Chapter 560: Reproduction Risks

In this era, it is not easy for any race, including humans, to give birth to offspring successfully and let them grow up healthily.

On the contrary, the Lizardmen have the blessing of the ancient building "Sacred Hatching Pool", which greatly increases the hatching probability.

During this period, Zhou Xu also had a bold idea in his mind, that is, can this sacred incubation pool be used by the velociraptors? With this idea in mind, Zhou Xu asked the doubts in his heart.

Faced with this question, the velociraptor keeper was just slightly stunned, but did not show too much surprise.

Because they have tried it before, after all, they are not stupid.

"I'm sorry, my king, but I'm afraid that the velociraptors cannot use the sacred hatching pool."

There was no need for Zhou Xu to ask more questions afterwards, as the velociraptor keeper had already explained the reason himself.

"After laying eggs, female velociraptors basically guard their eggs except for looking for food. During this period, if the eggs are contaminated with other odors, the female velociraptors are likely to not recognize their children. At the very least, they will abandon the eggs, or at worst, they will think the eggs are food and directly chisel open and eat them."

When it comes to matters related to his work, the velociraptor breeder showed his organized side.

"For the velociraptors that are about to hatch, they need to learn the most basic skills and abilities of being a velociraptor from their mothers, which is something we simply cannot do."

"After all, velociraptors themselves are not that smart, and newly born velociraptors are even less able to understand what we mean. They usually need to stay with their mothers until they are three months old before they can start training."

The velociraptor keeper was speaking and gesturing at the same time.

"In addition, we have also thought about letting the velociraptor follow the egg to the sacred hatching pool to solve the problem just now. However, if this is done, the other eggs in the sacred hatching pool may be in danger. In their eyes, the other eggs are just food."

"As for putting all the female velociraptors that have laid eggs together to incubate them, this is also not possible, because female velociraptors will be very sensitive and aggressive during the incubation period. If they are kept together, they will definitely fight. Therefore, each of our incubation rooms is separated."

As it turned out, the lizardman in charge of this work had already studied this matter thoroughly. This was a research that took a lot of time and energy, and was much more comprehensive than Zhou Xu's sudden idea.

After leaving the Velociraptor breeding farm, Zhou Xu and Bo Levin walked a few steps, passed through a bush and came to another open space.

At this moment, two pterosaurs were resting on the open space, and the keeper nearby was feeding them.

Obviously, there is more than one breeding farm in this area, and they raise more than just velociraptors.

Looking at the pterosaur landing there, Zhou Xu's eyes suddenly lit up.

This is a super rare flying unit at this stage.

When the pterosaur keeper saw Zhou Xu coming, he hurried forward to salute. After Zhou Xu asked him not to salute, he went straight to the point.

"How many pterosaurs do we have here now?"

"In reply to your Majesty, including the six that remained on the southern battlefield, there are now a total of eight."

It is not difficult to see from this number that the number of pterosaurs is indeed scarce among the Lizardmen today.

Under this premise, since the southern border needs to rely on the pterosaurs' aerial vision to keep an eye on the ratmen's every move to prevent sneak attacks from the opposite side, the few pterosaur riders of the Lizardmen are basically concentrated on the southern border to carry out aerial patrols in shifts.

"What are these two?"

"My lord, these two are the only two female pterosaurs among the eight pterosaurs, and they are both pregnant with eggs."

When Zhou Xu heard the news, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad for a moment.

The good news is that the pterosaur is about to lay eggs. As long as the eggs can be laid successfully and hatched, they will have a new pterosaur.

What’s worrying is that there are only two female pterosaurs, which means that at this stage, the number of pterosaurs is unlikely to grow rapidly.

"How many eggs can this pterosaur lay in one litter? How many litters can it produce in a year?"

"Your Majesty, pterosaurs usually lay one to two eggs per litter. Most of the time, they lay only one egg. It's rare that they lay two eggs. After giving birth to one litter, they have to rest for at least a year before they can give birth again the next year."

At this point, the pterosaur keeper paused.

"After a pterosaur egg lands on the ground, it takes about ninety days to hatch. I estimate that the egg should be hatched in the next few days."

Although Zhou Xu did not ask these questions just now, the pterosaur keeper guessed that their king must also want to know, so he asked them all at once.

Listening to the information provided by the pterosaur keeper, Zhou Xu nodded slightly and sorted out his thoughts in his mind.

The hatching of pterosaur eggs undoubtedly comes with risks and the possibility of premature death.

After all, Velociraptor lays a lot of eggs, so at least one or two of the eggs in a nest will grow up successfully.

But there are only a few pterosaur eggs, and if you are unlucky, all of them will be destroyed. This is undoubtedly the main reason why the number of pterosaurs has been difficult to increase.

In order to avoid losses among the few pterosaurs on hand as much as possible, under normal circumstances, the tasks assigned to pterosaur riders are usually aerial reconnaissance and communication, and they will not be easily put in danger.

As a result, the accidental death of the pterosaur made Bolevin very angry.

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What was even more embarrassing was that after being transformed into a skeleton beast soldier, the pterosaur completely lost its ability to fly and became a severely disabled "walking chicken" with no combat power and strategic value at all.

Afterwards, Zhou Xu asked a few more questions of concern, including whether pterosaur eggs could be incubated in the sacred incubation pool.

The result is that the problems that velociraptors have are also shared by pterosaurs. This is largely the nature of this type of creature and is simply unavoidable.

Maintaining this melancholy mood, Zhou Xu came to the next area.

Before he got close, the huge figure of the armored dragon came into Zhou Xu's sight.

At this moment, there was only one armored dragon lying there resting, which was the one that Bolevin rode back as a mount.

Zhou Xu called the keepers and asked them as usual about the number of armored dinosaurs inside.

There are more armored dragons than pterosaurs. Including the ones on the southern battlefield, there are now a total of nine.

Before the Battle of the Plains, the number was even greater.

After all, in that battle, they shot and killed four of the Lizardmen's Shield Dragons with enchanted crossbows...

Here, it is worth mentioning that although the armored dragon is huge and majestic, according to Zhou Xu's introduction to the armored dragon's military unit, he was very surprised to find that the armored dragon was not a war unit of dragon people and lizard people in the old civilization period.

Because in the old civilization period, the dragon people and lizard people at that time felt that the armored dragons moved too slowly and had limited offensive power. As a war unit, they were not good enough and would slow down the offensive rhythm of the troops.

So, like the monitor lizard, it is a functional unit that is more inclined towards logistical support.

The function of the Shield Dragon is to produce a resource called "Shield Armor".

The shells on their bodies will age and fall off every once in a while, and these shed shells will be made into shields and armor for use.

Apart from anything else, the shields in the hands of the blue lizard sword and shield soldiers were all made of the shells that fell off when the armored dragons aged.

(End of this chapter)