Chapter 117 Qinling Giant Pandas (Part 3)
Finally, the red panda couldn't resist the cuteness of his cub and slowly climbed down from the tree.
It moved its front paws tentatively, and the dog crept closer to the sesame rice dumpling, sniffing the cub from a distance.
“Hoo, hoo.”
The red panda tucked its tail tightly between its legs, making alert sounds from its mouth, and its whiskers trembled on both sides.
Yu Yiyun was equally alert, observing the approaching red panda with his piercing eyes.
Don’t be fooled by the cute and furry red pandas, which attract many owners to keep them at home as pets and cuddle with them every day.
In fact, red pandas are similar to giant pandas. They are also very alert beasts and can be attacked if you are not careful.
Its claws and teeth are powerful weapons, enough to kill many small animals.
"Eeyee~"
Yu Yiyun waited patiently until the red panda came very close, and then made a coquettish sound again, proving that she is a cute little bear that is harmless to humans and animals~
After repeated confirmation, the neighbor's red panda concluded that the sesame dumpling posed no threat.
He mustered up the courage to jump to Yu Yiyun's side and observe the panda cub from a distance.
At the same time, Yu Yiyun was also observing the red pandas.
The big and small pandas circled around each other, sniffing each other and establishing initial information.
At the end of the sniffing session, the red panda pressed its nose against the panda cub's wet nose and labeled the big fat lump a "weak waste".
"Hiss~" The red panda's expression changed faster than turning the pages of a book, and it immediately changed to a gentle call to greet the friend with whom it had established initial trust.
"Yiyi!" Little cat, you too!
"Huh? Huh~" Are you lost? I'll take you home.
"Eeyee, eyee!" Yes, yes, I'm looking for honey, do you want some?
“Hiss.”
"Eeyee~"
The two pandas were chatting seemingly reasonably at first, but then things gradually went off track and became irrelevant.
At the end of the conversation, they happily (unilaterally) reached a consensus.
The red panda, with its maternal instinct bursting out, tries hard to catch the scent of its mother in the air, preparing to send the sesame dumplings home.
Sesame glutinous rice ball was thinking about the honey, so he set his eyes on a little bee and followed it, grunting and crawling, while not forgetting to greet his new friend.
"Yiyi!" Come quickly, there's honey!
"Huh?" Where are you going, kid? Home is here.
The red panda was afraid that his cub was getting lost and was getting further and further away, so he hurriedly moved his paws to chase after it.
The drone hovering silently over the Qinling Mountains captured this scene, scaring the staff on duty and countless netizens so much that they sat up in shock and uttered sharp explosions in unison.
It’s getting fierce!
Saw the red panda hunting the giant panda!!!
Regardless of whether the hunt can be successful, even if it is caught, can the red panda eat it all?
Small body, big dreams.
Netizens made their comments and suddenly realized that now was not the time to make fun of memes.
Qiqi was sleeping soundly and had not yet noticed that Zaizai had run away from home.
With a power of 250, it is definitely not a match for the claws of an adult red panda.
If a fight really breaks out, 250 will definitely suffer a loss, and may even be fatally injured.
Panda lovers were so worried that they wanted to rush up the mountain with two colorful sacks.
One pretends to be a giant panda and the other pretends to be a red panda.
Order them to behave themselves and not fight!
The sesame dumplings tried their best to chase the bee, and the red panda chased the sesame dumplings, and they lined up to come to the crevice of the rock.
Yu Yiyun noticed that there was suddenly an extra piece in the naturally formed crack of the rock. He squinted his eyes to confirm whether it was a honeycomb or something else.
Just now he thought he had found a beehive, but it turned out to be a red panda's head. This taught Zhima Tangyuan a lesson: when you encounter a 'beehive' you can't just pounce on it.
A sweet smell wafted through the air, this time it was a real honeycomb.
"Yiyi~!" Honey, I'm here to hunt you~!
Sesame glutinous rice balls danced with joy and immediately prepared to climb, climb, climb...but couldn't climb up QAQ.
Tuanzi, who is just over half a year old, has limited muscle strength and no power in his limbs.
It was barely enough to climb a small tree, but it was obviously too early to conquer the almost vertical steep rocks.
Yu Yiyun used all her strength and jumped up a bit.
Then--
Slowly, slowly, slide and fall.
History is always similar, which reminds Yu Yiyun of the youth that passed away in the sunset...
The red panda following closely behind watched helplessly as Sesame Dumpling fell on his buttocks, and fell again, and again...
"Hmm?"
What is this confusing bear behavior?
Seeing the little dumpling fall on his butt for the sixth time, he became more and more courageous and tried hard to climb higher.
The red panda raised his head in confusion, squinted his eyes, and finally noticed the beehive in the cracks of the rocks.
"Hey, hey?" You want that?
"Eeyee!" Honey honey!
The two cats finally matched their brain waves. The lighter and more agile red panda moved its paws without saying a word to find the landing point and jumped onto the stone wall effortlessly.
It looked for the uneven surfaces on the stone wall, walked in a 'Z' shape, and soon climbed to the side of the beehive.
Yu Yiyun: “…”
You just try a little harder.
Otherwise the baby will look like a waste.
[Cute bear crying.jpg]
Yu Yiyun's depression lasted only 25 seconds.
At the 26th second, the red panda successfully got a piece of honeycomb, jumped off the rock wall while being chased by the bees, and ran wildly with the sesame dumplings in its paws.
The two cats used their charming movements to get rid of the angry little bee. They found a place to share the honey.
Red pandas mainly feed on tender bamboo shoots and leaves. Their diet is more diverse than that of giant pandas, and they are accustomed to a variety of sweet fruits.
Honey is an extremely rare food for it.
The red panda took a bite and was instantly conquered by the sweet taste.
So delicious!
It's great to steal honey, I'll dare to do it again next time~
"Yiyi~" Delicious, delicious~
Yu Yiyun was deeply moved!
During those years, I was like a cat or a dog, and I either couldn’t eat sweets or couldn’t taste sweetness.
Now that he had turned into a bear and got the honey, Yu Yiyun wanted to lick every drop of honey cleanly.
At the same time, the drone that was searching the mountains for sesame dumplings finally captured his trace again.
Seeing the 'big and small pandas' and the 'little giant panda' robbing the beehive and sharing the 'fruits of crime', the netizens who were worried about them were at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
[Case solved! You thought the red panda was going to attack 250, but 250 was actually taking the red panda to find the beehive, and the stupid little bear couldn't climb up by himself]
[Got it, 250 is responsible for scouting the area, and the red panda is responsible for committing the crime~]
[I just don’t understand, is honey really that delicious? ]
[I know this question! All bears love honey. The nurses and fathers at the panda base sometimes want to take the cubs out for a checkup, but they are afraid that the panda mother will attack them, so they add honey to the milk and then take the cubs out.]
[Hahahaha! Suspected Wangzai milk formula leaked (dog head)]
The red panda was enjoying his meal when, as the sky gradually darkened, he heard anxious "woof woof woof" sounds coming from not far away.
I guess Qi Qi just woke up and found that her baby was missing, so she was looking for sesame dumplings everywhere.
Yu Yiyun also heard her mother's voice and realized that she had been fooling around for too long, so she quickly pricked up her ears to catch the direction from which the voice came.
"Hiss!" Follow me!
Red pandas also have poor eyesight, but they are experienced in the wild and know how to locate their direction and find the right path without relying on their eyes.
"Yiyi~" The baby is coming~
Next to the tree hole, Qi Qi searched every stone and tree nearby, but found no trace of her cub.
She sniffed carefully to make sure that no enemy animals approached while she slept.
So here comes the question.
How did the child get lost?
Just as Qi Qi was anxious and angry, he shook the bamboo to vent his anger.
"Eeyee~"
The sesame dumplings made the cutest sound, instantly turning mom’s cloudy eyes.
When Qiqi heard the baby's voice getting closer, he immediately rushed over to pick him up, and at the same time found the red panda following closely behind.
She had been neighbors with the red panda for several years and recognized its scent.
Usually, it came nearby to pick leaves and bamboo shoots, but Qi Qi was too lazy to pay attention to it.
Looking at the entire mountain, there are bamboo shoots and bamboos everywhere. Qiqi doesn't mind sharing the leftover bamboo leaves with it.
If this little panda intends to harm its own cub, the nature of the situation will change.
“Awooooooooo!”
Qiqi made the most ferocious sound, which frightened the little panda so much that the hair on its tail stood up, its ears became airplane ears, and it retreated timidly.
"Yiyi~" Sesame glutinous rice ball rubbed against her mother's arms to calm her down.
Qi Qi calmed down a little and lowered her head to lick the baby's fur.
As I licked it, something seemed wrong.
Baby is especially sweet and fragrant today.
——Has my motherly love filter become thicker?!
"Eeyee! Eeyee!" Mommy~honey!
Yu Yijun took out the honey reserved for her mother and put it into Qiqi's mouth with her paws.
It turns out that there is no bear that doesn't like honey.
Even though Qiqi's diet was monotonous, it was the first time for him to eat honey, but he immediately fell in love with the taste and licked it with great pleasure.
Yu Yijun took the opportunity to talk nonsense and told Qiqi that the red panda helped him get the honey and that the red panda also sent him home.
"Yiyi~" It's a good cat.
"Eeyore!" Mommy can't be mean to it!
Qi Qi seemed to understand what the baby meant, or maybe she was simply in a good mood after eating the honey, so she didn't continue roaring at the red panda.
The next day, the red panda came to Qiqi's territory again to eat bamboo leaves and pick bamboo shoots without being attacked.
However, when Sesame Tangyuan saw the red panda, he took the initiative to go over and cuddle with it.
“Hiss.”
The little panda squatted there, waiting for Yu Yijun to come over, then took out a bunch of branches full of "lumps of earth" and stuffed them into the sesame dumplings.
"Eh~" Kiwi!
Yu Yiyun looked at the clods of earth clearly and saw at a glance that they were ripe wild kiwis.
There are a large number of kiwi trees growing in the Qinling Mountains, and they mature from August to October every year.
Wild kiwifruit fruits are not as large as artificially modified varieties, but they are just as sweet and delicious and rich in vitamins.
It’s a pity that the Qinling giant pandas cannot eat kiwis.
The suitable altitude for kiwi trees is about 500-1200 meters, while the altitude range for giant pandas is 1500-3000 meters.
Every summer, giant pandas move from low altitude areas to high altitude areas along the range of bamboo growth.
Even if the mountains are full of ripe kiwis, the giant pandas have no idea.
The red panda is similar to the giant panda. It lives in high-altitude areas, likes water and is cold-resistant.
However, red pandas have a more diverse diet, so they will go to areas with lower latitudes to forage for ripe fruits.
It is obvious that the red pandas, who have lived on this hill for many years, know that kiwi fruits are ripe recently.
So it went down the mountain to enjoy some kiwis, and brought a bunch for its 'accomplice'.
Yu Yijun happily stuck to the red panda, babbling and begging it to take her with it to "hunt" kiwis next time.
The red panda didn't understand.
Even if you understand, it is impossible to agree.
This stupid little bear can't even climb up the rocks, so how can he possibly cross an altitude of thousands of meters and pick kiwis growing on the trees?
Yu Yiyun called out too loudly, and Qi Qi came running over when she heard the sound, and saw that Zaizai was hanging out with the red panda next door again.
She was about to drive away the enemy beast, but Yu Yijun immediately picked a kiwi fruit and put it into her mother's paw.
Qiqi picked it up and smelled it. It smelled sweet and fragrant, like the scent of food.
She took a bite out of curiosity, and instantly the door to a new world opened up to her.
Qi Qi carefully observed the "lump of earth" and then looked around in confusion.
I have lived in Qinling Mountains for several years, how come I didn’t know there were such delicious lumps of earth nearby?
"Yiyi!" Mommy, this is also given to us by the red panda!
"Yiyi~" You really can't be mean to it!
Yu Yiyun fed Qi Qi three or four kiwis in succession, and finally eliminated Qi Qi's aggressiveness.
She sat there, took the kiwi fruit with her paw and put it in her mouth, smacking it.
After eating a few, Qi Qi even learned to pinch the fruit with his paws before eating, squeeze the flesh inside into his mouth, and throw away the peel that pricked his mouth.
She stretched out her paw again and asked the cub for fruit.
"Yiyi!" No more, the rest are all mine!
Yu Yiyun gave half to her mother and planned to hide the rest and enjoy it slowly herself.
Qiqi hadn't eaten enough yet, and seeing that Zaizai was planning to eat alone, she stretched out her paws and started to grab the food.
"Ouch!" Give it to me!
"Yiyi!" Help!
When the audience in the live broadcast room saw this scene, the barrage of comments was filled with “Hahahahahahahahahaha”.
【Mother, kindness, son, filial piety! 】
[250 Be obedient. Mom will save the kiwis for you first and return them to you when you grow up~]
[The above is so fitting, reminds me of the New Year's money I lost in those years]
[Where is the protection team? My bear wants to eat kiwi fruit, please arrange for them to come quickly]
[Giant Panda Conservation Team: Please leave us alone. We just finished planting bamboo overnight last month. Besides, kiwifruit is hard to survive in high altitude areas. If they like it, the best way is to go down the mountain and pick it themselves.]
[Princess Qiqi has never been down the mountain since she was a child. If you really can’t let me in, I will pick fruits for Princess Qiqi every day.]
[Is there such a good thing? I want it too! ]
[I am the third one, I really want to go up the mountain to rub Princess Qiqi and 250]
[I am different~ I want to rub Queen Mulan and the little tiger next door]
[Sister upstairs, we are not in a hurry, please go first~]
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In the blink of an eye, another half month had passed. Yu Yiyun had adapted to the new menu of bamboo shoots, honey, and various wild fruits, and had completely stopped breastfeeding.
Normally, after a panda cub is successfully weaned, it will continue to live with its mother for 8-12 months and learn various survival skills.
Panda mothers will teach their babies the most important survival skill: climbing trees.
In the wild, climbing trees helps pandas avoid most of their natural enemies, such as jackals and black bears.
The newly weaned panda cubs are relatively weak and not agile enough.
Climbing trees is very difficult for panda cubs...
The staff in the live broadcast room was also explaining to the audience that "it may take 1-2 months for a panda cub to learn to climb a tree. If it starts at 4 or 5 months old, it will take at least half a year to fully master it."
From our perspective, Qi Qi was inexperienced as a first-time mother and doted on her only child too much, so she started teaching her baby to climb trees so late.
The later you start learning, the slower you will master it.
In addition, Zhima Tangyuan is obviously rounder than pandas of the same age, and it will probably take him eight months to fully learn to climb trees.
But Qi Qi brought the little girl to the tree and was about to demonstrate.
The little ball hugged the small tree, gripped the trunk tightly with its front paws, exerted force with its hind legs, and climbed up easily.
Qi Qi sat under the tree and stared at it for a while, then stretched out his paws and pulled the baby down.
"Oh." Forget it, I won't learn to climb a tree today.
Zaizai learns so fast that Qiqi has an illusion.
I’m afraid that my son will learn all the survival skills tomorrow and leave me.
"Yiyi~" Yu Yiyun leaned obediently in her mother's arms, and acted coquettishly to ask for bamboo shoots to eat.
At this moment, he even understood why the baby birds he hatched had to pretend that they couldn't fly after they learned to fly.
For solitary animals destined to be separated, as long as they maintain the appearance that 'the baby is still young', they can stay together longer and longer.
However, a 7-month-old panda is at the stage where its growth rate is the most amazing.
Yu Yiyun's changes can almost be measured in days.
As the most fond of fooling around panda in the entire Qinling Mountains, Yu Yiyun exercises much more than his peers, and his eating efficiency and nutritional composition are also far superior to bears of the same age.
After a disastrous defeat in his bamboo shoot hunting last month, Sesame Tangyuan can now pull out small bamboos with ease and climb the thickest and tallest tree in the territory.
After learning to climb trees, many panda cubs will choose their favorite tree and hang on it, staying there for several hours, and will not come down until they hear their mother calling.
Sesame Tangyuan is different. No matter which tree it climbs, it will only stay there for five minutes at most and then climb down and look for another one.
Within two days, Yu Yiyun had climbed all the trees in the territory.
Many people in the barrage asked, "Baby, haven't you found a tree you like yet?"
Yu Yiyun: Thank you for the invitation. I spent enough time hanging on trees in my previous life.
Most pandas learn to climb trees mainly to avoid enemy animals or to attract the attention of the opposite sex during the courtship period.
Sesame glutinous rice balls no longer need to hide from enemy animals, nor do they need to seek mates.
Yu Yiyun prefers to fool around rather than stay in the tree.
The 7-month-old panda cub is capable of exploring more unknown areas.
In the early morning of late autumn, Sesame Tangyuan once again walked with his eight-foot-in-the-foot steps, grunting as he trudged through the woods.
Chase butterflies and play with ants, while looking for wild beehives that have not been destroyed by bear claws.
It's sunny today and the breeze is gentle.
As Yu Yiyun walked, she unknowingly moved away from Qiqi's territory.
At first, when Qi Qi found out that the cub was missing, she was very nervous, fearing that he might be in danger.
After doing this many times, Qi Qi realized that her own bear cub was unruly and loved freedom, and gradually she became less stressed.
After all, 250 is a "naughty kid" in appearance and in reality.
It doesn’t matter, as long as you know I’ll be back.
Qi Qi was chewing on bamboo and ignored the little bear's behavior of running away from home again.
Yu Yiyun walked a long way and vaguely saw a moving object appearing diagonally below him.
"howl!"
You can hear the sound of the animal before you see it.
Yu Yiyun really couldn't see the enemy's appearance clearly, but judging by its sound and breath, it should be an old beast, a jackal that is widely distributed in the Qinling Mountains.
I still remember the first time Yu Yiyun encountered a jackal. He was so frightened that he was at a loss, without any dignity as the overlord of Qinling Mountains.
Now, when he met the jackal responsible for searching for prey again, Yu Yiyun was not panicked at all and continued to walk forward leisurely.
“Howl!”
The jackal was so shocked to find that the panda didn't hide but came closer and closer. He stood there in a daze.
You know, there are jackals, tigers and leopards in the Qinling Mountains, and jackals rank first!
Even if an adult panda encounters them, they will immediately hide in a tree. Why is this cub not panicked at all?
Judging from his body shape, he is at most seven or eight months old.
If you go head-on with an adult jackal, your chances of winning are only 0.05% at best.
Not to mention, there are many jackal companions nearby.
As long as it sends out a signal, its companions will gather around in minutes.
The jackal thought that the stupid panda's eyesight was not working well, so he made a sound again to remind him that "your natural enemy is here."
"babble."
Sesame Dumpling gave a perfunctory "got it" reply, without flinching under his claws.
He walked up to the jackal and took a good look at its appearance. Then he stood up arrogantly and put his hands on his hips.
"Eehee?" Are you going to eat me?
"Eeyore!" Don't shout if you don't want to eat.
"Eeyee, eyee!" How about imitating your relative, the gray wolf? Annoying Bear!
Yu Yiyun had seen countless beasts and knew that the jackal was roaring fiercely mainly to test and intimidate him, and had no intention of hunting him.
Jackals mainly eat even-toed ungulates, and pandas are not on their menu. Now is autumn, the harvest season, and jackals have no shortage of prey, so there is no need to waste energy on themselves.
If the jackal really had a sudden idea and was ready to change its taste with a panda.
Yu Yiyun: Haha, I used to be a wolf.
Jackals belong to the canidae family and can judge strength through their roars.
The reconnaissance jackal heard the babbling of Sesame Rice Balls and felt an inexplicable blood suppression, and froze in place.
Even after the panda walked a long way away, the jackal was still looking at the black and white ball in confusion, deeply puzzled.
Is the panda such a ferocious animal?
The scout jackal silently decided to completely remove the 'panda' from its prey list.
This is to avoid being like their counterparts more than 100 kilometers away, who mistook the South China tiger they met for the first time for prey and were killed on the spot.
Limited by their short and thick limbs, pandas only walk at an average speed of 5-10 kilometers per hour. They have to stop after walking for a while to replenish food, which seriously affects Yu Yiyun's speed.
After fooling around for several days, he hadn't even finished inspecting the hill where he was staying.
Fortunately, there is a word in the world called "running in both directions".
Sesame Glutinous Rice Balls panted as they climbed over the ridge, and they hadn't even caught their breath yet.
When I looked down, I found another black and white ball that had run away from home, crawling towards me panting.
“Eeyeeeeee~!”
“Woo woo~!”
The two little bears looked at each other and screamed with excitement.
Yu Yiyun had been a bear for half a month, and this was the first time she met a bear other than her mother.
The little bear on the opposite side was equally excited and howled twice, and suddenly a big bear appeared behind him.
Nesting, nesting dolls?
She spread her paws and rushed towards Yu Yiyun, roaring like a frightened bear.
“Awoof!” Where did this wild child come from!
"Woof woof!" Get away! Don't kidnap my kid!
Yu Yiyun was frightened by the ferocious bear next door and almost rolled down the ridge.
After she finished yelling, she pulled the little girl's fur and dragged her back to the nest.
"Woo woo..." The little dumpling's fur was pulled, and its four paws fluttered around as it struggled to stretch out its legs towards the sesame rice balls.
"Yiyi!" Ziwei!
Yu Yiyun called out loudly.
"Woo woo!" Little Swallow!
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