Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 384: The Devil’s Hand Falling from the Sky in the Dark Night

The leopard brothers were a little injured and started to "whine" again, but after smelling the blood and medicine, the two leopards fell silent.

The four clouded leopards that followed did not enter the camp, but instead found two trees nearby to settle down.

The four of them were also worried about the two leopards, so they prepared to take turns guarding them to prevent the leopards from suddenly hurting each other.

Chen Ying brought a lot of things with her, including a few non-woven animal sheets and diaper pads, which came in handy.

It was cold at night, and he was worried that the clouded leopard would catch a cold and its injuries would be aggravated, so he moved it into his tent.

I didn’t dare close the tent door, for fear that the cubs would attack me if they couldn’t see their mother.

Another thing is that he didn't know whether the giant panda would come here to sleep at night. If a conflict occurred, the clouded leopard might not be able to deal with the carnivorous giant panda.

Didn’t you see that these two days because the giant pandas occupied the camp, even the leopard brothers had to find another place to rest.

Chen Yingzhen didn't dare to close a single eye the whole night.

Shu Nan slept for more than three hours.

He got up at 4:30 to boil water to mix some milk powder and nutritional powder for the clouded leopard, and let Chen Ying sleep in his tent for a while.

Chen Ying wasn't polite either. It would be better to close your eyes and rest for a while.

It was not until about seven o'clock that Chen Ying woke up and saw Shu Nan feeding the clouded leopard.

Previously, Chen Ying had told him to mix the medicine powder into milk powder and feed it to the clouded leopard, and Shu Nan did as he was told. However, the clouded leopard was in a very bad condition and was very annoyed when being fed. It would stop for a while after sucking for two sips.

Shu Nan was not impatient at all. He kept the water boiling on the fire and the bottle warm at all times.

"Brother Ying, just have some noodles for the morning. I'll cook them."

It took Shu Nan two hours to finish one hundred milliliters of nutritional powder and milk with medicine. Shu Nan knelt down to feed him and his shoulders ached.

He had no complaints, just moved around for a bit and then busied himself with cooking breakfast.

Chen Ying took the pot and poured water into it.

"I'll cook, you take a rest. Tonight is a critical period, we still have to take turns guarding."

"I'm fine, don't worry, Brother Ying, we will definitely be able to save this clouded leopard."

Chen Ying didn't have such confidence, but she didn't discourage him. She patted him on the shoulder and asked him to rest aside.

The two leopards are now curled up in the same corner to sleep. Two clouded leopards can still be seen in the tree, and I don’t know if the other two have gone hunting.

After breakfast, Chen Ying washed the pots and bowls and prepared to go to the stream to fetch some water.

The purifier was in use the whole time, and the filtered and purified water was just enough for the two of them to drink.

As a grown man, if there is a real need, I can just wash in the stream.

The water is a bit cold, so you can go there at noon when the sun is at its hottest, and you can also wash and dry your clothes.

When I finished my work and looked again, the clouded leopard on the tree had changed again?
It seems like the four of them take turns to eat and wait, great, they even know how to arrange their shifts!

Shu Nan took a nap in the afternoon and when he woke up he found that the tent door was blocked.

It's so solid that I dare not push the door open.

Fortunately, his tent was quite sturdy and the giant panda did not put all its weight on it, otherwise he would probably be the first person to be crushed to death by a giant panda.

Probably sensing some movement behind him, the giant panda turned his head and stared at Shu Nan inside through the not-so-transparent tent cloth for half a minute, then smacked his lips and moved away on his own initiative.

Shu Nan hurried out of the tent and closed the door, then looked at the giant panda with lingering fear.

Across the street, Chen Ying was changing the dressing on the clouded leopard.

The opponent's injuries were too serious and had been delayed for too long, resulting in a serious infection.

If it were at a rescue station or veterinary station, this injury could be treated more easily, but now it is in the wild and the conditions are insufficient, so we can only use the most primitive methods to treat it.

Fortunately, when I was in the county town, two young men from the Forestry and Grassland Bureau sent me a lot of bottles and jars of homemade medicine. Even if the effect is not as good as the regular medicine in the hospital, it is already a life-saving thing in the wild where there is nothing.

A small pot without oil was used to boil the equipment, and then boiled water to wipe the infected secretions from the wound of the clouded leopard.

In the wild, boiled water is the best disinfectant.

There was also alcohol, but the reserve was limited, so it could only be used on the blade. Fortunately, Chen Ying's medical skills were good. With these limited medicines and equipment, it took three days to drag the clouded leopard back from the brink of death.

On the fourth day, the clouded leopard was able to lick the nutritious milk powder on its own and could even eat some meat strips during one meal.

The strips of meat were snatched from the leopard brothers' mouths.

When Chen Ying saw the two of them hunting, she would cut off a small piece, cut it into strips and feed it to the clouded leopard.

After being fed twice, the leopard brothers still refused to bring back prey to eat.

The little clouded leopards in the trees seemed to understand something, and that night, a rabbit and a pheasant appeared in the camp.

The pheasant is a golden pheasant, and I have no idea where those four guys caught it from.

After Chen Ying asked Shu Nan to take photos, she plucked the hair and meat and fed half of it to the clouded leopard.

I was originally planning to give the rest back to the little clouded leopards, but the giant panda came over after smelling the scent and unceremoniously picked up the remaining half chicken, chewing it with both the meat and the bones.

Chen Ying used grass stems to weave a rope and hung up the rabbit, preparing to feed it to the clouded leopard the next day.

Who would have thought that in the dead of night, two stupid leopards would actually set up a leopard ladder and quietly swallow the rabbit.

After seeing the video that Shu Nan secretly filmed, Chen Ying held her forehead with one hand, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

They just ate a little meat from the prey they caught, but they actually thought of taking it back with interest.

Fortunately, the little clouded leopard didn't know how to count, and early the next morning, two more rabbits were placed next to the camp.

This time, the giant panda wanted to eat it again, but after picking it up and smelling it, he actually threw it away.

What’s up? Are you still picky?
Chen Ying saw it going towards the bamboo forest again and had some guesses in his mind.

This giant panda probably doesn't only eat meat as Brother Xiong Youming said, but is very picky about bamboo.

He had looked at the bamboo forests around here, and the bamboos in the bamboo forest where the giant panda went were not found anywhere else.

Moreover, this guy only eats bamboo shoots and the tenderest green bamboo. It is too lazy to even look at the slightly older ones.

We haven’t done in-depth research on pandas, and relatively speaking, we haven’t done in-depth research on bamboo either. We can recognize bamboo species, but we’re not quite sure about their distribution patterns.

I mentioned my guess to Shu Nan and asked him to write it down and go back to check if they have this kind of bamboo.

The main reason why this giant panda eats meat may also be related to the lack of bamboo.

The result of being too picky about food is that you are forced to adapt to other foods.

Why are they so picky about bamboo? Is it possible that some substance in it is lacking or mutated? These are things that need to be studied by people who specialize in giant pandas. He is just a simple veterinarian, and curing diseases and saving animals is his field.

It had been a week since the last time they contacted each other when Xiong Youming and his men found Chen Ying.

As soon as they arrived here, they saw the camp was full of leopard shadows. The four-member team led by Xiong Youming stood there in a daze, not daring to move.

Finally, we found a suitable place to camp on another cliff 50 meters away from the crevice of this cliff.

Everything else is fine there, except that it's too close to the animal trail, so it's easy to encounter or disturb wild animals.

They also set up two tents, but without a canopy. Their tents were more rudimentary than Chen Ying's.

Chen Ying took the time to look over and offered them a spare canopy.

The gap over there is a little higher. If it rains, it is easy for rain to drift inside, and the usefulness of the canopy becomes very obvious.

There was also a veterinarian traveling with Xiong Youming. After learning that the clouded leopard was seriously injured, he took out the medicines he had with him and gave them to Chen Ying.

It was also suggested that he take care of the clouded leopard so that Chen Ying would have more time and energy to cooperate with Xiong Youming and others in studying the behavior and eating habits of giant pandas.

Chen Ying thought about it and realized that the clouded leopard's injury was already recovering and its condition was much better than in the past few days. It just needed help with defecation, and he might have to lead the daily routine of cleaning and dressing changes.

It's not that they are worried that the veterinarian's skills are not good, but that if he is not there, the clouded leopard will not be able to bear the pain and will bite the animal directly.

With him around, at least when the clouded leopard hums, he can provide timely comfort and sufficient emotional value.

What he didn't expect was that on the night Xiong Youming and his team arrived, the giant panda stretched out its claws towards the first born sambar deer cub.

(End of this chapter)