Now let's say that after Chen Zhiming finished the duel in the Heavenly Palace. Returned to the Tianshan faction. On this day, he came to the back mountain of the Tianshan faction. I saw the green mountains and green waters here, fragrant and fragrant. The mountain is full of peach blossoms, reflecting a rainbow. It is the sunset that fills the sky, and the snow and moon fly.

Just as Chen Zhiming was admiring the spring color, he saw a cry of carving not far away. Just listen to the sound of the carving. Chen Zhiming followed the voice and saw a snow-white, eight-foot-tall man, with a pointed mouth and straight toes looking at a snake like a person.

And this snake is also very strange, I saw that it was covered with blue and red, and it was so red that it turned green. After that, I saw the snake spit out its long tongue, and I saw thick black smoke coming out of the tongue. It is clear that this snake is extremely venomous. I saw that the eagle screamed, and a pair of wings had already hit the snake's body.

When Chen Zhiming thought that the snake was going to die, he saw that the snake had turned around and fled to the back of the eagle as fast as lightning. Even Chen Zhiming couldn't imagine this. Just when Chen Zhiming hadn't reacted yet. I saw that the snake spit out a black poisonous mist, which had already sprayed towards the eagle.

I saw that the eagle's wings flapped, and the red eagle crown on his head was unfurled. With one mouth, he actually sucked the poisonous mist of the poisonous snake into his stomach. Chen Zhiming was taken aback when he saw this. I thought, "What is this all about?" Is that eagle actually absorbing the poisonous mist of that poisonous snake? Is that eagle not afraid of death? Or is that eagle indestructible?

Chen Zhiming was thinking of this, only to see the eagle take a deep breath, like a human, and open his mouth of blood. Spit out a cloud of black mist, it turned out that the eagle had absorbed the poison of the poisonous snake like a human, and then spit it out and attacked back to the snake's body.

I saw that the poisonous mist struck the poisonous snake as fast as lightning like a poisonous snake. Vipers want to avoid it. There is no way to avoid it. Hit by a poisonous mist. Just when Chen Zhiming thought that the poisonous snake had been hit, the poisonous snake was as fast as lightning to absorb its poisonous mist again.

This strange phenomenon made Chen Zhiming puzzled. Chen Zhiming thought to himself: What is this all about? Could it be that a poisonous snake is invulnerable to all poisons? Even if it is invulnerable. But even if it is invincible, but when it absorbs the poisonous mist of the eagle. Will they all be knocked down, even though the poisonous mist is emitted by itself.

Chen Zhiming thought of this, only to see that the snake shook its head and opened its teeth again to pounce on the eagle. The eagle eagle spread its wings, and with a flap of its wings, a strong wind had already hit the waist of the poisonous snake. As the saying goes, to fight a snake, you have to hit five inches and five inches down.

I saw that the snake was really scared, its head shrank, and its body flashed to the back of the eagle as fast as lightning.

At this time, Chen Zhiming's father and all the brothers came up. I saw them having lunch.

We were having lunch happily. Suddenly, I saw an eagle rushing down like an arrow in the blue sky, stopping on the ground for a moment and then flying up into the sky, clutching a slender thing at its feet.

I hurriedly asked everyone to see, Chen Zhiming's father took out the telescope, and I also adjusted the telescope to the distance, it turned out that the eagle's claws were catching a snake, and the snake was still writhing and struggling. The eagle circles in the air and goes back and forth. Suddenly he threw the snake down, and then he pounced, and grabbed the snake tightly. It takes no tire of playing this game in the sky.

Chen Zhiming's father explained in Bian Zhou that this was a means for eagles to find food. In this way, "falling and grabbing" a few times, the snake was killed.

Chen Zhiming's father decisively pulled the trigger at the moment when the eagle was ambushing. The eagle that was shot was like a stone. Straight down to the grass. We ran as fast as we could, but the eagle had already lost its breath. The bullet hit it in the chest (pu). The serpent was also knocked half to death and was dying.

Chen Zhiming's father asked me and Daming. Do you know the eagle and the serpent? Da Ming looked at the snake and said, "This is Zhu Yeqing, it's a poisonous snake." "As for me, I only know that this big bird is an eagle, but I can't name it.

Chen Zhiming's father said, "This eagle is called a snake eagle, and it uses this special method to catch snakes and eat them. ”

In the evening, we set up a tent on the grass near the woods and began to make specimens. Today's harvest is really big, a big snake eagle -- bigger than my beloved owl, four snakes, two very mirror snakes, one swimming snake, and one bamboo-leaf green snake. Hey, didn't I say just now, did Chen Zhiming's father cook the snake for us to eat, how could he still leave a specimen Hey, this is called "killing two birds with one stone", animal fur is made of specimens, and you can also earn meat to eat. Xiaojuan and Teacher Yang also collected a lot of insects and made them into specimens.

When it got dark, we lit a reed fire and pestered Chen Zhiming's father to tell stories.

Chen Zhiming's father promised with his mouth, but there is one condition, we can't listen in vain, we have to talk about it.

Chen Zhiming's father made a cup of green tea, took a sip, and then asked me unhurriedly, "Chen Zhiming, do you like birds and owls the most?"

I was going to say, "Of course I do," but when I remembered that my dad had told me to be humble, I changed my tune and said, "Well, my dad took me to observe."

The owl is short-sighted during the day and sleeps heavily on Shuya. At night, heh, it's amazing! Two big green eyes can see mice dozens of meters away. The owl's head can still rotate, and Dad said that it can turn 270 degrees, so it can be observed in all directions. As soon as he spotted the rat, he rushed straight at it like an arrow and caught the rat in one fell swoop. Its plumage is light and it doesn't make much noise when it flies. ”

"Why is it called an owl?" asked me.

"Hey, that's not easy to answer. Its head is like that of a cat, with a round face and a pair of very large eyes. Some species of owls have two erect ear feathers, which resemble owls! However, its beak is hooked, not like a cat's beak; It has a pair of very sharp claws on its feet, which are the characteristics of an eagle, so people call it an owl!"

Chen Zhiming's father nodded again and again when he heard this, and praised him, "Chen Zhiming knows a lot of knowledge, wow, he is all right." I was so happy that I thought, "Owls are my 'magic weapon', I don't know if I know!"

"Chen Zhiming, do you know how the owl relies on to judge the position of the opponent when it rushes towards the enemy?" Chen Zhiming's father asked me again.

"It's with your eyes. I replied casually.

"No, not with the eyes. You use your brains. Think about it, what is it used to judge," Chen Zhiming's father further asked us.

"I don't know—" we all shook our heads.

Chen Zhiming's father explained: "Owl. Don't look at it with big round eyes, hey. But it's 'farsightedness'. What is farsightedness, seeing things in the distance clearly, and seeing things near blurry. Therefore, the owl has to step back a little and adjust the focus of its eyes in order to see what is close to it. Therefore, although the owl has good night vision, it relies on hearing to determine the enemy's position at the moment of attacking the enemy and capturing the prey. Once. We observed an owl eating a rattlesnake, which could have hit the snake's head in one fell swoop, pecking the snake's skull to pieces, and winning the battle. However, due to the lack of accurate judgment, he did not hit the vital point of the snake, and only pecked the snake's body, only to be swept to the ground by the snake's tail. The snake wanted to take the opportunity to escape, and the owl was willing to give up this delicious meal. Peck tightly. Seeing that the situation was not good, the snake had to turn around and fight to the death, and it quickly wrapped its body around the owl to strangle the enemy to death. But the owl was undaunted, saw the opportunity, and pecked at the snake's head again. The rattlesnake was immediately 'badly wounded', and the owl grabbed the 'captive' with great agility. More interesting. It was another battle that we saw two years ago, when we accepted an invitation from a friendly country in North America. Go on a joint animal expedition. In the grassland, we saw a young red-tailed falcon (sun) fighting with a mustel. The red-tailed flower, apparently learning to hunt for the first time, was standing on a tall tree and saw a ferret.

Young-bloom instinctively dived down to catch the ferret. Because it has no experience, it is not fast and accurate in attacking, and can peck the enemy to death or peck into serious injuries with one blow, plus it suddenly feels that the opponent is too big, afraid that it will not be able to fight, and loses confidence, so when it is still a few feet away from the ground, it spreads its wings and slows down. As a result, the attacked Itachi immediately turned around quickly, revealing its sharp fangs, ready to fight the Red-tailed Falcon. Yuhua was taken aback, hesitated in the air for a moment, and had to give up the 'lunch' and quickly flapped his wings and flew away. ”

"Chen Zhiming's father," Da Ming asked, "owls catch snakes and eagles and snake eagles catch snakes, this is what Darwin said about 'the struggle between species' Cobras devour each other, and ants fighting is 'struggle within the same species', right?"

When Chen Zhiming's father heard this, he laughed out loud and praised him with appreciation, saying, "Da Ming really uses his brains! Yes, yes, it should be like this, for the problems that you don't understand, you have to use your brains to think, only the knowledge that you have worked hard to understand, can you remember it firmly and solidly. Da Ming's answer is completely correct, and he can get a full score" Uncle Zhang's words, Da Ming lowered his head embarrassedly.

Chen Zhiming's father looked at his watch and said, "Oh, it's not early, let's go to bed, there are still many things to do tomorrow!

Everyone quickly lay down, and they slept soundly that night.

The next day, Chen Zhiming's father continued to tell Chen Zhiming and his disciples the story of the snake and the eagle.

Chen Zhiming's father said. In ancient times, the head of the ancient sect, Chenyi Daochang, and the local cruisers, with excellent wilderness survival equipment, set off from the back mountain of the Tianshan faction to the freshwater swamp forest of Lake Bila in the south, and began the adventure of visiting snake carvings.

Early the next morning, the head of the ancient sect, Chenyi Daochang, and Niemi went up the mountain. They climbed up along the arbor forest in the ditch on the north slope, when they reached the top of the arbor forest at an altitude of more than 80 meters, the scene in front of them stunned them, a more than one meter long poisonous pit viper body twisted its belly upward, and the flesh and blood lay on a rock blurrily, judging from the freshness of the flesh and the intact eyes did not collapse, it was likely to die in the evening of the first day, the snake's stomach clearly saw the remains of a guinea pig that had been digested and not completely excreted, the upper half of the body and the tail had very obvious claw scratches and pecks, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, knew that the pit viper was the most aggressive and poisonous snake in the tropical rainforest, and could take the initiative to attack it, I'm afraid there is only the snake carving of the Tianshan faction.

Everything indicates that there was a brutal Eagle and Serpent battle here. But after subduing this highly poisonous pit viper, why didn't the snake carving enjoy this delicious meal? The head of the ancient sect, Chenyi, and his guide walked down the slope dozens of meters away and found the answer. A dying snake sculpture lay on a rock, one thigh surprisingly swollen. According to the injured part of the snake carving and the pit viper that had not had time to eat, the head of the ancient sect thought of the scene of the eagle snake battle: a well-fed pit viper. Coiled over the already hot rocks, enjoying the warmth of the sun. At this time, this adult snake eagle with snake catching skills hovered overhead. Found this snake, it quickly adjusted its position to attack the poisonous snake vertically, the snake eagle stepped on the snake's chest with its sharp claws, the sharp claw tips pierced deep into the snake's body, the eagle's beak accurately grasped the snake's neck, and the snake's neck opened with a little force.

Seeing that the snake had no power to fight back, the eagle turned its head and tore open the snake's abdomen three or two times, and the severe pain made the pit viper make a final effort, and it turned back sharply and bit the snake eagle that had relaxed its vigilance. At this time, the snake was completely relaxed, and even the strength to pull out its fangs was gone, and the pit viper almost became the snake eagle's last supper! The snake eagle instinctively flew up, but after a few flights, it fell.

Sure enough, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, found the fangs of the pit viper when he was debrideing the thigh of this snake carving, and the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, injected it with antivenom. The head of the ancient sect, Chenyidao, named the female snake carving Bangda.

The head of the Ancient Sect, Chenyi, decided to take the injured Bonda to explore the brave bird. The snake eagle is indeed adventurous by nature, in fact, there are a large number of rodents in the rainforest of the Tianshan Pai Houshan that can be used as its food, but the snake eagle is keen on adventure. Or even risking death to eat poisonous snakes.

A few days later, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, went to the pond where he camped to fetch water. As soon as he walked into the pond, he couldn't help but gasp, it turned out that a yellow-billed cobra was floating in an "S" shape on the surface of the pond. The head of the Ancient Sect, Chen Yidao, quietly stepped back, and as soon as he walked a few meters away, a black light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes. A large bird with a wingspan of about seventy or eighty centimeters flew over with lightning speed. Swooped to the surface of the water and grabbed the yellow-billed cobra seven inches. Then fly straight into the air. The yellow-billed cobra rolled and writhed wildly, and began to wrap its body and wings around the snake eagle with its moving body. The snake eagle was not in a hurry, while continuing to hold on to the head and body of the snake, while flicking its wings from time to time to get rid of the snake's counterattack, and when the snake gradually lost its physical strength and lost the ability to resist fiercely, it began to devour.

After swallowing the snake, the snake eagle rests for a while and makes a very strange gesture at the same time: first in the direction of the sun, constantly holding up his chest and raising his head, staring at the sun. Commenting on this interesting phenomenon, Niemi explained that in the past, most people believed that snake carvings were sunbirds, and after receiving delicious food, they did not forget to worship the sun god. This is of course a superstitious statement, in fact, in order to resist the writhing of the snake body in the abdomen that swallows and is not completely dead, the snake eagle has to raise its head and chest, use the muscles of the chest to inhibit the movement of the snake body, and at the same time expand its trachea without being suffocated.

Every meal of the snake carving of the Tianshan Sect, which is addicted to poisonous snakes, may be the "last meal". In order to verify his judgment, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, expanded his scope and searched all the way along a small river in the rainforest, and sure enough, he saw the corpses of 4 snake eagles, and after autopsy, it was found that all of them were poisoned by snakes and died. After investigation, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, came to a conclusion that made him jaw-dropping: Snake eagles have almost no natural enemies in the rainforest, and their only enemy is their own "meal on the plate" -- highly venomous snakes! His discovery has solved the mystery of the natural enemies of snake eagles that zoologists have not solved for a long time.

"Love" is also adventurous

As Bonda's leg injury recovered, the head of the Ancient Sect, Dusty Dao, installed a radio receiver on it and released it into the rainforest. Bonda is a master flyer. You know, with the wingspan and flight speed of an eagle, navigating through a tropical rainforest full of obstacles is dangerous and easy to break its wings. But the snake carving of the Tianshan Sect is a natural adventurer.

The head of the ancient sect, Chenyi Daochang, observed that the competition between the male snake eagles of the Tianshan faction in the back mountains to pursue the opposite sex was a flying battle in the dense forest! Once, the head of the ancient sect, Chenyi Daochang, observed the spectacular scene of three male snake eagles pursuing Bonda. They were fighting together, their mouths and claws together, and the gesture seemed to want to kill each other.

The three males tugged at each other and flew around one of the banyan trees perched on Bonda, flying at great speed, their wide wings fluttering and swaying the vines. Ten minutes later, one male bird apparently couldn't keep up with the other two, and he landed on a branch to rest. The remaining two played even crazier dive races. In the end, a slightly smaller male snake eagle won the competition.

In order to make it easier to identify, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, named the male snake carving in this snake carving couple Zola.

The head of the ancient faction, Chenyi Dao, discovered that Zola and Bonda were a pair of emotional companions. They often fly high into the air. Grasp your feet and fly up and down. With the observation of this pair of snake carvings, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, made an even more astonishing discovery. That is Bonda's "red apricot out of the wall".

It turned out that the head of the Ancient Sect, Chenyi Daoist, observed Bangda's radio signal display. It has another long-term stop in the rainforest. After searching, it was another lair. The head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, observed that there was another male eagle there. It is likely that Bonda conducted another "martial arts competition" and established a family.

What is even more surprising to the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, is that Bonda arranged the two families in an orderly manner. It alternates between two nests every few hours, and it loves to clean up and groom its nests, and it doesn't seem to favor one over the other.

"Parenting" is also crazy

In ancient times, Bonda, who had been cruising back and forth between the two love nests, quieted down and spent a few days quietly in Zola's nest. The head of the ancient sect, Chenyidao, grew up overjoyed - Bonda began to lay eggs. A few days later. Bonda left, and it went to another home on the east side of the rainforest.

The head of the Ancient Sect, Dusty Daoist, understood that Bonda would also lay eggs in another nest. Sure enough, a few days later, Bonda began to travel back and forth between the two nests. The head of the ancient sect, Chenyi, observed that the work of incubating eggs was done by both male and female snake eagles, and one was incubating eggs in the nest while the other went out to forage for food. Interestingly, Bonda often takes advantage of the time he spends foraging to visit another home, and spends the same amount of time in both nests during the day, except for the time spent foraging.

The head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, was very interested. Which nest will Bonda return to rest in the evening. Through follow-up investigations, Bonda showed a clear preference for this link, returning to Zola's nest almost every night.

After the Tianshan Sect Houshan snake carvings caught the snakes, most of them were swallowed and did not need to be torn. So their beaks are not as well developed as other birds of prey. But its jaw muscles are so powerful that they can bite the snake's head and swallow it in one bite. Then there is the body of the snake, and finally the tail of the snake. When feeding chicks. After Bonda catches the snake, she doesn't swallow it all. The snake's tail is often left on the outside of the mouth, so that when it returns to the nest, the chick can hold the tail and then pull the whole snake out and eat it.

About half a month later, the head of the Ancient Sect, Dusty Daoist, found that Bonda had shifted most of his energy to Zola's lair. It goes to another nest to feed its chicks less and less often. The head of the Ancient Sect, Chenyi Dao Chief, observed another lair and tried to answer this strange phenomenon. He found that the chicks in the other nest were significantly weaker than those in Zola's nest. It turned out that the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, observed that the female snake eagle is using the strategy of "double insurance" to settle two families, in the nesting and hatching stage, it gives the two families the same energy and time, but when the female bird finds which male snake eagle has a stronger predation ability and can better raise offspring, it chooses which home, and the husband and child in the other nest can only fend for themselves.

The head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, marveled at the life of the snake carving in the back mountain of the Tianshan faction, and even the "child-rearing" was like this. One day at noon, the leaders of the Ancient Sect, Chenyi Daoist and Nemi, saw Zola take a young bird and fly away, and it flew towards a hill to the east. Are they moving? Curiosity drove the head of the Ancient Sect, Chenyidao, to the bottom of the mountain along the route they had flown away. As soon as he arrived there, a black thing suddenly fell from the top of the mountain, and the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, fixed his eyes on it, oh my God, it was the young birds that were taken away by Zola, and it was none other than their father who threw them down at the foot of the mountain!

About two months later, Zola and Bonda began to learn to fly with their two young birds. After that, the head of the ancient sect, Chenyi Daochang, saw the scene where Zola's family of four began to fly out of the nest together to forage for food, but they went their separate ways. Once, the head of the ancient sect, Chen Yidao, witnessed a young eagle that might have been hungry for a long time, attacking a half-meter-long red-tailed viper again and again. The young eagle clamped the snake with its claws, and then caught the snake and flew into the sky, but the snake suddenly wrapped itself around the young eagle's neck, and the young eagle was also blinded, and it seemed that it had never learned from its parents, because it was weak from hunger, and it was completely powerless to resist the snake's entanglement. In the air, it lost its direction and fell headlong to the ground in an instant......

After Chen Zhiming's father finished speaking, he said to Chen Zhiming and the disciples: "This story shows that we must be careful in everything we do, and don't give up halfway. With that, they went down the mountain. (To be continued......)