Chapter 121 Qinling Giant Panda (Part 7)
A cunning sesame dumpling, relying on its thick skin and excellent relaxation, would often stay by the tiger's side to eat its meat.
The tiger was as lazy as ever to pay attention to him. Sometimes, he would tear off a few pieces of meat to stuff the little bear's mouth because he was annoyed by him.
Yu Yiyun chewed the meat with a smacking sound and unilaterally announced: Looking across the entire Qinling Mountains, I am definitely the animal closest to the Tiger King!
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As we all know, our sesame dumplings are the best at being shameless and asking for more.
After making sure that the tiger would not attack him, he simply swaggered over and stretched out his claws towards his prey in front of the tiger king.
When he encountered tendons and bones that he couldn't chew, he confidently asked Baba to help him break them into pieces, showing his shamelessness to the extreme.
After doing this many times, Yu Yiyun was not in a hurry to leave every time after eating the meat.
Tigers are carnivores, their prey is high in calories, and they are definitely innate pure yang holy bodies.
Sleeping near the tiger is warm and you don't have to worry about encountering predators. It's really wonderful~
Yu Yiyun treats the tiger as a nanny and bodyguard, and her plan goes well, but unfortunately the tiger does not cooperate.
There were several times when Zhima Tangyuan was still trying to eat and scrape Rourou with his milk teeth, but the tiger had already left with the remaining prey.
Yu Yiyun knew that it had no fixed place to eat.
He left with the prey, definitely to cross the river to look for Kang Kang.
Unfortunately, the tiger searched all the hills on the other side of the river but couldn't find any trace of Kang Kang.
The prey that was brought over actually got benefited by another male tiger who was good at picking up the spoils.
Zhenan: Thank you for the gift from nature~
When Yu Yiyun learned the truth later, she was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
I thought Zhen'an was a miserable person who braved the wind and snow to steal cattle in Hedong and worked hard to raise other people's children.
Who could have expected that the beef he fed to little Yunxiao was actually sent by Yunxiao's biological father.
After figuring out the cause and effect, everyone was sighing that God has his own way and no one can escape it.
In the evening, Zhima Tangyuan, who had eaten and slept, opened his eyes drowsily and found that the tiger that had left yesterday had just swam over from the other side of the river and was lying there licking his wet fur.
It was the coldest time of the year in the Qinling Mountains, with the temperature dropping to more than ten degrees below zero.
He yawned casually, and the hot air coming out of his mouth was like a cloud of mist.
When Zhima Tangyuan is bored every day, he will play the "spitting circle" game, determined to spit out the roundest circle in the world.
Baby.
Primary school students don’t play such childish games anymore.
Although the rivers in the tiger's territory do not freeze in winter, the water is icy and piercingly cold, which may scare the bear.
The clean little bear is really afraid of the cold. Every time his face gets dirty after eating meat, he can only use the pads of his bear paws dipped in a little water to wipe his round bear face clean.
Sometimes if you dip too much, it will get on the hair and form ice chips.
The tiger was completely submerged in the water and must have been soaked.
Yu Yiyun climbed down the tree with great effort. His four legs sank into the soft snow and he instantly turned into a small glutinous rice dumpling covered with icing sugar.
The coconut glutinous rice balls rolled around in the snow with their plump bodies, and after a long struggle they finally got close to the tiger king.
"Yiyi!" You're back~
The cute little bear greets his ex-father.
The tiger ignored him and shook its wet fur. The hair was completely soaked and covered with ice in clumps.
Yu Yiyun had felt that feeling before, and felt cold just by looking at it. She couldn't help but stretch out her paws to break up the ice on its back bit by bit, and then pat it off.
The tiger had already sensed the scent of the sesame dumplings and was lying there with his eyes closed, seeming to be in a very bad mood.
Even though it was in a bad mood, it did not take its anger out on the little bear.
Yu Yiyun looked at the tiger, then thought about Zhen'an, and came to the conclusion:
Male Tigers with stable personalities are more likely to find a wife.
Come to think of it, for a whole winter, the tiger crossed the river several times but never saw his partner.
Wild tigers can only transmit information through smell.
Every time the tiger went to Kang Kang's territory, he felt that Kang Kang's aura became weaker.
It couldn't determine Kang Kang's whereabouts based on the traces within the territory.
All signs indicate that Kang Kang has disappeared.
"Yiyi~" Baba, don't be sad~
Yu Yiyun noticed the tiger's mood and comforted it with a lot of nonsense.
"Yiyiyi!" When spring comes, your wife will come back, and your son will come too!
"Eeyee! Eeyeeeeee!" Your son is cute, handsome, and amazing! You should be nicer to him and not be so mean to him.
"Yiyi..." In the future, you will still be neighbors. When you are too old to catch a cow, you will have to rely on your children to support you in your old age...
Yu Yiyun relied on her God's perspective to add fuel to the fire and smuggle in her own personal agenda, completely spoiling the tiger's second half of life.
Of course the tiger didn't understand. He raised his eyelids listlessly and glanced at the sesame dumplings.
How on earth can this ball-like, useless, delicate creature survive in the wild?
Won’t nature eliminate him?
All giant pandas: their reputation has been damaged.
In the following days, every time Yu Yiyun went to the tiger Baba to get some meat, she would stay and chat with it (one-sidedly), waiting for Yunxiao and Kangkang who were about to arrive with spring.
Spring has not yet arrived for the tigers, but spring has arrived as expected for the Qinling giant pandas.
One day, after eating his fill, Sesame Dumpling walked home with a piece of meat in his mouth.
As he walked, several huge black shadows flashed before his eyes and ran past Sesame Dumpling.
Looking at the entire forest, the largest animals belong to the bear family.
Could it be a big black bear?
That doesn't make sense.
Based on Yu Yiyun's understanding of black bears, if a black bear finds out that he is holding meat, he will definitely stop to rob.
Sesame Tangyuan opened his eyes wide and looked carefully, and finally made out the yellowish white hairs from the black shadows.
It turns out that those pandas rolling in front are all adult male pandas.
Giant pandas live alone all year round. There is only one possible reason why so many pandas can gather together:
It's breeding season for female bears.
After millions of years of evolution, the female pandas living in the same forest seem to have reached some kind of tacit understanding.
Every year, the breeding seasons of adult female pandas are staggered by a few days, so that each bear can find a strong and handsome gene to serve as the father of its cubs.
At the beginning of spring, the first female bear sends out signals that she is ready to become a mother by scenting trees (trees that are often marked by giant pandas).
The nearby male pandas smelled the signal from the scent tree and gathered around the female panda, vying to show off their masculine charm.
There were so many male pandas competing for mates that none of the other bears noticed that there was a little bear in the group who hadn't even finished changing his teeth and was just joining in the fun.
[250 Ah, tell mom why you are joining in the fun (holding your forehead)]
[If you want to participate in the panda world's courtship activities, you should replace your teeth first]
[We 250 are so smart! We are preparing for our courtship three years from now. By then... No, I can't continue.]
[Is it really okay for 250 to sneak into a group of male pandas? I heard that male pandas will fight to the death when they are courting mates]
[Don't worry! Almost all males will fight when courting. Giant pandas are relatively gentle, at least they won't attack indiscriminately...right?]
[Wait! Are giant pandas so eager to find a mate? I heard that pandas have no interest in reproduction, which is why their numbers are so small and they have to be assisted by humans.]
[Back to the above, this is an old rumor. If giant pandas have no interest in courtship, how did they reproduce over the past millions of years? ]
The male pandas, with their testosterone levels overflowing, followed the scent and came to the tree where the female panda was to woo her, using their actions to dispel the rumor that they were "not interested in reproduction."
Yu Yiyun took in the overall situation, found a tree with the best view and climbed up to admire the beautiful mother bear's "competition for a husband" from a close distance.
The female bear, who was about to enter her best breeding period, climbed to the top of a tree alone and watched the male pandas fighting for her under the tree.
There was a strong male panda who was particularly proactive. He chased away all his competitors and waited under a tree for the female panda he liked to fall in love with him.
When the female bear deems the time right, she will climb down the tree and mate with him.
Of course, there are also impatient male bears who will take the initiative to climb up the tree to date the female bear.
After the date, the male bear still stays by the female bear's side to prevent other bears from having sex with his wife again.
Yu Yiyun looked down from above, happily admiring the male pandas fighting with each other, and suddenly became curious:
Has the male bear who defeated all the competing bears and won my mother's heart appeared today?
Zhima Tangyuan became more and more curious the more he thought about it, and he carefully observed all the male bears, but couldn't find any that particularly resembled himself.
He slid down from the tree and skipped back home. His mother was munching on bamboo shoots peacefully, with no signs of reproduction.
Giant pandas are similar to most solitary creatures. Mother pandas will not enter estrus again until the previous litter of cubs becomes independent.
“Ahhh~”
When Qi Qi saw the baby sucking the food home, he immediately dropped the bamboo and ran straight to... the meat in the sesame dumpling's mouth.
Once, Yu Yiyun shared the meat she brought back with Qi Qi.
Qi Qi, who has never been very fond of meat, instantly opened the door to a new world.
She had eaten bamboo rat before and didn’t particularly like it.
Because bamboo rats are mostly skin and bones, it is difficult to catch them.
If you have the free time, Qi Qi might as well eat a few more bites of bamboo.
The meat that my baby brought back was different, it was tender, boneless and juicy, and it was really delicious to eat.
Once, Qi Qi ate the fresh venison brought back by sesame dumplings, and he didn’t feel cold even when sleeping in a snow pile in the middle of the night.
"Eeyore!" Mommy, you're stealing my meat again!
Sesame Tangyuan didn't put up much resistance, and watched Qiqi take the meat away. They surrounded her and asked, "Mommy, which bear is my daddy?", "Have you seen him later?", "Will you choose him when you have a little sister next time?"...
Qi Qi was only focused on eating the meat and didn't pay any attention to the kid's questions.
Yu Yijun didn't get an answer, so she angrily chewed two bamboos and decided to take Ziwei with her on a journey to find her relatives.
No, no, this is not an excuse to hang out with little Peng Xiong!
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Ziwei is two months older than Zhima Tangyuan and is now 14 months old!
Bear cubs at this age have already mastered most life skills and will be able to leave their mother and live on their own in a few months.
Xiongxiong's desire to protect Ziwei gradually became restrained.
Even though the brat next door kidnapped his precious daughter right under his nose, Xiong Xiong remained indifferent and just buried his head in chewing his bamboo.
Xiong Xiong: Who understands? Girls can’t be kept at home when they grow up.
"Eeyee~"
Yu Yiyun gave the secret signal for contact.
“Woo woo!”
Ziwei responded quickly and couldn't wait to run away from home with her good friend Xiong.
Before the two bears set out, they agreed to go look for their father whom they had never met.
Not long after leaving home, I was instantly dazzled by the colorful world.
Spring when flowers bloom is always the most beautiful season in the mountains and forests.
The wild flowers on the Qinling Mountains have not been subject to human intervention.
Although they do not look as neat as the flower beds in the city, they are truly colorful and gorgeous.
Yu Yiyun walked with her paws, shuttling among the beautiful flowers.
If I come across an edible fruit that I recognize, I will definitely pick it and taste it to see how salty it is.
It’s just the beginning of spring and most of the fruits are not yet ripe. They are so bitter that the sesame dumplings wrinkle their faces and spit.
Seeing his behavior, Ziwei not only did not learn her lesson, but also tasted one.
As a result, the two little bears who loved to commit suicide were wrinkled in pain, sticking their butts out and spitting.
"Eeyore!" Bee!
Yu Yiyun felt bitter in his mouth, and when he heard the buzzing of a bee, he chased after it without hesitation.
In the past month or so, his honey buddy, the red panda, has mysteriously disappeared, and Zhima Tangyuan has searched for it nearby for a long time but hasn't found it.
Yu Yiyun expanded the search area and confirmed that the red panda had not encountered any accident. Perhaps it was just afraid of the cold and hid itself, so she just left it alone.
Fortunately, after several months of training, Yu Yiyun is able to deal with most wild beehives on his own.
"Woo woo~" Wait for me!
Ziwei ran slowly, following behind Zhima Tangyuan with her short legs.
While running, Yu Yiyun noticed a strange noise and slammed on the brakes.
Ziwei lost control and bumped her head against Little Bear, almost knocking him out like a bowling ball.
"Woo woo?"
"Eeyee~"
Ziwei was curious about what was going on, and Zhima Tangyuan motioned for her to listen carefully.
Ziwei pricked up her ears and caught a faint cry from far away.
Sesame Tangyuan's eyesight is not very good, but his hearing has become extremely sensitive.
After several months of adaptation, he has perfectly mastered the skill of "locating by sound".
The two little bears followed the sound and came to a secret cave.
There is a big rock blocking the cave, which is difficult to find without careful observation.
Walking around the stone, Yu Yiyun saw the exposed bamboo leaves at the entrance of the cave and immediately realized: this should be the cave where a mother panda gave birth to her cubs.
The pregnancy time of giant pandas is not fixed. Some mother pandas give birth to their babies in spring so that they can enjoy fresh and delicious spring bamboo shoots.
For example, sesame rice dumpling is a baby bear born in spring.
Yu Yiyun quickly made a judgment and confirmed that it must be the mother panda's delivery room.
There are no cameras nearby, so it probably hasn't been discovered by the forest patrol staff yet.
The crying sound coming from the cave was weaker than what I heard just now.
Yu Yiyun knew that animals with cubs were highly aggressive and easily stressed, and would attack indiscriminately at the slightest provocation.
"Yiyi." Stay here and don't move.
"Yeah." I went to check out the situation.
Yu Yiyun whispered to Ziwei to stay where she was, and she sneaked over.
The two little bears often dig beehives. Ziwei can understand simple instructions. She immediately retracts her paws and squats there, looking at the sesame dumplings with curious eyes.
Sesame Tangyuan tried hard to hide his breath and approached the cave silently, stopping at the entrance to look at the environment inside.
As soon as I looked in, my eyes met those of the mother bear inside.
Yu Yiyun's heart skipped a beat, knowing that she had been discovered.
But the mother bear did not attack the intruder. Instead, she held her cub tightly against her warm chest.
As if afraid of disturbing her cubs, the mother bear remained motionless and did not even make a sound.
With the exception of kangaroos, panda cubs have the largest disproportionate size relative to their mothers of any mammal.
Newborn panda cubs have no fur to protect them, no vision or hearing, and even no lymph nodes.
The mother bear must stay with her cubs at all times to provide them with protection and milk.
Many panda mothers, like other bear mothers, will not eat or drink at all in the first few weeks after their cubs are born, hiding in caves and consuming blood and flesh to feed their cubs.
There was once a rumor that was just as popular as "pandas are not interested in breeding."
When humans discover that mother pandas trample their cubs to death or abandon them, they assert with certainty that "pandas don't take care of their cubs."
In fact, because humans do not understand the breeding habits of pandas, they find that the female panda stops eating after giving birth, so they bring food to feed her.
The tragedy happened because the mother panda was distracted by eating.
At this moment, the mother bear in front of Yu Yiyun, in order to concentrate on taking care of her cubs, did not even drive away the strange beasts approaching her den.
"...... Yeah." Yu Yijun made a weak sound, indicating that he was a kid, with neither malice nor aggressive power.
The mother panda still held her cub tightly and stared at him.
"Eeyore." Okay, I'm leaving.
Yu Yiyun turned around and was about to leave the cave so as not to disturb the mother panda raising her children.
The moment he turned around, he heard the faint crying again.
Yu Yiyun turned around subconsciously and found a little creature lying in the dimly lit area deep in the cave.
His eyes were closed and his body was unable to move. At most, he could only cry out instinctively.
The mother panda heard the cries of her other child but remained indifferent and held the baby in her arms even tighter.
The law of survival of the fittest in nature is extremely cruel, and she knew that she could not raise two cubs.
So when the baby was just born, one of them was abandoned.
The temperature is low in early spring, and the baby will die in two or three hours at most without milk and embrace.
However, for some reason, the baby in this fetus had an extremely strong vitality and kept making sounds to stimulate the mother's maternal instinct, wanting to gain a glimmer of hope of life.
The mother panda was almost shaken.
But when she thought about what she was going to face next, her will became firm again.
I don't have the ability to raise two cubs.
If they force it, neither cub will get the best care.
Yu Yiyun heard the weak cry of the newborn cub and saw that the mother panda ignored it and was only focused on breastfeeding her baby in her arms, so she realized what was happening.
While the mother panda lowered her head and concentrated on breastfeeding, Yu Yiyun got into the cave as quickly as possible.
Before angering the mother panda, he quickly came out, holding the cub whose breath was getting weaker and weaker in his arms.
“Woo woo.”
Ziwei, who was standing at a distance, came over and found that Zhima Tangyuan did not bring back honey, but instead brought back a "rat" with a thin pink skin all over its body, which was not even as big as its own paws. She tilted her head curiously.
"Woo woo?" What is that?
"Yiyi." He is the same kind as us, but he is too small. I don't know if he is a little brother or sister.
"Eehee." He wanted to live.
Yu Yiyun knew that the panda's "abandoning cubs" behavior was the optimal solution for adapting to the environment after millions of years of evolution.
Just like in Alaska, he knew that the second egg had a high probability of dying, but he only brought the third egg back to the nest to incubate.
Natural selection is cruel, but it is an inevitable part of life.
A few words of metaphor cannot change the nature of animals as sculpted by nature.
Even so, hearing that the cub was so weak and was still crying and howling with all his might, trying to buy a chance to live, Sesame Tangyuan still stretched out his claws.
This is a panda cub!
Who can bear to ignore it?
The problem is that Yu Yiyun brought the newborn cub out of the cave but was unable to provide him with any help other than warmth.
Newborn cubs cannot ingest any solid plant matter, even if the solid food is squeezed into juice.
Before a giant panda is six months old, it must get nutrition from its mother's milk.
Yu Yiyun is a little male bear, and Ziwei is an underage female bear, unable to provide milk for the cubs.
The best solution that Sesame Tangyuan can think of now is to seek help from humans.
But the forest is so big that it will take time to find the little man.
It is unlikely that humans carry bottles and formula with them, and it would take time to go back to the shelter to find milk.
The panda cub's cry is already very weak, and I don't know how long it can last.
Moreover, seeking help from humans will inevitably cause a problem.
At this stage, it is absolutely impossible for humans to assume that the bear cubs are capable of caring for their newborn cubs.
If they find a newborn cub, they will definitely take it back to the rescue center.
Giant pandas that have been raised by humans since birth are destined to never return to the wild.
If you're lucky, you might be sent to a zoo.
If you are unlucky, you may end up staying in this small exhibition hall for the rest of your life.
He was clearly a panda born in the mountains, and he hadn't even opened his eyes yet to see the spring flowers all over the mountains.
Yu Yiyun gritted his teeth, caught a bamboo rat, and left blood and his own fur in front of the nearest infrared camera to send a signal for help to humans.
Then he and Ziwei picked up the newborn panda and tried to find other solutions.
If you are at your wits' end, come back and ask the little guy for help.
Yu Yiyun had to provide warmth for the newborn cubs, so her walking speed slowed down significantly.
After searching for more than half an hour, no bear was found that could serve as a wet nurse for the cubs. Zhima Tangyuan was so anxious that he ran while crying.
He cried so loudly that suddenly, a rustling sound came from the thick grass in the distance.
After listening for a while, Zhima Tangyuan immediately recognized the red panda that had disappeared for more than half a month.
"Yiyi!" I'm busy now, I'll talk to you next time!
Yu Yiyun did not stop, for fear of wasting time.
The red panda was curious, so he crawled out of the nest built with branches at the bottom of the rock and caught up with the cub in a few steps to check the situation.
Yu Yijun didn't expect the red panda to chase after her, so she turned around hurriedly and was about to explain.
Before it could open its mouth, a furry little head appeared from the place where the red panda had just been, and it started to cry in a baby voice.
After a few seconds, a second head appeared and shouted "Mom" in a squeaking voice.
Newborn red panda cubs are different from giant pandas in that they are covered with soft, light-colored fur, which can provide warmth for the cubs.
Therefore, red panda cubs have stronger survival abilities and do not need their mother to stay in the nest 24 hours a day.
As they grow older, the fur of red panda cubs gradually becomes brighter.
“……Eh?” Yu Yiyun finally understood why the red panda disappeared for more than half a month.
When he saw the red panda with a bulging chest, his eyes instantly lit up and he rushed over to the cub, babbling incoherently with excitement.
"Hiss?" The red panda asked in confusion.
What nonsense! I didn't understand a word of it.
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