Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 559: Pass it on, Jin Ya is in menopause!
From the perspective of ornithology, we know that peregrine falcons with a wingspan of 74-120cm are medium-sized birds of prey, while hunter falcons with a wingspan of 95-125cm are medium-to-large birds of prey. They are not much different in size, so it is no wonder that scholars studying raptor breeding would want peregrine falcons and hunter falcons to breed offspring.

(Hunting upstream and downstream, it’s hard to tell the difference between falcons!)
The female peregrine falcon initially refused to accept the advances from a male of a different species. Every time the hunter falcon threw food to her, it would be pushed off the small platform of the artificial nest house.

About ten days later, the female falcon accepted feeding from the male hunting falcon for the first time.

The diary reports of the young female observer who followed up the observations every day could be written into a novel.

While the female observer was observing the two birds, Chen Ying was not idle either.

In fact, the two peregrine falcons and the hunter falcon that joined later did not cause much damage to the golden monkeys. Most of the injuries were caused by themselves.

After all, they are a species that is not good at fighting, and most of their injuries are caused by branches and companions when they are dodging and responding.

The emergency station has recently rescued many animals injured in similar fights, basically for reproduction and to obtain mating rights. This family of golden monkeys was just affected.

But it's also the fault of those curious little monkeys. If they weren't so curious, this wouldn't have happened.

The worst thing was the little baby monkey that was captured. It had no idea what was happening before it was captured by the big bird, which even wanted to throw it to death!
If it hadn't been so lucky that it fell on the branch and then landed under the tree, and was finally picked up by another female monkey, it would probably be almost boneless by now.

However, the female monkey didn't pick it up out of pure kindness. It seemed more like she treated it as a toy.

Even if Sister Leopard and the others hadn't snatched it away from the mother monkey, it would have been killed within two days.

It’s different now. After all, it’s a baby monkey and it has the natural right to be pampered in the first aid station.

Now it is one of the three treasures of the first aid station!

Needless to say, the eldest is Yangyang, and the second is the desert cat Xiao Taobao. As for it, its current name is tentatively "Little Unlucky Guy"!
Chen Ying said that she would go to the village next month and ask the elders to pray for it, wash it with pomelo leaf water to get rid of the bad smell, and then change its name after the injury healed.

Xia Sen has extensive experience in raising monkeys. When the emergency station was small, he worked with Chen Ying to raise two baby monkeys.
Later, he also rescued injured monkeys, so he was very experienced.

I rummaged through the warehouse and found all the equipment used to raise the monkeys, including small clothes and pants, and cleaned and disinfected them.

In the past two years, the first aid station has also upgraded its equipment and bought several large, medium and small bathtubs. Of course, the largest one is for baby pandas.

While bathing the little monkey, Xia Sen suddenly remembered the male panda nicknamed "Crazy Rolling" who had performed rolling shows for Chen Ying at Laoxionggou.

"That guy is very happy now. He has set up camp near Laoxionggou. I heard that he participated in several blind dates this year. I don't know if they were successful or not. Anyway, I heard that this guy has gained a lot of weight, is very friendly to people, and especially likes to look at cars."

Xia Sen's expression was a little distorted. "There is a big bend about two-thirds of the way down the road from our station. Above it is a bamboo forest and two huge rocks. The panda always lies on the rocks over there to watch the vehicles below. It likes buses the most, so that place has almost become a check-in spot. Many tourists who follow buses there ask the driver to stop and try their luck to take a photo with it."

"That's right. I heard from the conservation station yesterday that construction is about to begin. A viewing platform like a wooden plank road will be built at the corner. In addition to Crazy Roller, I heard that Street Float and Little Bear also often stroll there. Their routes are on the gentle slopes on the upper and lower sides."

"Watching black bears on the observation deck? Are those tourists risking their lives?" Chen Ying couldn't understand.

"There must be protection measures. There are also security guards stationed there, and display screens will be installed to warn people when there are bears, black bears or other animals there, and they can be asked to stop the car or continue driving depending on the situation."

Humans like to watch wild animals, and conversely, many wild animals are curious about humans.

As for who visits whom, it depends on your perspective.

The weather this year is a bit abnormal.

The ice and snow had just begun to melt at this time of year in previous years. The first half of this month this year was similar to previous years, but the sun has been shining and giving off heat since early in the morning these days as if it had taken medicine. The ice and snow on the mountaintops have been melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the river water has not risen much, which makes the old people in the mountains feel uneasy.

The animals also seemed a little uneasy, as evidenced by their much more irritable temperaments. For example, early this morning, Jin Ya had a fight with Xiao Jin because Xiao Jin didn't call her when he was eating!

I didn't call Xiaojin when it was time to eat breakfast, it just refused to eat. Besides, it can only hunt for two or three days at a time, but Xiaojin can't do that, it needs to eat at least two meals a day.

Xiao Jin felt so wronged after being beaten up, and he couldn't fight back. He also noticed that something was wrong with Jin Ya, so he complained to Brother Leopard and started to worry whether Jin Ya was sick.

Brother Leopard shook his tail indifferently, "Twolegs are here. If it gets sick, Twolegs will definitely make arrangements. Don't worry."

Bai Bingyang overheard their conversation and interrupted, "I heard that baby's mother say that baby's grandmother is in menopause and has a strange temper. Is Jin Ya also in menopause?"

Xiao Jin opened his mouth, not knowing how to continue the topic. Um, cats also have menopause? And what is menopause?
Jin Ya is certainly not in menopause. According to her age, she is still in the transition period from youth to middle age.

It has always had a feeling recently that something might happen, but it doesn't seem to pose a threat to itself.

In addition to it, Sister Leopard also has this feeling, but Sister Leopard is more stable than it, and at most she goes out for patrols more frequently.

No one felt anything unusual at the station. After all, the time period of late spring and early summer is quite special. There are a lot of animals fighting at this time every year, especially this year.

The management station has a lot more staff this year, at least half of whom are volunteers composed of young people from various villages.

In recent years, Xiaozhai Village has developed very well, which has also boosted the flow of people in the surrounding villages and even the town. People can find jobs in their hometown, earn money to support their families and take care of the elderly and children. Who would be willing to leave their hometown for a long time?

After the big mountain patrol ended at the end of last month, a member of the regular forest patrol team led two volunteers to patrol the mountains for fire prevention and theft prevention. With more people, the area was subdivided into grids, and tasks and routes were assigned to each team. Patrols were required at least once every three days.

Fortunately, with the advent of high-tech forest patrols, not only are they faster, but they are also much less dangerous.

Moreover, because the villages have a source of livelihood from this forest, they naturally attach great importance to this forest and protect it carefully as if it were their own golden hen.

After finishing his work, Chen Ying called his fiancée to discuss going to look for the fishing cat in July.

The project application has been approved, and he has also communicated with the school where he studied for his doctorate. The remaining class hours will be completed in the form of joint project research.

In the next three days, he needs to conduct video interviews and select three people from the school's master's and doctoral applicants to join his research team.

In addition, he also assisted the Veterinary Research Institute there to connect with the Panda Center. Two students will come in October for a two-year special study. Many foreign students apply to the base and center every year, but not many are admitted. If the school where Chen Ying studied for a doctorate was not ranked highly in the world, it would probably not be easy to reach a cooperation. There is no way, who makes us the only provider! ┓(`)┏

Dao Meihua also has a research assignment for the school that will not be completed until mid-June. Only then can she accompany Chen Ying to look for fishing cats and conduct research on wetland vegetation.

The two of them discussed that why not wait until May and Chen Ying would go there first to discuss the team formation with Dao Meihua's two brothers.

If he wants to go to the primeval forest over there, he may have to deal with the indigenous people of the neighboring country, so he definitely can't do it alone.

Dao Meihua's two cousins ​​are responsible for conducting business and animal protection business with the two neighboring countries. They also know some local slang, so there is no need to hire an interpreter for communication.

They had collaborated briefly last time and everyone cooperated well, so Chen Ying immediately agreed to seek help from his two brothers-in-law.

As they were talking, they felt the bed moved. Chen Ying's heart tightened and he quickly rushed to the balcony to look.

"What's wrong?" Dao Meihua on the opposite side was talking, and suddenly she heard Chen Ying's breathing quicken, and she also heard someone shouting loudly, and she became nervous too.

"It's okay, I'll call you later."

Chen Ying hurriedly hung up the phone and ran out, and Xia Sen and Dr. Ou also rushed to the middle of the woods.

"Brother Ying, we have received a notification that a magnitude 5 earthquake occurred near Diexi, 50 kilometers away. The epicenter was in the mountains, and no casualties have been reported so far."

The earthquake happened fifty kilometers away, but they could still feel it here. Fortunately, it happened deep in the mountains. If it happened in a crowded place, it would probably be a disaster.

Their area is located on a fault zone, so earthquakes are common. Fortunately, the intensity of the earthquakes in recent years has not been very strong, so the danger is relatively not too high.

More than half an hour later, there was another slight tremor, and then there was no more feeling.

The birds and animals on the Jiamugou Mountain were relatively calm. There was no shocking scene like the ones captured in online videos where a large number of birds flew into the sky.

But in the next few days, everyone was still worried and couldn't sleep well.

On the fifth day, Chen Ying's phone suddenly rang in the middle of the night. It was two local veterinarians who had exchanged contact numbers with Chen Ying during his field research in the Zangbo River Grand Canyon. They sent him a message asking for help.

An earthquake occurred there, but fortunately it was in an uninhabited area, and only the dilapidated houses in several nearby villages were affected and collapsed. However, the forest rangers who were patrolling in the mountains and the nearby wild animals were injured.

"Doctor Chen, when the earthquake occurred, our rangers were resting in the wild camp. They were saved by two golden cats and a clouded leopard. But during the evacuation, one of the golden cats was hit on the back by a falling rock, and the other clouded leopard jumped away from the ranger and was hit on the hind legs by a fallen tree. Our technology is really not good enough, and we can't send them to the rescue center now. The center was severely affected by the earthquake, and they also have to protect the animals that were already there, so they can't provide any help. There is no other way, we can only ask you."

Chen Ying rubbed his face and decisively answered the call from his brother-in-law.

The Dao family base camp is in the northwest corner of Yunnan Province, about 700 to 800 kilometers away from the earthquake site, and they belong to two different earthquake zones, so they are less affected by each other. Moreover, the Dao family has rich rescue experience, whether it is human rescue or animal rescue, they have a professional rescue team.

The eldest brother-in-law was aroused by Chen Ying's phone call. After hearing the future brother-in-law's request for help, he agreed without hesitation. He asked Chen Ying to send him the contact information of the two veterinarians so that he could contact them directly.

The government will certainly be responsible for human injuries, but they may not be able to provide immediate assistance to injured wild animals. And judging from the situation described by the veterinarian, if the operation cannot be performed as soon as possible, the golden cat's life may not be saved.

Although the matter was resolved quickly, Chen Ying certainly couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and went downstairs to check on Monkey Baby and Little Taobao.

The two were sleeping soundly in Bai Bingyang's belly.

Hearing footsteps, Bai Bingyang opened his eyes and took a look, only to find that it was a biped, and quickly fell asleep again.

When I turned around and went outside, I saw Jin Ya squatting on the pier, her eyes fixed on the direction of the hot spring valley, her ears perked up, as if she was on guard against something.

Chen Ying climbed up the wooden frame, sat down next to Jin Ya, and put his hands on its back to massage its fur.

"What's wrong, Jin Ya, are you feeling unwell recently?"

"Oh, no, I'm just annoyed, very annoyed, and I don't know what I'm annoyed about."

Perhaps because of the presence of the bipeds, Jin Ya's tense body relaxed a little. She lay down and rubbed her head on Chen Ying's thigh.

"It's okay, Jin Ya. If you don't know what's bothering you, just stop thinking about it. Just be happy. My Jin Ya should be carefree."

It has been a long time since he had been so close to Jin Ya. Chen Ying lay down and held Jin Ya in his arms. The two of them slept together intimately and warmed each other as if they had just met several years ago.

But at that time, Jin Ya's body was much thinner, and it felt like a layer of fur wrapped around a bone frame. Now it feels much better, and you can feel the soft but elastic flesh.

He has not spent much time in the country due to his studies in the past few years. These little ones have gradually grown up, and there are even some scattered white hairs on Leopard Sister's cheeks.

Lynxes usually live 24 to years in the wild, and the longest recorded lifespan in captivity is years. Golden cats live about the same.

Jinya and Xiaojin are now seven years old.

Leopards live about the same age as golden cats, but male leopards have a shorter lifespan due to frequent fighting.

Leopard sister was at least five years old when she was rescued, and now she is middle-aged. Leopard brother is a little younger, but not much younger.

Fortunately, although they are wild, the only difference between them and captive ones is a cage, so their lifespan should be longer than that of their counterparts living in the wild.

With her own two-legged beast by her side, chattering away incomprehensible words, Jin Ya fell into a deep sleep amidst the sound of Chen Ying's words.

After it fell asleep, Sister Leopard jumped down from the side lightly and silently, and lay down on the other side of Chen Ying to shield him from the cold wind in the early morning.

(End of this chapter)