Pet King

Inside and outside the aviary are simply two worlds.

When they first entered the door, Zhang Zi'an and Guo Dongyue were frightened by the noise of noisy birds, but before they knew it, they were accustomed to the noise. When they followed Wei Kang, they walked through two doors in a row and returned. When I was outside, I even felt terribly quiet in my ears, always trying to make some sounds.

In addition to sound, another difference is temperature. A cold wind blew through, Zhang Zi'an shrank his neck, and quickly put on the coat he had taken off after entering the aviary. The aviary was very warm, kept at about 20 degrees, and even sweated a little while walking around. Even at noon, it was still autumn and cold, soaked in coldness, and it was easy to catch a cold under the cold.

Guo Dongyue cares more about whether two red-faced peonies will catch cold than himself. He covers his jacket outside the cage to protect them from the wind.

They took off disposable plastic shoe covers from their feet and threw them into the trash can at the door. A lot of bird droppings and millet grains have been stained on the bottom of the shoe cover, and I feel sick at first glance.

Because it is a suburb, there are fewer taxis, and there are passengers. Guo Dongyue picked up his mobile phone and looked for a ride again.

"Two, why don't you leave without saying hello?"

Lu Mingyi happily chased from behind, and enthusiastically invited, "It's almost noon, I will be the East, and the two will have lunch before leaving."

"No need, we still have something." Guo Dongyue rejected it directly, he was mainly worried that the pair of parrots would stay sick for too long.

Zhang Zi'an really wanted to have a free lunch, but he saw that Fina was licking her lips and knew that it was also hungry, so it would be better to go back and eat it, to save it from losing temper.

"It's a shame ... another day, when I go to the city the next day, let's find a place to get together." Lu Mingyi did not grumble because of Guo Dongyue's rejection. He had already inquired just now and knew that Guo Dongyue was This temperament, but others have the ability, the internal evaluation of the company is very high, and maybe not long before they will open their own design office.

Guo Dongyue was not interested in social communication, and evaded: "Later on, I may not have time recently. By the way, these two parrots ..." He lifted the cage and opened the corner of his jacket for Lu Mingyi to see.

A few strands of cold wind poured into the bird cage from under the corner of the coat. The male bird with a red head and neck moved very thoughtfully, blocking the cold wind for the female bird with a yellow-orange neck.

Lu Mingyi recognized two red-faced parrots at a glance. Although rare, they were not particularly precious, so he said generously: "These two parrots are nothing, and they are given to Mr. Guo."

"Just borrow it, wait ... I'll be back in a while." Guo Dongyue lowered his clothes corner and said seriously, with a pause in his tone.

Lu Mingyi thought he was just being polite and insisted that he should give it to him.

On the other hand, Wei Kang persuaded Zhang Zi'an bitterly to persuade him to dedicate himself to science.

Lu Mingyi also came to help Wei Kang to persuade, but it was just a bit of genes to use for testing, there is no need to be too stingy, right?

Although Zhang Zi'an had long dreamed of science since he was a child, it is still very difficult about this matter.

"You see this."

Well aware of the truth of seeing things, Wei Kang took out his mobile phone and opened a webpage to show them. Zhang Zi'an felt a headache as soon as he saw the screen full of English, but at any rate knew the famous domain name.

"This is an article in the journal Nature; June 19, 2017. The author is the Eva-Maria_Geigl research group at the University of Paris 7 in France. Look at this picture." Wei Kang pulled down the page to enlarge the article A picture in the middle.

This picture has simple and clear lines. It is a woman sitting on a chair with a golden-yellow and dark-striped cat eating fish. Zhang Ziming knew that the cat in the painting should be focused on, but his eyes could not help but glance at the smooth thighs of the woman in the painting ...

"This is a mural in ancient Egypt 3500 years ago." Wei Kang pointed at the cat in the painting, "You look carefully."

"3500 years ago?"

Zhang Zi'an ate a whale and thought he heard it wrong.

"Yes, it was 3500 years ago, that is, 1500 BC." Wei Kang answered with certainty, "At that time China was still in the early Shang Dynasty. This picture is part of an ancient Egyptian mural, and it is also a domestic cat. One of the strongest evidences of the origin of ancient Egypt, but it is not conclusive. Do you see that the cat in the picture is very similar to yours, but very different from modern Egyptian cats? "

Zhang Zi'an immediately saw that the cat in the picture was completely different from the modern Egyptian cat. The body of modern Egyptian cats is dominated by spots, while the cat in the painting, like Fina, is dominated by spots.

Wei Kang knows that Zhang Zi'an is knowledgeable. There is no need to elaborate on the differences between primitive Egyptian cats and modern Egyptian cats. He simply explained the causal relationship among them. "According to the contents of this special issue on June 19, Began to be tamed as a domestic cat. Until the 14th century, ancient domestic cats had a mackerel-like striped fur color, just like this cat in a mural and your cat. From the 13th century AD, the fur color of domestic cats It ’s slowly transitioning from streaks to spots. That's why the original Egyptian cat was a striped hair color, while the modern Egyptian cat was a spotted hair color. "

Zhang Zi'an has a certain sense of indifference. A person with a high level of knowledge is not the same when he speaks. He explains a problem that he has never thought about clearly. Although this knowledge is useless in life, maybe one day in the future, you can pretend to be in front of others?

"In addition, your cat has both stripes and spots. The stripes are supplemented by spots. The cat on the mural is pure stripes, and the modern Egyptian cat is pure spots ... In other words, your cat is like the old one. Archaeopteryx, like the key transition link in the evolutionary chain, is a real living fossil! "Wei Kang said more and more excited.

Wei Kang is not too young, Zhang Zi'an is really worried that he will be excited.

Zhang Zi'an carefully observed this mural picture and found that there is another detail-the modern Egyptian cat is divided into five colors, namely silver, bronze, smoke gray, black, blue / ash, and the cat in the mural looks It is golden yellow, the same as Fina ... No, it should be said that Fina is the same as the cat in the mural ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ After all, this cat is 1,500 years earlier than Fina, which is considered Fina Ancestors.

Not only Zhang Zi'an, but even Fina approached curiously, looking closely at its ancestor on the phone screen.

He already knew the significance of Fina. Say to Dali that the appearance of Fina will end the long-running debate about the origin of domestic cats. Say to Xiaoli ... Wei Kang can write several high-impact papers and even become famous overnight.

Still, he couldn't agree easily—because it wasn't something he could decide, he had to respect Fina himself ... no, it was my cat's opinion.

"Professor Wei, let's go back and think about it first." He intends to delay for a while, and discuss with Fina when no one is there before deciding.

Wei Kang sighed helplessly, "At least leave me your contact information."

"no problem."

Zhang Zi'an and Wei Kang exchanged their contact information. Just as Guo Dongyue called the downwind car parked at the door, he took Fina and Snow Lion, got on the car with Guo Dongyue, and returned to Binhai City.