Chapter 106: Fierce Eagle
But the jumping rabbit in front of me is very strange. Although it is the dry season, it is still very plump. When Chu Ye saw it, he wanted to hunt it and eat it.
But this jumping rabbit was obviously not aware of the danger at hand. It was still looking for grass to eat in the grass.
Chu Ye approached the jumping rabbit step by step. But this jumping rabbit didn't know anything. It was just looking for grass that it could eat in the nearby grass.
Chu Ye didn't want to attack this jumping rabbit directly now. He knew that this jumping rabbit must have become someone else's prey, and he only needed to be a protector. What he wants to hunt is not this jumping rabbit, but an animal that is much more powerful than the jumping rabbit.
Besides, the raptor in the sky has already set its sights on the jumping rabbit. And this jumping rabbit didn't even know that he had become someone else's prey.
Chu Ye knew everything that was happening in front of him. He knew that as long as he followed the jumping rabbit, he could catch the raptor.
This raptor had no idea that there was a little lion in the grass, and it had already regarded it as its prey.
For this raptor, it feels like it is an animal at the top of the food chain, and it is impossible for it to be listed as prey by other animals.
But today, this raptor met its natural enemy. There was a little lion who actually listed this raptor as his prey.
This raptor just regarded the jumping rabbit in the grass as its prey. When it saw the jumping rabbit running around in the grass, it started to pounce on the jumping rabbit from the sky.
This jumping rabbit didn't know at first that he had become someone else's prey. However, when this raptor was only a few dozen meters above the ground. This jumping rabbit naturally sensed danger.
So, the jumping rabbit immediately started running wildly, trying to get rid of the attack of the raptor.
But this raptor was unwilling to let go of the jumping rabbit, and it kept chasing the jumping rabbit. Naturally, this jumping rabbit was not willing to fall prey to this raptor.
Besides, Chu Ye has been following behind, and he can now clearly see what this raptor looks like, but he still doesn't understand what kind of big bird this raptor is.
So Chu Ye scanned the big bird with his eyes again, and soon he knew what kind of big bird it was.
It turns out that this is the most powerful bird of prey on the prairie - the raptor.
The ferocious eagle is also known as the war eagle and the military eagle. Zambia's national bird. It is a large eagle native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is the largest eagle in Africa.
A member of the subfamily Accipitridae, it has feathers on its tarsus. They are also the only members of the genus Mammoth.
One of the largest and most powerful of the booted eagles, it is a fairly opportunistic predator, with its prey choices spanning mammals, birds and reptiles.
The hunting technique of the fierce eagle is unique, as it is one of the few eagle species known to hunt primarily by soaring from high altitudes and looking down at its prey.
As an inhabitant of forested areas above otherwise open savannah, the species has shown dramatic decline over the past few centuries due to a variety of factors. The fierce eagle is one of the most threatened birds in the world.
The fierce eagle is a very large eagle. Total length ranges from 78 to 96 cm, with an average of approximately 85.5 cm. Its overall length is limited by a relatively short tail compared to its wingspan.
However, it appears to be the sixth or seventh longest living eagle species. The wingspan of the fierce eagle is between 188 and 260 centimeters.
It is said that the average wingspan of this species is 205 cm and 207.5 cm respectively, but the average wingspan of 10 fierce eagles measured in the wild is 211.9 cm.
Therefore, among living eagles, the average wingspan of fierce eagles ranks fourth, behind short-tailed sea eagles, white-tailed sea eagles and wedge-tailed eagles. For a species with fairly even genetic variation within the species, the eagles' body weights are surprisingly variable.
In part, the variation in body mass in this species can be attributed to considerable reverse sexual dimorphism and to the varying environmental conditions of the various eagle populations.
In one study, the average weight of 17 unsexed wild eagles was 3.93 kg, 20 birds were 3.97 kg, and 20 birds were 4.23 kg. The average weight of wild eagles shot by South African game wardens in the early 20th century was 4.71 kg.
In terms of weight, the mammoth eagle is quite close in size to the golden and black eagles (even surpassing the golden eagle in the largest known body weight).
According to numerous studies, the average weight of the fierce eagle seems to be slightly heavier than that of the black eagle, but (derived from the global combined weight of different species), the average weight of the golden eagle and the fierce eagle is around 4.17 kilograms.
This makes the golden eagle and the fierce eagle the largest eagles in Africa (by body weight, not including body length or wingspan), as well as the two heaviest booted eagles in the world and the sixth largest eagle in the world, after only three Great sea eagle (Steller's sea eagle is the largest existing eagle, the other two are the fourth and fifth), horned eagle and Philippine ape-eating eagle.
The longest eagle in Africa (and the second longest booted eagle after the wedge-tailed eagle) is the crowned eagle, because its tail is relatively long and its weight is slightly less than the three heaviest booted eagles.
The feathers of the adult bird consist of dark brown parts covering the upper part, head, and breast, with occasional slight fringing on these feathers.
Depending on light conditions, dark feathers may appear grey, dark maroon or even plum. The lower part of the body is white with sparse but obvious dark brown spots.
The underwings are dark brown, with the remainder being pale striped and black, giving the adult bird an overall dark appearance. The underside of the tail has a similar snag, while the upper side is the same uniform brown as the back and upper wing coverings.
The eyes of mature feral eagles are saturated yellow, while the cereus and foot hair are pale green, and the claws are black. The fierce eagle has a short, flexible crest that is usually neither prominent nor flared (unlike the crowned eagle), and usually looks like an angular, flattened head.
This raptor usually roosts quite upright, with long wings that completely cover its tail, so it is described as "standing" rather than "sitting" perched on a branch. In flight, the eagle's long, wide wings have relatively narrow, rounded tips.
Depending on how the eagle holds its wings, they sometimes appear pointed and narrow. It can flap its wings flexibly, glide on its flat wings, or raise slightly on its dihedral body.
This species typically spends most of the day soaring, more than any other African eagle, and often at high altitudes.
The plumage of juvenile eagles is noticeably different, being pearly gray above, with considerable white edges, and speckled gray on the crown and nape.
The entire underside is distinctly white. The wings of the young are a mixture of grayish brown and white, with a striped pattern on the fledgling and tail similar to that of adults but lighter and grayer.
In the 4th or 5th year, the brown spots on the feathers gradually increase, but the back and crown remain a fairly light gray. At this age, more and more spots may appear on the throat and chest, which coalesce into plaques, and a few different spots may appear on the abdomen.
The eyes of juveniles are dark brown. This species develops adult plumage in the seventh year, and after some changes in juvenile plumage, the transition to adult plumage is very rapid.
This species presents few serious identification challenges. The overall color of the black-breasted snake eagle is similar to that of the fierce eagle (despite its name, the chest and back are light brown, not as dark as the adult fierce eagle), but the body is significantly smaller, the head is relatively protruding, round, the eyes are large, and the abdomen is Flat, spotless, legs bare and white.
In flight, the snake eagle's appearance is very different, with its flight feathers being almost white (rather than dark brown), its wings smaller and narrower, and its tail relatively larger. For subadult mammoth eagles, potential identification confusion arises mainly from subadult crowned eagles, which also often perch in an upright position.
The body proportions of crowned eagles are very different from those of fierce eagles, as their wings are much shorter and their tails are significantly longer. Immature crowned eagles have a whiter head, are smaller, and lack the markings on the legs of fierce eagles.
In addition to the different proportions of the wings and tail in the flight profile, the crowned eagle's flight feathers and tail are whiter and more pronounced. Sub-adults of other large eagles in Africa tend to be darker and have heavier upper and lower markings than fierce eagles.
They inhabit environments such as deserts, grasslands and woodlands, preying on hyrax, hares, antelopes, baboons, snakes, mongooses, mongooses, honey badgers, monitor lizards and other birds, and even hunt jackals, big-eared foxes, The adult eagle's hunting range is approximately 50 square miles of serval cats, other small carnivores and the young of various big cats.
Giant eagles are found in sub-Saharan Africa because sub-Saharan Africa has extremely rich food sources and a good living environment.
The wild eagle is found throughout southern Africa, especially in Zimbabwe and the Republic of South Africa.
Reserves such as the Northern and Mpumalanga Provincial Parks in South Africa, the Kalagadi Oryx National Park in the Kimberley and Etosha National Park in South Africa are more likely to attract fierce eagles to come here to feed because of their rich resources. Life.
After Chu Ye scanned this raptor, he knew what kind of raptor it was. And this raptor is still chasing this jumping rabbit. Little did he know that he had become someone else's prey.
So, this raptor and this jumping rabbit started a chase on the prairie. However, four legs cannot outrun two wings.
Although the jumping rabbit was running hard, it couldn't outrun the raptor. It soon allowed the raptor to catch up.
This one raptor is happy too. It felt like I was about to have a feast of rabbit meat.
But just when this raptor pounced on this jumping rabbit. Suddenly a lion jumped out from behind and caught the raptor in one fell swoop.
Originally, this jumping rabbit felt that he might fall into the prey of a raptor this time. Because this jumping rabbit has been caught by this raptor. As long as this raptor stops, it can subdue this jumping rabbit.
But at this moment, a lion suddenly appeared, disrupting the raptor's plan. It never imagined that a lion would appear at this critical moment.
However, this raptor is thinking, even if this lion appears. Then it is also coming for this jumping rabbit. Even if I don't eat this jumping rabbit, it won't be a big problem.
After all, raptors have very strong hunting abilities. Even if they don't hunt this jumping rabbit, they can still hunt other animals.
But things were not as this raptor thought. This lion did not hunt the jumping rabbit, but went directly to capture the raptor.
This bird of prey is also careless. If he had known that this lion had set it as a target, it would have flown into the sky long ago. There is no way that this lion could catch this raptor.
But this raptor had no idea that this lion would set it as its target. He actually wanted to attack it instead of catching this jumping rabbit.
This jumping rabbit was also very surprised. It thought that it was doomed today. It's not just a raptor trying to catch it. Behind him, there was actually a lion. If this is the case, then today it will either become the prey of a raptor or a lion.
But everything is not as this jumping rabbit thinks. This lion actually wanted to capture not the jumping rabbit, but the raptor.
This time, the jumping rabbit took a big advantage. When it saw that the lion didn't want to catch it, it took the opportunity to run away.
And this raptor was completely careless. It originally thought that no matter what, the lion would not attack it and would only catch the jumping rabbit.
But what this raptor never expected was that when the lion pounced, he pounced directly on the raptor and bit the raptor's neck in one fell swoop.
I don’t know what happened to this raptor, but it became the prey of this lion.
And this jumping rabbit himself was not injured at all. Although this raptor also caught this jumping rabbit. But it just caught it and didn't start to devour the jumping rabbit.
In this case, the jumping rabbit had a chance to escape, and it immediately ran away while the raptor was being caught by the lion.
This raptor directly became Chu Ye's prey. It was obviously vulnerable to Chu Ye's powerful bite force.
Although raptors are dominant in the sky, they are not very big after all, only weighing four or five kilograms. With such a weight, it is simply vulnerable in front of a lion weighing more than 100 kilograms.
Chu Ye killed this raptor immediately. This raptor had already gone to the west before he understood what was going on.
After Chu Ye caught this fierce eagle, he naturally began to taste the taste of this fierce eagle.
He had never eaten raptor meat before. In the past two days, he had eaten raptor meat, eating two kinds of raptor meat in a row.
