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Volume 2: The Crocodile King Shows His Power¡ªThe Jungle Chapter 16: A Tool-Making Dinosaur?

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    Since there was no need to walk along the canyon on the return trip, I left the Yang Gan above the canyon and walked directly through the forest, heading straight towards the seaside.  After wandering around for a while, Yang Qian discovered that the range of activity of these troodontosaurs was quite wide. It seemed that the two types of food they were looking for could not satisfy all the same kind.  When Yang Qian was walking along the hillside, he found some Troodon. He used his claws flexibly to catch small insects in the trees and eat them.  "These are old, weak or young Troodon. No matter whether they go to the beach or dig in the soil, they can't do anything. They can only find small insects to feed themselves.  To be honest, Yang Gan admires Troodon from the bottom of his heart for being able to think of so many ways to find food in adversity.  Because of this, when he was on the road, he tried to avoid making too much noise, so as not to disturb these Troodon dragons.  He couldn't say he admired them or anything else. In short, he felt that if he could not disturb these hungry little creatures, it would be better not to disturb them.  But as he walked, he stopped, and then stared blankly at a dense forest on the side in front of him.  In that dense forest, there was a small group of Troodon that were busy.  They are all powerful troodonts, and they are obviously restricting the activity range of their own group.  If you want to expand your range of activities, you must be aware of the spider threads that are everywhere in the forest.  And that¡¯s what they are doing.  The reason why Yang Qian was a little stunned was because of the way they understood spider silk.  They are using sticks and branches to remove spider silk.  A small group of about a dozen Troodon.  Each one holds a small stick or twig in their claws, and they line up in a row in the forest. When they see spider silk, they use the tools in their claws to destroy the spider silk.  They are just tree roots and branches. They cannot use torches, and their strength is not strong enough. When encountering dense spider silk, they can only work together to do this work.  A troodon would use a larger tree root to wrap the spider silk around, and when it found that it couldn't pull it, it would chirp to call its companions.  Companions near it will immediately drop their tools and help it pull the stick together until the spider silk is destroyed.  Yang Qian has also seen Troodon use tools before. For example, when they were stealing eggs, sometimes they would use stones to smash the egg shells when their claws could not break it; including when they were at the beach just now, those Troodon used  Rocks hit clams and other hard-shelled creatures.  But this is the first time I have seen collaborative use of tools like this.  And their proficiency in using these tools.  This is what really surprised Yang Qian.  ¡°Chirp¡­¡± With a loud cry, all the Troodon stopped working.  Then he chirped and screamed, threw down the tools he was using just now, and followed the leader who screamed first towards the direction of the canyon.  Yang Qian was shocked to realize that it was almost dark.  ¡°Chirp¡­ Chirp¡­¡± The crocodile demon that had been parked not far away to watch the Troodon use tools was discovered. The Troodon suddenly panicked, screamed wildly, and fled in all directions.  Yang Gan watched them flee away, slowly came to the place where they had seen the spider silk, and carefully observed the "tools" they had just used.  They are just ordinary small wooden sticks.  Of course, this small one is for the Crocodile Demon. In fact, the sticks and branches used by Troodon are already large enough for their size.  Judging from the broken marks on both ends of the stick and the small splits that were cleaned up on the stick, these tools should have been specially made by Troodon.  Rather than just picking it up casually.  ¡°Think about their attitude towards throwing these tools carelessly, and you will know that they are as skilled in making these simple tools as they are in using them. ? Just use the tools.  Yang Qian didn't think anything of it. On the earth hundreds of millions of years from now, many animals can use simple tools.  But making a tool, even a simple wooden stick, shocked Yang Qianyou.  After seeing the tools used by Troodon, Yang Gan felt a little uneasy on the way back.  These troodontids went to the beach to pick up conches and clams, collaborated to dig up mice, and also cooperated in using tools to clean spider silk. They were able to use more complex sounds to express what they wanted to express.  "These actions, taken together, shocked him a bit too much.  The use of manufacturing tools should have been done in the ape-man era, right? And ape-man is the ancestor of human beings.  Even if Troodon's claws are flexible, they can't compare with the hands of ape-man. After all, some things that are born with it cannot be changed so easily.  But if they continue to live like this, what will happen after millions of years? They won¡¯t even be able to use thatA long time, because the evolution of dinosaurs is much longer than that of apes.  Thinking about the same Troodon, those Troodon that lived a good life were obviously not as good as the Troodon here. Yang Qian suspected that if there was a more difficult environment, there might be some Troodon that were doing more complicated things.  labor cooperation.  Compared with the troodon here, it has higher tool making and use capabilities and more complete sociality. What would it be? Squatting in a cave and eating barbecue? Dinosaur people? When this word appeared in Yang Qian¡¯s mind, even Yang Qian himself  They were all shocked.  When Yang Gan, who was worried all the way, returned to the temporary camp, the stars were already blinking in the sky.  The next day it was still dark, so Yang Gan went to the sea and caught a few big fish to eat. He also dragged two big fish and threw them to the shore for the queen.  As for what kind of fish it was, he didn't see clearly, and he didn't even pay attention to whether it was a fish or not. Anyway, as long as it was edible, it would be fine.  Then he swam along the coast to the reef tidal flat where he found the Troodon yesterday.  As he expected, when the tide goes out in the morning, more food will be left on the tidal flats. Those Troodontosaurs jumped on the tidal flats very skillfully, and most of them can find some fish, shrimps, crabs and the like.  After watching Yang Qian for half the morning, he followed the troodonts and sneaked to the place where they cleaned the spider silk yesterday.  Today he made another new discovery. These troodontids used wooden sticks.  Instead of just using a stick to clean the spider silk directly, they will also use the wooden fork on the tree stick to hook some taller spider silk.  For example, right now, there is a Troodon hanging on a stick, chirping.  It just jumped up and used a wooden stick to hook the spider silk, but it caught the spider silk and kept pulling it, and it was hanging in the air!  "Chirp" The other Troodon didn't come up to save it immediately as Yang Gan imagined, but instead chirped at it from the side.  And another Troodon ran over and jumped up to use his stick to hook the spider silk.  But it didn't hang up. Instead, a Troodon behind it did.  It seems that they regard this as a game and are having a lot of fun.  When the third Troodon tried to hang up, the ball of spider silk finally broke, and all the Troodon fell down.  ¡°Chirp¡­¡± The Troodon, which had fallen down and was playing around, immediately stopped playing after hearing the leader¡¯s voice and started cleaning up the spider webs again.  When the tide rises in the evening, the troodonts go to the beach again to pick up food.  If there is enough food.  These young and strong Troodon don't need to forage every day and eat a big meal.  It'll be fine for a few days.  Obviously, the little guys living here probably seldom have enough to eat.  Fortunately, this is the Baiji period. At this time, the moon should not be as far away from the earth as it would be in hundreds of millions of years. Therefore, accordingly, the high and low tides here are very large.  Otherwise, it would be difficult for these troodonts to obtain the current amount of food.  When Yang Gan, who had been observing for a day, returned to the temporary camp, he began to have random thoughts in his mind.  On the third day, Yang Qian was still like this.  ??Start out early in the morning.  He didn't return until dark.  On this day, Yang Qian even discovered a particularly old Troodon, which actually completely changed its eating habits and was gnawing on something similar to pine nuts and hazelnuts.  The angiosperms of the Cretaceous Period are in a period of gradual prosperity, so if the troodonts wanted to find seeds that orangutans could eat, it would be too easy.  The question is, can they be eaten and digested? Yang Gan thinks.  It is estimated that if their food sources can only be obtained in this way, the population will become larger and larger in the future, and the food will become less and less.  By then eating seeds will not be unusual.  Of course, all this must be based on their ability to eat and digest these things.  On the fourth day, Yang Gan, who had completely transformed into a voyeur, got up early again, only to find that the queen also got up very early today.  Yang Qian spent a lot of effort to "persuade" it to stay in the camp.  Finally, when he came back in the evening, Yang Gan found that on the beach where he put the food, there were several seabirds pecking at the food he had prepared for his companions, and the little flying dragon kept driving these seabirds away.  "It's a pity that this future king of the sky is now about to be completely destroyed by the claws of predators. Various diet changes every day make it fat and fat, and its short wings flap around, which can't do anything to these birds."  Just taking a look at the food, Yang Gan knew that the queen must not have eaten it.  It seems that my training strategy is very successful!  Now the Queen loses her temper and gets into trouble more and more often!  &nbspSo Yang Gan used his old skills of coaxing his little girlfriend to go home with him, and coaxed the queen to eat the food.  The disadvantage of doing this is that the next day, the voyeuristic crocodile who has been alone has another companion.  In fact, after Yang Qian found a "peeping" spot on land, he discovered that he had two companions - Xiao Qing, who never thought it was a big deal to watch the excitement, also followed him.  Fortunately, Yang Qian has made a decision and is ready to end this "peeping" life.  So, when the troodonts came to the reef tidal flat in search of food in the early morning of another day, they found that on the coast of the tidal flat, there was a monster much larger than themselves occupying that place.  Although this monster is much larger than them, it is similar in appearance to them.  This is not the main reason that attracts Troodon.  Their eyes were all attracted by something next to this monster.  That was a dead big fish, a big big fish.  (To be continued. 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