Chapter 38: Ye Qingshan's Winter Growth Plan!
It's a little cold, but it's not too uncomfortable, after all, this is the Northland, and the normal temperature in winter is below minus 20 degrees, even if it is only a month into winter now, there is still a certain distance from 39 days, but the temperature still reaches about minus 20 degrees.
This temperature is hard for people in the south to imagine, and even for most people in the north, it is quite unacceptable.
In this terrible low temperature, if you spit and foam, it will really turn into ice bumps when you fall to the ground, of course, it is a bit exaggerated to go to the toilet with an iron rod, at least Ye Qingshan does not think that the temperature in Bear Ridge in the North can reach this level.
Walking on the half-meter-thick snow, the golden and soft hair was stuck to the snow lumps in a while, especially Ye Qingshan's limbs and belly, which were covered by a large number of snow blocks.
This made Ye Qingshan have to clean up the snow sticky on his body every time he walked.
How cold is Bear Ridge?
Ye Qingshan still doesn't have an accurate number, but the saliva at the corner of Ye Qingshan's mouth can really freeze, but Ye Qingshan's body doesn't feel cold, and the reason why he can resist such a terrible low temperature is mainly because of Ye Qingshan's thick bear skin.
Walking on the white snow, and it was a long journey, except for the snow, there was no other scenery on the way, and Ye Qingshan, who was idle and bored, gradually began to have a lot of thoughts.
Why do brown bears hibernate in winter?
When he was a human in his previous life, Ye Qingshan had never thought about this problem, in Ye Qingshan's subconscious, shouldn't a creature like a bear need to hibernate?
How can there be so many whys?
Ye Qingshan believed that most human beings had this idea.
But as a bear in his life, coupled with the fact that walking forward is really boring, Ye Qingshan had to think about this problem.
Bears, why hibernate?
Habits?
Or is it for some other reason?
Although Ye Qingshan had vaguely found the direction before, he had never found the answer.
It's as if there's only a membrane from the answer, but it's just a film that can't be broken.
It wasn't until Ye Qingshan woke up from hibernation this time that a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Ye Qingshan finally had an answer.
Bears, the reason why they need to hibernate is because of the lack of food.
Bear Ridge in the Northland, where there is no spring, summer, autumn and winter, for a bear, there are only two seasons here, one is the long winter when food is scarce, as long as five or six months, and the other is the summer and autumn when the food is abundant, because this season is the season of salmon migration.
The benefits of summer Ye Qingshan does not need to be elaborated, salmon migration, he can change from a cub of less than two catties to a brown bear of five hundred catties now, and most of the credit for the growth of his body is obtained from summer.
But what kind of food can Ye Qingshan get in winter?
What kind of food can those brown bears other than Ye Qingshan get in this season when everything is withering?
Grass roots buried under thick snow?
Sorry, while brown bears are omnivores, brown bears are not herbivores!
Therefore, the consumption of sleep is extremely low, and the hibernation that has passed for five or six months after waking up has become an indispensable part of the life of brown bears.
Of course, you can also say that brown bears can hunt, for example, there will be a large number of migrating deer in Bear Ridge every year, and the reason why wolves can move freely in winter is because there are a large number of elk migrating, and there is no need for more, hunting two or three elk is enough to maintain a brown bear to live normally in winter.
But a brown bear is a brown bear, an elk is an elk, and a wolf is a wolf.
On the front, the brown bear is a well-deserved overlord of the jungle, with a huge body and terrifying strength, enough to become a nightmare for any enemy, but success is also Xiao He is also defeated.
The huge size gives the brown bear an unshakable status, but it also limits the hunting possibilities of the brown bear.
Brown bears can kill elk, and when the two meet, as long as there is a possibility of fighting, the brown bear can slap the elk's brain out, but the problem is that the brown bear can't catch the elk.
Any herbivore, except for special oversized herbivores such as elephants and giraffes, is a master of running, not only fast but also enduring.
The speed of brown bears is not slow, and short-term burst speeds can easily reach sixty or seventy kilometers, but this speed is a joke for herbivores.
As for stamina?
Do you think it's ridiculous to say endurance to a monster that weighs a thousand pounds?
Why can wolves catch elk?
On the one hand, because wolves are fast, maybe not as fast as elk, but at least faster than brown bears, and on the other hand, because wolves have terrible endurance, in fact, any canine, is quite a terrible master of endurance.
Moreover, the wolf's sense of smell is very keen, and it can accurately lock the prey ready to be hunted.
Brown bears also have a keen sense of smell, but their endurance is not good.
Therefore, weak wolves can hunt elk in winter, and can hunt in all seasons in such a harsh living environment as Bear Ridge, but brown bears, such terrible giants, can only sleep in winter.
As for why Ye Qingshan violated the normal life rules of brown bears and walked out of the bear cave when all the bears were hibernating?
There are two reasons, one is that Ye Qingshan was too hungry, and he missed the best weight gain season for salmon migration in order to develop at a high speed.
The second reason is that Ye Qingshan is different from normal brown bears, he is a brown bear with human intelligence, relying on human wisdom, Ye Qingshan has discovered a source of food that other brown bears can't find in their lifetime.
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For other brown bears, winter is the day when salted fish wait to die, but this is not the case for Ye Qingshan, although Ye Qingshan is also a salted fish brown bear, but this salted fish always feels that he can still save it.
At least until he could climb to the top of the food chain in Xiongling and make sure that all creatures could not threaten him, Ye Qingshan didn't want to be a salted fish waiting to die.
Just like that, Ye Qingshan walked in the ice and snow world outside for a week, and finally in a canyon, Ye Qingshan stopped.
The canyon is located on the side of a hillside, and at the bottom of the canyon is a river that has been cut off, and although the riverbed is covered with snow, you can still see smooth pebbles.
The last time Ye Qingshan came here, because he had just left the tree cave with Mama Xiong, and his body was still small, it took him two weeks to come here.
But this time, Ye Qingshan, who had grown into an adult brown bear, only took a week to come here.
This is a river, even if the riverbed has been covered with snow, even if the surroundings have deviated from the appearance in his memory, Ye Qingshan can still accurately recognize this place.
Because the last time I was here, this river left an extremely deep memory on me.
That's right, this is the stream where the riverbed is covered with pebbles and the other side of the river is full of snakes.
Ye Qingshan remembered very well the scene when he first came here.
All the snakes in sight, tens of thousands?
Hundreds of thousands?
Or hundreds of thousands?
Ye Qingshan didn't know that there were too many snakes he saw at the beginning, three layers inside and three layers outside, all of them were snakes as far as the eye could see, Ye Qingshan even had nightmares for many nights in a row because of that fright, every time he thought of the snake tide that covered the entire riverbed, Ye Qingshan's body couldn't help but chill.
But later, as Ye Qingshan gradually became stronger, Ye Qingshan's thoughts about snakes gradually changed, especially after Ye Qingshan knew that he had not accumulated enough body fat in the salmon season, Ye Qingshan's thoughts became clearer and clearer.
With so many snakes appearing together, it is clear that there are a large number of snakes gathered around.
One snake is one catty, 10,000 snakes are 10,000 catties of meat, and 100,000 snakes are 100,000 catties of meat. 100,000 catties of meat, let alone spending this winter, even if Ye Qingshan is given a year, Ye Qingshan can't eat it all.
Moreover, snakes are cold-blooded animals, and now it is winter, Ye Qingshan does not need to worry about being besieged by hundreds of snakes.
The only thing that made Ye Qingshan frown was that he didn't know where these snakes lived, snakes and brown bears needed to hibernate, and snakes hibernated, like brown bears, often hid in tree holes or burrows in the ground, but brown bears lived more than snakes, which caused Ye Qingshan to find trouble looking for food.
However, what made Ye Qingshan a little more relieved was that the last time Ye Qingshan saw the snake tide, it was more than 100,000 snakes dispatched together, which shows that there must be a large number of snakes gathered here for a long time to hibernate, otherwise they would not all come out together by such a coincidence.
In short, since Ye Qingshan came here, and since Ye Qingshan knew that there was at least more than 100,000 catties of food here, the [Winter Growth Plan] that Ye Qingshan had started planning three or four months ago would also be officially opened.