Chapter 47: Getting Started
life style...
This is a relatively big problem. Seeing the skeletal dragons dragging a kind of prey called Moth Goose Dragon while celebrating and walking towards the lair, Lin is thinking about this problem.
Skeletal dragons are basically like this. They live in one place, and when they find that there are fewer prey, they move to another place. The way of living is not fixed. , their life is not very safe. Although the brain is relatively large, the life of the skeletal dragon is always spent avoiding predators and looking for food, and it does not have a lot of idle time like the "brains" of division-of-work species time to think.
To make the skeleton dragon settle down, it needs a stable source of food...
If you stay in one place for a long time, it will obviously cause the surrounding resources to slowly dry up. If you want to live for a long time, there are many ways. In short, the resources must be kept growing...
Such as planting or raising other creatures are common methods, such as Inca swarms and brain worms are somewhat similar to this method, in fact, not only them, some small division of labor species will breed, but the arms of division of labor species It can enter a deep sleep state when it is inactive, and consumes extremely low energy. For example, a breeding pit with a diameter of more than 30 meters in the Inca swarm can be enough to replenish energy for the swarms in three home trees.
Only when they are fighting will they consume more energy, and the endless vast jungle around them provides them with temporary energy.
It seems unlikely that Skeletal Dragon will do this, and there are many problems in simple breeding or planting, mainly because it requires an open space, which will crowd out the residences of other creatures. In the end, only a large area will be left. The creatures I planted are like the spike forest of Aztec insects.
Lin doesn't want to educate such a species, so they need a better way of life.
Usually planting is cultivating plants and harvesting plants at a certain time. It is fixed, although it can also be used as a long-term source of food, but it is more troublesome, there is no cooperation between the plant and the grower, it is more like a relationship called 'slavery'...
There is a better way to get food all the time than normal farming, like... a symbiotic relationship.
Symbiosis is a wonderful relationship... Generally speaking, it should start with two species living together. Then both sides just discovered that the other side can benefit themselves. Some plants that live in symbiosis with creatures will grow specific structures to "repay" the creatures, and the creatures will also clean up the enemies for the plants. This is probably the best. Common symbiosis too.
Lin thought that the skeletal dragon could achieve symbiosis with some kind of plant, which would be more efficient than planting.
Planted plants are only available periodically. And symbiotic plants can provide food all the time.
And both sides need to take care of the plants. Obviously, symbiosis is better, and they can even co-evolve with plants...
Of course, it is not easy to achieve a symbiotic relationship with a plant. It may take a long time, or even tens of hundreds of years. This is too long for the skeleton dragon, so a faster method is needed.
Actually. That's pretty simple...
You don't need to stay with plants for a long time, but you only need to do one thing, find some plants that have already lived in symbiosis with a certain animal, and then let the skeletal dragon replace that animal.
It's not to let them exterminate this kind of animal, but to let them use some of the plants. Lin thinks that if the skeletal dragon can do everything the symbiotic animals inside can do, the plants will also provide them with food.
Lynn could also play the role of the plant herself, but Lynn didn't want to.
Now is the time to eat. A few skeletal dragons went to the edge of the grassland to collect salt, while the rest of the skeletal dragons gathered by the lake, cutting up the one-ton goose dragon.
This is the most sumptuous meal they have hunted since they came here. Tucker is often the maker of the last blow to let the skeletal dragons agree, but Lin did not join them, but flew to the sky to see if there are similar plants ...
at this place. There are a lot of symbiotic plants, at least Lin has seen them in the forest ahead, and Lin wants to find a more perfect plant, for example, with a large size. Not only can it provide food for the skeleton dragon, but it can also provide a place to live. I don’t know what will happen in winter here. Will it snow? Or will something else interesting happen? However, the moon should have no effect on this place. It would be great if this symbiotic plant can continue to grow in winter...
It seems that the requirements are too high... This kind of 'perfect' plant may not be easy to find, but it should be easier to find if it only provides food.
The food provided by the plants shouldn't be able to fully satisfy the Skeletal Dragon, but at least they don't have to run around for hunting all the time, and they won't leave soon, so they will have more time to think.
In addition to obtaining food, skeletal dragons also need to learn to store food. Skeletal dragons usually make salt jerky, but only when they travel, usually they eat up the prey they get, and then wait for the next time to hunt, Lin I think they should get some food to store, even if only one piece of meat is stored at a time, it will slowly increase little by little.
Creatures usually only like to store food before an emergency. It is true that there is not much food to store when food is relatively rich, but there are still some creatures that have this habit, which can deal with various situations.
But for now... let's find the symbiotic plants first.
Lin's pompom was turning around on the tall grass, and Tucker and a few skeletal dragons below were looking at this side with some worried emotions, but they did not restrict the pompom's activities.
There were some tall trees in the meadow, and the pom-pom flew towards the nearest tree.
This kind of tree is very thick, with a diameter of about three meters, but it is very short, only six meters high. The pompon pierces a tentacle into the bark to observe the structure inside.
The structure of this tree is like a common plant. It seems that there are no symbiotic species, and it is highly poisonous, so it is completely unsuitable.
Lin continued to search slowly on the tall grass. There are not only tall grass, but also many plants mixed in it, but most of them are too small, even if there are symbiotic species, they are not suitable.
Speaking of which, there are quite a lot of plant species here, which probably has something to do with the abundance of herbivores. Lin walked here for a few hundred seconds and saw more than a hundred kinds of plants and dozens of small herbivores. The species here are quite impressive. rich...
In the end, because I couldn't find any suitable targets on the grass... Lin's pompom looked in the direction of the jungle.
When seeing the jungle, Lin instantly noticed a plant...
This is it! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qn) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m.qn to read.)
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