Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 525 This bird is so big that it can’t fit in one pot
Chen Ying stood there for a long time, and the tiger retreated into the woods behind him.

Unfortunately, the phone was playing scriptures, and by the time he reacted, the tiger was nowhere to be seen.

A few minutes later, the little fox came out from the bushes. Seeing the snacks spread on the stone in front of Chen Ying, the little fox happily rushed over to eat them.

"Little guy, I'm leaving. Pay more attention and take care of yourself in the future."

"Oh, yes, I can run away very fast!"

The pride in its tone made Chen Ying laugh. For small animals, being able to hunt and feed themselves is just basic operation, and being able to avoid being hunted by more powerful animals is the key to survival.

"By the way, I just saw a big one on the opposite side."

Chen Ying pointed at the tree. The little fox, holding a piece of dried meat in its mouth, stood up and looked in the direction of Chen Ying's finger.

"That big guy? He doesn't come here often, and I only saw him recently. Before, only the big guy you took away lived here. Later, he got pregnant and gave birth to cubs. Then the big guy showed up."

"Then do you know where that cub went?"

"I don't know. I'm also very busy every day and don't have time to watch over them. But I heard from the guys in the tree that it seemed to have been sick some time ago, and the cub fell into the water and died while looking for food. Otherwise, the big guy wouldn't have gone crazy and fought with the bad guy. I also heard that the bad guy suddenly appeared and scared the little cub into falling into the water."

The little fox is simply an information collection station and should have a lot in common with Sister Leopard.

It's a pity that the Tianshan Mountains are too far away from Jiamu Valley, otherwise with just a few of them, information would be able to be transmitted in all directions.

After petting the little fox, Chen Ying told it about the human station at the foot of the mountain.

The cabins here are not frequently used. They are usually used as a place to stay during large-scale mountain patrols, about four times a year, and each time for about five or six days.

In addition, other scientific expedition teams will stay here temporarily from time to time.

The little fox played with Chen Ying for a while and planned to go find food for today.

The small snacks I just fed him were barely enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

Chen Ying returned to the edge of the crack. The scripture audio on his phone had been played repeatedly for several times, and the battery had dropped by one-fifth.

Medi and Klas went in another direction. The two pets wanted to take beautiful photos and shoot a few videos, and then edit them and post them on their personal media accounts when they rested at night.

Kras has a lot of fans on his account, and he is considered an internet celebrity. But he doesn't promote products, because his main job pays well, and he is too busy to take care of his account.

After packing up and before they were ready to go down the mountain, Chen Ying reported to the director that they had found traces of a suspected male tiger. However, the tiger was quite hostile to humans, and even Chen Ying could not calm it down. It would probably be even more difficult for others to get close to it.

At the same time, he also received feedback from the director that the tigress had been sent to the rescue center. Her injuries were not too serious, but her physical condition was not very good. Parasitic disease was her biggest and most serious problem at the moment.

There are many people in China who are doing research on parasitic diseases, and there are also highly skilled experts in related fields. For the time being, there is no need for Chen Ying to help solve the problem of the tigress.

After receiving special care, the tiger cub is in much better spirits. It is a very smart little guy. Because it was the first to come into contact with Chen Ying, it is more accepting of humans than the female tiger. It can even help the human veterinarian to comfort the female tiger.

"That little guy is almost becoming the group's favorite." When the director said this, the doting in his tone was too obvious. "Although the little guy accepts feeding from humans, it is not very interested in cut meat. This morning, it even wanted to catch birds in the park. The breeding team fed it a half-grown chicken, and it was able to bite it to death, but it is not good at plucking feathers and eating meat."

If they can maintain their wildness in semi-captivity, it means they will not have to worry about not being able to survive if they return to the wild in the future.

The center and the higher-level management department mean that after the female tiger is cured, she should be temporarily observed in a semi-wild area and released back into the wild after being confirmed to be free of any problems.
Chen Ying had been nodding, but suddenly stopped when she heard this.

He suddenly remembered what the system said, "Release after five years", whether it meant that this release plan was not successful in the end.

Going back, did something happen to the tigress? For example, she was not treated well, or her body was unable to return to the wild?

With a little worry, Chen Ying and Klaus embarked on their next journey.

Originally, the director wanted Chen Ying to stay and help find the male tiger, but no one could guarantee whether this operation would be successful or how long it would take.

No one had found the Tarim tiger for nearly 20 years before this, which means that the tiger must have a relatively secret activity area. In addition, part of the uninhabited area of ​​the Tianshan Mountains is outside the country, so no one knows whether the tiger is a native species or a foreigner.

The early Tarim tiger is said to be a subspecies that differentiated after the Caspian tiger expanded and multiplied here.

Then, the domestic tiger eradication efforts a dozen or twenty years ago may have forced the tigers to change their habits and flee abroad.

The national gate is for humans, so will the tiger recognize this?
After leaving here, the two headed straight to Kashgar.

From here to Kashgar, you will pass through the Taxkorgan Wildlife Nature Reserve, which mainly protects snow leopards, ibex and argali.

They drove around for a day and parked at a campsite outside the reserve for the night.

Klas wanted to film the snow leopard hunting, but they waited for a day and a night and didn't see a single leopard hair.

Chen Ying did not have too many expectations for the snow leopards in this reserve. After all, his own Erniu was a snow leopard, and there were her girlfriends and good friends. There were all kinds of snow leopards, and he had even seen super-big snow leopards. Other snow leopards had no status in his eyes.

It was a little after seven in the morning and I shivered as I stepped out of the car.

The long-haired cat Medi felt her paws were frozen, so she ran out to use the toilet, came back and pecked at Klas, asking him to leave immediately.

After having breakfast and replenishing his drinking water, Chen Ying drove on along the road.

After walking two or three kilometers, I saw three or four cars parked on the side of the road. All the passengers in the cars got out and leaned over the fence to look inside.

Chen Ying quickly parked the car on the side of the road and asked a friend next to him what they were looking at.

"Snow leopards hunting. Over there, do you see two snow leopards hunting?"

Chen Ying looked again and again, but couldn't see the snow leopard. The kind elder brother handed him his binoculars to let him look.

Sure enough, on a distant hillside, a group of argali were running on the meadow, and behind and to the side of them, there was a snow leopard chasing them.

Suddenly, there was a cheer from the crowd. In the camera, a strong argali was hugged from the back by a snow leopard, and the snow leopard's teeth were deeply embedded in the argali's neck.

A few seconds later, the argali fell to the ground, but the snow leopard still did not let go until the argali died. It then loosened its teeth and raised its bloody face, looking at the crowd with murderous eyes, as if warning humans not to covet its prey. A few minutes later, another snow leopard also caught a small argali. It dragged the prey a little away from the previous strong snow leopard and worked hard.
The way he ate voraciously seemed as if he hadn't eaten enough for a long time.

This is the buffer zone of the nature reserve, and you are extremely lucky to see snow leopards hunting here.

Tourists who are familiar with the local situation speculated that it snowed in the mountains some time ago, causing the snow leopard's prey to decrease, so it had no choice but to come down the mountain to hunt on the meadow.

The number of argali they prey on is very small, and larger populations are usually found in the Kunlun Mountains.

Everyone was still immersed in the heroic hunting scene of the snow leopard and was excitedly discussing it with the unfamiliar tourists around them, without noticing that a child suddenly screamed.

Following the sound, we saw that it was Medi who had also gotten out of the car and caught a plateau rabbit at the edge of the fence of the nature reserve.

This plateau rabbit doesn't look very big, it should be a newly grown adult. I don't know why it is so brave that it dares to poke its head around near the crowd.

Although Medi had caught the rabbit, she had never eaten it before and was not sure how to bite it to death. Now she could only hold the rabbit in her mouth and look at Chen Ying and Klaus with innocent and pleading eyes.

For Klas, his baby being able to hunt a rabbit is of course worthy of loud praise. As for whether to eat it or not, he can eat it even if Medi doesn't want to.
But Chen Ying stopped him.

In our country, if your cat catches a rabbit and eats it, then it's fine. But if the cat doesn't eat it and you eat it, then that's not allowed.

A group of bored tourists saw a big and cute cat, which was obviously a pet cat, catch its prey, so they all stood together and took out their mobile phones to take pictures. Some even teased Metty, asking her to imitate a snow leopard and bite the rabbit to death.

Medi is about to explode.

It couldn't bear it any longer, so it loosened its mouth and the rabbit fell to the ground. Three seconds later, it jumped into the fence like a zombie.

At this time, a strange wind blew by, and everyone looked closely and saw a gray-haired sand fox holding the rabbit that could have escaped death in its mouth. It looked back, and the next moment, it ran away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Tsk, there is a difference between wild and domesticated foxes. Look how decisive that fox is."

After the show, everyone left, and only one car with a sign saying "Photographing from another place" stayed.

"Brother, your cat is of an unusual breed. Are you interested in selling it?"

Chen Ying shook her head. "This is my friend's cat. He is a foreigner and the cat is his sweetheart."

Klaus held Medi's neck and tried to comfort her. Medi had been meowing and cursing very loudly and dirty ever since she got rid of the rabbit.

The two men looked at each other regretfully, turned around and handed Chen Ying a business card.

"We are from the south, specializing in breeding purebred pets. The purer the bloodline, the better. If you need anything, you can contact us directly."

Chen Ying took the business card and watched them drive away.

"Chen, is there something wrong with those two people just now?"

"I don't know. I think there's something wrong, but I don't seem to sense any malice from them."

This little episode was quickly put aside. Chen Ying hugged Medi to comfort her, stuffed her with a large piece of frozen-dried chicken, and continued driving towards Kashgar.

The small city of Kashgar has become very popular in the tourism circle in recent years. Another highway leading to Kashgar, the "Duku Highway", has become a must-visit place for tourists from the north and the south.

They are not trying to take advantage of the popularity, mainly because the Duku Highway is still closed, so they can't go there even if they want to.

This time they chose a place further out. After all, they had a big cat that liked a wide space to move around, and homestays in the ancient city usually did not accept pets.

The two of them are not very interested in cultural landscapes. Apart from food, which can arouse a little interest, they don't want to go to any of those popular check-in spots.

Some people say that it is impossible for a pigeon to fly away from Kashgar, just like a rabbit will never be let go in a certain city in Sichuan Province.

Medi usually eats cat food and freeze-dried food, but this time she also ate pigeon meat for two days.

The processed fresh pigeons have thin skin and tender meat. They are cut into small pieces and fed to Meddy. She can finish a whole one every time.

(Kashgar breakfast, pigeon soup)
Apart from meal time, the two would also drive around and have sweet encounters with wild animals.

Probably because it was too close to a human settlement, I didn’t encounter any animals I wanted to photograph for two days. Only mountain vultures came in several times, and from afar I saw the carcasses of half-eaten animals lying in front of the vultures.

To go to Horgos from here, you need to pass through the Ili River Valley, a vast river valley area known as the "Jiangnan outside the Great Wall". Grasslands, forests and wetlands are interspersed in the valley, and the vegetation coverage rate is high.

Theoretically, there are rare animals such as snow leopards here, but in reality they are hard to see. The most numerous and famous one should be the black-necked crane.

When passing the wetlands by the lake, flocks of black-necked cranes appeared before our eyes, and even their calls could be heard from close by.

Medi opened her eyes wide, staring at the big birds outside the window without blinking, a suspicious gleam of water appeared at the corner of her mouth.

These days, Medi has eaten a lot of fresh meat following the two-legged beasts, and her taste has become spoiled.

When leaving Kashgar, Klas packed more than a dozen pigeons, vacuumed each one and stored it in the refrigerator in the car.

In addition to offering food to Meidi, they also make soup with pigeons.

The biggest gain for Kras during his visit to China was learning how to drink various health-preserving soups. He even downloaded a lot of recipes from a book and bought all the necessary ingredients and herbs from pharmacies and shopping malls in the city.

Not to mention that Medi was drooling at the sight of the big bird, even Klaus' first words when he saw the black-necked crane were "This bird is so big, I can't finish it in one meal!"
Chen Ying rolled her eyes at him silently and didn't respond.

They will stay in Yining for a few more days before leaving the country through the Horgos Port.

This time I didn’t stay in a hotel, but stayed with an alumnus of Lao Gao in Yining. His home is near the Yili River National Wetland Park, a famous bird watching site. It is estimated that because he had been with these birds since childhood, Lao Gao’s alumnus became a monk studying birds when he grew up.

When they arrived, Lao Gao’s alumni were working with colleagues to rescue an injured bald eagle.

This white-tailed sea eagle was injured after colliding with other birds of prey while catching fish. When it was rescued, it still wanted to peck people fiercely, which was really a "bully youth".

(End of this chapter)