Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 513: If the snow leopard reverts to its ancestral form, will it become a snow tiger?
When Chen Ying saw this super snow leopard up close, he had an incredible idea.

As we all know, the snow leopard's closest relative is the tiger.

Apart from its leopard skin, this snow leopard looks like a tiger no matter how you look at it, and is about the same size and weight as a South China tiger.

正常的雪豹雄性体重38-75千克，而华南虎体重在120-150千克左右，印支虎的体重在体重150-195千克左右。这头超级雪豹的体重至少也有100千克，具体重量还得上秤才知道。

It looked at Chen Ying with a hint of doubt, its nostrils flared, and it bared its teeth slightly, revealing its four canine teeth.

The stronger the animal, the more clearly it can sense Chen Ying's unique aura. After observing carefully for a while, this super snow leopard took the initiative to approach Chen Ying and opened its mouth to greet him.

Chen Ying did not back off. When he looked into the eyes of the super snow leopard, he quickly observed the body of this male snow leopard that looked like a tiger. It was obviously a very strong and powerful leopard.

Erniu’s tail was the most beautiful long tail he had ever seen, but this snow leopard’s tail was even more beautiful. It would probably hit a kid with one.

In addition to the tail, its paws are also thicker and rounder, looking like foamed steamed buns, making people want to pinch them.

After circling Chen Ying twice, Super Snow Leopard stood beside him and looked at the car equipped with the live broadcast equipment.

The people in the car didn't even dare to breathe at this moment, and their faces were almost turning red.

Originally, Chen Ying could have taken this opportunity to give the Super Snow Leopard an injection and then wait for it to be paralyzed. But after staring at each other, Chen Ying suddenly had a bold idea that might make the Snow Leopard actively cooperate.

He reached out his hand tentatively, and the super snow leopard's body tensed up visibly, and it turned back sharply to look at Chen Ying.

Chen Ying stretched out his hand halfway, feeling a little awkward. He paused, and when he was about to withdraw his hand, the Super Snow Leopard calmly rubbed under his palm.

"Let me discuss something. I'll take you to see the child. Will you cooperate with us to do a test?"

The super snow leopard stared at Chen Ying with its leopard eyes for a long time before nodding and letting out a low growl.

"Ouch, I'm just going to take a look and then leave. I won't stay overnight."

"No problem, shall we go now?"

The super snow leopard raised its head and growled, and its cry was also different from that of a normal snow leopard.

Chen Ying made a gesture, and the other people in the car got off quickly and got into three other cars.

So, in the live broadcast, Chen Ying was leading a car, followed by a group of animals of all sizes. The most eye-catching one was the Super Snow Leopard, followed by Brother Leopard and Big Snow Leopard, two normal male leopards with very different fur colors.

Further back are a group of cats and dogs.

The travel of such a large group of cats made the surrounding ungulates feel greatly threatened. The flocks of sheep and wild donkeys stayed far away and stood on the slope watching this group of super carnivores.

The first aid station and the training base were notified in advance, and everyone hid in their rooms and closed the iron doors, leaving only the passage leading to Erniu's residence.

Perhaps Erniu sensed something. After confirming again and again that the cub was still alive, she walked out of the room cautiously and slowly.

Several large cat climbing frames were newly built near the flagpole, specially built for Jinya and Xiaojin. At this time, Sister Leopard stood at the highest point and cast a cold gaze into the distance.

There is a powerful aura approaching over there, and there are many familiar auras following it.

Sister Leopard was not in a hurry to go out to check, because she could tell from the air whether danger was approaching.

Seeing Erniu coming out, Sister Leopard let out a soft roar, motioning for it to go into the house first.

But Erniu didn't listen. She ran to the fence behind the first aid station and planned to face the enemy head-on.

Sister Leopard sighed, jumped off the platform, chased to Erniu and grabbed her tail with one paw.

The good thing about having a long tail is that it is convenient, unlike Jinya's short tail, which is impossible to hold down and can only be bitten. Every time I bite its tail, I worry that it will excrete something.

They didn't have to wait too long. When they saw the familiar car coming, Erniu paced back and forth several times, in stark contrast to Sister Bao who was as steady as a rock next to her.

Sister Bao has already smelled the scent of Brother Bao and Jin Ya's family.

It feels quite normal, without any bloody smell from being injured.

As the car got closer, the huge body of the super snow leopard was revealed. Erniu's whole body stiffened, and after making a strange cry, she turned around and ran towards the cub's ward.

When Chen Ying saw Erniu's performance, she felt a little pain in her heart, and looked at Super Snow Leopard with deep dissatisfaction.

The big guy looked back at him and tilted his head for the third time. He felt that the two-legged beasts and their kind here in the wilderness were all weird, which made the leopard confused.

It also saw Erniu, but it didn't show any other expression. After all, it now knew that it was deceived by an illusion. This female leopard is not powerful at all!

It has always only given birth to cubs with the strongest female leopards. This is the first time it has mated with a weaker female leopard. It doesn't know what the offspring will be like, and whether they can inherit its powerful genes.

With this question in mind, the Super Snow Leopard chased Erniu and didn't even glance at Sister Leopard when passing by her.

Sister Leopard, who had never been ignored like this, stretched out her claws halfway, but was stopped by Brother Leopard who arrived in time.

"My dear, this big guy is really powerful. Even so many of us leopards have failed to defeat it."

Brother Leopard's words were rather vague, but they were an old couple. From Brother Leopard's tone, Sister Leopard understood that the actual situation might be more difficult for Leopard to accept than what Brother Leopard said.

But it doesn't matter. Sister Leopard has seen Sister Tiger and Brother Tiger hunting. She is not an inexperienced country leopard. She doesn't think that she is as powerful as she was in Jiamugou and will be just as powerful here.

It glanced at Chen Ying, walked over and rubbed against her, and called out softly, "What is it doing here?"

"Let it look at the baby and do a checkup."

Sister Leopard let out a strange cry, her shoulders shook twice, and then she walked towards the first aid station with a nonchalant expression.

The other cats and dogs scattered when they arrived here.

Erniu's three cubs did not go to see their mother. After seeing the super snow leopard and the disastrous defeat of their father and Uncle Yellow Hair, they decided to continue training their hunting abilities, eat more, and grow quickly so that they could become bigger than that big bad guy.

The snow leopard and lynx cubs were more worried about the bear cub, so they asked Huihui and Fat Jin to go and guard the bear cub, fearing that the big guy would hurt his friends.

Fat Jin was actually more interested in the Super Snow Leopard, but he also knew that he couldn't get too close, otherwise the big guy would slap him in the face and he would probably be split in two.

But it couldn't help but curiously choose a place where it could see the bear cubs' ward and Aunt Erniu's animal house and squat there. It could eat the melons on both sides, which was so cool.

Huihui and the lynx cub lay side by side, discussing their respective living situations. Their living environments were reversed, and it seemed that both of them were adapting well.

The lynx cub originally had a bad heart, but it has not had any symptoms since the last treatment. In the eyes of veterinary experts, it is truly a miracle that it can survive until now, in the bitterly cold and oxygen-deficient environment of the plateau.

So although Chen Ying did not give it a name, in addition to the numerical number, it also has a nickname "奇心" in the observation team's files. The reason why it is not called "奇心" is because a national treasure Tuanzi has this name.

Snow leopard cubs really don’t have names, only code names. There is no other way. There are too many snow leopards here, and more baby snow leopards are being born. It is impossible to take all the names.

Brother Leopard, Sister Leopard, Jin Ya and Xiao Jin, the four of them occupied the high position of the cat climbing frame.

The big and small snow leopards and Huangmao were lying on the base of the flagpole, staring at Erniu's animal house.

Five minutes ago, Chen Ying brought the super snow leopard into the ward, and they haven't come out yet. The big snow leopard's claws stretched and retracted, almost scratching three horizontal and three vertical lines on the concrete base.

Half an hour later, Xiao Song and Professor Bai came to the front of the ward and looked through the window for a while. Then Xiao Song changed into protective clothing and went in to assist Chen Ying in measuring the body and drawing blood from the super snow leopard.

Of course, it was Chen Ying who did it, and Xiao Song just helped pass the equipment.

"Weight: 117.6 kg, height: 210 cm..."

According to the measurement results, the data of this super snow leopard is second only to the Indochinese tiger, and is almost the same as the slightly smaller South China tiger.

During the measurement process, Chen Ying took the opportunity to chat with the super snow leopard for a while, and then he realized that it was not a local species, but wandered over from other places.

"This is my first time here, and I don't feel very comfortable, but it's OK. Now I feel much better than when I first arrived."

"With your size, don't you feel shortness of breath? Do you feel tired after exercise?"

"Of course not. I'm very strong. The place I lived before was even colder than here, high up in the mountains. But the food there wasn't very abundant, so I had to walk a long way to hunt and return only after I had eaten my fill. After this heavy snowfall, I couldn't find any food in the mountains near where I lived, so I decided to move to another place. I walked and walked until I came here. It feels pretty good, and there was plenty of food along the way."

Chen Ying looked at its strong muscles and guessed that the reason for the lack of food around it was probably because it ate too much and the food chain was too fragile. The reproduction rate of ungulates could not keep up with its consumption, so this guy had to give up his previous territory in order to fill his stomach.

After drawing blood, they also collected some hair and skin dandruff. Chen Ying even coaxed it to open its mouth wide, took an oral swab, and checked the condition of its teeth.

This super snow leopard was extremely cooperative throughout the process and completed the collection work in less than an hour.

Chen Ying even performed an ultrasound examination of its internal organs and found no problems at all. This super snow leopard is so healthy and strong that it is enviable.

After finishing the inspection, Chen Ying let it take a look at the cub through the window.

Obviously, this super snow leopard was very dissatisfied with the fact that his child was so weak. After watching for a while, he turned around and left.

"The little guy is doing much better now. Later..."

"If there is no future, I will find a stronger female leopard to give birth to my cub. You can take care of this little one."

This was such a cruel remark, and Chen Ying showed obvious displeasure.

The super snow leopard looked at him curiously, as if he didn't understand why he was angry. For wild animals, weak cubs are destined to be abandoned, because even if you spend effort to feed them, they may not be able to successfully live independently. Instead of wasting time and energy on them, it is better to hope that the next litter of cubs will inherit the strong genes of their parents.

Erniu was in the next room. When she heard this, the corners of her mouth twitched, revealing her canine teeth.

It really wanted to go out and fight the big guy, but when it looked up and saw the cub, its maternal instinct prevailed.

It can fight to the death, but if it dies or gets injured, what will happen to its baby? Its brothers and sisters are not yet adults, and they cannot take the responsibility of taking care of it and teaching it.

Although the two-legged beast is good, he is not of the same kind as himself after all. Unless... the little cub is allowed to live in a very small area like the other four cubs.

The fourth cub made his own choice, but the youngest cub cannot make a choice yet.

With a sad look in her eyes, Erniu lay silently in the middle of the corridor between the animal house and the intensive care unit, quietly guarding her children.

Chen Ying accompanied the super snow leopard out of the ward and sent it back to the fence behind the first aid station before speaking.

"I think the cub will grow up smoothly and possess a strong physique and strength. In the future, it will be the most powerful existence in this wasteland."

The super snow leopard turned its head and looked at him for a long time, then swung its tail indifferently and slowly walked into the wilderness.

"It would be great if such a day really comes, but I will still look for other powerful female leopards to give birth to cubs. I believe that only when both parents are strong can the children born have the potential to surpass my strength."

The super snow leopard walked and talked, with a graceful back view without looking back.

After walking a few hundred meters, it let out a roar, started to accelerate, and soon disappeared from sight.

After making sure it had left, the other cats breathed a sigh of relief, and their ruffled fur finally smoothed out.

The alarm was lifted and everyone came out instantly. A few quick ones rushed directly to the monitoring room and started checking the video of Super Snow Leopard.

"Oh my god, this is such a big snow leopard. This data, is it a throwback to its ancestors?"

Chen Ying was typing in data while chatting. A snow leopard of this size is definitely not an ordinary leopard. Another explanation for atavism is gene mutation. The mutated gene of this snow leopard is biased towards body size. If it can be inherited stably, its offspring will be larger than ordinary snow leopards. As this gene evolves from generation to generation, perhaps in the distant future, snow leopards as a whole will be larger than they are now.

"But isn't body size related to climate or something? If the snow leopard is evolving towards larger size, does that mean that the Earth's climate and magnetic field are also changing? For example, the oxygen content..."

"This is not a problem we can study. We are veterinarians and focus on technology. There are definitely scholars who will study what you said. But if only one species undergoes such a change, it is probably unrelated to the factors you mentioned. Unless multiple organisms undergo changes in size, there may be changes in the overall environment."

These are all research in professional fields that require data support, but data does not exist in isolation. A change in one factor will cause a chain reaction, so research in these fields requires collaboration among multiple teams and long-term monitoring to produce results.

In short, the emergence of the super snow leopard will definitely arouse the curiosity of many experts in many fields. As for the research team, it has nothing to do with Chen Ying.

Now, he is worried about how to comfort Erniu and how to take care of the weak cub.

The only good news is that there is no major problem with the cub's organs. As long as it successfully undergoes vascular reconstruction surgery, improves blood supply and eliminates the hidden danger of vascular stenosis, it will definitely grow up smoothly.

If I want to have surgery, it’s definitely not possible here at the emergency station.

Chen Ying has submitted the report and plans to take Erniu and Xiaozai back to the Jiamugou Shelter for a comprehensive examination. She will also contact relevant medical institutions to prepare consumables. Once everything is ready, she will perform vascular reconstruction surgery.

The most critical issue at present is whether the superiors agree that Erniu, as the mother of the cub, should accompany it to Jiamugou to complete the operation, and where is the most appropriate place to place it during the long period of rearing after the operation.

(End of this chapter)