Editor's note:
The wild boar is coming down the mountain! "Monkey Paper" has arrived on my balcony! News of wild animals entering the city frequently appear on social media. In fact, we have so much native wildlife living all around us that we know so little about them. Only by understanding, being friendly and being together can all things be able to live in harmony and be nourished by each other. Xinhua Daily·Junction Point, in conjunction with Jiangsu Provincial Wildlife Conservation Station, Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Forestry Sciences, Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo, etc., launched the "Eyes of Secrets·Friends of Humanity" calendar column to take you through it together From the perspective of infrared camera , animal observers, etc., you can pay attention to the familiar and mysterious "animal neighbors". biodiversity is the basis of survival and vitality of human homeland. Every solar term day, we will also invite solar terms officials to make special promotion broadcasts on that day. Today, we will get to know a kind of human friend with fangs but a very timid personality - the deer.
One speculation is that the deer is the 猹 in Lu Xun's works.
Among them, there was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy with a silver ring on his neck, a steel fork in his hand, and he stabbed a yam with all his strength. Na Yuan twisted her body and escaped from his crotch.
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"No. If a pedestrian is thirsty and picks a melon to eat, we don't count it as stealing here. What we need to take care of are badgers, pigs, hedgehogs, , and 猹. Under the moon, listen, it sounds like a la la. , The turtle is biting the melon. You pinched the fork and walked gently..."
I didn't know what this so-called turtle was at that time - I don't know it even now - it was just unprovoked. It feels like a puppy and very ferocious.
- Excerpt from "Young Runtu", Lu Xun
Deer often appear in farmland near Shangyu County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, stealing crops. The males also have well-developed tusks, which provides the possibility for deer to appear in watermelon fields.
The deer's senses are sensitive and its movements are quick, which is in line with what Runtu said: "This beast is very smart." Deer are short in stature, with a shoulder height of 0.45 to 0.55 meters. Smaller deer may "escape from under the crotch."
Lu Xun "unreasonably felt that the deer looked like a puppy and was ferocious." From the appearance point of view, the deer does indeed resemble a puppy, but it is docile and timid. The "ferocious" description may just be Lu Xun's "unreasonable" one. .
What kind of ecological environment does the deer like?
Deer feeds on grass, loves water, and can swim. Live alone or in pairs. Mild temperament and sensitive senses. They give birth around May every year, with 4 to 7 babies per litter. Both sexes have no horns, and the male has well-developed tusks. Short tail, short back hair, and long limbs. The winter hair is thick and thick, with a straw yellow color; the summer hair is sparse and shorter, smooth and slightly reddish brown.
mostly inhabit both sides of rivers and lakes. They like areas with reeds along the coast or low-mountain shrubs. Sometimes they also appear on mountain sides and cultivated fields. In winter, they often appear in low-lying areas in open fields. They often go to nearby farmland to eat vegetables and legumes. crops and leaves.
is now mainly distributed in the coastal grassland area of Jiangsu, the Poyang Lake area of Jiangxi, the Dongting Lake and the vast water network areas of the two lakes areas, the Ningbo area of Zhejiang and the Zhoushan Islands. A small amount is scattered in the wetlands along the Yangtze River and nearby hills south of the Yangtze River.
Deer is the representative of "Woliheng"?
No, this is its survival rule
During the breeding season, male deer will fight each other with their tusks as weapons. During the fight, they will even scratch each other's faces with their tusks. This is all to win the favor of females.
When deer deer encounter foreign enemies, they are "cowardly" in capital letters. They tend to rely on concealment to avoid danger. Underage deer deer can even stand motionless for an hour when encountering danger.
Fighting fiercely internally and weak externally - this is definitely a derogatory comment in human society, but this is the law of deer survival in the wild. Carnivorous animals that can hunt deer, such as wolves, jackals, leopards, and tigers, are all capable of crushing it in combat power. The lethality of a deer's retaliatory attack is similar to that of a rabbit biting a human in a hurry. A head-on conflict with a predator is not a good choice. If it really can't escape, the deer will bend and run with its back arched, which is a bit like a rabbit.
But in the face of humans, the laws that deer rely on for survival have failed.Although this cute deer family is not extinct for the time being, it is not easy for them to return to their original vast homeland. The deer is a unique animal in my country. It was once a common species in Jiangsu, but it is not so now. I hope it will be in the future.
Planning and co-ordinator: Wang Xiaoying Ren Songjun
Writing and writing: Liu Chun
Art editor: Yang Xiaolong
Photography: Photos provided by Jiangsu Forestry Science Research Institute Wang Xuan
