Chapter 153 Snow Leopard (XI)
"Meow~" Handsome~
"Meow!" So cool!
Yu Yijun circled around Lily, exclaiming in admiration, and even wanted to stretch out his paw to rub her.
After just half a month's absence, Lily's waist is no longer round, her face is no longer fat, and even her triple chin has turned into a double chin.
Although her current size is still considered "plump" among the snow leopard population, at least it does not affect her movements.
A large body size is never a disadvantage for wild animals.
"call!"
Lily, who was handsome to the max, raised her head proudly and glanced at the little leopard who had stolen her salmon a few days ago.
snort.
Just a bunch of kittens!
After being sent to the zoo, Lily lived in the same area with other snow leopards due to limited space.
After more than half a year of getting along with each other, she no longer has such a strong resistance to her own kind.
He glanced at the pig quickly, then shook his tail and left in a cool manner.
"Meow~"
Girls change a lot when they grow up~
If I had known she was so handsome, I should have acted cute and coquettishly and captured a wild aunt.
But Yu Yiyun resorted to provocation to deliberately make Lily angry.
Big cats have limited brain capacity and are simply unable to comprehend this level.
Even if Lily didn't hold a grudge, her attitude towards herself wouldn't be much better.
Yu Yiyun sighed, thinking that now that Lily had returned to the territory, he would have to be sneaky to get close to Feifei and Yuanyuan...
Before he could finish his thought, Lily came back and landed in front of Yu Yijun again.
"Meow?" Why are you back again?
"Huh!" What do you care about me?
Lily still had a proud look on her face. She glanced at Zhumi and jumped away briskly with her paws.
About five minutes later, Lily returned to the same place again.
This time when she saw Zhumi, she couldn't continue to be so carefree. She made an impatient sound and called her cubs.
Yu Yiyun finally reacted.
——Lily is lost.
The scenery in the wild is extremely similar, with vast mountains covered with ice, snow and rocks, stretching into an endless expanse.
Most wild animals do not rely on vision to distinguish areas like Yu Yiyun, but rely on smell.
After Lily was injured, she stayed in the zoo for a full six months. The scent she left behind was buried by the wind and snow and could no longer be distinguished.
It can be seen from Ram's performance that the snow leopard's memory is... rather subtle.
Ram has been with Leopard Dad twice. When she smells Leopard Dad's scent again, she will still be angry.
It is understandable that Lily had been away from her habitat for half a year and had only forgotten where she lived before, but had not forgotten that she had two cubs.
Wait, she really didn't forget?!
Yu Yijun jumped to a high place, turned around and meowed at Lily, signaling her to follow him.
Along the way, Zhumi was very nervous and asked Lily in a roundabout way whether she remembered Feifei and Yuanyuan.
"Meow?" Do you still remember Feifei?
"Huh?" What?
"Meow?" What about Yuanyuan?
"Huh!" It's so noisy!
Zhumi closed his mouth and became even more nervous.
Wild animals do not rely on vision to distinguish places, nor do they rely on vision to distinguish objects.
Feifei and Yuanyuan have been away from their mother for more than half a year. They no longer have the scent of Lily on them, but instead have the scent of Ram, Leopard Dad, and Zhumi, a family of three.
If Lily only smelled the smell, she would probably think it was a piglet.
She finally recovered from her leg injury and successfully reintegrated into the wild.
What should I do if I cannot be reunited with my child for this reason?
Yu Yiyun became more and more worried, so she took Lily back to her territory.
Lily looked left and right, and her animal eyes were full of strangeness.
"Huh?" Leopard, where is this?
"Meow!" Leopard, guess what!
Yu Yiyun's heart was 50% dead.
Lily didn't even remember her territory, and she probably forgot about her own cub.
Hearing the pig's cry, Yuanyuan and Feifei, who were hiding in the nest, ran out and turned into little rabbits in minutes, jumping around their mother lively.
They discovered that the leopards that came to their doorstep were not only Yu Yijun but also a female leopard with an unfamiliar smell. The two cubs slowed down their pace at the same time.
"Meow?" Mommy, who is she?
"Chirp!" There's an enemy beast! Hide quickly!
Feifei made a judgment, ran back to the cave without looking back, and played hide-and-seek deep in the cave.
Looking back on the days when the super invincible flying cat was brave and reckless, rushing out of the cave if it didn't see its family in 3 seconds, after experiencing the beatings of society, it finally learned to judge the situation.
But...
Boy, do you want to take another look?
Isn't this the biological mother whom you couldn't stop back then, who flew out of the cave as soon as you spread your claws, and whom you were willing to risk your life to find even if you were delivering takeout to a big cat?
"Meow?"
Yuanyuan tilted her head, then tilted it again, and shook her furry ears, trying hard to capture Lily's scent and match her memory.
Apparently her new brain wasn't working very well either.
Yuanyuan didn't find any matching results and saw that Lily was the leopard brought by Zhumi.
With trust in her mother, Yuanyuan mustered up the courage to move closer and closer and conduct a second in-depth search.
The distance was reduced to a few meters, and Lily smelled a familiar scent from Yuanyuan.
"Meow~" Lily ran towards Yuanyuan excitedly, making sounds to coax a child.
Although Yuanyuan had forgotten the smell, she remembered her mother's voice. Her eyes lit up instantly and she threw herself into her mother's arms and clung to her madly.
"Meow!" Mom!
"Meow, meow, meow!" Baby, baby!
The mother and daughter recognized each other again and rolled into a ball, hugging each other.
Yuanyuan buried herself in Lily's arms, letting her mother lick her fur while purring comfortably.
Feifei hid in the cave and listened for a long time, but found that there was no movement outside.
He secretly poked out his furry head and saw the strange female leopard opening her bloody mouth towards his sister.
"Chirp!" Enemy beast, let my sister go!
“……”Yu Yiyun was helpless.
On the way to bring Lily back to the territory, he imagined that Lily would not recognize her cub, and that the cub would not recognize Lily. He never thought that one cub would successfully recognize its parents, while the other would intend to remain an orphan by its own strength.
"Chiu!" Bad cat!
"Meow!" Idiot, you're ruining my life!
Yu Yijun walked towards Feifei, raised his paw, and hit him on the head three times.
Does it sound good?
Good sounding means a good start.
"......啾." Feifei cried out in grievance. After being beaten, his eyes quickly became clear.
Although he had forgotten his biological mother's voice and smell, Feifei remembered clearly the three times Yu Yiyun hit him.
Feifei held his head and rolled a few circles on the ground, as if he had activated the memory recovery technique, thinking about the causes and consequences of the last beating he received.
"Chirp!" Mom! My dearest mom!
Feifei got up, rushed to Lily, and threw herself into her arms to complain.
"Chirp, chirp!" There is a bad cat over there. It beats me all day long and has made me stupid!
"Meow?"
Yu Yiyun’s eyes widened with disbelief.
You stupid cat, you don’t even have a brain, how can I beat you into a fool?
Even when spreading rumors, we must abide by the Basic Law!
"Chirp!" Mom, the big bad cat is mean to me!
After Feifei got beaten, it was as if a magical mechanism was turned on, and he recalled the memories before he got beaten for the first time.
But the memory between the two beatings gradually became blurred.
The little male leopard jumped into his mother's arms, being as affectionate as if he had never left.
——I guess he was really beaten stupidly.
Yu Yiyun lowered his head silently, glanced at his claws, and had a vicious thought:
If I hit him three more times, what effect will that have?
Watch as mother and son finally recognize each other and enjoy the rare time together.
Yu Yiyun put away his evil intention, retracted his claws, and prepared to leave holding his long tail in his mouth.
"Meow."
Yuanyuan sensed something, raised her head and cried out.
Her own mother has returned, but the new mother who has worked hard to take care of her and feed her over the past six months is equally precious in Yuanyuan's life.
“Meow!”
Yu Yijun met Leopard Cub's gaze and said goodbye to her softly.
Now that Lily is back, I don’t need to worry about the two leopard cubs... No way!
The pig, who was born to be a hard worker, was afraid that Lily, who had just returned to the wild, would not be able to adapt for a while.
He did not go far, but hid in the dark and observed quietly.
The result was as expected.
Although Lily passed the wild training, she successfully caught the sheep that the breeder put into the pen.
However, friends who have caught sheep know that catching farmed sheep and catching wild sheep are not difficult at all.
Not to mention the blue sheep that can climb walls and fly over rooftops, even wild antelopes are a hundred times harder to catch than farmed sheep.
Lily hadn't gone hunting properly for more than half a year. When she came back to challenge the mountain goat, she seemed to be in a state of panic and had no idea what was going on.
With rich experience in the wild and the frequent activities of blue sheep in spring, Lily has no shortage of prey in her territory.
The first time she encountered a mountain goat, she screamed at the top of her lungs, alarming all the mountain goats.
When she was at a rescue station before, the breeder showed her how to catch a sheep, which was to scare it first.
Farmed sheep have been living in an environment created by humans since they were born. Whenever an enemy animal approaches, the sheepdog will roar, signaling the sheep to hide in the flock and not run around.
Over time, the domesticated city sheep would hide in a corner and pretend to be dead when they heard the sound.
Wild blue sheep are different.
Hearing the sound of the snow leopard, they slipped away faster than each other and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Yu Yiyun witnessed the whole process and finally understood how Ram felt when he was teaching him how to hunt and heard the smacking sound that scared the sheep away.
A waste that only causes trouble!
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Zhumi tried to excuse himself: so far, he had no experience in hunting mountain goats.
When he was a beast in his previous lives, he often roared to increase his momentum when chasing prey, and Yu Yijun was used to it.
Making noise to scare away blue sheep is a mistake many novice hunters make.
Lily is already a big leopard, it is totally inappropriate for her to make such a mistake.
Lily soon realized her negligence, and on the second hunt, she approached quietly without making any sound.
The ibex was concentrating on grazing and did not take any precautions.
The distance has been shortened to a dozen meters, infinitely close to the golden hunting range, and the success rate is already very high.
Usually at this stage, the snow leopard will swoop over and bite the blue sheep by the back of the neck or throat, trying to kill it with one blow.
Lily also pounced over, aiming at the ibex's... horns.
When human breeders demonstrate, they never attack the throat or neck, but instead grab the sheep by the horns and throw them over their shoulders.
Lily had seen too many human demonstrations, which led to a deviation in her thinking, and she thought she could also perform an over-the-shoulder throw.
She doesn't even have a correct 'shoulder', how can she throw over the shoulder?!
The horns of the blue sheep are large and curved, with grooves on them that represent the age of the blue sheep.
Lily took a bite of it, but instead of falling over her shoulder, she was almost carried off the cliff by the mountain goat.
Lily steadied herself and began to doubt Bao Sheng:
How did I catch the mountain goat in the past?
"Chirp?" Mom, isn't dinner ready yet?
"Meow!" Come on, mom!
Feifei and Yuanyuan followed Lily closely, struggling for most of the day but not getting a single bite of meat.
The two of them were fed by the pigs and couldn't stand being hungry for a whole day, so they opened their blingbling blue eyes wide and begged for food from Lily.
Lily was fed by the breeder at the rescue station and was also starving.
She stood up again, adjusted her tactics, and continued searching for the mountain goat.
After the first two attempts, Lily finally gained some experience in hunting mountain goats.
She held her breath and concentrated, not wanting to alarm the ibex, then she waited for the right opportunity to pounce.
Unfortunately, the ibex was quite alert and spotted the snow leopard's tracks, immediately running away down the slope.
The slope is relatively gentle, so the pursuit is not difficult.
According to the normal ability of snow leopards, they can definitely catch blue sheep.
Unexpectedly, Lily then displayed another confusing behavior.
Unlike ordinary snow leopards, she did not charge straight towards the blue sheep, but jumped left and right on the slope.
Through Lily's three performances, Yu Yiyun could imagine how the breeder who demonstrated to Lily caught city sheep.
The little guy started by yelling loudly to scare the sheep in the city.
Then open your arms, jump left and right to approach the sheep, and find the most suitable position to attack.
Finally, grab the city sheep's horns and do a gorgeous shoulder throw.
This method of capture is indeed effective for humans with flexible and strong arms and high shoulder lines, but it is not suitable for snow leopards.
Snow leopards are good at ambushing and killing with one blow, so it is necessary to shorten the distance as quickly as possible during the chase to avoid it turning into a long-term tug-of-war.
The method of jumping left and right has no advantages other than increasing the moving distance and reducing the running speed...
etc! ! !
Yu Yijun stared at Lily's movements, and an idea flashed through his mind.
A new hunting strategy suddenly popped into his mind.
The ibex used its inherent advantages, coupled with the snow leopard's self-weakening, to successfully escape the hunter.
Before the ibex could relax its vigilance, another young snow leopard appeared in front of it.
The ibex immediately changed direction and ran down the slope towards a steep mountain road.
The mountain ibex know that if they escape to a steep cliff, they can outrun most snow leopards.
If a snow leopard wants to catch them on a 90° vertical cliff, it will have to pay a heavy price, either death or injury.
The blue sheep use their hooves, which can stand vertically on the cliff, to escape to the terrain that is most advantageous to them.
The little snow leopard that was chasing behind suddenly started jumping left and right like the stupid snow leopard just now to increase the moving distance.
The distance between the hunter and the prey gradually widened.
The mountain goats ran towards the cliff, thinking they would definitely escape.
The moment its front hooves stepped off the cliff, the snow leopard behind it suddenly flew sideways and used its body weight and inertia to knock the ibex off the cliff.
In order to avoid natural enemies, blue sheep maintain extremely fast speeds while running.
Coupled with the snow leopard's sudden lateral speed, its hooves couldn't dig into the cliff wall, and the whole sheep fell heavily off the cliff.
The fur and subcutaneous fat of the blue sheep are relatively thin, and they are not as resistant to falls as the snow leopard.
Therefore, when snow leopards hunt blue sheep, they will choose to take the sheep down the mountain with them.
Yu Yijun knocked the mountain goat down and rushed forward for a while before he stabilized his body and stuck his head out to look down the cliff.
The mountain goat flapped its wings twice and lost its ability to move.
The little piglet who wanted to finish off the prey immediately ran over, showing its sharp teeth and easily biting the prey's throat.
It was the first time for the leopard to kill a blue sheep. The pig was so happy that he almost flew up and picked it up, picked it up, picked it up...
Okay, I still can’t hold it.
“Meow!”
The pig raised its neck and roared towards Gaochu, calling on the Lily family, who were almost starving, to come down and eat.
Lily still remembered that Zhumi had stolen her meat and salmon, so she was wary of him.
Yuanyuan is now nearly 9 months old, and has been fed by pigs for 6 months.
She ran towards Yu Yiyun happily, shouting "Mom, I'm hungry, food is coming."
The greedy little cat Feifei ran to Yu Yiyun, opened his clear animal eyes wide, and licked his cat mouth.
"Chirp." Strange beast, would you like to give the kitten some food?
"Meow!" Stupid cat, spit out your mother's milk!
Yu Yijun yelled at him angrily, then tore off the meat and shared it with the two leopard cubs.
After filling his own stomach, Piglet left the remaining ibex to Lily.
"Meow." Here's your salmon. We're even this time.
"Meow!" You should learn to hunt on your own quickly!
The pig left the prey behind and found an area where no animals would disturb him, and worked hard to hone his "jumping left and right to catch sheep" technique.
The 'left and right jumping method to catch sheep' is a bit like the 'beach rushing tactics' of killer whales. It has strict requirements on terrain and timing. The difference is that one rushes downwards and the other rushes upwards.
Killer whales must undergo repeated training to learn beaching tactics so as not to run too far and get stranded.
Pigs need repeated training to learn how to catch sheep by jumping left and right.
Otherwise, if you rush too much, you will really fall off the cliff!
The number of mountain goats in the mountainous areas is rarer than that of sea lions on the beach. Yu Yiyun must seize every opportunity and hone her skills seriously.
After practicing for seven or eight days, Yu Yiyun caught a total of three sheep.
Although the quantity is not much, it is definitely enough for the pigs to eat their fill every meal.
He seized the opportunity, rushed down the gentle slope of the cliff, ran sideways in front of the mountain goat, and suddenly slowed down.
The ibex looked back in horror and saw that the snow leopard was very close to it, but it did not bite it to death. It was obviously stunned.
"Meow." Sheep, thank you for training with me.
"Meow meow meow!" I'm not hungry now. I'll eat your whole family next time~
Blue Sheep: Thank you and your whole family, the living devil of the Himalayas!
After 'saving' a fresh little life, Yu Yiyun hummed a cheerful tune and returned to her mother, wagging her tail.
Ram did not stay in the nest, nor was he busy hunting.
She called out "meow, meow" and looked everywhere for her son.
As a mother, she still has a mission to accomplish.
The son must be taught to hunt before the second litter is born.
"meow!" baby!
Seeing Zhumi returning home, Ram immediately rushed over and took him to the mountain goat den he had just discovered.
Coincidentally, Yu Yiyun just wanted to show her hunting skills to her mother.
Before Ram could demonstrate, Yu Yijun rushed over and drove the ibex to the vicinity of the cliff.
Seeing this, Ram couldn't help but worry about his son.
Past hunting experience tells Ram that once the ibex runs towards the cliff, the snow leopard must either give up the hunt or pay a heavy price.
"meow!" Baby, come back!
Ram calls out to Erza.
She wanted to teach her child how to hunt, but she didn't want her baby to get hurt.
There was only the sound of wind in Yu Yiyun's ears.
He did not respond to Ram or slow down, but changed direction seconds before the ibex rushed towards the cliff.
Approach the mountain goat by jumping left and right, then change direction to sideways when getting close, and accurately hit the mountain goat that has escaped to the edge of the cliff.
The ibex was unable to stand steadily due to the force, and its body flew out in a parabola.
Yu Yiyun observed where the ibex landed, hopped down the mountain, picked up the ibex and showed it to her mother.
"Meow!" Mommy, I learned how to catch blue sheep~
"Meow!" Baby is awesome!
Ram was so happy to see the child finish hunting that he praised him several times.
Just as Yu Yijun was about to crawl back and get close to Ram as usual.
Ram suddenly acted as if he didn't recognize the pig. He opened his mouth and kept breathing out, with angry sounds rolling in his throat as if to expel him.
Yu Yiyun was stunned.
Yu Yiyun’s defense was broken!
While I was hunting, you were drinking milk without telling me, right?
snort!
I snatched Feifei’s Wang Ma milk and drank it!
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Yu Yiyun tried several times and found that Ram was just breathing out and had no intention of attacking at all.
She still retains her maternal instinct and cannot bear to hurt her child.
But driven by strong maternal instinct, Ram had to drive away the grown-up children and concentrate on raising the next litter of cubs.
Zhumi knew her mother's temper and did not make things difficult for her.
"Meow." Okay, when you give birth to the baby, I will secretly come back to rub my younger brothers and sisters.
"Meow, meow!" Goodbye, Mommy!
Yu Yiyun, who has learned the survival skills of a snow leopard, decides to leave her mother temporarily.
He has grown into an 18-month-old snow leopard, and it is time for him to learn to be independent and become a fierce and powerful top predator.
The first step to becoming a top predator is to own your own territory.
The snow leopard's territory is very large, and a powerful snow leopard often occupies one or several hills alone.
If a newly grown snow leopard wants to have its own territory, it must either find an area without leopard marks or defeat the lord snow leopard.
Piglet never liked meaningless fights, so he decided to walk around and search for unmarked territories.
The Himalayan mountain range is connected, but not all of them are interconnected.
Sometimes, to climb from one mountain to another, you have to climb over tall and steep slopes, which is quite strenuous.
Fortunately, during the years when we Pigsy was a sesame dumpling, we found the most opportunistic technique to climb mountains: go around the bottom of the mountain.
Climbing the mountain is tiring and dangerous. It is better to walk on the flat road at the foot of the mountain and enjoy the spring scenery.
Zhumi grunted as he came down the mountain. The low-altitude areas were already covered by grasslands and jungles, and were full of colorful flowers.
The four seasons here are distinct, and the environment is not as cold and harsh as in high-altitude areas. It is home to many small animals.
Yu Yiyun came across a tree and his claws felt itchy, so he quickly climbed up and hung on it for a while.
Not long after, a musk deer came under the tree and ate the tender grass without any precautions.
The pig smelled the deer and couldn't sleep, so he was about to jump down from the tree to let the deer know that the animal life is dangerous.
As a result, when he looked up, he saw a few Tibetan foxes that blended into the earth slope in the distance, ready to snatch the snow leopard's food.
Further away, a local Tibetan brown bear slowly crawled over, rubbing its hands in anticipation of taking advantage of the opportunity.
It is true that the snow leopard catches the cicada, the Tibetan fox is behind, and the brown bear reaps the benefits.
Yu Yiyun retracted his gaze, kicked his legs and pretended to sleep, while keeping one eye on the guard, ready to rob the Tibetan fox or the bear at any time.
The forest musk deer nibbled the grass for a while, looked up and around, and couldn't help but sigh:
This place is really peaceful and safe~
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