Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 366 How about giving it a cub?
There are a large number of falcons living in Jiamugou and the two neighboring conservation areas, especially peregrine falcons and hunter falcons.

April to June is the season when these two birds of prey incubate eggs. During this period, both male and female falcons are more ferocious than usual and will seize every opportunity to stockpile food.

Although crows' favorite food is not their favorite, they will not be picky about the taste when food is scarce.

There is also the golden eagle, which is also one of the crow's natural enemies.

In the video that Professor Song showed him, in addition to the birds of prey suppressing the crows and pecking them, there were also many cats cooperating with each other, which was obviously an organized behavior.

The crows were eventually driven away by cats and hawks.

Some flew to lower altitudes, closer to human habitation, while others flew to the sparse wooded area on the other side of the river and set up camp.

"I'm not here to call you to task this time." Professor Song smiled gently.

"These crows reproduce too fast, and we were worried about how to control their rapid expansion. With your cats making such a fuss, the reproduction of crows this year will definitely be affected. This way, the number of crows in the second half of the year will be much less, which will indirectly help us achieve our goal."

Another thing is that the Bird Research Institute found that the number of birds and animals in the Jiamugou area is obviously more concentrated than in other places. She came here this time to have a good chat with Chen Ying to see if they can find a good way to spread these animals.

"It should be fine. In fact, even if you don't come, these guys will leave on their own after a while."

Chen Ying clicked on the videos he had shot with a drone in the morning and evening these days.

"This was taken in March this year, and you can clearly see that these birds are gathering in a relatively concentrated area."

Chen Ying pointed to the time marked on the video and wrote down the date in her notebook.

"This was taken a week later when Lao Gao took his junior classmates to take the photos. The number of birds in this area has obviously decreased."

Over the next four weeks, until mid-April, the distribution of birds was no longer as concentrated as it had been at the beginning, but at the same time, the clusters of crows became more prominent.

"One possibility is that there are too many crows gathering together, affecting the distribution of surrounding bird flocks. Their large numbers also require more food resources. I guess the conflict between them and the monkeys in Huashu Valley is over food."

Neither crows nor monkeys are the kind of people who will give up easily, and both have a strong desire for revenge, so there was a small-scale conflict before.

If Sister Leopard had not been injured, the responsibility of driving away the crows would probably have fallen on the monkey.

However, that group of monkeys usually only stays near the Huashu Valley. If Professor Song and his team want to achieve their goal, they really have to find another way.

Now, the Cat Group has taken action, with a joint land and air operation. The Corvidae family has been completely defeated, and most of the tribes have withdrawn from the forest.

The cats got their revenge and the humans’ needs were met.

After Chen Ying figured this out, she became even more curious about Professor Song's purpose.

Professor Song smiled, raised his hand and tapped Chen Ying's forehead lightly with his fingers.

"I came here this time to cooperate with a research institute in the Middle East, and the research subject is hunting falcons."

She raised her eyebrows slightly, "You should know the big boss behind that research institute. The equipment here is sponsored by him. How about leaving your teacher and follow me for a while?"

Chen Ying suddenly realized, "Forget it. I haven't finished any of the projects I'm working on yet. The teacher has said that we must complete one this year. The time is tight and the task is heavy, so I won't hold you back, Professor Song."

Professor Song Hailu laughed twice, stood up and walked out.

"Okay, I'll take Xiao Gao away first. If you need help here, I'll assign two graduate students to you."

"No, no, we don't need him here. It's just that the bird nests he built behind the dormitory seem to have been taken care of. I don't have much experience in this area, so I might need him to arrange for someone to stay under observation."

Professor Song nodded indifferently. She didn't need to worry about such a small matter.

After Professor Song and his group stayed here for a while, they took Lao Gao and his junior classmate to the bird watching station.

The junior high school girl stayed behind to take care of the expectant mothers who were incubating eggs behind the dormitory.

After Professor Song and his group left, the junior high school girl was visibly relieved, and her face turned red.

"Are you so afraid of Professor Song?" Ruan Mengmeng teased her in a low voice.

The junior high school girl stuck out her tongue and fanned herself with her fingers, "Professor Song, this is what we do in our field."

She gave a thumbs up and said, "Don't even mention me. Even my mentor wouldn't dare to breathe deeply if he stood in front of her."

"But if you work with Professor Song's team, your qualifications will look better."

"Don't I know my own abilities? I'll just be a handyman if I go over there. I might as well stay and observe the birds behind. If nothing else, I'm sure there will be no problem with my graduation thesis."

Ruan Mengmeng did not pursue a master's degree, so she doesn't know the ins and outs of this.

She was actually very happy that her junior sister could stay. After all, she was still a little scared living alone at night even with the doors and windows closed.

The two people live upstairs and downstairs, without disturbing each other and relying on each other.

After Chen Ying saw Professor Song off, she turned around and saw the two of them whispering together.

"Old Xia, Ruan Mengmeng has been here for so long, but she hasn't had a day off yet. Find a chance to ask her if she wants to go back home on May Day. She can leave earlier and come back later, and it can be considered as a compensatory day off."

"I asked her, but she refused to go back. She said her mother would take her on blind dates if she went back, sometimes up to three in one day."

When the two grown men heard this, they shuddered all over.

Luckily, their mother didn't have the hobby of urging them to get married, otherwise they would have had three games a day. In the evening, Jin Ya, who had been away from home for almost a month, finally decided to come back.

Chen Ying glanced at it and said nothing.

In the video that Teacher Song showed him before, Jin Ya was obviously injured. She hadn't been back for such a long time, so she must have been hiding and recuperating secretly.

Fortunately, from the video we can see that Jin Ya was only slightly injured, otherwise Chen Ying would not have been able to sit still.

In addition to Jin Ya, Tiger Mom also came.

It was Jin Ya who persuaded it to come and see the tiger cubs.

Perhaps the smell of its own kind was too charming, or perhaps it was because the tiger mother's cubs had not yet left the nest, and the tiger still carried a strong scent of its mother.

The two little tiger cubs were playing happily, but when they suddenly smelled the scent of a strange tiger, they rolled and crawled to hide behind the big tiger. However, they could not help but stick out their little heads to the left and right, curiously looking at the tiger mother who was slowly walking towards them.

Dongsheng is exercising his hind limb strength on the first floor platform.

It still only has one leg restored to function, but the other leg is beginning to show sensory reflexes.

Chen Ying let it lie on the balcony railing, supporting its body with its hind legs, and practice standing.

So when the mother tiger slowly walked into the first aid station and tentatively approached the two cubs, Dongsheng sounded the alarm before the grandfather tiger.

Tiger Mom stopped and looked up at Dongsheng, a little confused.

It had never seen a tiger like Dongsheng before. It felt three parts familiar and seven parts unfamiliar, so it couldn't help but look at it carefully for a while.

At this time, the big tiger who went out to practice hunting also came back.

Before he got close, he smelled the scent of a strange tiger and heard Dongsheng's warning. The big tiger dropped the prey he had worked so hard to catch, leaped a few times, and rushed into the first aid station.

The tiger mother turned around suddenly and gave a warning roar to the big tiger.

Chen Ying arrived in time and stopped Da Hu from attacking Tiger Mom.

Although they are a male and a female, the mother tiger looks like she dislikes the big tiger.

It jumped directly onto the roof of the warehouse and looked down at the big tiger, whose body was one-third longer than its own.

The tiger didn't realize it at that time. After finding out that it was not an enemy attacking, it jumped back and dragged back the prey it had just dropped.

Chen Ying put a small wheelchair on Dongsheng, put him down, and let him go with the two tiger cubs to tear up the prey.

Seeing this scene, Tiger Mom's critical gaze softened a little.

Tiger Mom: This silly big tiger is pretty good. As a male tiger, he can still be patient and teach his cubs how to hunt. Forget it, I'll give him one point. (-999→-998)

Tiger Mom’s arrival surprised Chen Ying a little, and made her even happier.

To be honest, he was now doubting whether his plan was correct.

If these two tiger cubs grow up like this, can they really adapt to life in the mountains?

The arrival of Tiger Mom made it possible for him to revise his plans.

The two cubs are in good physical condition and have been weaned. Even if they leave with their mother, they will not starve to death.

The only question is, since Tiger Mom already has several children of her own, will she have the energy to take care of two more?
And Tiger Mom gave him an answer to this question that night.

"I came here to ask you for a cub. If you like, I can take both of them."

The tiger mom wagged her tail and hesitated for a moment before giving Chen Ying an explanation.

"On the other side of the territory of the male tiger adjacent to mine, a female tiger lost her cubs."

Chen Ying frowned, "Why is it gone?"

The cub's death was an accident, but it was also related to the young tigress becoming a mother for the first time.

When it's cold, it's much more difficult to find food, and it has to spend longer looking for food.

However, the cave it chose could not stop the tiger cub from exploring the outside world out of curiosity. When the mother tiger came back after filling her stomach, the tiger cub was frozen outside the cave and died of illness in the cave within a few days.

The tigress has been emotionally unstable since her cub died.

Normally, after the death of a tiger cub, the mother tiger would enter the estrus period early, but this tiger seemed unable to get over the pain of losing its cub. It beat up the male tiger who came to court it and got injured itself.

The tiger mother encountered it when she was patrolling her territory. The other party looked at its cubs, and the desire in its eyes made the tiger mother feel that it would rush out and take her children away in the next second.

In the following days, the bereaved tigress kept following the mother tiger and her cubs, and even hunted prey and threw them into her territory.

The mother tiger was almost driven to collapse by this divine golden tiger. Finally, she could no longer bear it and rushed over to fight with it. Only then did she realize that the tiger wanted to use its prey in exchange for raising its children.

"I'm afraid if I don't give it to it, it will really drag my cub away!" Tiger Mom looked at Chen Ying cautiously, "Jin Ya said you have a motherless cub here, how about giving one to it?"

(End of this chapter)