Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 389 How Do You Know I’m Going to Become a Grandfather?
In the office, a group of people surrounded Chen Ying and laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their backs.

Even the windows outside the office were crowded with people. When the staff who had just got off work heard that there was a "present Daji", they all ran to watch the fun. Even if they couldn't see it, they still wanted to participate.

Veterinarian Xiao Su wanted to help take the ring-tailed lemur away, but was almost scratched by the usually docile lemur.

Chen Ying patted its back soothingly and used fruit to lure it to squat on its arm.

"Come on, I'll take it back. How are the females in the ring-tailed lemur group doing now?"

"It's OK. I'm pretty stable."

This male ring-tailed lemur is the child of the oldest female monkey in the tribe. It is estimated that the only one who can suppress it is its mother.

Unlike other monkey groups, ring-tailed lemurs have a matriarchal society where females are dominant.

When Chen Ying brought the "stinkiest" lemur back to their habitat, a female monkey had been waiting for a long time.

After hesitating for a long time, the male lemur finally left Chen Ying reluctantly, and returned to the group slowly, looking back every few steps.

The female lemur kept staring at it until the other hid itself behind its companion, then it turned to look at Chen Ying.

It slowly approached Chen Ying and the keeper, and after sitting on a wooden stool, it looked at Chen Ying carefully for a while, raised its hand and called out, and a female monkey with a cub came over when it heard the sound.

The big mother monkey pulled a little monkey, which had just grown sparse hair, from the young lemur's arms and put it in Chen Ying's hurriedly outstretched hands.

What does that mean? Is this to let him play with the little monkey and ignore the male lemur?
I know that males have a low status in lemur groups, but it shouldn't be this low.

A lemur mother had two cubs in her litter. One was taken away by the leader of the group, so she subconsciously hugged the remaining one tightly.

It looked at Chen Ying pitifully, feeling as if its whole body was about to break into pieces.

The monkey queen looked at Chen Ying for a while, then stood up to eat the large fruit platter brought by the keeper. Chen Ying quickly returned the little monkey to its mother.

When the frightened little monkey returned to his mother, the first thing he did was to suck on her to calm down.

Attracted by the delicious fruits, Chen Ying finally left the ring-tailed lemur area smoothly.

After returning to the hotel and having a quick dinner, Chen Ying clicked on Yin Li’s video call.

"What are you doing? Are you patrolling the mountains outside?"

"Patrolling the mountain is ridiculous. Your silly daughter is causing us so much trouble."

Yin Li cursed with a laugh while panting, then stood there with his hands on his hips and took a few deep breaths.

When Chen Ying heard that it was related to Erniu, he suddenly became alert and even sat up straight.

"What happened?"

"It's pregnant now and is not at all restless. It has moved to four or five places. I went to check on it today and it was gone again."

Fortunately, Erniu was still wearing a collar, otherwise where would they go to catch the leopard in such a vast uninhabited area?
Chen Ying was surprised, "Erniu is pregnant, why didn't you tell me?"

"The results came out this morning, and they only said there was a 70 to 80 percent chance of it happening. Xiao Song and I thought we'd find it first and do an ultrasound. But when we went to look for it at noon, we couldn't find it."

Chen Ying was so nervous that she wished she could grow two wings and fly over there directly.

"Don't worry. Are you still not confident in Xiao Song's medical skills? As long as we can find it, we can confirm it. Also, Erniu is the treasure of the herdsmen. No one will hurt her."

Chen Ying frowned. Is this a question of whether or not someone will be harmed? In the wild, the biggest natural enemy of wild animals is their own kind.

Erniu's fighting ability is a little better than the previous weakling, but because she is pregnant, this improvement can be ignored.

"Go find it quickly, and tell me when you find it."

"Okay, don't worry, it's fine. It didn't go into the no-man's land. It's probably running back and forth between Sanjiang and Heyuan. I've also called your junior sister. She's applied for a secondment to the nearest management station as a resident veterinarian. As long as Erniu is in this area, there will be no problem."

We are about to enter the peak production season for plateau animals, and veterinarians and related personnel from various units are all in place.

Chen Ying hung up the phone, her temples throbbing.

After thinking it over again and again, I called Professor Bai and asked him to stay in the mountains for a while longer.

The animals on Jiamugou Mountain have also entered their peak production period, and Xia Sen and Ruan Mengmeng are probably a little overwhelmed.

He originally planned to go to Heyuan to take a look and leave, staying there for three or four days at most. When he returned to Jiamugou, it would be May, the season when babies would be born one after another.

But now Erniu is pregnant. According to the general pregnancy and delivery patterns of snow leopards, she should give birth in May or June.

This was the first baby, and the one with a noisy temper had a poor health. Although he tried his best to make up for it in the later stage, compared with other healthy female leopards, his second daughter faced a greater fertility risk.

Everyone has feelings, and it is even more impossible to let go of Erniu.

His current mentality, to use the words that the teacher just used to laugh at him, is like a grandfather in the prenatal symptoms period.

There is a high probability that Sister Bao will not be able to give birth, and the possibility of Jin Ya and Xiao Jin giving birth to cubs is also very small. With this calculation, among the three sisters of the Chen family, only Erniu is responsible for the responsibility of carrying on the family line.

All night long, Chen Ying was in a state of being half awake and half awake, and she always dreamed of Erniu lying in a dark and cold cave covered in blood, with two little creatures of unclear shapes under her belly.

Not daring to sleep any longer, Chen Ying simply got up, packed her things, and prepared to go to the airport.

When I got there, I chartered a car and went directly to the Heyuan Management Station. On the way, I sent a message to Duanmu and apologized for not visiting.

When Duanmu received the news, he was rushing to the station from Qishan National Park in the northeast. He also hurried back when he heard that Erniu was pregnant.

Anyway, Qishan invited him over just to make up the numbers, so the expert can just stay there.

When Chen Ying arrived at the Heyuan Management Station and got off the car, he saw Yin Li and Xiao Song getting out of the car next to him.

"Have you found Erniu?"

Yin Li shook his head. "We have searched all along this line, but we haven't seen it, nor have we found its signal. Xiao Song and I are going to Sanjiang to ask about the situation. They are also looking for it. I don't know if we can find it."

Chen Ying thought about it and prepared to drive out to find Erniu by herself.

"By the way, where are those little guys?"

"They were sent out a long time ago. They are all grown up and can support themselves. There is basically no poaching here. Unless they encounter natural enemies, their safety is not a problem. If they really can't find food, they will know to come back and eat for free."

After Chen Ying left last time, the temporary shelter behind the Heyuan Management Station was quickly emptied.

Those who should go to the zoo to retire should go to the zoo, and those who should go out and be self-reliant should not stay at home.

Because of this, Erniu didn't come back for a long time and they didn't worry about it.

Normally, we only exchange information with several other management stations to make sure Erniu is still alive.

While Chen Ying was talking to Yin Li, Xiao Song was also asking Junior Sister Bai about the situation.

"Brother Ying, Senior Sister Bai said that she didn't find any collared snow leopards over there, and she suspects that Erniu didn't go to the Sanjiang area."

"This silly girl, she's pregnant but she doesn't want to go back to the station and is hiding everywhere. What is she hiding for?"

Anxious and angry, Chen Ying didn't even have time to rest. She took the car keys from Yin Li and planned to go out and look for it herself.

"Brother Ying, take a rest. I'll go out with you tomorrow morning. We have to complete this quarter's mountain patrol before the end of the month, so it will be easier to find more people if we have more people."

No matter how anxious Chen Ying was, he still had some rationality. He knew that it was such a big place and rushing in alone would be seeking death.

Even the experienced forest patrol team had to go in with at least two cars, so he'd better not get in and cause trouble.

Duanmu didn't arrive at the station until ten o'clock in the evening, driving the latest model of off-road vehicle, which he said was the designated sponsorship given to Heyuan by Ji Xin's father.

Yin Li did not refuse. The conditions at the station were not good and the vehicle damage rate was high. Having a car with good performance and large space would help the patrol team in their work. He wished there were a few more.

With the addition of Chen Ying and Duanmu, the original plan of three vehicles became four, and more supplies were also allocated.

Before leaving, Yin Li called a meeting with everyone, focused on dividing the areas, and asked everyone to observe and discover the animals and plants in the area while ensuring their own safety.

There are not many plant species in the uninhabited area, the focus is on animals.

In a few months it will be the annual migration time for Tibetan antelopes to give birth, and before that, those top carnivores are also preparing to give birth.

Flowers bloom, leaves fall, life is born, and death occurs.

This time of year marks the cycle of life for the animals and plants on the plateau.

Chen Ying was familiar with the patrol routes, but this time they needed to go a longer way to prepare for the upcoming lambing season.

In late April, the frozen soil has not yet thawed and everything is still desolate.

The snow-capped mountains and glaciers in the distance are reflecting the sunlight. Without the protection of goggles, it is easy to feel uncomfortable.

Chen Ying was driving in the middle of the convoy, with Duanmu and Xiao Song sitting in his car.

Duanmu held the equipment to check the signal, while Xiao Song operated the drone to search.

"Brother Ying, two kilometers ahead at ten o'clock, Erniu stayed there for a long time. A few days ago, Brother Li and I went in to look for her but couldn't find her. Do you want to go check again?"

Chen Ying had a vague feeling that Erniu was not here.

He shook his head and looked at the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

"Erniu shouldn't be here. I have a feeling that she went to the snow mountain community ahead."

That place is not within the Heyuan Conservation Area. To be more precise, almost no one has ever been to the snow-capped mountains there. It is too far away and the climate is too bad. If something happens, rescue will not arrive in time.

Chen Ying let out a long breath, "Let's go in first and see what happens. I'm just guessing, what if it didn't go there?"

On the second day and the day after, we saw several snow leopards and brown bears, as well as two beautiful big lynxes, but Erniu was not there.

“It seems like there are more of these large carnivores this year than last year.”

Yin Li took over driving shifts with the veteran team member. Now he was sitting in the passenger seat, filling the records into the database, and then calling up the previous data to take a look, his expression a little solemn.

More animals are certainly good, but if the density of animals in one place is too high, it can easily cause an imbalance in the ecological environment.

For animals like snow leopards and lynxes, their diets overlap to a certain extent in the wilderness, and brown bears are also carnivores, so the fierce competition means that conflicts may arise between them.

"Brother Li, there's something going on ahead." The team member in the lead car gave a warning on the walkie-talkie, and the group stopped at a distance.

(End of this chapter)