Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 670: Musk Ox

Bi Fang walked in the woods, took off his gloves, and touched one cold tree after another. Behind him was a 100-meter-high cliff, which was a natural city wall.

The nature is so vast, but the landform is quite cruel. There is no trace of green on the ground, and it is all covered by thick snow.

Standing in the forest in the North Pole, Bi Fang, as a human being, inevitably felt a little small.

Looking back, on the cliff, the huge inland ice surface forms an ice tongue, which may fall from a high altitude under a storm at any time, smashing everything to pieces.

In Greenland, there is endless wildness as far as the eye can see.

"The arctic region, by all accounts, is quite extreme, and only those species that can successfully adapt to the harsh climatic conditions here, the huge difference between summer and winter, there is no leaf fall here, and almost all trees are green. , absorb sunlight as much as possible and carry out photosynthesis.”

Bi Fang rubbed the tree, and there were clearly scratch marks on it. He squatted down, shoveled the snow off the ground, and found the gnawed moss colony.

Tooth marks are left on the edges of these mosses. It is obvious that herbivores have visited here and left traces.

Digging up more snow, soon, more traces were exposed, not only huge footprints, but also some long brown hairs.

Looking at the hoofprints on the ground, the audience felt a little familiar.

【what is this? Reindeer? 】

[It looks similar, but it seems to be much bigger. 】

Bi Fang dug out the remaining moss on the ground and shook his head: "It's not a reindeer. The reindeer is not so big. These are the footprints left by the musk ox."

[What is a musk ox? 】

[Blind guess is a big cow]

【Can I eat it? 】

"The musk ox is a representative animal of the Arctic tundra and the northernmost ungulate on the earth. Among the ungulates, no animal lives further north than the musk ox, not even the reindeer .”

"It is said that the undercoat of the musk ox shed every year during the shedding period is 8 times warmer than sheep's wool, and its outer protective cow hair is also the longest in the animal kingdom, even up to 60 centimeters long, perfect against minus 40 degrees low temperature."

Bi Fang gave a brief introduction, then pointed to the very clear footprints on the ground and said.

"The reason why you think the footprints of the two look similar is because it and the reindeer are both Artiodactyla, and both are ruminant suborders, and they are not different until the family, so the footprints look similar at first glance, but the size of the two is different. Very huge."

"The musk ox generally weighs more than 300 kilograms, and the reindeer is less than half of it. It is precisely because the musk ox is too large and likes to flock, it has almost no opponents. It walks very domineeringly, so it often scratches it. trees, which is rarely the case with reindeer."

[Hiss, three hundred kilograms? 】

[Damn, is it enough to catch one? 】

[Suddenly I feel that the 20kg goal set by Lao Fang is not so outrageous, this one is enough, right? 】

[Cluster? My DNA moved]

The soil here is permafrost, and the imprint left by it is difficult to disappear when you step on it, making it difficult for Bi Fang to judge when the prey left.

Bi Fang closed his eyes and fluttered his nostrils slightly, trying to capture the residual scent of musk ox in the air.

"The reason why the musk ox is called a musk ox is that both male and female musk ox emit a musk-like smell, especially in males during estrus."

"However, this smell does not come from specialized glands, but from their urine, hence the name 'body odor' of musk oxen."

In the air, a faint strange fragrance quickly entered the nasal cavity along the air, but it was not obvious, and Bi Fang had to lie on the ground to identify it again.

【The taste is getting stronger】

[Damn, isn't that the smell of urine? 】

【Musky urine (dog head)】

[What's the matter, the shit is diluted a thousand times, and it still smells like jasmine]

[Ah, I know this, a certain chemistry teacher never gives his girlfriend jasmine perfume, and every time he sees others using jasmine perfume, he just laughs and keeps silent (dog head)]

"This is wrong."

Bi Fang opened his eyes and shook his head after seeing the barrage.

"It still smells like feces when it's diluted, but it doesn't smell as bad. If the jasmine is strong, it still smells like jasmine, but it doesn't smell so good."

"This statement comes from 'indole', which is indeed an odor component shared by feces and jasmine. Keane, the former perfumer of Hermès, described the high concentration of indole as a corpse odor. I think it smells like the sun-dried cow in the countryside. Shit smell."

"But when it's diluted to 0.1 percent or less, it's not a complete jasmine scent, or even a major component of jasmine fragrance."

"Taking Jasmine Absolute Oil as an example, the odor components from high to low have sweet fruity aroma, soft sweetness, dry tea smell, both green grass and flower fragrance, refreshing floral fragrance, a kind of hay smell, and then It is indole, with a content of about 0.16%, and there are about twenty other odor components.”

[? ? ? 】

[Is this something people can smell? 】

【Fuck, this is real cowhide】

Bi Fang shrugged. These are smelled by professional perfumers, and he can't do it himself.

It takes a lot of training to distinguish the smell, and it is not enough to have a good sense of smell. A person who has never smelled the scent of jasmine will not know what it is if he suddenly smells it.

Strong sense of smell, more to help Bi Fang track and find the enemy.

"Conversely, feces is also true, and it is not entirely composed of indole."

"If you are really a chemistry teacher, you should know that the smell of natural substances is inherently complex. It is quite normal that things that are far apart have the same or similar smell components, such as cheese, beef, pork, shrimp, eggs, Foods such as strawberries, cherries, and peaches also contain a small amount of indole."

"Can you admit that you actually ate it?" Bi Fang scratched his cheek and smiled, "Is that?"

[Fuck, I have been confused for a long time, and finally saw an authoritative explanation]

[Cowhide, the truth depends on Lao Fang]

[So did you smell it? Is the musk ox still around? 】

Bi Fang nodded and picked up the stick beside him.

"As I said just now, the smell of musk ox is stronger during the estrus period. Its breeding season is from mid-September to October every year. After resting in summer, musk ox has accumulated a lot of energy. Females are mainly for reproduction, and males also have to go into estrus. Qiu's estrus competes for reproductive rights."

"At this time, the musk ox glands on the face of the male musk ox secrete a strong-smelling secretion, which touches the plants on the ground through the legs to mark out his own territory, while the female musk ox is enclosed in it and strictly controlled. Care and protection, no other male musk oxen shall encroach."

"As a result, the smell on the ground will be stronger, which is why we just lay down on the ground."

"but."

Bi Fang raised his head to look at the sky.

it's getting dark.