Chapter 2 South China Tiger (Part 2)
Yu Yiyun retracted his claws, his eyes fixed on his prey. He lay on the ground with his front body, gathering strength with his hind legs, and pounced at the right moment.
Before the chicken flies up, bite its...wings?
Oops, I bit it off!
When a tiger attacks its prey, it should bite the neck or spine, trying to kill it with one blow.
There was a layer of feather powder on the surface of the chicken's wings, and it was very slippery after being wet by the rain.
The tiger cub's fangs had just grown, so its bite force was very weak. Even if it used all its strength, it would easily lose its strength.
“Cluck, cluck, cluck!”
The free-range chicken had a strong desire to survive. It struggled desperately, using all its strength to break its wings, and attacked the little tiger frantically with its claws and sharp beak.
The tiger is hailed as one of the most perfect creatures in nature, with top-notch vision, hearing, and sense of smell, as well as sharp claws and fangs.
However, the tiger's shortcomings are also obvious: poor endurance, a typical example of "making great efforts at one time and then declining again".
The tiger cub had been hungry for three days and had very little strength left.
If I let go now, I will definitely not have the strength to continue fighting with the energetic chicken.
Even if it does not let go, it still cannot capture the prey by just biting the wings.
Yu Yiyun clearly felt that the chicken's struggle was getting more and more intense, and it pulled out a tuft of hair from its forehead.
Woo woo woo, no matter you are a human or a tiger, you can’t escape hair loss.
Even facing the crisis of baldness, the young tiger still dared not give in.
'The survival of the fittest' has always been the law of nature, the winner lives and the loser dies.
The prey is risking its life, and the hunter must also be prepared for injury and death.
Yu Yiyun was aware of her disadvantage and knew it was difficult to kill the struggling chicken with her teeth.
He adjusted his hunting method again, using his size advantage to roll over and pin the frantically struggling chicken to the ground with his forearms.
Then it curls up its body and uses its two hind legs alternately to launch a violent and intensive attack until the prey's resistance becomes weaker and weaker.
Only then did it let go of the wings it had already bitten through and bit the chicken's neck hard to make sure it died completely.
After doing all this, Yu Yiyun, exhausted, rolled to the side and lay on the ground like a cat pancake, exhausted.
He breathed heavily, and his belly rose and fell.
[Baby is awesome~ This is the first time I see a tiger who can use rabbit kicks. Friends who have cats are familiar with this action, right? 】
[I felt like I've seen this somewhere before. It turns out that this is the way my cat catches mice. Hahaha]
[A three-month-old baby is really good at rabbit kicking, right~]
The audience were just there to watch the fun and didn't think it was a big deal for such a fat tiger cub to bite a chicken to death.
Only the staff who were observing secretly knew the value of it, and they were so shocked by the tiger cub that they were speechless!
You should know that wild tigers only start learning to hunt when they are over one year old.
Even as adults, their hunting success rate is only about 10%.
The brave little tiger cub actually completed a solo kill in just two attempts without any guidance from his mother!
It is worthy of being the beast that has dominated the jungle for millions of years and the top hunter in nature!
Yu Yiyun had rested enough and walked to his spoils.
It was the tiger cub’s first time handling prey, and its not-yet-strong teeth were not able to deal with large prey, but fortunately plucking chicken feathers was more than enough.
The thin chicken skin is easy to tear apart, and the surface of the cat's tongue has barbs, which can be used to scrape all the chicken meat into puree without wasting any meat.
Yu Yiyun performed a real voracious eating performance online, eating up the first prey she caught cleanly, and then she realized that no piece of meat on her body was redundant.
A seven-pound chicken has at least four pounds of meat. He ate it all and still didn't feel full.
No wonder wild tigers disdain to catch chickens. After working so hard for a long time, they can only eat two bites, and they owe 300 calories in the end of the meal.
Kittens don’t need to lose weight!
Yu Yiyun licked his lips and cleaned his paws and face in an unskilled manner, imitating what he had seen before.
My ears twitched twice, and I heard Qin An and Shen Yu, who thought they had not been discovered, still discussing whether to take the tiger cub back to the rescue station.
The area of the rescue station is not even as big as a hill in the nature reserve. What’s the difference between this and being in prison?
Yu Yiyun just saw her own appearance through the camera lens, and she found herself cuter than any tiger cub she had ever seen.
Just act cute and you will randomly charm a lot of cat lovers.
If this falls into their hands, it will definitely be sucked day and night, and its belly and ears will be touched all over, leaving no clean spot on its body.
Between 'selling her body' and 'conquering the mountains and forests', Yu Yiyun chose the latter without hesitation.
He walked around the cave several times, found a secluded place away from the camera, and left his... pee.
This is the first time I do something like this, I feel embarrassed.
Even if he turns into a beast, Yu Yiyun still has a sense of shame and is determined not to leave any black history behind!
Although animals cannot speak, they can convey information through sound and smell.
For example, Kang Kang leaves a strong scent near the tiger's xue, telling the cubs "Mom will be back soon" and deterring intruders "If you dare to touch my cubs, I will fight you to the death."
All animals know how ferocious a mother tiger with cubs can be.
The tiger cub stayed inside, just like staying in the barrier drawn by Sun Wukong with his golden cudgel.
However, the smell will eventually disappear with the wind and rain and gradually lose its protective effect.
Yu Yiyun left her own flavor and carefully covered it with a thin layer of soil to allow the flavor to last longer.
If Kang Kang returns to Huxue, he will be able to tell from the smell that his child is healthy and get the message he conveys.
[Mom, I’m going to sail away today.jpg]
Yu Yiyun took one last look at the cave, picked up the camera on the ground, and ran away without looking back.
"Ah!" Qin An screamed, "He really treats the camera as a toy!"
Shen Yu screamed even more miserably, "It's already this late, and you still have time to care about the camera? Our Fat Tiger has run away!"
"Ah! What should we do? Should we catch him back?"
Shen Yu looked into the distance and said deeply, “He went to conquer the mountains and forests.”
The brave little tiger made his own choice through action.
Even though he is extremely rare, even though the journey is dangerous.
The rewilding team must respect the beast’s wishes.
"We are in this area. How about dropping a few more batches of free-range chickens?"
"If you don't tie his legs, can our Fat Tiger catch him?"
Yu Yiyun, who hadn’t run far yet, said: …
Are you polite!!!
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The Qinling Mountains start from Kunlun in the west and are the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. They are revered as the dragon vein of Chinese civilization.
The protected area is composed of undulating mountains, which are cut off by a river.
Kang Kang's territory is just west of the river.
It is now the flood season and the continuous heavy rains have caused the water level to rise rapidly.
The big tiger can swim across the river, but the small tiger will definitely be washed away by the fast-flowing river.
Yu Yiyun had no choice but to continue walking west along the mountain road with the camera in his mouth.
Stepping through forbidden areas that humans have never set foot in, many precious video footages were left along the way.
[It’s my first time experiencing a tiger’s perspective, I’m a little excited~]
[In the past, I could only see the appearance through aerial photography. It turns out that the depths of Qinling Mountains are so beautiful. I finally understand what "picturesque scenery" means]
[I am a little worried about the baby, will he be in danger? ]
Adult tigers have no natural enemies, but that doesn’t mean three-and-a-half-month-old cubs have no natural enemies.
The Qinling Mountains are one of the most biologically diverse natural environments in the world, with more than 800 species known to live there.
Among them are large carnivores and herbivores, such as black bears, leopards, wolves, takins, giant pandas...
Carnivores will hunt lone tiger cubs, which not only gives them a good meal but also helps them avoid competing with them for resources in the future.
Large herbivores will also kill tiger cubs at all costs to prevent them from growing up and using them as food.
However, the tiger cubs' biggest natural enemy is the adult male tigers living in the area.
In the habitats of Siberian tigers (Amur tigers) and Bengal tigers, there are many precedents of male tigers hunting cubs.
There are also male tigers with brutal temperaments who will not even spare their own tiger cubs.
One reason is that if the cubs are killed, the mother tiger will re-enter the breeding period and give birth to children with the bloodline of the male tiger.
The second is to kill the male cubs in their own territory, so that there will be one less tiger to compete for territory in the future.
Fortunately, the place where the tiger cub passed did not belong to any male tiger.
Although the territories of male and female tigers overlap, some male tigers will patrol their partner's territory.
But next to Kang Kang's territory was occupied by the most ferocious tiger queen in the entire forest, an adult tigress named Mulan.
The Mulan Tiger is as majestic as its name suggests, and too strong to be like a tigress.
She is better at fighting than male tigers and often beats male tigers of the same age until they are covered in bruises.
Adult tigers have a strong sense of territory. Except during the breeding season, Mulan does not even allow her partner, a male tiger, to enter her territory.
Yu Yiyun dared to intrude into Mulan's territory mainly because he had been in the park and personally took care of Mulan until she was one year old. He knew the tiger's domineering character of "respecting the old and loving the young, and beating the middlemen severely".
Before reintroduction to the wild, Mulan had many interactions with the tiger cubs and had never attacked them.
Moreover, Mulan and Kang Kang are from the same litter, so she is his biological aunt.
Although tigers don’t care about blood relationships, Yu Yiyun does~!
For a poor little thing who has temporarily lost his mother, what’s wrong with eating two meals with his aunt?
According to tracking statistics over the past few years, Mulan is the best cook in the entire Qinling Mountains.
The hunting success rate of other tigers is about 10%, but hers can reach an astonishing 30% or more, and almost all of them are large prey.
Yu Yiyun is only three and a half months old now. She has no hunting ability and it is difficult for her to catch a chicken.
Besides, the chickens are not full!!!
As long as you can sneak into your aunt's territory, you can support yourself by picking up garbage.
Yu Yiyun stretched out his four short legs and happily went to his aunt.
The territory of a female tiger is generally smaller than that of a male tiger, but even so it is still several dozen square kilometers.
Yu Yiyun was in poor physical condition, so after walking and resting for a whole day, she finally saw traces of Magnolia hanging claws (leaving claw marks on tree trunks and using scent glands to mark territory).
Smelling the scent of the powerful tiger, Yu Yiyun, who was tired and hungry, almost howled with excitement.
The road was muddy, so expending physical energy was secondary.
On the way, Yu Yiyun met a jackal looking for food in the rain and almost fell to the ground and became a jackal.
Jackals are somewhere between wolves and dogs in size and usually move in groups.
Omnivorous, eating everything, including a certain 'Tiger Cake Roll'.
If it howled and called its companions over, Yu Yijun would definitely not be able to escape.
Yu Yiyun did not show any fear. He retreated to a fallen tree, bared his teeth and showed his most ferocious expression, confronting the jackal head on.
The audience in the live broadcast room were also terrified and called the rescue station and the Animal Protection Bureau, fearing that Xiaohu would die before he could accomplish his mission.
Jackals are cunning by nature and good at adapting to changing circumstances.
It was the first time it saw a tiger cub in this land. It was frightened by Fat Tiger's size and had no idea of the opponent's fighting strength, so it did not dare to attack rashly.
Moreover, Yu Yijun had the scent of a tigress on her body, and she looked unpleasant to be trifled with.
The confrontation lasted for a few minutes. The jackal decided to protect itself and turned around with its tail between its legs.
The crisis was resolved, and Xiaohu sat down on the ground.
That was a close call. I was so scared that I almost climbed up a tree.
After going through many difficulties, Yu Yiyun finally arrived at Mulan's territory and sniffed the scent left on the edge of the territory.
So pungent!
Even after heavy rain, the scent left by magnolia is still as awe-inspiring as ever.
The clever little fat tiger rubbed his claws on the place where Mulan had left her mark.
As long as he was scented by my aunt, animals like jackals would not dare to touch him.
If the message left by Kang Kang means: If you dare to touch my child, I will fight you to the death!
Mulan's breath, translated into human language, means: Whoever touches my child will die.
The rewilding team discovered through the live broadcast that the tiger cubs had actually come to Mulan’s territory, and each one of them was twisted into the world-famous painting “The Scream”.
"Baby! There's still time to turn back!"
"No! There's hell ahead!"
"My boy...if Mulan wants to kill you, she only needs one claw!"
Yu Yiyun was covered in the smell, and swaggered across the line of death amid the sharp explosions of her former colleagues.
At the same time, Mulan, who was eating a wild boar, flapped her nostrils and smelled a strange tiger entering her territory.
She raised her head blankly and licked the blood off her face.
Four months... no, it should be only three months old.
How long has it been since I came to this forest and smelled the scent of my own cubs?
“Wow—mm—”
Mulan turned her head, headed in the direction of Xiaohu, and started the muffled Emperor engine.
Tigers use different sounds to express their emotions. Long roars represent demonstrations and declarations of territorial sovereignty, while short roars are provocations before attacking.
The imperial engine sound similar to that of a diesel engine is saying: You have irritated me, but now I am too lazy to beat you up, so get out of here if you know what's good for you.
When Yu Yiyun heard it, the meaning became: @%&$I am too lazy to beat you#%&*…
I won’t get beaten, that’s good~!
Yu Yiyun was ecstatic. Her aunt was indeed the most gentle big cat in the entire Qinling Mountains!
Auntie, I'm here to visit~
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