Recently, a strange thing happened in a rice field in Datian Community, Chama Town, Qinglong County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou. Xinsheng rice sprouts were inexplicably destroyed, and even the pea tip next door was not spared. It was not until the villagers were grazing that they discovered that it was actually done by a mysterious animal, " Shanma ". Based on the video materials provided by the local community branch secretary, the Forestry Bureau engineer and the researcher of the Academy of Forestry Sciences came to a preliminary judgment.
Sambar , known as "mountain horse" in ancient times. This sambar is very large, with a height of 1.5 meters above the head and a weight of 200 kilograms. It has been wandering around the rice fields for four or five days. It is not afraid of humans. It will not escape even if someone approaches it. The closest distance to people is even 20 meters. However, some careful people found that the sambar's antlers fell off slightly, so they guessed that the sambar encountered setbacks during the intense estrus courtship period and was therefore left alone. At present, grassroots governments, communities and relevant staff have strengthened support for human and animal isolation, ecological protection publicity and other scientific research-related work.
Since there were records of ecological surveys, there was no record of discovering sambar in the local area. In fact, sambars are widely distributed in Guizhou and even the entire southern region of . This time, it is not the first time that single sambars have been discovered in Guizhou. Therefore, experts speculate that there is still a certain sambar population in Guizhou and will gradually grow and grow in the near future.
In fact, as early as the pre-Qin era, sambars were widely distributed in East Asia, and their number even made deer in the southern region more common than domestic animals. The Chinese also have various records of sambars. Since "deer" and "lu" are homophonic, this spiritual animal is associated with various auspicious intentions.
Sambar is a large deer family that is widely distributed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. In the complete forest ecosystem in an Asian region, there will be three types of deer, large, medium and small. In the temperate forests in the northern region, there are red deer, sika deer, roe deer and roe deer, and in the subtropical tropical forests in the southern region, sambar, sika deer and deer . It can be seen that the emergence of sambar reflects the stability of an ecosystem and the biodiversity of .
Many years ago, sambar had the so-called "all over his body" saying, that is, meat can be eaten, leather can be made of leather, deer antlers are also a precious medicinal material. Due to the preference of some consumer groups for the so-called "mountain delicacies" and "wild game", various wild animals are under considerable pressure. The huge economic benefits that sambar can bring to poachers are naturally a crime that is innocent and has become extinct in many areas.
When the forest is deep, see the deer
Where is the sambar? In the deep mountains and valleys, or are there no place to know the clouds? From broad-leaved forest at an altitude of 300 meters to coniferous forest at an altitude of 3000 meters, they were once the areas where sambars were active. However, due to the influence of human activities such as water conservancy, transportation, and agriculture, the habitat altitude of sambars has been rising, and it is still the eternal "deer when the forest is deep".
People often say that there is no road in the world, and as more people walk, it becomes a road. Samdeh also opened up trails in the mountains and forests. The crisscrossing animal paths, sparse plants that were gnawed, and piles of feces all show that this place was once a paradise for Samdeh, and the hoof marks on the edge of the mud pond are also proof of the mud bath of Samdeh. It got down the pond mud, got up, then knelt down, and began to polish its horns under the big tree beside it, leaving scratches.
Follow the trails into the mountains and walk into the natural world. Finally, Sambar appears. The straight and powerful limbs, the strong and rough muscles of the neck and back, and the handsome prong horns of the sky, were filled with an arrogant and kingly spirit in every move. The male deer changes antlers once a year. During the cold February and March, the spring buds have not yet erupted, and the male deer's horns can't wait to emerge.
This short section of cute little horns is deer antler. The antler grows very fast, only two or three months. In midsummer, the antlers are just starting to be formed and have begun to keratinize . We can also see sporadic antler skins attached to the new horns. In just three or four months from completely hornless to keratinization, the bucks are all good men.
When the antlers grow, the buck will constantly rub the trunk with its horns to accelerate the fall of the antler skin to make the antler smooth and sharp, and also exercise the shoulder and neck muscles at the same time, thinking that the battle will be ready. In August, the doe officially entered the estrus period, and battles between the territory and the spouse began. The two male deer of similar age and figure encountered it. Fighting was inevitable. After driving away from the weak, the winner would mark the territory with urine on the ground to show his authority.
There is a pair of wind-catching ears above the head of the deer, which rotates as sensitively as a radar. Even though it is raining heavily around, the ears still listen to all directions. A sensitive nose is also a powerful tool for feeling the outside world, and you can smell a little abnormality around you. Sambar's eyes grow on both sides of the eyes, with a 300-degree field of view, and at the same time, there are no blind spots in the surrounding things. Almost equivalent to another pair of infraorbital glands that are large in the eyes secrete the glands and mark the territory.
Most sambars survive in most areas of Asian continent. However, sambars conquered the steep terrain with their strong limbs and large hooves. Although they do not fly over the eaves and walls like other alpine animals, they are still calm and elegant. The sambar is steadily and steadily when walking, and the tiny limbs support the huge body, so be so cautious. Samton strolls by the river, enjoying the sunshine and refreshing mountain springs. After a while, the samton samton arrived in the mud. This is their natural bathtub. They like to play and roll in it, and in happiness they remove parasites on their bodies.
In order to obtain enough heat to support the huge body, the most important task of sambars every day is to keep feeding. When eating grass, sambars will first tear off the rhizomes of the plant, and then use two rows of molars to grind them like a stone mill, chew them carefully before swallowing them. Because the plant fibers are not easy to digest, sambars will take a lot of time to ruminate.
Sambar has always been calm and elegant, but it is not a slow-moving animal. The strong hind legs allow Sambar to deal with various emergencies . Even if it runs for a long distance, it is easy to pick it up. Every time you jump, the front and rear legs will try to stretch as much as possible to increase the span and run all the way until you stop. When the sambar is frightened, the dense forest becomes a shelter. The brown fur color of the sambar becomes a perfect protective color after being infiltrated in the forest. The sambar also disappears into the forest cleverly like a ghost.
Sambar paradise should be gentle meadows, surrounding closed forests, and the lakes that embellish during the period. It is best to have rivers flow through, which is a perfect natural ecological environment. The coexistence of large animals and humans may not be the norm at the moment, but as long as we have good thoughts, all this will become possible and all changes will be in one thought.
With the gradual popularization of protection awareness and the promulgation of regulations on fasting wild animals, the atmosphere of feeding wild game has gradually disappeared, and the game shops that were once everywhere have disappeared. The consumption of wild animals has gradually lost most of the market, and various protected areas and national parks have gradually established wildlife protection networks, giving wild animals the opportunity to recuperate.
Since the introduction of various measures such as gun ban, hunting ban, and wild animals, the survival status of wild animals in China has been improving, which has led to an increase in the number of wild animals in the past one or two decades. Sambar is of course one of the beneficiaries. They gradually grew and thrived from mysterious and obscure minorities, and returned strongly to their habitat.
