Summarize; From my observation post, well camouflaged under some boxwood bushes, I delight in the contemplation of dinco young foxes that play at the door of their refuge. They have come out half an hour ago, with all caution, when the sun was peeking over the peaks. Little by little they have gained confidence; lying
Summarize; From my observation post, well camouflaged under some boxwood bushes, I delight in the contemplation of dinco young foxes that play at the door of their refuge. They have come out half an hour ago, with all caution, when the sun was peeking over the peaks. Little by little they have gained confidence; lying
Science Of Agriculture Biological Approach
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Chapter19: Wildlife Management
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From my observation post, well camouflaged under some boxwood bushes, I delight in the contemplation of dinco young foxes that play at the door of their refuge. They have come out half an hour ago, with all caution, when the sun was peeking over the peaks. Little by little they have gained confidence; lying in the most comical postures they have been nibbling, only to end up chasing each other openly over the fresh grass that grows before the black hole of the cave. Suddenly the five foxes at the same time rush towards their fort. Almost at the same moment I smell a growing buzzing behind my head, like that produced by a flock of pigeons flying low through an oak grove. First I see a huge shadow, exactly in front of the peephole of my observatory. A brown mass is mistaken for it. It is the royal eagle. With the wings semi-closed, forming an angle with the body, with the claws open and advanced, the bird of Jupiter is materially nailed against the wall of the fox cave. At the last moment it turns at a right angle. And instead of bumping and crushing against the hard limestone, as a lay observer might have feared, it comes out sideways, lifting a skunk in its claws towards the bottom of the valley.
This is the queen of birds' favorite hunting technique: the surprise attack. When she is seen in wide orbits, high in the sky, she is not actually hunting. She simply tries to gain height, allowing herself to be lifted by the ascending currents of hot air, thermal licks, to reach a situation that allows her to move to her hunting grounds. When the eagles are high enough, they launch themselves in a very oblique dive, without giving a wing blow. Thus, they can cover distances of up to thirty kilometers. Taking advantage of the great inertia of their fall, they fly quickly close to the ground, always trying to appear suddenly on the ridges and ropes of the valleys, to surprise the mammals or the birds that are sheltered from the slopes. A golden eagle, launched at more than two hundred kilometers per hour towards the bottom of a narrow valley, is an unforgettable sight. And at that great speed the heavy bird is as agile as a goshawk; And it can generally cut with a sharp side turn, the feint of the most agile hare, or the leap into the den of the cunning fox.
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