As the leader of the largest triceratops, Gulu really has no advantage in sprinting. His body is too heavy, and it is far less fast than a smaller dragon.
In order to catch up with this fast-running dragon, he had to think of other ways. Fortunately, he was very familiar with the terrain nearby and could take shortcuts.
Gulu hid himself in the lush ferns and chased in the direction that the upright dragon escaped. Only by not being discovered by the other party, could he catch up with the dragon that was running much faster than himself.
After running for a while, Gollum barely caught up with the upright dragon.
To be more precise, Gollum found the lair of this upright walking dragon, where his entire clan lived, with dozens of such dragons.
The Tyrannosaurus rex cub that made Gollum feel familiar was gone, and he didn't know where it was put.
Although this place is not far from Gulu's territory, it is very hidden. On the side and rear of a hill, there are very dense ferns and cycads as shelter.
Gulu guessed that these dragons did not live here for a long time, and they would change their residence from time to time.
The dragon-backed Tyrannosaurus rex cub used vines just now. Although it is not yet at the level of making binding tools, their intelligence has already been able to use ready-made tools to carry small prey, which is a great improvement.
Gulu hid his scent and carefully observed the group.
Although dinosaurs are far less intelligent than humans, they are not intelligent creatures, but many dragons are actually very smart. From the current performance, this group of dragons can not be regarded as a qualitative leap, but only as a light of wisdom. shine.
After a long time of serious identification, Gulu realized that this dragon belongs to the most intelligent and most thoroughly evolved Troodon in the Troodontidae family.
There are many dragons in the Troodontidae family, including the most basic members, Silong, Zhang's Chinese Huntsaurus, Serratosaurus, as well as some ordinary members such as Boring Dragon, Byronsaurus, Sinusosaurus, etc. The most advanced species of the Troodontidae are Zanabazar and Troodontosaurus.
Gulu had seen many Troodontosaurus before, but he called them all Troodontosaurus. In fact, most of them were the most basic members of the Troodontidae family, such as Milong, Boring, Byron, etc. .
The most advanced species in the Troodon family, Zanabazar, has a skull of 272 cm, and only the skull of Troodon is larger than his, so the most advanced and intelligent dragon is Troodon.
The reason why Gulu collectively referred to these dragons as Troodontosaurus was that they belonged to the Troodontidae family, and many of them were similar in appearance.
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But now it is clear that with the explosion of species, as the differences between the various dragons of the troodontidae family become larger and larger, they can no longer be collectively referred to as troodontosaurs.
Only the most intelligent dragons could be called Troodontosaurus, the kind Gollum now sees.
This Troodon can walk upright on its hind limbs. His limbs are very slender and powerful, and he can run fast. He is about 2 meters long and weighs 100-200 catties. His sense organs are very developed. The brain is the largest of all dinosaurs, so it can be the most intelligent dragon.
Many troodontosaurs have feathers on their bodies, especially the fan-shaped feathers on the forelimbs, but this fan-shaped feather does not allow the troodontosaurus to fly, but it is a bit of a hindrance, and the later evolved troodontosaurs did not have this. A fan-shaped feather.
The Troodon that Gulu sees now has no feathers. It has long, slender and powerful limbs.
Troodon has always been able to walk upright on its hind limbs, which is not evidence that Troodon evolved into a "dinosaur man".
Even if Troodon does evolve into a higher creature in the end, it is very likely to maintain its basic form as a dinosaur, and it is unlikely to evolve into a dinosaur man, because the most important thing for higher creatures is to be smart enough, and the appearance of humans is not that of higher creatures. prominent sign.
Only humans will think that the shape of human beings is the most favorable shape to become a high-IQ creature, but it is very likely that other high-IQ creatures in the universe will use "gas", "light energy", "ideology", "spiritual power" "And so many forms exist.
There are dozens of dragons in this group of Troodontosaurus, and they cooperate with each other. There are dragons specially responsible for patrolling and guarding, some are specially responsible for hunting and distributing food, and some are specially responsible for taking care of the cubs.
The division of labor and cooperation does not mean that this kind of dragon already has the brilliance of wisdom, and many dragon groups will divide labor and cooperate.
Only by making and using tools can this dragon already possess the basic characteristics of a highly intelligent creature.
According to the research of paleontologists, Troodon is the most likely to evolve into a Zhilong. The discovery of Gulu coincides with the research results of human beings.
Gollum knew that even after 65 million years, before the dinosaurs went extinct, Troodon did not evolve into a Phiosaurus, but there was no doubt that Troodon was the smartest dragon.
The current Troodontosaurus did not speed up the evolution process, and the evolutionary characteristics they now show are within the normal range.
Gollum saw that some Troodontosaurus were sharpening some sticks with their teeth, a behavior that could serve as evidence of an improvised tool.
Gusheng! Biology also does find that troodontosaurs made simple tools, which is a normal part of their evolution.
What Gulu is most concerned about now is where the Tyrannosaurus Rex cub was placed by these Troodontosaurus, but they are very hidden and can't see it no matter what.
I don't know why, but Gulu just knew that it was definitely not his and Mungo's cub. He had smelled the smell coming from the wind, but there was no smell of their cub.
Even so sure, he was still a little worried, and he did not continue to observe the Troodontosaurus group, and immediately ran back to his territory.
Mungo was lying beside the lair. He knew that something must have happened to Gulu, so he was so nervous about the safety of the cubs.
Gollum told Mungo everything he had just seen.
Mungo was very puzzled: "Why did they catch the Tyrannosaurus Rex cub? They didn't eat that cub?"
Gulu: "I didn't see them eating the Tyrannosaurus Rex cub, which is what strikes me the most strange. They caught the Tyrannosaurus Rex cub but didn't eat it. Why is that?"
In general, Troodontosaurus fed on young herbivorous dragons, and used some tricks in the hunt to minimize the risk of hunting.
Mungo put forward a very bold idea: "They want to raise Tyrannosaurus rex cubs and help them hunt in the future?"
It's not that Gulu didn't think about this possibility, but he immediately rejected it. How could Troodontosaurus raise Tyrannosaurus rex cubs.
Tyrannosaurus rex cubs are so edible. Troodontosaurus has so much meat to feed Tyrannosaurus rex cubs. The meat is eaten by its own group. I don’t know how many dragons it can feed. This is definitely a loss-making business.
What's more, Tyrannosaurus rex is cruel by nature, and the cubs may eat their parents when they grow up. When there is no food in the dry season, Tyrannosaurus parents will also eat their own cubs.
Even if Troodontosaurus really feeds Tyrannosaurus rex cubs, when the cubs grow up, it is very likely that they will eat up the entire group of Troodontosaurus!
Tyrannosaurus rex is absolutely impossible to tame.
Therefore, Gollum believed that Troodon was so smart that it was impossible to "nurture dragons".
Mungo: "Don't worry, Gulu, I will be optimistic about our little cubs, and I will never let those dragons approach our lair. I will kill them when I see such dragons in the future, and I will not let any of them go!"
Goo! Gulu rubbed Mungo's neck and said, "Well, good."
The last time I lost two dragon eggs, although they were all found, Xiaoyuan and Xiaoye have gone through so much. Mungo didn't say anything, but he blamed himself very much in his heart. Now he is almost always guarding the little cubs. .
Gulu understands that Mongo has always put the responsibility of protecting the dragon eggs and the cubs on his own body. He just doesn't want to have any little accidents, and he doesn't want to make Gulu feel sad and blame himself for these accidents.
Because this job doesn't seem to be difficult for them, but it is actually the most difficult to control. No matter how powerful a dragon is, he can't guarantee that his dragon eggs and cubs are foolproof.
Gulu knew that Mungo would always think about him. Mongo always said, I will take good care of the dragon eggs, and I will take care of the cubs, just so that Gulu, the leader, can do other things with confidence. The most responsible Tyrannosaurus rex.
If Gollum, the leader, can't protect the clan, there will be more chaos, which will be even more detrimental to the dragon eggs and the cubs.
Mungo has always been very responsible. No matter what happened, he put the responsibility on himself, so that Gulu could do anything without any burden.
Mungo: "I hate those dragons that steal eggs the most, as well as those scalloped beasts that steal eggs, and the dragons that eat and steal cubs the most. If they dare to appear in front of me, I will definitely bite them to death! "
Although this is a double standard, because they also like to hunt dragon cubs for their Tyrannosaurus cubs to eat, but there is no way, they are fathers and fathers, and of course they want to eat the best for their dragon cubs.
Gulu: "I will also protect the cubs with you, Mungo, don't be too nervous."
Mungo is not afraid of anything, he is only nervous for Gulu and the cubs, he said: "Gulu, I'm not nervous, just do what you need to do, just like you humans say, you are outside the master, I am the master. Nai, isn't that good too?"
Gulu rubbed Mungo's neck and teased: "I'm really lucky to have a good wife like Mongo. I love you very much, Mongo."
Now Mungo can also tell Gollum some jokes that only humans understand: "I am also very lucky. King Gollum is so powerful that other dragons envy me. I am the good male dragon behind the great King Gollum."
Mungo is not very good at using humans! All kinds of sayings in the quasi-society are joking, but Gulu is already very happy, and finally there is a dragon who understands what he says and can talk to him!
For a long time, Mungo has been actively and spatially learning human knowledge. The only purpose is to make Gulu happy, and he can say what Gulu and he only understand at any time. How interesting.
The cubs in the nest looked at their two fathers "showing affection" and looked at it for a while.
Meng Ai hurriedly complained to Gulu: "Dad, Daddy, Daddy murdered me, he said, if I sneak out of the nest again, he will beat me, Daddy, tell him quickly, Daddy is so fierce..."
After the cubs broke their shells, Mungo and Gulu didn't specifically distinguish what the cubs called them. They were all male dragons, and the cubs called them fathers.
In the past, the cubs could say very few words, and the communication with them was also very simple. They all called their fathers to distinguish who they were calling according to the actual situation, but now the cubs talk more, and it is a bit difficult to distinguish. .
After Mungo and Gulu heard Meng Ai's complaint, they both decided to distinguish the names of the cubs.
Gulu: "Xiao Ai, your problem, Dad will solve it for you later. Now, what I want to say is the question of how you address us."
If you add Dad Gulu and Dad Mongo before Dad, it will be easier to distinguish, but they will still feel bad, and it will appear less intimate if they are called this way, whether it is good or bad.
Gulu: "Little cubs, in the future you will call Mungo and Dad, and I will be Dad. Dad means Dad in our human culture."
After listening to the cubs, they were very happy and kept repeating: "Dad, daddy, daddy, daddy, it sounds so nice..."
Gulu: "Xiao Ai, now, repeat your question again."
Meng Ai: "Dad, whether my father is good or bad, he said he wanted to beat me, and if I sneaked out of the nest again, he would beat me, but I just wanted to play outside the nest, why is my father so fierce, and I don't? It will run far away, Daddy, tell Daddy quickly, Daddy only listens to you."
Gulu educated Meng Ai very seriously, and no longer used the affectionate nickname: "Meng Ai, you have only broken the shell for less than 20 days. The other dragon cubs can only leave the nest after three months. It is very dangerous outside the nest. , you can go out to play, but you must go out to play with dad and dad, you can't sneak out..."
The little cubs are very good at "watching the dragon's dishes", and they usually take photos! Gu Xiaozi has less time, so it is inevitable that they will spoil them more. Meng Ge is more strict. They dare not act like a spoiled child with Meng Ge. They usually look for Gulu to act like a spoiled child after Gulu comes back.
Meng Ai didn't expect that her father would not help her this time, and she burst into tears in grievance.
Gulu angrily said, "Don't cry! It's wrong to be wrong, and it's useless to cry! The same is true of the five of you, you all listen carefully. If you want to go out to play, you must be accompanied by me and Mungo..."
Meng Ai had never seen such a fierce Gulu. She was trembling with fright. The five brothers kept rubbing against Meng Ai's body to comfort her.
The cubs looked at Gulu timidly and kept nodding their heads.
Gollum said very sternly: "Meng Ai, apologize to Dad and say, Dad, I'm sorry, I will never sneak out of the nest again."
Meng Ai repeated Gulu's words in a low voice.
Gulu angrily scolded: "Speak louder!"
The five brothers said one after another: "Daddy, don't be angry, Xiao Ai already knows it's wrong, you can beat us and scold us, we are brothers, we didn't teach her well, Xiao Ai is too young, you will be frightened her… "
Meng Ge is usually strict, but when it comes to educating the cubs, he can't bear it, and he quickly said: "Gulu, okay, Xiao Ai already knows it's wrong, it's all my fault, I'm not optimistic about Xiao Ai, I don't blame her for running out. ."
Gulu looked at Mungo helplessly and said, "Six little brats, you don't have three heads and six arms. I know how difficult it is for these brats to make a fuss. Don't get used to them too much, beat them when you need to, and scold them when you need to."
The energy of the dragon cubs is very strong, not to mention that these cubs eat a lot, their physical strength and energy are super strong, and they can easily escape from the lair if they break the shell. These six cubs are not ordinary dragon cubs, and they are even more difficult to bring.
Mungo: "I know, Gulu, I'm not used to them. The cubs are usually pretty good."
Gulu saw that the little cubs did know that they were wrong, and knowing the seriousness of the matter, they did not continue to reprimand.
Mungo is very good at teaching the cubs, and he will not be too strict or spoiled. Gulu knows that, and he doesn't have to worry that the cubs will be spoiled.
The little cubs had just been reprimanded, and they were all very obediently lying in the lair to rest and stopped making noise.
Meng Ge gently rubbed Meng Ai's small body and comforted him softly: "Xiao Ai, don't be afraid, daddy usually hurts you so much, fierce! If you hate you a few words, you will be scared like this, aren't you afraid of the sky... Daddy is all for your own good, if you get hurt, we will all be sad, right..."
Only after this time did the little cubs know that when Dad was angry, he was many, many times more fierce than Dad! Super scary!
Mungo was reluctant to let Gollum play a "stern role" before, because as long as it was the strict side, the cubs would definitely not be so close. Teach the cubs that one of them must be strict, otherwise the cubs will not be able to develop toughness Character, in the age of dinosaurs, the cubs must be "wild and difficult to tame" and must be competitive.
It's just that now, if Gollum is too strict, Mungo will automatically become the softer side.
Gollum is absolutely united with Mungo in terms of the safety of the cubs. When it comes to educating the cubs, Gollum is stricter than Mungo.
It's just that the cubs were too young in the past, and it was impossible for them to make any particularly big mistakes. Gulu had no chance to educate the cubs. The cubs didn't know that Gulu was more fierce than Mungo.
Under Mungo's comfort, the cubs soon stopped being afraid and began to be naughty again.
They crawled onto Gollum and Mungo's big heads to play.
Gulu was no longer angry, he said, "Okay, I'm not angry anymore, I'm not angry anymore, I also made a mistake today, I shouldn't be so cruel to Xiao Ai, Daddy apologizes to Xiao Ai."
Meng Ai: "It's okay, I have forgiven my father, Xiao Ai is not stingy."
Gulu remembered that he secretly went out to play with Guji Gudong when he was a child. He didn't know how many dangers he encountered. If Gaia and Mungo knew about the dangers they encountered at that time, they would be mad at them.
Thinking of this, Gulu felt that the cubs were already well behaved, at least much better than when he and Guji Gudong were children.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed.
During this period, Gulu often went to observe that Troodon group, choosing a different time each time, morning, noon, evening, late night, or even early morning. During this period, the territory of the Troodon group changed several places.
At noon that day, Gaya hurried over, and she was relieved to see that a lot of Gulu and Mungo's cubs were taking a nap in the nest.
Gaia whispered to Gulu and Mungo: "!" I heard some dragons say that recently, a Tyrannosaurus rex lost its cubs, more than one Tyrannosaurus rex lost its cubs, and several Tyrannosaurs lost their cubs! You must take care of the little boys! "
Of course, Gulu and Mungo also heard about it, and they nodded: "Gaya, we know, you don't have to worry about us, we have recently let five or six triceratops in the tribe watch over the cubs together every day, and we will never let them run around."
After hearing this, Gaia went back with confidence.
Gulu and Mungo guessed that those lost Tyrannosaurus rex cubs were probably raised by Troodontosaurus, but Gulu closely observed those Troodontosaurus and did not see any Tyrannosaurus rex cubs.
Although the cubs are watched by Mongo, and Gulu tries to watch the cubs as much as possible, the energy of a dragon in Mongo is limited, and Gulu cannot take care of the cubs all the time.
The six cubs are very naughty, and their energy is not much stronger than that of ordinary cubs. If Meng Ge chases this cub, he will inevitably lose sight of the other cubs. They can no longer bear the pain of losing the cub.
This day, at dawn, Gollum lurked outside the Troodon group to peek again, and finally saw everything he wanted to see.
I saw that Troodontosaurus separated the thick ferns, and there was a large stone nest hidden in it, and Troodontosaurus brought out two Tyrannosaurus rex cubs from the stone nest!
Gollum saw Troodon driving the two tyrannosaur cubs to a piece of meat.
Troodontosaurus stabbed the body of the tyrannosaurus cub with a sharpened arrow-like wooden stick, which was already stained with blood.
Gollum finally knew why Troodontosaurus made these sticks!
Even if the stick is sharpened, it is not as powerful as the teeth of Troodontosaurus. It is impossible for these Troodontosaurus to hunt with wooden sticks. It turned out that wooden sticks were used to train Tyrannosaurus rex cubs.
Troodontosaurus has very powerful teeth and extremely sharp claws. As carnivorous dragons, although they are small in size, their weapons are very sophisticated, and there is no need to sharpen wooden sticks as weapons.
The two Tyrannosaurus rex cubs are at least 6 months old, but they don't look as big as the cubs of Gulu and Mungo, who are only 2 months old.
Before Gulu thought that Tyrannosaurus rex cub looked familiar, but now it doesn't look familiar at all, and he doesn't know why, maybe it's because of the time lapse! After more than a month, the Tyrannosaurus Rex cub has changed a lot.
Gulu always felt that he must have read it wrong at the time. Except for his own cub, he didn't know other Tyrannosaurus rex cubs at all.
Troodontosaurus kept stabbing the bruised body of the Tyrannosaurus rex cub with a wooden stick, causing them great pain, and the cubs cried out.
The two tyrannosaur cubs were very conditioned to fear the stick. They were very hungry and wanted to eat the meat in front of them, but they didn't dare to eat because they were afraid of the stick.
After the Troodontosaurus ate the big piece of meat, it dug out the rotten black meat and bones buried under the soil and gave it to the Tyrannosaurus rex cubs to eat. Troodontosaurus nodded, and they dared to eat it.
Gollum was now pretty sure that Troodon was trying to "tame" the young Tyrannosaurus rex.
It was a shocking discovery, and Gollum couldn't believe it, it was true.
Paleontologists can analyze the hunting relationship between various dragons based on fossils, but they have no way of knowing whether there was a brief breeding or "taming" relationship between different dragon species.
Gollum knew that any attempt by Troodon to "tame" a young Tyrannosaurus rex would fail.
Even the most powerful triceratops leader like Gollum, he never thought of "taming" Tyrannosaurus rex cubs and raising them for his own use.
Because Tyrannosaurus Rex is untamable.
If Gulu wants to tame Tyrannosaurus rex cubs, it is very simple. There are many Tyrannosaurus rex cubs without parents. There is no need to "steal" the cubs at all. With Gulu's ability, it is not difficult to raise these cubs, but He won't do it.
Before Gulu didn't know that he and Mungo would have cubs, he never thought about domesticating Tyrannosaurus Rex cubs. He thought about raising some Tyrannosaurus Rex cubs as his own cubs instead of domestication.
Domestication and rearing are completely different concepts, domestication is the domestication of lower animals, and rearing is raising your own cubs.
If these troodontosaurus raised the tyrannosaurus cub as their own cub, the tyrannosaurus cub might also "repay the kindness". This kind of domestication method, when the tyrannosaurus cub grows up, will definitely treat this wounded dragon. The Tooth Dragon Clan Exterminates!
As a human being, Gollum knew that Tyrannosaurus Rex, like a tiger and a lion, was absolutely untamable.
Troodonts were very smart, but they were wiser than humans!