A short story about the way of nature, a story about nature

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Kaibab Forest in northern Arizona was still lush and vibrant. There are about 4,000 deer in the forest, and the vicious and cruel wolf is the great enemy of the deer. Theodore Roosevelt, the United States, wanted to protect the deer in the Kaibab Forest and breed more.

He declared the Kaibab Forest a national hunting reserve and decided to hire hunters to go there and exterminate the wolves. Gunfire in the forest**. Under the cold muzzle of the hunter's gun, the wolf let out a series of screams and whined for his life.

After 25 years of hunting, more than 6,000 wolves have been killed. Other wild animals in the forest that feed on deer, such as leopards, are also hunted a lot. Specially protected deer have become the "darlings" of the Kaibab forest.

In this "kingdom of freedom", they grow and breed freely, eat trees freely, and live a happy life without danger and with plenty of food. Soon, the number of deer in the forest increased, and the total number exceeded 100,000. More than 100,000 deer gnawed in the eastern part of the forest, and when the bushes were eaten up, they gnawed on the small trees, and when the small trees were eaten up, they gnawed on the bark of the big trees......Everything that can be eaten by deer is doomed.

The green vegetation in the forest is decreasing day by day, and the yellowing of the earth is expanding day by day. Disaster has finally befallen the deer. First starvation caused a large number of deer to die, and then there was an epidemic of disease, and countless deer disappeared.

Two years later, the total number of deer had dropped from 100,000 to 40,000. By 1942, there were only 8,000 sick deer left in the entire Kaibab forest. Roosevelt could never have imagined that the wolf he ordered to kill was actually the protector of the forest!

Although wolves eat deer, it maintains a stable population of deer. This is because after the wolf eats some of the deer, the total number of deer in the forest can be controlled to a reasonable level, and the forest will not be spoiled beyond recognition by the deer herd. At the same time, most of the deer eaten by wolves are sick deer, which effectively controls the threat of disease to the deer herd.

And the deer that Roosevelt was determined to protect, once the number exceeds the limit that the forest can bear, will destroy the stability of the forest ecosystem and bring great ecological disaster to the forest. That is, too many deer can be the main culprits for the destruction of the forest. This seems to contradict what people know about wolves and deer.

In any ethnic group, in all fairy tales with animal themes, wolves almost always bear the notoriety of bullying the weak, such as the story of the "big bad wolf" in China and the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in the West. Deer, on the other hand, are almost always the embodiment of beauty and kindness. The wolf is **, so it must be destroyed; Deer are kind, so be protected.

Roosevelt's policy of protecting the deer herd was based on this customary view and the principles of fairy tales. This series of stories that took place in the Kaibab Forest illustrates that different organisms living on the same planet are mutually conditioned and interconnected. Judging the good and evil of animals based only on the one-sided understanding of human beings can sometimes make serious mistakes.

Both deer and wolves are needed in the forest. One must respect this interrelationship between animals and the biological world as a whole.

In order to dry clothes, someone once tied iron wires to two trees not far from each other, and over time, the iron wires formed iron hoops and firmly strangled into the trunk of the trees, and a deep groove was cut out on the trees. Two years later, the iron hoop was strangled deep into the tree, and the poor tree seemed to be certain to die, but a miracle happened because of this, and instead of strangling to death, the strong tree stood firmly, and swallowed the terrible iron hoop alive!

And all this happened to be seen by an extremely desperate old man, and he got the courage to live again. The old man has cancer! He overcame his illness and survived. After living a few more years, the last words he said when he died were: Thank you to the tree!

At the beginning of the century, there were about 4,000 wild deer in the Kaibab Forest in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, and they were accompanied by packs of wolves, threatening the survival of the deer. For the sake of the tranquility of these deer, in 1906, the United States decided to carry out a wolf eradication operation, and by 1930 more than 6,000 wolves had been shot. The wolf is nowhere to be seen in the Kaiba Burlin district.

So the deer began to give birth there without any worries and "unplanned", and soon the number of deer grew to more than 100,000. Thriving deer eat all edible plants, eat up weeds, destroy forests, and reduce the number of other animals that feed on plants, leaving the herd suffering from hunger and disease. By 1942, the number of deer in the Kaibab Forest had dropped to 8,000, and the majority of them were sick and weak, and the once-thriving deer family was in sharp decline.

This backfires because the wolf has been exterminated. On the one hand, wolves prey on some deer, so that the total number of deer is controlled, so that they do not reproduce to the extent that they degrade vegetation; On the other hand, most of the deer preyed on by wolves are old, weak, sick and disabled, which helps the survival of the fittest and the succession of deer herds. On the other hand, the deer is often in a state of escape under the chase of wolves, which promotes the robust development of the deer. Since the wolf disappeared, the deer had no natural predators, the "lazy man" was weak, and the deer herd degenerated.

In order to save the evil consequences of wolf extermination, the United States formulated a plan to "lure wolves into the house" in the 70s of the last century. However, this plan was opposed by some people and was not implemented in time. With the increase in people's awareness of the environment, the "Bringing Wolves into the House" program was finally implemented in 1995.

The first wild wolves were released from Canada into the Rocky Mountains, and the forest was full of life.

The story of the eagle.

The eagle is the world's longest-lived bird, reaching an age of 70 years, but at the age of 40, it faces a catastrophe. At this time, its gimmicks become long and curved; Its claws begin to age and are unable to capture prey effectively; Its feathers become thick and thick, making the wings heavier and heavier.

At this time, the eagle has only two choices: either wait for death, or go through a painful and long metamorphosis. In this torturous metamorphosis, it must fly hard to the top of the mountain, hit the rock with its gimmicks until it falls off completely, and then wait quietly for new stunts to grow.

Then it has to use the newly grown gimmicks to pull out the old toenails from its paws one by one, leaving a stain of blood. After the new toenail grows, it has to use the new toenail to pluck the feathers off its body one by one. After 5 months, the new feathers have grown, and the eagle can start flapping its wings again for the next 30 years.

In the deep sea, a baby shark grows up and begins to learn to forage with its mother, and it gradually learns how to catch food. The mother said to it, "Son, you have grown up and should leave me to live alone."

Sharks are the kings of the bottom of the sea, and there are almost no creatures that can hurt them, so although the mother is not with the baby shark, she is still very relieved. He believed that his son, with his excellent predatory skills, would be able to live well.

A few months later, the mother shark saw the baby shark in a small trench, and she was startled by her son. The trench where the baby shark is located is very rich in food**, and it is attracted by the school of fish that the baby shark should be strong here, but it looks as if it is malnourished and tired.

What the hell is wrong, Mother Shark thought. He was about to go over to ask the baby shark, but he saw a school of large salmon swimming towards him, and the baby shark was also in his senses and was preparing to hunt.

The mother shark ducked to the side, watching the baby shark hide and wait for the salmon to reach the range she could attack. A salmon swam up first, already swimming to the mouth of the baby shark without feeling the slightest danger. The shark's mother thought that her son would be able to have a good meal as soon as he shut up, but to her surprise, her son didn't even move.

Two, three, four, more and more salmon swam closer, but the little shark still did not move, staring at the little salmon left in the distance, at this time the little shark became impatient, ** pounced, but the distance was too far, the salmon easily got rid of the pursuit.

Sometimes, the reason why you can't get it is not that you didn't work hard, but that your heart is too big and you don't have time to close the net.