Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 446: Seeing Grace in a Monkey

In the early morning of May, the air is filled with the freshness of spring.

When the temperature in the plains is gradually rising, it is the perfect time for spring flowers to bloom on the Jiamugou Mountain.

Professor Bai, wearing a thin coat, stretched out at the door and performed a set of health-preserving punches.

While he was boxing, Mengmeng had already made morning tea for him and brought him breakfast.

Professor Bai likes to eat breakfast at the outdoor table in front of the small building and feed the birds and small animals.

Although there are a lot of cats here at the first aid station, there are always people who are not afraid of death and are willing to try their luck.

One of them is a red squirrel, who is used to reporting in at 7:30 every morning. The dried fruits in a small porcelain plate on the table are prepared for it.

After finishing today's breakfast, the red squirrel did not leave in a hurry. Instead, it ran back to the tree and fiddled with it for a while, then brought down a fruit for Professor Bai.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak." The red squirrel put the fruit on the plate and knew to push it in front of Professor Bai. After he took it, it jumped back to the tree and soon disappeared from view.

"This little guy knows how to reciprocate."

Professor Bai laughed twice, but was reluctant to eat it, so he took the fruit and went to the front to show off to Chen Ying.

After three days, the female fox's condition had stabilized.

It was still very weak, and the prolonged inflammation had taken its toll on its body.

Sister Leopard learned about the female fox's situation from Chen Ying, and suddenly she felt a sense of sympathy.

It looked at the male fox and then at Brother Leopard. It decided that if the male fox despised it and abandoned it when it knew that the female fox could not give birth to cubs, it would send Brother Leopard to have a heart-to-heart talk with it. If it really didn't work, it would go to Brother Leopard to comfort it.

Perhaps because he was afraid of scaring the five little ones, Uncle Tiger took the initiative to move upstairs, to the room where Big Tiger used to live. The platform outside was just right for him to sleep and bask in the sun without having to worry about being disturbed by the little ones.

Without the big tiger, the animal house became a playground for the little foxes.

Uncle Tiger moved to a new room, he didn't die, so the remaining smell inside was still very strong. The five little cubs simply treated this animal house as a haunted house.

Xia Sen and Meng Meng thought these little guys were quite interesting, so they simply went to the woods to find suitable hollow tree trunks, processed them a bit, and then used stones and thin wooden sticks to create an artificial forest.

Not to mention the little fox cubs, even the little lynx found it fun and often crawled into the tree hole to block the passage. Then, when it heard the five little fox cubs whining in frustration, it would laugh "ho ho ho", just like a big villain.

Two days later, the mother fox was barely able to walk a few steps and could lie at the stairs to watch her children play.

In addition to feeding the female fox with nutritional powder, the male fox does not allow his wife to eat the food fed by the two-legged beasts. He hunts and feeds his wife every morning and evening, and he will pluck most of the feathers of the pheasants he catches before bringing them back.

Lao Gao looked at it with murderous eyes every day, but the male fox didn't even look at him. One day, Lao Gao even saw from the surveillance camera that the male fox was circling outside the incubator, as if he wanted to attack the pheasant eggs he brought back.

Lao Gao was so angry that he wanted to hit the fox with a stick, but was stopped by Xia Sen who held his waist.

From that day on, an extra fence gate was added outside the hatchery, with a density so high that male foxes could not get through.

By mid-May, Dao Meihua called Chen Ying and said that she was ready to leave.

The two agreed to meet at the management bureau of the nature reserve, where the first phase team is currently organizing their work and preparing specimens.

The second phase team originally planned to enter the mountains in mid-month, but due to temporary work changes, the plan was postponed for a week.

Chen Ying and Dao Meihua went there as planned. They planned to use this week to wander around the periphery. Especially Chen Ying, he brought Xiaobai with him, wanting to try to find a husband for Xiaobai here.

In fact, if he didn't take her away, Xiao Hai would make trouble with him.

Xiaobai treated the nest of cobras in the valley as spicy snacks and ate two of them in just one week!

Although it is very common for snakes to eat snakes, Xiaobai's digestion ability is too good. At this rate, it is not known whether a nest of snakes can be enough for it to eat for two months.

Moreover, Xiaobai only eats that nest of snakes. It won't even glance at other snakes passing by it.

Lao Qing also eats snakes, but it can eat them for half a month after eating them once. Compared with its peers, Lao Qing prefers to eat mice. It eats all kinds of mice, big and small. It also likes to hang mice on the trees where it lives, just like cooking bacon before winter.

Xiao Hai had been fighting with Lao Qing for a long time because of this chilling habit of his. Now he finally stopped hanging rats and started hiding them instead. The surrounding tree holes were subjected to an unprecedented death attack.

Fortunately, there are many rat eaters in this area, so we are not always surrounded by the stench of death.

Xiao Hai originally planned to let Chen Ying take Lao Qing with him. Who knew that this guy looked gentle but actually had a bright heart? Chen Ying couldn't find him two days before he left. It wasn't until the day after he left with Xiao Bai that Lao Qing slowly slid down from the tree.

We took Xiaobai along the green channel and arrived at our destination one day later than expected. After all, even if it was the green channel, Xiaobai was a cobra, which meant it was impossible for it to pass easily.

Arriving at the administration's guesthouse, after Chen Ying registered the species of animals she was bringing, the girl in charge of registration was stunned.

What a fierce man, carrying a cobra with him! Even if it is white, it is still a cobra!

Not to mention that the girl is from Jiangsu, and she felt a pang of pain when she saw the white snake! After all, the story of "two Sichuan snakes fighting with a Henan man for a Zhejiang man and drowning a group of Jiangsu people" is very popular on the Internet.

And this time, the registration place of this white snake was clearly written as Sichuan Province!

Xiaobai was coiled in the snake box. Being very sensitive to scents, he looked at the two-legged beast in charge of registering him in confusion: What about his claws? He wasn't doing any prank or scaring anyone, so why was he looking at him like that?

Fortunately, the girl was still rational. She put away the registration tablet with a stern face, explained some precautions to Chen Ying in a dry voice, and then turned and left.

The female member of the research team who was accompanying her covered her mouth and laughed for a long time before she said that the girl was from Jiangsu.

Although Chen Ying doesn't surf the Internet much, he still knows about these memes. After all, there are many "meme kings" around him who like to surf the Internet.

"Are Teacher Chen and Dao Bo planning to visit the scenic area?"

The female team member took out a scenic area map from her pocket.

These are the peripherals she collected, which were made by some folk inns themselves.

"We go to this inn often. The food there tastes good, except that it's a little expensive. But even if it's expensive, it's obvious. The ingredients here are very good, and the chef's skills are also good."

"Teacher Chen, if you are not in a hurry to come back, you can stay at his house for one night. Each of his rooms has its own characteristics. I recommend that you choose the Chaoyang and Qingfeng rooms. You can watch the sunrise and enjoy the beauty of the morning mist and the swaying shadows of the trees."

Dao Meihua took the small map, took a look at it, then looked up at Chen Ying.

"How about we go take a look here?"

Although there was a bit of inexplicable awkwardness, Chen Ying was also attracted by the description of the female team members.

It's a rare opportunity to go out, so just go and take a look.

The inn is near Jinhouling, the main habitat and activity area of ​​golden snub-nosed monkeys. The white golden monkey reportedly was seen here.

However, because the monkeys moved quickly and passers-by saw them by chance, by the time they remembered to take pictures, they had missed the best opportunity.

Although the photo I managed to take showed a white mass on the tree, the background was blurry and I couldn't even make out the shadow of a monkey. It definitely could not be used.

Chen Ying and Dao Meihua placed Xiaobai in the room, told others not to enter easily, and asked the female team member to help feed him if they failed to return in time. Then the two rented a car and went to Jinhouling Inn.

The altitude here is more than 2,000 meters, and the main forests are Bashan fir and red birch coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests. The ancient trees on the ridge are towering, and there are waterfalls hanging high. This scenery alone is worth the price of the ticket.

There are dense forests here, close to water sources, and many edible fruits and young leaves around. No wonder monkeys live here.

It was already noon when they arrived. They had lunch and rested for a while. In the evening, under the guidance of the boss, they came to the observation deck beside the waterfall to wait for the monkeys to appear.

Sure enough, around four or five o'clock, monkeys came here in groups to play, forage for food and play in the water.

But Chen Ying looked carefully and did not find any white golden monkeys.

“Is it possible that the golden monkeys have grown old and their golden hair has turned white?”

"Impossible." Chen Ying answered Dao Meihua's question firmly, "The hair of golden monkeys will become dull and lose its luster when they get old, but it will not turn white."

Dao Meihua studied botany and knew a little about animals, but not much. She knew the most about cats. Although cats of all sizes would grow white hair when they got older, she had never seen a completely white one.

She thought that humans' hair would turn white as they get older, and since monkeys and humans are both primates, what if their hair would turn white too?

Now that Chen Ying had said this, she felt a little embarrassed that she had asked such an unscientific guess.

Chen Ying didn't think too much about it. He picked up the telescope and looked carefully again, then sighed.

"I don't think we can see it today. Let's come back tomorrow morning. If not, we'll probably have to go deeper into the primeval forest to find anything."

As soon as the two turned around, they were startled by a pair of cute creatures standing behind them.

"When did these two get close?"

Dao Meihua leaned back slightly and looked at the mother monkey holding her cub sitting on a branch next to the observation deck.

The mother monkey was golden in the sunlight, with a kind and dignified expression. The baby in her arms looked at them curiously, and seemed to be eager to get closer, but was restrained by its mother gently and firmly and was not allowed to do anything naughty.

Chen Ying had seen many monkeys, all kinds of monkeys, and he often came into contact with monkey cubs of all kinds, but this mother and son pair gave him an indescribable feeling of liking.

Chen Ying had some of the golden monkey's favorite food in her backpack and tentatively handed it over to the female monkey. Although the female monkey didn't take it, she didn't run away in fear either.

Chen Ying thought about it, picked up a bunch of leaves next to her, and quickly made a simple "leaf plate". She placed the fruits and dried fruits on it, then quickly pulled Dao Meihua away.

(End of this chapter)