Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 222 The Unlucky Elephant and His Unreliable Mother

Chen Ying didn't understand what the boy said, but Dao Meihua's expression suddenly changed.

"He said there was a baby elephant stuck in the water reservoir in their village."

This situation is not uncommon. In recent years, the number of Asian elephants has been increasing, and due to the expansion of the rainforest, their activity area has also expanded to the outskirts of the forest.

In addition, elephants like to play in water and cannot walk when they see a pool of water. As a result, elephants often accidentally step into the reservoir dug in the village.

Generally speaking, villagers will find a way to destroy one side of the pool wall so that the elephant can climb up by itself.

But the boy said that the baby elephant that fell was very small, and after falling, its head could not be exposed.

The herd of elephants were roaring and charging nearby, and one elephant had already jumped down to try to pick up the baby elephant, but after trying for a long time, he was unable to do anything.

What are you waiting for? Go and help.

There are two consecutive pools more than 500 meters away from the village.

In one of the larger pools, an elephant was spraying water frantically, and in the farmland near the pool, several other elephants were circling anxiously.

Because they were too agitated, the villagers couldn't get close to the pool and couldn't find a chance to rescue them.

Chen Ying wanted to get closer to the elephant, but was stopped by the villagers.

He couldn't speak the local dialect, so he could only grab his teammates and ask them to help explain that he was a veterinarian.

But the teammates didn’t quite understand and their faces turned red.

It was the dark-skinned boy who rushed over to help. His Mandarin was not particularly standard, but at least it was understandable.

Chen Ying patted the boy on the shoulder and asked his teammates and the boy to follow him with shovels.

He first observed and determined that an older elephant with a larger body was the leader of the group of elephants. He found it, comforted it, and asked it to lead the other elephants to retreat and make room for them to rescue the baby elephant.

The old elephant curled up its trunk and looked at Chen Ying for at least half a minute, confirming that he was here to save the baby elephant. It neighed, and the other elephants retreated more than ten meters.

Chen Ying then jumped into the water and approached the baby elephant.

The baby elephant was only about a week old and was very small. When it stood at the bottom of the pool, only its forehead was visible.

Chen Ying swam over, patted the mother elephant, and called on the people on the shore to throw down a rope. He tied the rope around the baby elephant and planned to have someone to drag it up.

As for how the mother elephant is going to get up, she can only wait until the baby elephant is rescued.

Seeing that it was not convenient for Chen Ying to do it alone, two villagers jumped into the water and followed Chen Ying's instructions. They tied ropes around the baby elephant's head and two front legs. Then the three of them held up its buttocks, while the people above the pool pulled hard to make its head emerge from the water first so that it could breathe.

Two other villagers brought rolls of grass and laid them on the edge of the pool wall, for fear that the concrete wall would scratch the baby elephant's skin.

After pulling for a long time without success, a few more people came down, carried the baby elephant on their shoulders, and moved it up little by little.

Although the baby elephant is small in size, it is still quite heavy.

Plus it's still struggling, which is much more difficult than directly resisting the cargo.

This baby elephant is a heavyweight. The villagers said that this guy weighs at least 120 kilograms.

The rescued baby elephant showed signs of drowning, so Chen Ying climbed up and performed CPR on it to help it spit out the water that had choked on it.

While rescuing the baby elephant, he directed the villagers to start from where they had just been, break down the pool wall, and then dig out a slope so that the mother elephant could climb up by herself.

Fortunately, the protection of Asian elephants has been well publicized in recent years, and with the intervention of the government and insurance agencies, the affected villagers can apply for insurance compensation based on the report conclusions.

After more than ten minutes of rescue, a farm vehicle rumbled over, and two people jumped out of the vehicle, rushing over with a first aid kit.

"How is the situation now? Is the baby elephant still alive?"

Chen Ying was almost exhausted. Seeing the man taking over the rescue very skillfully, he sat back and gasped, "Fortunately, there should be no danger to his life."

After a pause, he continued, "But I suspect it may have choked on water. We should be wary of the possibility of aspiration pneumonia."

After checking the baby elephant, the condition was much better than expected.

The baby elephant choked on some water, but not much.

If Chen Ying had come a little later and it had remained in the water without being rescued, there would have been only one consequence.

Chen Ying was helped to stand up with great difficulty, and he felt as if both of his hands were about to break.

It was the first time for him to perform CPR on a baby elephant, and he even did it while blindfolded.

After wiping off the mud and water on the baby elephant's body, attaching electrodes to it and starting the cardiopulmonary monitor, a few minutes later, when the elephant doctor who came later confirmed that the baby elephant was fine and could be released back into the herd, the surrounding villagers couldn't help but applaud.

For Chen Ying and several brave companions, and also for myself.

With the help of manual digging and pumps, one end of the reservoir was smashed, and more than a dozen villagers picked up hoes and shovels to dig this side into a slope. Finally, under the guidance of Chen Ying, the mother elephant, who had been soaked for more than an hour, successfully rescued herself.

As soon as she got ashore, the mother elephant ran directly to her child, touched it with her trunk, and then gently kicked it with her left front leg to make it stand up.

Seeing the mother elephant coming, the two rescuers stepped aside for a moment.

The baby elephant felt its mother's breath, struggled to stand up, opened its mouth and spit out two mouthfuls of water.

Seeing her child staggering, the mother elephant became a little anxious and pushed it with her trunk. The baby elephant staggered, rolled on the ground, and began to cry loudly.

Chen Ying rushed over, hugged the mother elephant's trunk, patted it soothingly, and helped the baby elephant up to check its condition. The elephant doctor quickly handed over a stethoscope and listened to it. The lungs felt fine.

Probably because he was frightened, he was kicked by his mother before he could recover. The little elephant felt wronged.

It was obvious that this was an unreliable new mother. Chen Ying led the baby elephant towards the leader of the herd. Sure enough, the old elephant was gentle and skillful and comforted the baby elephant for a while.

Other elephants also gathered around and petted the baby elephant.

There were two baby elephants in the group, estimated to be about one year old, who also came over and used their trunks to roll up the trunks of the baby elephants.

The young mother elephant lingered there for a while before slowly walking towards the elephant herd.

As Chen Ying expected, this unreliable mother was hit and kicked by the old elephant.

It seems that these two are mother and daughter.

After confirming that the baby elephant was fine, the old elephant raised its trunk to the crowd, neighed, then turned around and slowly led the herd of elephants away from the village.

Chen Ying returned to the reservoir and was about to pick up his things and go home with his companions when he saw the elephant doctor who came behind him reaching out to him.

After the introduction, I realized that this was Teacher Bao, whom I had only heard of but never seen.

Teacher Bao was participating in the release of another elephant into the wild. At the critical moment, he received a call for help from here and rushed over.

"Thank you, Doctor Chen. I'll treat you to a drink when we get back to the base."

Knowing that Chen Ying and the others still had a mission, Teacher Bao didn't bother to talk to him any more. He handed him a bottle of medicinal wine used by the locals, saying that it was very effective in repelling mosquitoes and insects in the jungle. Its only drawback was that it was quite pungent.

The damage to the pool will be reported to the village, so they don’t have to worry about it.

Chen Ying returned to the outpost with his teammates, took a shower in the bathroom there, soaked the muddy clothes in water, put them in a bag and prepared to wash them again when they returned to the camp.

By the time we got back to the camp, it was much later than expected.

Dao Meihua and the team member explained the situation to everyone, and there was also a mobile phone video as evidence. No one said anything, but they just felt that this trip seemed to have encountered more unexpected situations than before.

There is a small river next to the campsite, and we use this water for washing clothes and cooking.

The water must be filtered and then boiled before drinking.

Modern technology is developing rapidly, and portable filtration equipment has become popular in home versions.

They only need to collect surface water that looks clean enough, filter it, boil it, cool it down, and then put it into a cup to drink.

If the patrol only takes one day, just bring enough drinking water.

Chen Ying was very interested in the team's filtration equipment. After learning about it, he planned to get two sets as backup after returning.

The water in the rainforest may contain more germs than that in the snow-capped mountains, so everyone should be very careful about drinking water and eating.

In the wild where there is a lack of medical care and medicine, diarrhea can even cost a life.

Chen Ying and the team members who had gone to rescue the baby elephant took their dirty clothes to wash. They walked to the river, found a place to squat, and saw a group of big rats running across the bushes in the opposite valley.

"No way, the rats here are so scary? They are too big!"

Chen Ying was startled and stared at that place for a while, then realized something was wrong; it was not a mouse.

"Look over there, be gentle."

Gently touching his companion's arm, Chen Ying raised his chin slightly, motioning him to look at the ten o'clock direction opposite.

The two of them tried to open their eyes wide and looked for a long time before they realized that it was not a big rat, but a small mouse deer from the family Cervidae in the order Even-toed Undulate that looked a bit like a big rat.

(This magical elf can be pregnant and breastfeed at the same time. The fact that it has survived extinction is probably related to this.)

This is an extremely miniature deer, with a body length of less than 60 cm, shoulder height of less than 30 cm, and weight of only 1.3-2.4 kg.

It is not only the smallest member of the entire chevrotain family, but also the smallest extant ungulate. Some fat rabbits are much heavier than it.

Because of its small size, it is also called mouse deer.

There are only four or five mouse deer in this group. It is probably during the breeding period. Otherwise, they normally live alone.

Chen Ying held her cell phone and quietly approached the group of mouse deer.

The largest of them, a male deer with tiny fangs, followed by a cub, noticed Chen Ying and tried to dodge quickly, but were confused by his scent, so they stopped on the stone ground by the valley and kept staring at him.

Seeing that the mouse deer did not dodge, Chen Ying simply approached it boldly, but still maintained a distance that made the deer feel at ease, and squatted down to take a photo.

By the time he finished filming, the stag finally realized what was happening and quickly hid in the bushes with its calf.

After returning to the shore, Chen Ying posted the photo of the little mouse deer to the veterinary group in Jiamugou to show off.

This little thing is currently only found in this protected area. You can't see such a cute little elf over there.

As soon as the photo was sent out, there was an immediate buzz in the group. Several girls who loved animals asked Chen Ying where she took the photo and they also wanted to see it.

Chen Ying said that she filmed the video in the rain forest with the joint team here. If they want to see it, they can only go to a special mouse deer rescue center in Yunnan Province.

Just after he finished speaking, Chen Ying looked up inadvertently and was almost dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)