The captured big cat made Li An quite excited, this big cat is very similar to an animal called lynx from the appearance, this is a fierce beast, a very powerful beast, although its size is not very large, and the domestic pastoral dog is also about the same, but the combat effectiveness and physical flexibility are far better than the pastoral dog, it is impossible to use the pastoral dog to capture it, even if dozens of them are released together, they can't catch the lynx.

The lynx is an animal that likes the cold, so it basically lives in the colder northern regions, such as the northeast of the Tang Dynasty, there are many lynxes, and there are also lynx distribution in the higher mountains in the south, because the mountains also mean cold, which is the living environment that the lynx likes.

Chang'an City also belongs to the north, and there will naturally be lynx distribution in the nearby mountains, however, compared to the Yingzhou area, the number of lynx here is very small, and it is generally difficult to find, so after discovering this big cat, Li An will be so excited.

In the Royal Animal Garden of the Tang Dynasty, there are many rare animals in it, among them, the most precious are the fierce beasts that come from afar, such as the male lion from the African grassland, giraffes, etc., and some are rare beasts in the Tang Dynasty.

There are naturally such animals as lynxes, but not everyone can visit the Datang Animal Garden casually, and it is really not easy for ordinary people to see lynxes, there are many ordinary people in Chang'an City, who have lived all their lives, and have never seen what kind of animal the lynx is.

This is actually a waste of resources, the emperor can not go to the beast garden every day to visit the beasts, put in the beast garden to raise a plain consumption of resources, belongs to the pure consumption of institutions, in fact, it is completely possible to make the Tang Dynasty's royal beast garden into the Tang Zoo, so that all the people can go to see these animals, of course, it is necessary to pay the ticket, in this way, the royal beast garden will not only not become a burden to the imperial court, but can also bring a lot of income to the imperial court, which can be described as a multiplicity.

However, this idea may not be supported, people are selfish, especially the emperor, if ordinary people can see all the precious animals, how can it reflect the emperor's superiority? It is because he has what others do not have, so the emperor seems to be high, if the emperor has as much as ordinary people, then what is the strength of this emperor.

However, Chang'an City is so big, if there is no large zoo, it will be too incomplete, so how can it reflect the openness and tolerance of the Tang Empire.

The reason why Datang is called Datang is to have what others don't have, especially Chang'an City, as the capital, the more entertainment institutions it has, the more beneficial it is to Datang's reputation.

A few days ago, because of an outing, I saw a lot less wild animals in the wild than in previous years, so Li Ang built the Lishan breeding base, and now I have the idea of building a zoo.

These ideas are not a whim, because these are the most basic, with the gradual prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, the people's pockets are gradually bulging, and the people who are gradually getting rich must have a variety of life needs, eat some delicious game, look at the cherished animals, these are the most normal life needs, and Li Ang is to meet the various life needs of ordinary people as much as possible.

The most basic needs of people are the needs of eating and drinking, only in this way can people live, and after these satisfactions, people will have the need to eat more delicious food, there are physiological needs, and there is the need for curiosity.

Theoretically speaking, people's needs are never-ending, and after the needs are not satisfied, people will have dissatisfied interests, only when they are satisfied, people will be happy, and the society will be more prosperous.

The lynx was caught by the guards with a net, but because the lynx was so ferocious that it struggled incessantly, the guards worked together to put it in a stout cage for the safety of everyone, so that the lynx could not hurt anyone.

"Fortunately, the big cat was caught, and it would be terrible if it suddenly came out and hurt someone."

One of the guards spoke.

From the way the lynx struggles, we know that this animal is a very ferocious beast, a very great threat to people, once it is found to attack people, it will definitely cause great harm to people, and even, can easily bite people to death.

Of course, unless it is extremely hungry or in a hurry, the lynx will not attack people, because this ferocious beast is not bold enough, and it also knows very well that humans are very powerful intelligent creatures, and it is not something that a beast like it can afford to provoke.

"Last night two craftsmen quarreled, one said that the meat brought from home was stolen by the other, and the other did not admit it, perhaps, it was stolen by this beast!"

"It's really possible, this guy looks like he eats meat, and he must be a thief."

According to the dexterity of the lynx, it is proper to be a thief, the lynx is fully capable of being a thief, and it will not be found to steal things, which is also a skill practiced when hunting in nature, if it is easy to be discovered, then, the lynx will scare away small animals, so that nothing can be caught.

The reason why the guards under Ang Lee's command were able to catch the lynx was because they happened to force the guy into a corner where he could not escape, so that he could easily capture it, and because the entrance and exit of the valley were blocked, the lynx could not escape from the valley for three days.

When he saw a fox, Ang Lee could still think of looking for a litter of small foxes, but after seeing the lynx, Ang Lee did not have such an idea, because the lynx is different from the fox, it is a wild animal that lives alone in a wide space, and is a nocturnal hunter without a fixed nest.

During the day, it can lie on the rocks to bask in the sun, or hide quietly under large trees to escape the wind and rain. It can live alone for several days in an area of several hectares, or it can run more than 10 kilometers without stopping. Good at climbing and swimming, strong hunger resistance, can lie in one place for a few days, not afraid of severe cold, like to hunt roe deer and other medium and large beasts. Morning and dusk activities are frequent, the range of activity depends on the abundance of food, there are occupation behaviors and fixed excretion sites, that is, lynx has the habit of going to the toilet, which is quite similar to people.

The temperament of the lynx is somewhat similar to that of the fox, both are cunning and cautious, and when in danger they will quickly flee to trees to take shelter, and sometimes lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, so as to avoid the attack and damage of the enemy. In nature, large beasts such as tigers, leopards, snow leopards, and bears are all natural enemies of lynxes, and if they encounter wolves, they will also be chased and surrounded and killed, and it is generally difficult to escape.

The main food of the lynx is various types of hares, so in many places the population of the lynx will also fluctuate with the increase and decrease of the number of hares, in addition to the hare, it hunts many objects, including a variety of squirrels, field mice, lemmings, marmots and ptarmigans, quails, wild pigeons and pheasants and other birds, sometimes also attacks musk deer, roe deer and deer cubs, as well as piglets, lambs and other domestic animals.

After catching prey in winter, lynx will bury the leftover meat under the snow to "refrigerate" it and feed it when they are hungry. Hare make up the majority of their diet, consuming two to five pounds of meat per day, and in hunting areas, lynx can control the number of hares, and they can kill one to four percent of the local hare population each year.

When catching prey, they often use grass, shrubs, stones, trees, etc. as shelters, and wait in ambushes where prey often passes, and watch the surrounding movements vigilantly. It is extremely patient and can lie quietly in one place for several days and nights, only to rush out and capture its prey when it approaches.

If the assault is unsuccessful and the prey slips away, it will not chase the prey exhaustively, but return to the same place and wait patiently for the next opportunity. Sometimes it roams quietly, and when it sees that its prey is concentrating on feeding, it creeps closer, and then dives closer, and pounces on it unsuspectingly, so that the prey is inexplicably restrained.

Lynx is also a good swimmer, but does not enter the water easily. He is also an excellent rock climber, and he is also very good at climbing trees, even jumping from tree to tree, so he can hunt birds in trees, especially at night, when the forest is silent and the birds that live in the trees are asleep, and they stretch out their claws to hunt for food

Supposedly, if the lynx can climb trees, why are they trapped in the valley for days and nights? Is it because he doesn't want to leave the territory where he has lived for a long time, and wants to occupy it for a long time?

In fact, Li An thinks that maybe it is because the silk in the valley is too steep, although the lynx can climb trees, but it is powerless against the steep cliffs, it has no way to break through the obstacles of the cliffs, it can only be trapped inside, in addition, it is also very afraid of human activities, maybe it has seen hunters hunting animals, so as long as it sees people, it hides far away, so it does not dare to leave from the many guarded passages, and another reason, maybe the lynx feels that the valley is big enough, and humans will not stay too long in the valley, will definitely leave soon, so he is not in a hurry to escape, but he didn't expect that Ang Lee would occupy this place for a long time and forever.

The male lynx is home to the four seas, while the female lynx needs to build a nest, and the location of the nest, generally in the rock crevices or tree holes, mates in February and April every year, and the pregnancy is only two months for a short time, and the cubs can reach three or four at a time.

Under normal circumstances, the lynx can live for about 12 years, and the life span of the lynx in captivity is longer, which can reach more than 20 years, which is about twice the lifespan of the lynx in the wild.

The lynx is also relatively precocious, the male lynx is an adult at the age of three, and the female lynx is more powerful, and can give birth to cubs at the age of two, and the cubs will leave their mothers when they are about one year old, and go out to work their own, which is considered to be an early self-reliant animal.

The biggest feature of the lynx is that the tips of the two erect ears are covered with towering long dark bush hairs, which are four or five centimeters long, and there are also a few white hairs, which are very similar to the feathers on the helmets of military generals in the play, adding a bit of majesty to it.

The ear shell and brush hairs can move in the direction of the sound source at any time, and have the effect of collecting sound waves, and if the brush hair is lost, it will affect its hearing, so the lynx is very protective of its tuft hair.

Although the lynx is a very ferocious beast, it can also be domesticated artificially, and any beast can theoretically be domesticated artificially, but the difficulty of domestication varies from animal to animal, some are very easy to domesticate, while some animals are difficult to domesticate.

The difficulty of domestication of the lynx is average, and it can still be domesticated, but the appearance of the lynx is not too good, which does not meet the aesthetics of the Tang nobles.

In the eyes of many Tang nobles, the leopard is the animal that best meets their aesthetic standards, so many nobles will raise domesticated leopards, put collars on leopards, and feed them as pets.

In later generations, people who wanted to see live leopards could only go to the zoo to watch, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, you had the opportunity to see leopards when you walked on the street, and even cheetahs from the African continent.

The nobles of the Tang Dynasty like to lead the cheetah all over the street like a dog, they feel that this is very majestic, and it can reflect their aristocratic temperament, after all, the cheetah belongs to the animals of the African continent, which is relatively rare in the Tang Dynasty, and the rare cheetah can naturally reflect the identity of the nobility.

The nobles themselves would not domesticate cheetahs, and when these cheetahs were bought from the Hu merchants of the Western Regions, they were already domesticated docile animals.

In other words, in the countries of the Western Regions, there are people who can domesticate wild beasts, and there should be quite a few of them.

According to historical records, in the kingdoms of the Western Regions at that time, hunting was all the rage among kings and nobles, and it flourished for a long time, so a group of animal trainers who specially trained harrier eagles, hounds, and cheetahs for the royal family were born.

However, domesticating cheetahs is not an easy task, unlike many people's imagination, the way to domesticate cheetahs is not to capture cubs and raise them from a young age, but to capture physically strong adult cheetahs, and then through a very similar way to the Jurchen way of boiling eagles, grinding away its wildness, gradually let it gradually adapt to contact with humans, until finally able to lead it around the streets, and each other is safe.

Next, the reflex of the cheetah to hunt first and then receive the reward of dried meat is cultivated, which is very similar to the circus taming animals. In short, the animal trainer and the cheetah have established enough mutual trust and closeness, and the cheetah can do it after galloping out to capture the prey, and will return to the animal trainer for dried meat as soon as possible, instead of never looking back and taking the opportunity to escape.