardae, but a member of the subfamily Feline."

"Even in the early years, the genus Cheetah was not counted on both sides, and it was a subfamily on its own, called Cheetahinae."

"But now this subfamily has been cancelled, and the cheetah has been thrown into the subfamily Feline. There are only two subfamilies left in the entire cat family, so the cheetah is actually a real big cat, a cat in the true sense.

"

"What I said before is not a lie. Even if we don't look at combat effectiveness, in terms of genes and performance, cheetahs are really very close to cats."

"And the real apex predators like tigers and lions are all members of the subfamily Leopardae. Do you understand the difference?"

[A bit confused, but I understand somewhat]

[It means that cheetahs and cats are from the same family, and tigers and lions are from another family?]

[Good guy, calling it a leopard is not a leopard. Isn’t this deceiving people? 】

"Absolutely. The cheetah is genetically close to the slender-waisted cat. Its cry is meow~meow~, its limbs are slender, and it weighs less than fifty kilograms."

"The leopard is the real leopard. It is ferocious and has a deep cry. It sounds like 'oooooooooooooo'. It is the kind of subwoofer that cat lovers like most. It weighs 50-100kg, and its legs

Thick, plum blossom-like pattern, like ancient copper coins, also called leopards."

"Cheetahs run fast and do not have an advantage in strength. The size of an adult is not in its diet, so it is relatively friendly to people. Of course, this does not mean that it is not aggressive. Domestic cats can also scratch and bite people.

Wild animals will only become more ferocious."

"Leopards are different. Their running speed is only half that of cheetahs, but they often bully cheetahs, crush them with strength, and are highly aggressive and fatal to humans."

"As a digression here, there is another animal with a ridiculous name that is also a big cat, and that is the puma."

"This is also a big cat. Its size is about the same as that of a cheetah. Its combat power is a little stronger, but it is also limited."

"On the contrary, one of its distant relatives whose name seems to be a little less classy than it is a member of the leopard subfamily, that is, the jaguar. This is actually the third largest ferocious cat in the world."

"Of course, the jaguar also has an alias that, although it is not widely spread, can still reflect its combat effectiveness and deterrence, and it is called Jaguar."

[Lion: Not even a leopard can beat a leopard, it really embarrasses my lion family (dog head)]

【I gained more knowledge】

【Too thin】

"Of course, there are some minor problems with my statement, but you really can't expect the ferocious beasts of the subfamily Leopardae to be more kin than cheetahs. Tigers, lions, leopards, and jaguars are not easy to get along with, and a slap in the face could kill you.

life."

"For cats with hunting instincts, it is difficult to restrain themselves from attacking and testing creatures that are weaker than themselves."

"Things in the cat subfamily are generally small in size and have limited lethality. To put it bluntly, you don't care much about it even if it has no relatives, and it has no special thoughts about behemoths like humans."

【It hurts】

[Speak more reservedly]

【What about the second point?】

[Yes, there is a second point, please tell me quickly.]

"The second point..."

Bi Fang looked at the time and found that half an hour had passed, so he opened the chain, got out of the cage, and joked.

"Sorry, let's wait until the second meal today to talk about the second point. Otherwise, what if my inventory is emptied by you after so many days?"

The audience was dumbfounded.

[Good guy, you don’t have to keep updating like this!]
To be continued...
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