The protagonist suddenly had an idea and wanted to tame this big red-headed fly into his own mount.
If he can succeed, he can tame flies in large quantities in the future. Then "Dongyang City" can have an air force composed of fly knights, and can also add a new source of meat.
But the reality is not the list of gods. Any animal can be turned into a mount.
Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans have domesticated chickens, ducks, geese, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, dogs, donkeys, camels, reindeer and other livestock and poultry, while cats, hamsters, parrots, etc. are still in a semi-domesticated state.
The theoretical basis of domestication is an artificial conditioned reflex based on the innate instinctive behavior of animals. It is an acquired behavior of individual animals.
This artificial conditioned reflex can be continuously strengthened or subsided, which marks the strengthening or weakening of the degree of domestication.
As for whether a certain animal can be domesticated, looking at successful cases in human history, it generally must have the following six characteristics:
First, the energy conversion efficiency of domesticated objects should be high and not take up too much food.
Humans have generally domesticated herbivores, but the energy conversion efficiency of carnivores is too low.
Flies are saprovorous and omnivorous and do not need to take up too much additional food, which is consistent with this.
Second, the growth rate must be fast enough.
It only takes a month for a fly to hatch and emerge from pupa under the right conditions. Moreover, flies can lay eggs for a lifetime after mating once, and the amount of eggs they lay is also huge.
This is very consistent.
Third, they can be reproduced in captivity.
The larvae (maggots) of flies can be fed in farms. The red-headed fly in front of you has proved this. You only need to consider how to tame the adult flies.
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Fourth, the temperament should not be too sinister.
As scavenging insects, flies are relatively mild and have no fatal attack power.
This is also consistent.
Fifth, don’t be easily frightened.
There's something wrong with flies, they are naturally easily scared away by danger. However, this kind of fright is not like that of deer, antelope and rabbits, which can even scare them to death. I have never heard of flies being frightened to death.
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Sixth is the group living structure.
In this way, animals will instinctively follow the leader, making them suitable for grazing and reducing the difficulty of domestication. Flies have no leaders, but they are not averse to living with a group of others.
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From the above, it can be seen that it is still difficult to domesticate adult flies, but there is no technical content in domesticating maggots.
Maggots are similar to mealworms. They run slowly but grow quickly. They are not picky about the environment and can live in groups. They are naturally good livestock.
The protagonist looked at the fly that was pressed to the ground and could not move, with only the two brush-like tentacles swaying in the middle lower part of the eyes, and he had a bold idea in his mind.
The protagonist ordered two worker ants to use the large claws of their upper jaws to clamp the fly's shaking pair of antennae and fix it.
Then the protagonist resisted the disgusting feeling of facing such a big fly and put his tentacles on the fly's tentacles.
This fly has just been born and hasn’t crawled through poop yet. The protagonist comforts himself like this.
"Obey me," the protagonist sent his words.
As expected, the red-headed fly showed no reaction at all. It's just like asking wild zebras to understand what humans are saying at once, which is unrealistic.
The protagonist verified his conjecture and found that he was indeed unable to communicate with flies using the language of ants.
But he was not without gain.
The feeling of fear was transmitted from the fly's tentacles. This shows that ants and flies can achieve some basic communication through their antennae.
Just like humans and wolves cannot talk, but when they see a wolf running away with its tail between its legs, you can tell that the wolf is afraid.
It is enough to have basic communication channels, enough for the protagonist to carry out the second step of his plan.
The protagonist thought that in addition to communicating verbally through their tentacles, ants can also send information packets.
This kind of information package allows the recipient to view the sender's personal experience or the experience he has made up from a first-person perspective.
The former is just like Gun once sharing his experiences on the way to the main lair with the protagonist, making the protagonist immersed in the situation.
The latter is like the protagonist drawing a project blueprint for the worker ants. As long as the step-by-step explanation is clear, the worker ants can complete the construction according to the pictures they see.
Now, the protagonist wants to use fictitious information packets to make this fly accept his command.
As a result, the protagonist immediately constructed an information package of virtual experiences in his mind. This information package included two short videos.
The first short video: The ants slowly loosened their grip on the lying fly, and the fly immediately struggled. Then the ants swarmed up and the fly was stung in agony.
Second short video: The ants slowly loosened their grip on the lying fly. The fly remained motionless and quiet, and was not attacked by the ants again.
After the information packet was transmitted, the fly's huge compound eyes reflected the entire figure of the protagonist in front of him, as if they were swept by waves.
This is the first time the fly has received a message from another creature. The delivery of the information packet was successful.
The protagonist looked at the fly expectantly, and then ordered the ants to loosen their grip on the fly.
The red-headed fly remained motionless for a while.
The protagonist is extremely excited. It worked. I didn't expect it to be so easy to tame an adult insect. It was a success.
I haven't been happy for two seconds yet.
Only then did the fly realize that it was free.
It struggled suddenly, turned over, and pushed the protagonist in front of it over. Then the fly hurriedly tried to crawl away from the nest.
The protagonist quickly ordered the ants to drag the fly back, and then continued to suppress it.
During this period, a soldier ant stung the fly's butt fiercely, causing the fly's entire body to tremble violently.
This time, the fly changed into a normal prone position and was controlled, no longer with its legs in the air.
The protagonist shook his head, but didn't give up yet. This fly is afraid of pain, so there is a way to train the conditioned reflex.
The protagonist sends the information package again. This time it turned into a lying fly.
And then it still failed...
The protagonist is also stubborn and really doesn't believe in this evil. He simply ravages the poor fly again and again, and then fails again and again.
The fly shivered every time it was bitten, although sometimes the bite was not on its tender vagina. It seems that it quickly remembered this conditioned reflex.
But the optimistic protagonist also sees progress. The fly's struggle is getting weaker and weaker. Has it gradually understood the protagonist's meaning?
Or is this red-headed fly just plain tired...
The protagonist is also afraid that the fly will be ravaged to death, so he asks the worker ants to bring over a few drops of aphid honeydew and feeds the fly a drop first.
When the honeydew dripped on the kiss of the red-headed fly, the fly reacted immediately. He licked and sucked it all.
The protagonist suddenly thought of this when he saw that this fly liked honeydew so much. In addition to punishment-based training methods, there are also reward-based taming methods for taming animals' conditioned reflexes.
The protagonist decided to combine the two and experiment a few more times.
