Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 497: Kid, You Really Don’t Need to Learn This
Xia Sen was frightened by these words. His hand shook and the cup rolled to the ground.

"Brother Ying, are you kidding me? Jin Ya just gained some weight." Xia Sen laughed dryly. "Xiao Jin is a golden cat and Jin Ya is a lynx. How could they possibly have children? Stop joking."

Even though Xiao Jin is a rare big golden cat with a well-proportioned body, and Jin Ya is smaller than the lynx in the wilderness, they are still not a match after all!
Chen Ying felt like she was having a seizure after she finished speaking. It is possible for hybrid offspring to be produced by mating within the same genus, such as the Canadian lynx and the bobcat, but there is reproductive isolation between different genera.

Even if we put aside all the issues such as body shape and chromosomes and only talk about their relationship, their offspring would not be able to reproduce and might even die in the womb or be born stillborn.

Thinking about how Jin Ya was looking forward to giving birth to a child, but the child couldn't survive... forget it, it would be better not to give birth to the child.

Isn't it good like this? Even if Xiao Jin can't stand it anymore and leaves, Jin Ya still has them to accompany her.

If nothing unexpected happens, he is destined to be the one to send Jin Ya away from this world in this life.

On the other side, Xia Sen was frightened. He didn't care about anything else and called Meng Meng for help. He did an ultrasound examination on Jin Ya. The final result was that Jin Ya was not pregnant, it was just because she ate too much!
After the false alarm, one thought lingered in Chen Ying's mind.

When he said that Jin Ya had a baby, Jin Ya and Xiao Jin's eyes lit up for a moment, indicating that they actually wanted to have children.

But it is impossible for a golden cat and a lynx to be combined. If they really want to force them to be together, it would be a crime.

But perhaps there are other ways to help Jin Ya and Xiao Jin fulfill their wishes.

After several years of companionship, Chen Ying was sure that Xiao Jin didn't really care whether it was the father of Jin Ya's child or not. It just wanted Jin Ya to have a complete life.

So, is it possible to do this?

While chatting with the furries, he took out his phone and quickly scrolled through the screen, finally stopping on a name.

He thought about it and decided not to dial the number.

Let him talk to his teacher Professor Bai in the evening. There is no need to rush this matter. It is best to think through all the problems first.

After chatting for about half an hour, Uncle Zhaxi had something else to do, so he turned off the video. Then Xia Sen sent the furry kids away and picked up his phone to chat with Chen Ying alone for a while.

Mainly talking about the situation at the first aid station.

"Brother Ying, I heard from my friend that there is a zoo that wants to send their golden cats here for breeding."

Most zoos are not actually qualified to do breeding, but this zoo's situation is special.

"They were the first in China to breed golden cats, but because of poor technology and an epidemic, their zoo's breeding golden cats were severely damaged. Now there are only two golden cats left, one of which is an older male and can no longer breed. The other female, who is of childbearing age, can't find a suitable partner."

"What do they mean? They want to send the golden cat over to pair with Little Jin?"

"It doesn't matter if it's big gold or small gold. If it's small gold, that's better, but big gold is also fine."

There is a difficulty in breeding cats. They only produce gonadotropin after mating, which stimulates the follicles in the uterus to rupture and release eggs. Therefore, sperm simply injected through the catheter cannot meet the eggs at all.

This is also a difficult problem in artificial insemination of cats.

The zoo had no choice but to set its sights on Chen Ying. They learned through various sources that there was a golden cat stationed at the Jiamugou Emergency Station for a long time, so they wanted to send their female cat over to try their luck.

Golden cats can breed almost all year round in warm areas, but in Jiamugou, the breeding season begins in January and February. May is the peak period for kitten births, and this month until September is also the season with the most abundant food.

Golden cats raised in captivity do not have to worry about food shortages, so as long as the affection is right, they can give birth to kittens at any time.

"It can be done." After receiving Chen Ying's video call, Professor Bai thought for a moment and nodded as he spoke, "The province is also rich in forest resources, but since the late 1980s, there have been no golden cat populations seen in the wild. After breeding, we can suggest that they carry out rewilding and release them."

Other big cats, especially tigers and snow leopards, are the most respected in the domestic animal community. However, due to the characteristics of the golden cat, the difficulty of keeping it in captivity has been alleviated with the advancement of technology, but there has been no progress in breeding difficulty.

In recent years, as the golden cats bred earlier have gradually reached the end of their lives, there are only a few golden cats left in domestic zoos.

Some researchers predict that in a dozen years or so, golden cats will become extinct in domestic zoos.

It would be fine if there were no golden cats in the zoo, but there are not many golden cats in the wild.

Although many places have reported finding their traces in recent years, careful analysis shows that their range has not actually expanded. It is just that they have occasionally appeared one or two more times within the original estimated range.

The only places where they are currently concentrated are the pristine forest areas in the southwestern plateau.

Professor Bai's idea is to allow the zoo to successfully breed a sufficient number of golden cats. Only when a sustainable population is formed can their release into the wild be put on the agenda.

In between treating the mother leopard and the lame tiger, Chen Ying had in-depth exchanges with the director of the zoo for several days, and finally the two sides reached a consensus.

Chen Ying will help take the golden cat from their zoo to the mountains for a blind date. She can't guarantee whether it will work out, but as long as the golden cat is willing to find a partner, Chen Ying's help will continue.

Although there are not many golden cats in Jiamugou, the advantage is that it is in a good location with convenient transportation. Many animals seem to know that it is easier to find suitable partners here and that having children is more secure. Therefore, when the breeding season arrives, the animal density in Jiamugou instantly increases several times.

For this reason, forest rangers will regularly feed supplementary food to the animals that have come from afar.

Otherwise, if we allow them to hunt freely, it will have a huge impact on the ecology around Jiamugou.

After people from the four surrounding villages learned about this from the forest rangers, they also took the initiative to help feed the animals.

It is impossible for them to buy large amounts of beef and mutton to feed the chicks. Instead, they prefer to hatch the chicks themselves and then leave them in the mountains to grow on their own.

Except for the hatching period which requires some energy and time, you don't have to worry about anything else. You just need to cooperate with the veterinary station to complete the quarantine.

After all, poultry are different from pheasants. They are weaker and cannot find food in the wild as well as pheasants. Of course, they are also the easiest to catch.

This results in many small and medium-sized cats, as well as carnivores such as jackals and wolves, often appearing around the four villages in spring.

For safety reasons, low-voltage power grids have been set up near human activity areas to drive away threatening animals.

In addition, Brother Leopard, Sister Leopard, Jin Ya and Xiao Jin often patrol this forest, and any animal that crosses the line will be severely punished by them.

In addition to the four resident medium and large cats, there is also Tiger, who comes to hang out from time to time, shows his face in the distance, punches in and leaves, and the clouded leopard who spends his time traveling back and forth every year.

In fact, most of the small animals that often stroll around the first aid station know that they have to follow the rules here.

In places where the two-legged beasts can't see, it doesn't matter if you fight to the death, because your parents and ancestors all went through this. But if the two-legged beasts see them, they will come and take them away, and then treat their injuries, and then they will have to fight again to decide whether to live or die, which is too troublesome.

So, within this range, it’s better to save some energy.

Since that day when Chen Ying joked that Jin Ya had gained weight because she was pregnant, Jin Ya has increased her exercise.

It has been a bit lazy recently. It used to run out to patrol the territory, but recently it stayed near the first aid station, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating. It has grown so fat that it trembles when it walks. It was a rare sunny day. Jin Ya slept in the sun until about five in the afternoon. She got up, stretched, and trotted to find Sister Leopard.

"Going out hunting?"

"Yes, I heard from Da Jin that there are two more groups of delicious meat in Laoxionggou. Let's hunt together and share the food?"

Other cats don't have the habit of sharing, and they can only do this because they are very familiar with each other.

And Jinya wanted to catch one with slightly chewy meat, not the kind that was so tender that it melted in your mouth.

Sister Leopard rolled half a circle on the platform and sneered, "Why are you like that female biped? You're so picky and you're lucky to have food."

That's right, Mengmeng is pregnant! By the end of this year, the Jiamugou First Aid Station will have a little cub, a human cub!

Although Sister Leopard said she disliked Jin Ya, she was actually the one who doted on Jin Ya the most.

After stretching her body, Sister Leopard stood up and called Brother Leopard to go together.

"Go catch a piglet and send it to Uncle Tiger later." Sister Leopard's tail gently wrapped around Brother Leopard's tail, and the two of them stuck together again.

Jin Ya was whining beside him, and couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she turned around and ran out.

He had just taken two steps when he was stopped by Xiao Jin.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Jin dropped the rabbit in his mouth and looked at Jin Ya. "When I came back, I saw that this nest of rabbits was delicious. Do you want to eat some?"

Jin Ya swallowed and felt like eating some, but after thinking it over, she decided to grab the bigger piece of meat.

When Xiao Jin heard that they were going to Laoxionggou to hunt, he decisively left the rabbit behind and prepared to follow Jin Ya.

Brother Leopard came over and picked up the rabbit on the ground, saying that he would first send it to Uncle Tiger, and then go to Laoxionggou to meet them.

After walking two steps, Brother Leopard looked back at Xiao Jin, put down the rabbit and asked, "Where is your little cub? I haven't seen it for several days."

"It's big enough now, it can take care of itself." Xiao Jin replied nonchalantly, "Maybe it went to the Rowan Valley. It's been running there a lot recently."

Sister Leopard didn't care much about the whereabouts of the child. She looked at Brother Leopard curiously, not understanding why her partner suddenly cared about the little guy.

"I heard that it has been staying with a mother cat with kittens recently, and helping the mother cat take care of the kittens."

Sister Leopard opened her mouth, but suddenly didn’t know what to say. She turned around and looked at Jin Ya. Well, this guy was even more confused than her.

"Ah? The cub is with a female cat?" Jin Ya looked at Xiao Jin, with a hint of murderous intent in her eyes. But then she thought of her relationship with Xiao Jin, and looked up at the sky in confusion, "Why do you have to learn even this?"

Xiao Jin didn't dare to talk, and urged Brother Leopard to go and come back quickly, then rubbed his head against Jin Ya, and asked it flatteringly what it wanted to eat, and it went to grab it.

Jin Ya moved her claws and wanted to slap Xiao Jin in the face.

Finally, the three cats came to Laoxionggou and lay in ambush, ready to observe first.

This time was just when the herbivores were preparing to return to their resting place after a stroll. Jin Ya and Sister Leopard were guarding the path they had to take on their way back.

Xiao Jin hid in the bushes, looking back and forth at Rourou who was drinking water by the ditch.

Soon, they locked onto a medium-sized sambar deer.

This deer was born last year and is just one year old this year. To be precise, it is not even a sub-adult.

But their meat is chewier than that of newborn fawns, and their skin is not as difficult to tear as that of old deer.

One young sambar deer was enough to feed all four of them.

When the sambar deer was about to climb up the hillside to rest, Brother Leopard arrived.

This seemed to be a signal, and Xiao Jin attacked quickly. With his nimble body and superb jumping ability, he jumped onto the back of the target sambar deer, scratched it hard with his claws, and waited for an opportunity to bite its neck.

Xiao Jin's claws were very sharp. He grabbed the sambar deer's back and pressed his body tightly against its neck, trying his best to keep it steady and not be thrown off.

This was followed by the attack of Brother Leopard and Sister Leopard. They cooperated well with each other. While they pounced on the sambar deer, Xiao Jin took the opportunity to leave the sambar deer's back and landed successfully.

While Brother and Sister Leopard were attacking the sambar deer, Jin Ya was responsible for driving away and scaring away other sambar deer to prevent adult deer from disrupting their hunt.

Sure enough, in order to protect the pregnant doe, the male deer could only call out and escort the pregnant doe to escape.

Sambar deer rarely gather in groups, but this time is the most critical time before sambar deer give birth. Solitary male deer will also come to protect the female deer and the fawn in her belly.

After the birth is successful, the male deer will leave, leaving the female deer to live with her fawn.

The group of sambar deer that Jin Ya was interested in only had five or six individuals, and they only gathered together to drink water. When resting or foraging, they basically each had their own eating place.

The poor one-year-old fawn finally collapsed to the ground. Leopard sister bit the fawn's neck tightly and refused to let go, causing her mouth to be covered in blood. After making sure that the fawn could not stand up, she let go of her mouth, stood up, stepped back, squatted down, and licked the blood around her mouth.

Brother Leopard came over to help tear open the skin of the sambar deer, and tore off the best liver for Sister Leopard to eat first.

Jinya doesn’t like offal very much. What she likes most is the soft meat on the deer’s belly, which is soaked in fat and tastes very delicious.

Brother Leopard likes deer legs. After all, the firmest meat on these ungulates is on the four legs. It is solid, firm and crunchy.

Xiao Jin is not picky, as long as it's meat, it's fine.

After the four of them rested for a while, they began to show off their meat.

This sambar deer weighs probably more than 100 kilograms. After draining the water and removing the internal organs and bones, there is at least more than 100 kilograms of meat.

Jin Ya ate until her belly was full, but she only ate less than two kilograms of meat. Together with Xiao Jin, the two of them ate less than Sister Leopard ate.

The uneaten meat could not be wasted, so Brother Leopard helped to hang the remaining meat on the tree.

After eating the meat, the four cats went to the water's edge to drink water side by side, and then strolled back to the first aid station.

The four cats didn't know that their extremely short hunting trip was completely recorded by a group of people hiding on the opposite side.

(End of this chapter)