Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 157 Hey, I have two faces, aren't you envious?

Chen Ying slept for a while in the afternoon, so Lao Gao said he would stay on guard until the middle of the night, and then go to bed after dinner.

Chen Ying sat by the fire, occasionally roasting some chestnuts to eat and checking her phone. Time passed quickly.

The monkeys left after dark.

The young mother was reluctant to go, but was dragged away by grabbing her hair.

Chen Ying felt a headache for it when she saw it.

The big monkeys have a main goal of never pampering anyone!

After sitting for a long time, I stood up and moved around, and then I saw two unusual shadows on the edge of the fire.

He looked back suddenly and almost lost his soul.

Two male jackals, each dragging a lamb, stood on the slope, staring at him with green eyebrows and green eyes. When they saw that he saw them, they put down the prey, panted twice, and turned around and ran away.

"Is this a thank you gift? It's quite elegant."

When I went up to take a look, I saw that it was indeed a baby goral.

You can’t eat it, but you can’t just leave it here.

The gifts from these two jackals made his head as big as a bucket.

At half past two, Lao Gao woke up and saw Chen Ying busy on the slope, so he walked over to take a look.

"Wow, what are you doing, kid?"

"Stop talking and come help me."

He couldn't return the things in the middle of the night, but leaving them here would only attract wild beasts that would smell the blood and follow the scent.

Fortunately, the weather is cold now and the decay is slow. He plans to hang the two young gorals on the tree and wait for hungry carnivores to take them away.

Lao Gao was very disdainful of his behavior, but he still helped.

Chen Ying didn't dare to sleep. She stayed up with Lao Gao until five o'clock, then quickly packed up and left.

Not long after they left, a blind leopard with its belly so deflated that only a layer of skin remained walked out of the forest, stood under the hanging body of the young goral, sniffed it, climbed up by the body, bit it, and after breaking the straw rope tied to the goral's legs, it did not bother to move away, but ate the goral with relish while being alert.

It didn't even bother to chew slowly, and swallowed it in big mouthfuls. When it was almost 70% full, it heard some other noise and hurriedly left the goral cub behind and trotted away.

A few minutes later, a three-member forest patrol team came over. While confirming the coordinates, they also saw the goral cub hung up by Chen Ying and Lao Gao, as well as the three-quarters-eaten carcass on the ground.

"I am impressed by Dr. Chen's luck and strength. Look, he even has jackals sending gifts in the middle of the night."

He showed his cell phone, and there were a lot of messages popping up on it.

It was Xiao Deng who transferred the message to the big group of their management station and specially tagged their management station.

Yesterday, Chen Ying reported the hot springs here, but the management station didn't pay much attention to it, because hot springs are not uncommon and they don't have development value so generally people don't pay too much attention to them.

But if a group of monkeys regards this place as their winter base, it needs special attention.

And if monkeys can come, then other animals can come too.

So after receiving the message uploaded by Chen Ying and others yesterday, the leaders of the management station held a meeting and decided to arrange people to install infrared cameras here.

They set out at four in the morning, following the animal trail and it took them about three hours to get here.

It's a pity that I didn't get the chance to see it, so I don't know what kind of beast ate this young goral.

The preliminary judgment is that it should be a cat of the family Felidae, but I am not sure what kind of cat it is.

After finding the right position and angle, two infrared cameras were set up.

Before they had time to leave, the monkeys who were taking a hot spring bath came rushing over.

However, this group of monkeys were not as gentle to them as they were to Chen Ying. Two or three big monkeys stood on a nearby tree and made threatening sounds at them.

The group quickly retreated. "Doctor Chen also said there's a nest of red puppies up there. Do you want to go check it out?"

"Let's not go. The female dog just gave birth. If we get too close, it will make them uneasy. Let's go southeast. Didn't Doctor Chen say that the giant panda went that way? Let's go over there and take a look."

The group took a detour and headed back.

What they didn't know was that on a tree above their heads, an old one-eyed leopard was lying on a branch, silently watching them walk away.

After a long time, the old leopard jumped down from the tree, swung its tail, and walked up the mountain around the jackal's bush area.

"Lao Gao, have you noticed that the density of animals in the reserve here is a little higher than ours? They are obviously not far apart. This is unscientific."

Lao Gao was too lazy to pay attention to him as he was too busy watching the birds.

Seriously speaking, the altitude of this mountain is a little lower. Although they seem to be climbing a mountain, their actual altitude is not even as high as that of the first aid station.

There are more broad-leaved forests here, and more birds living in them.

Along the way, they saw no less than seven or eight kinds of books, all of which were at the second grade of junior high school or above.

There are many varieties, but the density is still within the normal range.

Just now they discovered a collared owl.

Chen Ying's knowledge of birds needs to be further deepened. Being able to recognize that this is a collared owl is a huge progress for him.

Thanks to the encyclopedia of plants and animals he had been reading.

This little thing, the Collared Owl, looks a bit like the Little Owl, but it is smaller and has two faces!

When they met this collared owl, it was perched on a tree, holding a small mouse in its mouth, staring at them without blinking.

After staring at each other for about five minutes, the little collared owl could no longer hold on and was the first to retreat.

Chen Ying leaned against a tree holding her bag and yawned, feeling once again that it was a mistake for her to come out with Lao Gao.

Men with different hobbies are destined not to be companions.

Yin Li doesn't count. That guy's self-control is simply inhuman. No matter how much he likes something, he would rather spend time to take pictures of it later than let his own preferences interfere with his schedule.

Of course, this is Chen Ying's one-sided feeling. Who knows, Yin Li might also feel that he can't go out with him.

The upper half of the mountain has obviously sparse vegetation, as if it is losing hair. The forest is gone for unknown reasons, revealing large areas of bare rock.

Touching those stones feels like touching ice.

There is snow on the back of the top, and the area is not small, but the snow layer is not thick.

The destination was right in front of them. The two walked around the bare rock for a while and found a suitable place to set up camp.

This place was chosen by Lao Gao, and opposite was his target of this trip - Hu Vulture.

The mountain wall on the opposite side is higher, and there are several cracks and caves on the cliff wall. Basically, one-third of the cave cracks have bird nests.

The nests of bearded vultures and golden eagles are disc-shaped, mainly made of dead branches, lined with dead grass twigs, flocs and animal hair.

Sometimes bearded vultures will occupy old nests left by golden eagles, and will fight with their own kind for good nests and nesting locations.

They arrived at the right time, as females had already started incubating eggs in two of the nests.

Lao Gao looked like he was going to settle down. He was so absorbed in the observation that he even forgot about eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.

Bearded vultures usually lay two eggs, the incubation period is about sixty days, and the two chicks hatch about a week apart.

When food is abundant, both chicks can grow up successfully. If an accident occurs, the chick that hatches later will either replace the one that hatches first and become the treasure of its parents, or become the reserve food for the older chicks when food is scarce.

The cruelty of life is inadvertently revealed in countless details.

(End of this chapter)