Daily Forest Ranger: Start Saving Giant Pandas

Chapter 101 Why does this thing look like an eggplant?
Not long after, the little tiger was under a tall bush, howling.

Lin Xuan took a closer look, feeling a burst of joy in his heart.

This thing is exactly the same as what he guessed just now!
I saw that this small-leaved shrub was covered with purple thumb-sized, one big and one small, crooked fruits.

Because there are too many knots, the branches are slightly bent.

(What is this? Why haven’t I seen it? It looks like eggplant!)
(Yes, I look like eggplant too.)
(Upstairs, your eggplant grows on a tree? This is obviously not an eggplant!)
(Don't eggplants grow on trees?)
This one is obviously a young urbanite.

"This kind of thing does have eggplant in its name, but it's not actually an eggplant."

Lin Xuan smiled and explained: "It seems a bit of a mouthful, right? This is actually a forest berry commonly known as mountain eggplant."

As Lin Xuan said, he stretched out his hand and picked a very plump, purple-black eggplant that was obviously ripe. After rubbing it a little, he put it into his mouth.

The teeth were lightly closed, and the plump purple juice gushed out instantly.

"Oh, it's a bit sour, but it's really exciting!"

Feeling the 'sour bomb' bursting out of his mouth, Lin Xuan couldn't help but shrank his neck from the acid.

However, in addition to the sour taste, the accompanying rich fruity aroma and slightly sweet aftertaste are very comfortable.

It is so nice to have fresh berries.

This long-lost fresh fruit pulp opened Lin Xuan's taste memory and appetite at the speed of light. Without explaining to the audience, Lin Xuan picked a handful in one go, and threw them into his mouth one by one.

The purple-red juice of the bursts quickly stained his teeth and lips, and dripped some onto his hands.

After eating a lot of eggplants in one go, Lin Xuan finally stopped, raised his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth, and said with a embarrassed smile: "I'm sorry, this eating looks a bit unpromising, I made everyone laugh."

(No, no, it's completely useless, and we enjoyed it too.)
(Anchor, is this mountain eggplant really that delicious?)
(Seeing the host eating so happily makes me want to eat too.)
(Yes, it’s a pity that we don’t have such mountain eggplants here. If there are, I’d like to try them too.)
"The berry taste that everyone imagines should be sweet, or sweet and sour, right?"

"Actually, it's not. The scientific name of this kind of eggplant is blue indigo fruit. It's a variant of blue honeysuckle, and it's a relative of the common honeysuckle."

"Yes, it's the kind of honeysuckle that can be soaked in water and used as medicine. Generally, this kind of fruit is not good-looking or delicious, but the blue indigo fruit, that is, the mountain eggplant is an accident, and the taste is not bad."

"It's sour taste is the majority, and the sweetness is not very obvious, but it has a strong fruity aroma. If you like sour friends, you should like it, but you can't eat too much, be careful that it will hurt your teeth."

Lin Xingyu smiled and said, "On our side, if we want to eat fresh fruits, most of them can only be eaten when the fruit trees in the village are ripe, or we can go to the town to buy fresh fruits. '

"However, I am still very excited to find a fresh fruit in the deep forest, and I can satisfy my appetite."

"ge!"

While Lin Xuan was speaking, Gabe flew to the bushes, stood on a branch, pecked at a mountain eggplant, and then put it in his mouth.

The little tiger raised his head and looked at Gabe eating the eggplant. He raised his head and whined.

That seems to say, don't eat alone, give me some too.

Gabe heard the howl of the little tiger, and then used his claws to grab a bunch of mountain eggplants and threw them directly to the ground.

Seeing the mountain eggplant fall, the little tiger ran over and started eating.

(???)

(Little tiger, don’t you eat meat? Why do you still eat fruit?)
(Anchor, didn’t you say that this fruit is very sour? Why does the little tiger still eat it? Isn’t it afraid of sourness?)

"Actually, this is a common misunderstanding."

"Generally speaking, everyone thinks that carnivores must eat meat, but they don't."

Indeed, they can obtain most of the nutrients they need from meat and bones, but there are also a small part that cannot be obtained from meat. At this time, they will choose to eat some plant fruits or seeds to supplement.

Just like in some zoos, when tigers are raised, they are occasionally given some fruits.

"Usually, what I feed the cubs are animal milk powder and minced meat. Although they are already the best, they are still lacking compared to the mother tiger who drinks the flesh and blood of animals."

Animals and human beings are different in this point, what is lacking in their bodies, then they will instinctively look for something that can be supplemented to eat.

This is the reason why the little tiger looked for mountain eggplants to eat.

I reckoned that it ate the eggplants from the lower places before, and it couldn’t reach the higher places, so when I saw Gabe eating the high places on the branches, I asked for more eggplants. cloth for help.

(This is called helping each other. Gabe still takes good care of this younger brother.)
(Haha, this also shows that these animals in the host's house can coexist peacefully.)
After listening to Lin Xuan's explanation, everyone also understood why the little tiger still eats fruit.

Lin Xuan took out two sealed bags from his backpack. He decided to bring some eggplant with him, so he could eat it on the road.

Eat fast, so you don't have to worry about it breaking after a long time.

When Lin Xuan was picking it vigorously, suddenly his gaze was attracted by a "little bug".

The "little bug" looked about the size of three or four mosquitoes. It was black and yellow all over, with occasional yellow stripes.

I saw it shuttling among the flowers of the mountain eggplant, looking very leisurely.

After a closer look, there are also such "worms" on the flower strings of several nearby mountain eggplant trees.

This discovery made Lin Xuan smile.

Lin Xuan no longer hesitated, took out a few more bags from his backpack, and began to happily pick eggplants.

(Anchor, you picked so much, can you finish it on the way? If you can’t finish it, you can’t eat it if it breaks.)
(Yes, I picked so much, and you also said that this thing is a bit sour, aren't you afraid that it will hurt your teeth?)
Lin Xuan smiled slightly. He really didn't intend to pick so many just now, but this discovery made him feel that he could pick so many, because there are natural preservatives and high-quality condiments nearby, so he has this opportunity. Naturally, he had to pick a little more.

Afterwards, Lin Xuan moved the camera a bit, so that the audience in the live broadcast room could also see the kind of "bugs" flying around the flower strings.

(End of this chapter)