022html November 3 , staff from Helong Forest Farm in Jilin Province encountered a small beast crossing the border highway in Changbai Mountain Forest Area.
The little beast with a black face and black tail was wearing a light yellow sweater and black wool pants. He stood at the far distance of 0 meters , and stared at the visitor vigilantly. The staff took out their cell phone and took a photo of it. The little beast gave up the attempt to cross the border and turned around and ran back to the forest area.
The small beast's slender figure looks a bit like a yellow skin, but its size is much larger than that of a yellow skin and its four legs are much longer. It is a distant relative of Huangpizi's family, named Migouzi.
Although he is a relative, Midog's combat power is several levels stronger than Huangsie. It can fight macaque alone, fight giant pandas in groups, and fight catching up with " flat-headed brother " honey badger from the family of the Weedaceae . Midog has outstanding achievements and has a siege strategy like a wolf. He is honored as "Wolf of the Weedaceae family".
Let’s start from the beginning about the combat effectiveness of honey dogs.
Honey Dog is a mink
Honey Dog’s favorite food is honey, which is exactly the origin of its name.
In addition to the exposed nose and ears, honey dog's face is covered with hair, which can prevent bees from attacking. With a pair of sharp claws and agile honey dogs on and off the trees, one can destroy a wild hive. In addition, it will sneak into the artificial beekeeping farm while it is dark, bite through the beehive made of wood, and steal honey.
Although it is called honey dog, it is not a dog, but a mink (diāo). In the family of , the Honey Dog is the largest, with a body length of 45 to 65 cm and a weight of 2 to 3 kg. In addition, it is also the most distinctive color combination among the mink tribe. Black face and white chin, bright yellow from the neck to the front of the chest, scientific name is yellow-throated mink .
The biggest feature of the mink tribe is that they are all wearing thick cold-proof mink coats, which can withstand the severe cold of the snow and ice, such as sable and mink. Most of the minks who are not afraid of the cold live in the north, except for honey dogs.
The footprints of honey dogs, from north to south. has a much wider distribution range than other minks. The northernmost place is distributed in the Far East of Russia. It is everywhere in my country from the northeast to the southwest of . The southernmost place is distributed in Borneo, Malaysia, .
Compared with other marten brothers who have been living in the north, honey dogs have not thick enough fluff, and needle hair is not dense enough. Therefore, the raw materials for mink coats are not as good as honey dogs, and it also escaped the crisis of being hunted by humans because of the poor quality of the fur.
In addition to living in southern , Midogzi is also the only "social mink" among the mink tribe. The other marten brothers live alone, and the honey dog lives in groups. The honey dog lives in groups is also the most powerful marten. They can not only fight one-on-one, but also fight in groups.
single combat, group fights, all of them are in the process of
Although it looks a bit like a yellow-skinned man, Midog's combat power is overwhelming. Yellow skin drills into holes in the ground and eats mice. The honey dog not only runs fast, but also climbs trees. Its recipes are much richer than those with yellow skin. recipes include various rodent mice, squirrels , rabbits, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even ungulates with a head that is more than three times larger than themselves, and primate .
Honey dog has sharp eyesight and hearing, and hunts during the day. Unlike other minks who live alone, the honey dog couple is very loving, and the male and female will never change for the rest of their lives. Go up the tree at night, hold it together to keep warm and sleep, go down the earth during the day, and work together to hunt prey. The children at the family of loving couples are also very happy. Sometimes, the children will not be kicked out of the house when they become adults, and can still be with their parents and younger siblings. The whole family will go out for activities. Someone has seen a group of as many as 1 honey dogs.
Compared with single combat, group hunting can challenge prey with a large head. The prey of honey dogs is everywhere. The ultimate trick of honey dog to fight the enemy is to quickly approach the prey and suddenly bit the prey’s throat while it is unprepared. Sharp teeth pierce the enemy's trachea, or pierce the carotid artery. This method of killing is effective against large preys.
picture on the picture in Corbet National Park, India, honey dogs hunt a rhesus monkey.
This picture is in Vietnam, honey dogs, hunting a little spirit cat .
This picture is January 2020 . In Shennongjia National Park, Hubei, honey dogs hunt small muntjac. Xiaomu (jǐ) also has a name called Shanqiang (qiāng). Because he often hunts Shanqiang, in Taiwan, the name of the honey dog is Qiangzaihu.
In the Far East forest in Russia, honey dogs’ favorite prey in winter is the fragrant deer. and 3 honey dogs drove the deer to the frozen river. Taking advantage of the unhurried foot of the deer, they rushed up and bit off the deer's throat. 10-12 kilograms of are enough to let honey dogs eat for 13 days.
In addition to the above prey, honey dogs have also preyed on crested deer , sika deer and wild boar cubs. Among them, the most legendary hunting record is the group beating a giant panda. In November 2014, in the Tangjiahe Nature Reserve in Sichuan, staff found a 13-year-old sub-adult giant panda Pingping, who suffered serious trauma. Pingping's belly ruptured, revealing her intestines. The staff took it back to Pingping and had an emergency surgery to suture the wound on it, and a total of more than 1,100 needles were sutured. Unfortunately, I only persisted in for 11 weeks after the Pingping operation, and later died of sepsis. The murderer who killed Pingping was a group of honey dogs. (The picture shows the injured pingping)
Summary
In nature, honey dogs have almost no natural enemies. In the feces of Siberian tiger and black bear , the wreckage of honey dogs occasionally appears, but the number of times is very small. Honey dog is not afraid of tigers. When food is sparse, it will follow behind the Siberian tiger and pick up some food residues left by the Siberian tiger to eat.
Although honey dogs are widely distributed and are not endangered, they are a second-class protected animal in my country and are also an indicator species for the health of forest ecosystem .
In many forests in the south, large beasts such as tigers, leopards, bears and other large beasts at the top of the food chain have disappeared. The thin honey dog shoulders increasingly heavy responsibilities and has become an important species in the predation chain and maintains ecological stability.
Okay, let’s talk about the secret of honey dog yellow-throated mink.
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References:
, Yellow-throated Marten Martes flavigula observed hunting Small Indian Civet and chickens in Vietnam
, Cooperative hunting in the yellow‐throated marten (Martes flavigula): Evidence for the not‐so‐solitary marten?
