Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 371 Is this kid regressing to his ancestral state?

There is harmony on the Jiamugou Mountain, but in a certain online conference room, the video is full of people with black faces.

"We should put it here." The person who spoke said firmly, "We have been preparing for this for more than 20 years. The conditions are ripe."

"Oh, you make it sound like we're not prepared. We started the project earlier than you did."

"How can it be the same? You are just a research lab, covering a small area. It's different here. The core area is nearly 700 acres of forest, plus the buffer zone and experimental area, which is enough to support five South China tigers. When the cubs grow up, they can expand outward automatically."

"We're not that bad here. Can't four hundred acres accommodate a tigress with cubs?"

"Heh, you have the nerve to bring up such a large area for Yehu."

In terms of territory, the other two research bases are definitely not comparable, but they also have their own advantages.

On the fifth screen, the organizer of the meeting was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He coughed twice and interrupted the two researchers who were arguing.

"The purpose of holding this meeting today is to try to invite this mother tiger and her two cubs to our side. On the map, our side is the real South China. But there are no South China tigers in South China. Is this reasonable?"

"Don't argue. The most important thing now is to negotiate with the Sichuan Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau and get Dr. Chen to agree to cooperate and transfer the mother tiger and her cubs to our place for release into the wild."

People who are not in the circle may not know how much autonomy Dr. Chen has. If he disagrees, no one can force him.

Someone will say that it is a state action and individuals must cooperate.

Okay, he can cooperate, can you make animals cooperate too?
What do you mean by taking it away by force? Are you afraid that the tiger will not die?

After more than 30 years, we finally see the possibility of the South China tiger surviving in the wild. If anyone dares to mess around, those of us who have spent most of our lives studying South China tigers will be the first to not let him off!
Chen Ying didn't know yet that someone was already plotting against the tigress and her two cubs.

But in fact, he is also actively considering this issue.

It's not that he has a high level of awareness. It's mainly because in his opinion, there is basically no problem with the reproduction of species in the nature reserve where Jiamugou is located, as well as in the two adjacent nature reserves. As long as they don't set fire to the mountains, they can live in harmony. Let alone the reappearance of the South China tiger, he wouldn't be too surprised if the saber-toothed tiger reappeared one day.

Of course, he meant that the saber-toothed tiger was a bit fantasy.

Wasn’t there a report a few days ago that a species that had been declared extinct in the wild for more than a hundred years suddenly and miraculously reappeared in a certain place?

Regardless of whether it is true or not, it also shows that sometimes what humans think is extinction actually still has a spark of extinction.

Just like they discovered wild South China tigers here, in the primeval forest in the uninhabited area, how do you know that there are really no tigers left?
Not to mention those far away, there is at least one male tiger in the reserve on the left, and one male and one female on the right, and now there are a few more tiger cubs that have started to live independently.

He hasn't counted the tigresses who are helping to take care of the cubs, so there are already seven or eight of them. Even if we only count the territory areas of the male tigers, the density is still too large.

Of course, the core area of ​​their nature reserve is 400 square kilometers, so with just a few cats, they don't have to worry about not being able to feed them.

Just when Chen Ying had finished taking care of the tiger cub and was turning his attention back to Dong Sheng's treatment, someone from the next-door nature reserve found him through personal connections.

This was already across provinces, and Chen Ying didn't understand why the other party was looking for him.

The visitor made an appointment with him to meet in Jiamugou Town, and two young village cadres from Xiaozhai Village also accompanied them.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. There shouldn't be any problems with giant pandas in your reserve, right? Don't you have the largest number of wild giant pandas in your reserve?"

“Yes, but our reserve also has problems that need experts’ help in analyzing.”

Chen Ying glanced at him, then looked at the village cadre he was more familiar with, frowning slightly.

"I'm not an expert, I'm just a veterinarian. If you want to find an expert on giant pandas, I can help you get in touch with them."

The man quickly explained, "Doctor Chen, we have already consulted experts from the base and the center about this matter, but we still have no conclusion."

Xiong Youming sighed in confusion.

"To be honest, Doctor Chen, I came to see you privately this time."

The new village cadre Xiao Yin’s sister was his classmate, and she had to go through a lot of trouble to find Xiao Yin to help make the connection.

"Although the experts' opinions are very reasonable, I personally cannot fully agree with them. The leaders of the reserve also have different opinions. I have no choice but to come to you for consultation."

He opened his backpack, took out his laptop, opened the folder and played the video for Chen Ying to watch.

"This giant panda can almost walk sideways in our reserve. Last year, it encountered a black bear on the mountain and smashed the black bear's head with its fists."

Chen Ying took a look and didn't see anything wrong.

"Please take a look at these videos." He clicked on three videos in succession, and the protagonist of all of them was the giant panda.

In one video, it is tearing a bamboo rat apart and eating it, while in the other two videos, the giant panda is feasting on the carcass of a takin.

After reading it, Chen Ying still didn't understand what he wanted to express.

"This giant panda is a key monitoring target of our reserve. But based on the monitoring records accumulated over the past two years, this giant panda's staple food is not bamboo, but meat."

It is not uncommon for giant pandas to eat meat. The most famous meat-eating panda is the "sheep-eating witch" Jiasi.

According to statistics, Jiasi went down the mountain 12 times in total, killed 20 sheep, ate 15 sheep, and injured 6 sheep.

The last time Jia Si sneaked into the villagers' sheepfold at night to have a feast, the evil woman bit five of the 19 sheep to death in one go and ate the meat of one and a half sheep.

After eating, he didn't leave, but slept soundly in the sheepfold until dawn.

The villagers, unable to bear it any longer, called people from the Giant Panda Conservation Center, who put Jiasi in a cage and took him away in a car.

In addition, photos of giant pandas gnawing on bones taken in recent years also show that giant pandas are not purely vegetarians. In addition, on several occasions, it was discovered that the feces of giant pandas were grayish white and contained undigested animal tissue and hair.

Of course, there seems to be only one sheep-eating witch at the moment, and she is not very representative.

The video brought by this friend who came from afar only shows that a giant panda that likes to eat meat has appeared thousands of miles away.

"No, if it was just that, I wouldn't have come to see you." Xiong Youming frowned and smiled bitterly, "This panda used to eat bamboo, but in recent years, it has been eating meat more and more frequently. We are worried that it may have mutated. The nature reserve organized two attempts to capture it and bring it back for research, but failed."

Seeing Chen Ying's face change slightly, Xiong Youming was stunned for a moment, then realized that his words were ambiguous, and quickly explained that they were not going to bring the panda back for scientific research, but just wanted to check its body to see if there was anything wrong with it.

Chen Ying's face turned even darker. Is there something wrong with eating meat?
There are vegetarians and meat eaters among humans. Why didn’t you bring the vegetarians here for examination?

Xiao Yin, a village cadre, is good at observing people's expressions. As soon as he saw Chen Ying's expression, he knew that his sister's old classmate was too bad at speaking.

She was worried that the more she talked, the angrier she would get, so she quickly interrupted.

"I don't quite understand what you mean, Brother Xiong. Doctor Chen has already said that although giant pandas mainly feed on bamboo, they also eat meat. That panda just eats more meat. Is there any problem with that?"

Xiong Youming actually realized that what he said could easily be misunderstood, but he was not good at speaking, and the more he explained, the more misunderstandings he caused.

Hearing Xiao Yin's words, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's put it this way. If the panda's staple food is bamboo, it wouldn't matter if it eats a few bites of meat every day. But the problem now is that in the photos and videos we took, it basically didn't eat bamboo, but only ate meat. So we're worried that there might be something wrong with its digestive system. That's why we want to bring it back for a thorough checkup, and we definitely don't mean to use it as an experimental subject."

After this explanation, Chen Ying's expression improved a little.

In fact, the panda community has been studying this issue.

From the perspective of the digestive system, giant pandas are undoubtedly more suitable for eating meat. Although they have been vegetarians for two million years, there are no enzymes in their intestines that are suitable for breaking down fiber. Moreover, as vegetarian animals, their intestines are only four times the size of their bodies, which is exactly the same as the intestinal proportions of carnivores.

In the past few years, there have been many valuable papers on the research of giant pandas' digestive systems, which have determined that they do not rely on plant cellulose to survive, but instead rely on absorbing starch from bamboo to survive.

But this giant panda seems to have reverted to its ancestral roots. It rarely eats bamboo, and thus rarely absorbs the energy from starch. All its nutrition comes from animal meat and bones. Such a unique diet is no wonder that it aroused the curiosity of the staff of the reserve.

But this is not the reason for him to come to me alone. With such a good research subject, there will definitely be someone to take it no matter which research institute he is given.

Xiong Youming hesitated for a moment and finally told the truth.

"I have been working in this position for more than ten years. I don't seek promotion. I just want to switch to a researcher position. I think this is an opportunity..."

Xiao Yin pursed her lips and frowned slightly. She looked at Xiong Youming with some displeasure.

How could this person be like this? Isn't he lying to her?

I thought he came to me for work, and I was kind enough to help him make connections, but it turned out that he wanted to get Dr. Chen to help him with his research project? How could he be so shameless.

Chen Ying was not as angry as Xiao Yin. Although he also felt that Xiong Youming's behavior was speechless, as someone in the circle, he also knew how difficult it was for grassroots researchers, especially those in nature reserves, to produce research results.

Watching your classmates publish papers one after another and rise in position step by step, it is impossible to remain indifferent unless you don't care about this at all.

It's understandable, but since we have no relatives or friends, why should he help me?

(End of this chapter)