Chapter 21 5. Why doesn't the tiger grow wings (fable)

A long time ago, about 60 million years ago, in the age of dinosaurs, a tiger grew wings. Of course, that tiger is not this tiger. The one that grows wings is not a big cat mammal, but an oviparous carnivore with sharp teeth and sharp claws. It runs like flying, can swim, and can climb trees. It can be called the best among beasts. king.This guy is actually a kind of dinosaur. For the convenience of identification, we call it a dire tiger.And because the dread tiger is a very ancient tiger, it is simply called tiger. Tigers eat dinosaurs, and they eat them from the same species.This is the same as the most advanced mammals today: people eat pigs, cattle and sheep, which are also mammals, and eat apes, monkeys, orangutans and baboons by the way, and various parts of the human body are also listed in mysterious or hidden recipes middle.However, unlike today’s mammals that like to eat oviparous animals, oviparous dinotigers do not eat mammals. This is not because of taboos. The mammals at that time were too small, smaller than today’s mice, not enough for tigers Gap.These small things are hard to catch when they are buried in the ground. Catching them consumes too many calories, and the loss outweighs the gain. This is the same reason that humans do not catch fleas and bedbugs to eat.

Long story short.One day, a tigress hatched a cub with two granulation buds on its shoulders.This is a little weird, but not too weird, just like someone has two extra fingers now, everyone gets used to it after a while.Unexpectedly, the granulation on the tiger's shoulders gradually developed into fleshy wings. When flying, the wingspan is more than ten meters, just like an airplane, and it is still an airplane with vertical take-off and landing functions. , Maverick lifted off. The winged tiger has more flying skills than ordinary tigers, so it shows outstanding ability in predation.Fear of cows, fear of sheep, fear of deer, etc., it is like picking something out of a bag.Even the lions, bears, rhinoceros, and elephants that I usually don't dare to provoke, I still grab them and eat them like a person eats sweet potatoes.The Maverick was born out of nowhere, and it was really awesome.

This Maverick is male.When I was young, the girls laughed at him for being ugly, and they didn't like to talk to him.When Maverick was so talented, the girls quickly changed their aesthetic views, thinking that he was extremely beautiful, handsome, and cool. Whenever Maverick landed like a big eagle, the girls on the ground screamed Fainted, the awake ones rushed forward with a sigh of wow, scrambling to be better than him.Those wingless tigers become jealous when they see it. The unmarried ones feel the crisis of being single, the married ones feel the crisis of divorce, and the dull ones inevitably feel the crisis of a third party intervening.All the male tigers intend to hurt Yihu, but they also know that they can't beat him, and they can't catch up with him in group fights.The sneak attack might succeed, but the girls formed the Maverick Guards, three layers inside and three layers outside to guard the sleeping Mavericks. They were loyal and loyal, and only wanted to sleep on their own, or to increase the chance of being lucky. Chance.Seeing this, the Wingless Tiger had no choice but to try to imitate the Maverick, using various methods to forge the wings, pretending to be the Maverick.Fashion and fashion have changed.It's a pity that imitation is quite difficult, and it is often exposed, and the girls laugh at it like a bald donkey.

The gene of the winged tiger is dominant. In terms of terms, when the wingless gene encounters the winged gene, the wingless gene cannot express its own genetic traits.This means that all offspring of the Maga have wings, and the offspring of male and female offspring of the Maga, regardless of whether their mates have wings or not, will have wings at half the rate. With the instigation and encouragement of the girls, Maverick's sexual ability has been brought into full play, and soon there will be children and grandchildren all over the world.As for how long this "soon" is, we can only give a rough estimate due to the long history and difficulties in research.Counting 100 offspring a year, the Chiga has 2,000 direct offspring in its 20-year reproductive period.Half of these two thousand offspring are males, and they also reproduce two thousand in one generation. Only by this way, more than one million offspring will be produced in thirty or forty years.Calculated based on the genetic method of dominant genes, the descendants of Mavericks will exceed tens of billions within a century.Of course, this is just a hypothetical number, assuming that the original population base is already large, so there are enough girls and food is available.In fact, the short-term problem is that there are not so many girls, and the long-term problem is that there is not so much food.

Let's stop doing nasty math problems.In short, in just a century or two, the Maverick has become the largest and most successful species on earth, and this estimate is absolutely correct.For male Mavericks, it was really a wonderful golden age. All animals with enough size on the earth have become convenience foods that can be easily grabbed. How beautiful is beautiful.However, the good times didn't last long, and the food crisis came unexpectedly. Initially, the food crisis manifested as fewer and fewer large herbivorous dinosaurs.Herbivorous dinosaurs, that is, those who feared cattle and sheep and feared deer, were originally the favorite convenience food of Mavericks. They have more meat and fewer bones, are easy to grasp, and have a more accustomed taste.But the Magata reproduced too fast. No matter how hard the herbivorous dinosaurs worked to grow and reproduce, they could not keep up with the rapid expansion of the Magata's consumption scale.With the reduction of herbivorous dinosaurs, in order to get the same bite of meat, the flight search time of Mavericks gradually increased: half times, double, double, triple.

Later, the food crisis deepened, and Mavericks realized that other carnivorous dinosaurs were competing with them for food, so they were very disgusted, so they began to eat them.If you eat too much, you will eat it in your mouth. After eating it, you will gradually like it, so there will be more Mavericks. They would rather spend a little more time and trouble, and catch a few dire lions and dire wolves to eat. , these Mavericks were the first to gain popularity, and then launched a large-scale expansion of diet campaign, which not only increased the source of nutrition, but also maintained the consumption monopoly of herbivorous dinosaurs, thus temporarily relieving the Mavericks' food crisis.

At the same time, the Mavericks also launched a self-control movement.They called for family planning, opposed eating and drinking, and formulated punitive measures.The punitive measures were adopted by everyone with a gesture of paws, which is in line with the interests and long-term interests of the Maverick species.The trouble is that individual interests are different from collective interests, and collective interests are different from species interests. Individual Mavericks and various small groups have invented endless countermeasures to evade supervision. They steal their lives, escape their lives, and buy their lives.Eating and drinking too much is hard to guard against.So why don't leading cadres further strengthen management?Because they are the smartest members of the Mavericks, they can come to the correct conclusion that serious management is not as cost-effective as being bribed after a quick calculation, so they are very happy to be bribed, actively apply to be bribed, and even force the masses to come and buy.As a result, the self-control movement did not achieve the great victories that the leading cadres openly advertised, and, to put it bluntly, it was an utter failure.

Later, the Mavericks were so smart and great that they devoured all the large animals on the earth, and the food crisis broke out in an all-round way.At this time Mavericks are faced with two choices.One option is to eat grass instead. Many Mavericks gritted their teeth and frowned and tried it. However, they are used to eating meat, and their intestines are not long enough. It is difficult to evolve enough length for a while, and there is not enough grass to eat. Time to digest, what to eat and what to eat, the experiment failed.Another option would be to eat the only large animal on Earth, the Maverick itself.Forced to helplessness, the Mavericks began to kill each other, and then developed into a large army to fight.The fate of the defeated is all pickled food, so there is no one who is greedy for life and afraid of death in this war.

That was the first air battle over the Earth.The ping-pong-ball-sized ancestors of mammals crouched in the mouth of their homes, watching these behemoths slash through the air.It was bloody and rainy, roaring and screaming, but in more than ten years, there was only one Maverick left on the earth.After eating his children, he flew high in the sky, looked at the lush land below, and searched for food in the woods and grasslands.He couldn't see any food.It will take tens of millions of years for the rats to evolve into a large mammal that he can see, and his lifespan can only be calculated in days.He flew and flew to the sky, blending into the boundless far away.

Sixty million years later, Earth's greatest mammal poses the question: Why did the dinosaurs suddenly go extinct? Let's ignore this complex question and just answer the simple, fairy-tale question posed in the first place: Why don't tigers have wings?The reference answer is: Tigers really want to grow, and they have grown, but nature cannot tolerate such a powerful thing that breaks the balance.Those that have already grown, the earth is unable to support their survival and development, so they have to be extinct.Those who can survive are relatively law-abiding, and the earth and other species can sustain it.