at this time,

In the live broadcast room, the audience's curiosity was aroused to the extreme.

Because they watched Su Ran skillfully skin the mice and then string them onto skewers one by one.

As the charcoal fire burns, the rat meat gradually turns brown in the high temperature, and the skin surface takes on an attractive golden color.

During the cooking process, the skewers of meat tumble in the flames, oil drips into the charcoal, and a slight crackling sound is heard, bringing out bursts of aroma. This aroma is not only the aroma of meat, but also has a unique hint of game flavor.

Although the audience in the live broadcast room held different opinions on this "delicacy", they were all impressed by Su Ran's cooking skills and his courage.

Why talk about courage?
After all, not everyone has the courage to eat rats.

Su Ran flipped the skewers and interacted with the audience: "This charcoal-grilled rat has a crispy skin and delicious meat. It is definitely worth a try."

Despite listening to Su Ran's description, many viewers still found it difficult to accept.

"I don't like it, but I should be able to understand it. After all, if you really live in the wild, you can eat earthworms, not to mention mice."

"But the host is not surviving in the wilderness right now. Is he short of food?"

"That's what I mean, host, there's really no need for you to do this."

After the baking was completed, Su Ran picked up a skewer, carefully blew away the dust on it, and then tasted it cautiously.

His facial expression showed his satisfaction and enjoyment of this unique delicacy.

The audience in the live broadcast room started a lively discussion in the comment section, some expressed surprise, while others were curious.

"Oh my god, anchor, you're roasting a mouse. Are you out of food?"

"I won't eat this even if you pay me, you are so stupid!"

"That's right, host, you are really confused."

Su Ran, who had been concentrating on roasting nutria, only then discovered that the audience in the live broadcast room had a prejudice against his roasting rat meat.

Su Ran couldn't help laughing: "No, this is not rat meat as you imagine, this is nutria."

nutria?
Netizens are somewhat puzzled.

"Oh my god, Brother Su, you're going too far. You actually skinned and ate such a cute beaver."

"Oh, really? I'm going to stop being a fan!"

"I didn't expect you to be such a Sugo. The beaver is so cute, why did you eat it?"

The audience was somewhat dissatisfied because Su Ran ate beaver meat.

It is true that beavers and beavers are very cute and important in the hearts of the audience.

They really couldn't accept that such a cute creature was eaten.

Su Ran kept shouting in his heart: Oh my god.

"No, you misunderstood."

"I eat nutria. Note that there is a word 'rat' at the end!"

“While both beavers and nutria belong to the order rodents, they are two different species.”

"Beavers are large rodents found primarily in North America, especially in rivers and lakes on the continent. They are known for their dam-building skills, which they use to regulate water flow and improve habitats," he said. "In contrast, nutria, also known as coypus, is a smaller rodent native to South America and later introduced around the world. The nutria differs from beavers in size, living habits, and distribution, although both are aquatic or semi-aquatic animals that use plants as their main food source."

Su Ran's explanation also made some netizens suddenly realize.

Experts in the live broadcast room also echoed: "What the anchor said is correct. Beavers and nutria are also different in biological classification. Beavers belong to the genus Castor, while nutria belong to the genus Nutria. This shows that although they are similar in some aspects, they are two different species."

"And nutrias are not cute, they are even a dangerous invasive species in this country."

"real or fake?"

"Of course it's true. Let me tell you, a lot of giant water rats have been found in many areas around my place. They have been identified as alien species, which is what the anchor said, nutria."

"They are gorging themselves on food in aquatic environments and appear to be on track to becoming an invasive species."

For exotic species, we often try to clean them up if possible and make use of them as much as possible. But for nutria, there is not much that can be cleaned up.

At first glance, the nutria looks a bit like a very fat mouse, or a beaver. When an adult, the average weight of a nutria is usually 4.5 to 7 kilograms, and in captivity, it has been recorded as high as 16 to 17 kilograms. It looks quite cute with its round shape.

The nutria is also often mistaken for the muskrat, another widespread semi-aquatic rodent that occupies the same wetland habitat. Driven by convergent evolution, the three have very similar anatomy and habitats.

However, muskrats are smaller and beavers are larger, and both have a flat tail that they use to help with swimming.

Nutria don't need to swim that much, and their hairless, long, skinny rat tail gives them away.

These creatures are native to the subtropical and temperate regions of South America. The reason they were able to travel across the ocean and come to China is the result of commercial introduction, for their fur.

Apart from sporadic escapes that have occurred over the years, the commercial value of their fur has declined, and many farms feel they cannot make money and have simply let them go.

Now that it has entered the world of pleasure, the nutria can finally stretch its back.

Despite being called a rat, the nutria’s reproductive capacity is not actually that high.

They give birth to two litters a year on average, with an average of 4 pups in each litter, but there are also records of a litter of 13 pups, so they are quite fertile.

One of the main things that bothers people about the big-toothed nutria is their appetite, which requires them to consume a lot of vegetation.

A mouse consumes about 25% of its body weight every day, eating year-round.

In spring and summer, they mainly eat the above-ground stems of plants, and in winter they more often dig into the soil to feed on roots, rhizomes, tubers, and bark.

Nutria eat wild and garden plants such as lotus roots, cattails, rushes, reeds, and sedge. Of course, economic crops such as alfalfa, corn, rice, and sugarcane are more delicious.

In its environment, nutrias create their own living area.

That is, areas where most of the above- and below-ground biomass has been removed.

For the environment, it is like having alopecia areata on the head, which is undoubtedly a kind of damage.

The beaver, the older brother of the nutria and now almost extinct, was once considered an environmental destroyer.

But in recent years, more and more scientific research has vindicated it.

Although beaver dams knock down trees, they have important positive effects on the environment and can even significantly reduce the incidence of flooding on a local scale.

Because of this, many countries including Europe and the United States have begun to cultivate wild beaver populations.

So after learning about this, netizens are very concerned about whether the nutria, which is only one letter different from the beaver, can be whitewashed. (End of this chapter)