Zhao Qian was very sure that he had seen it correctly. What was sitting on the tree was a shrike that was many times larger.
On Earth, the shrike is not a large bird, but a small bird with a body length of only more than ten centimeters and looks harmless to humans and animals.
However, in fact, shrikes are notoriously ferocious. They like to hang the carcasses of their prey on tree thorns, and rely on the tree thorns to tear the prey into pieces and then eat it bit by bit.
Therefore, the shrike has another name, that is, the butcher bird.
You can imagine how cruel a small bird must be to be labeled a "butcher".
This also explains why there are no bugs on this grassland.
As long as the shrike is around, no matter how many bugs there are, they will only be eaten. This is racial oppression.
but……
Zhao Qian is not worried about bugs now. He is worried about whether shrike will attack them. After all, this kind of bird is not easy to mess with.
Shan saw Zhao Qian's worry and said: "This kind of bird attacks creatures of the same size as itself at most, and is not very interested in creatures larger than them."
When Zhao Qian heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The hunting team successfully crossed the grassland and entered the forest.
The forest environment here is completely different from the seaside where Zhao Qian once lived, and it is also different from the swamp forest. The trees in this forest are more primitive and taller.
Zhao Qian asked: "What is the goal of our hunting?"
Shan replied: "Any creature that can provide meat is our hunting target, but we rarely hunt carnivores."
Zhao Qian nodded and said: "Understood!"
This is similar to how predators rarely hunt predators in order to reduce the possibility of injury.
In the wild, once injured, it is easy to become inflamed, which is not conducive to hunting next time and is not conducive to survival.
The hunting team does not hunt carnivores for the same reason...
Carnivores are relatively ferocious, and hunting carnivores will cause casualties. Therefore, it is unwise to hunt carnivores when there are other prey.
boom!
Boom boom!
At this moment, the ground began to shake rhythmically, as if some huge creature was passing by.
Shan first ordered everyone to stop, and then climbed up a big tree.
Zhao Qian saw this and quickly followed him to see what kind of creature it was.
When he reached the top of the tree, without the cover of the leaves, Zhao Qian immediately spotted the creature, and then took a sharp breath.
"Afraid of...dinosaurs!"
That’s right!
What Zhao Qian saw was a dinosaur, a huge dinosaur.
Unfortunately, Zhao Qian didn't know much about dinosaurs and didn't know what kind of dinosaur this was.
"There are actually dinosaurs in this world!" The smile on Zhao Qian's face was unnatural.
Although he had discovered an unreasonable Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in a cave before, he instinctively believed that there were no dinosaurs in this world.
In such a long time, he has not encountered a dinosaur, and the most primitive one he has encountered is Titanoboa.
However……
The huge dinosaur in front of him completely overturned his previous understanding and made him freeze on the spot.
"The meat of this kind of dinosaur is not delicious, so we don't hunt it."
Shan thought Zhao Qian was going to hunt this dinosaur, so he immediately said.
"You haven't really hunted such a big creature, have you?"
Zhao Qian heard a different meaning from Shan's words.
Shan nodded and said: "Once the tribe was short of food and hunted."
Zhao Qian didn't believe it and said, "Can you kill such a big dinosaur?"
The dinosaur in front of him was more than twenty meters long and stood like a hill. He didn't believe that anyone could kill such a big creature.
"This is just an ordinary creature. It's not even a beast. It's useless except for its size. It can be easily killed."
Shan dismissed the huge dinosaur in front of him as useless, and continued: "How about I show you how to hunt such a big creature?"
Zhao Qian quickly stopped and said: "No need, no need... let's hunt first!"
Although he was also curious about how Shan killed the dinosaur, he couldn't bear the thought of killing such a big dinosaur just for demonstration.
If it's for food, he won't say a word, just give a demonstration.
"If you want to see it later, I will demonstrate it to you."
Shan thought that Zhao Qian was only interested in hunting, so he didn't insist on demonstrating and continued to look for prey.
The search took half an hour.
Half an hour later, they saw two huge deer at a water source.
This should be a pair of mother and son. The big one is nearly eight meters long and is definitely a giant. The little deer is also over three meters long and looks very cute.
"The meat of this kind of deer is delicious." Shan's eyes were shining, and he suddenly said: "What a pity!"
Hearing this, Zhao Qian was startled, thinking that Shan didn't want to hurt the mother and son.
However, the next second, a Tyrannosaurus rex suddenly jumped out of the woods nearby, approached at super fast speed, opened its mouth and bit into it.
The Tyrannosaurus rex did not attack the adult deer, but bit the fawn in one bite. The huge bite force broke the fawn's neck in an instant.
YoYo……
The adult doe made a mournful cry, but was helpless and ran away into the distance, only looking back from time to time.
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and another Tyrannosaurus rex suddenly jumped out and bit the adult doe on the neck.
The adult doe kicked her legs and gradually lost her life, but her eyes looked at the fawn.
Then, the two Tyrannosaurus rex began to eat.
The picture was so bloody that Zhao Qian couldn't bear to look directly at it.
"You already knew there was a Tyrannosaurus rex?"
Zhao Qian asked while the two Tyrannosaurus rex were eating.
"Um!"
Shan nodded and said.
"Why didn't I find out? How did you find out?"
Zhao Qian thought that his eyesight, sense of smell, and hearing were all very good, so there was no reason why Shan could detect them, but he couldn't.
"experience!"
The mountain pointed to the distance, where there was a footprint, and on the surrounding trees, there was blood that had changed color.
Shan continued: "There are many such messy footprints around this water source, and there is dried blood next to each footprint. This shows that there are carnivorous dinosaurs lurking around."
Zhao Qian followed Shan's explanation and looked around the water source, and indeed found a lot of messy footprints and a lot of discolored blood.
With these things in mind, if you think about it for a while, you will understand what the situation is.
This forced Zhao Qian to admit that Shan surpassed him by a lot in terms of hunting experience.
"Wait a moment!"
At this moment, Shan suddenly raised his hand and asked everyone to stop.
Then he went forward to check it alone. When he came back, a rare smile appeared on his face and he said: "Our prey is here."