Chapter 127 Qinling Giant Panda (Thirteen)
With her outstanding memory, the mother panda successfully recognized the little bear that was abducted by a "bear dealer" when it was young. She then brought the cubs back to the tree hole and took care of the two cubs diligently.
The cub who has been with her since childhood is as worry-free as ever. He lies beside his mother and falls asleep after eating.
In contrast, the little bear has been raised wild by Sesame Rice Balls, making the mother panda experience the hellish difficulty of raising a cub.
When the other cubs were still too old to walk, the little bear got lost at least three times a day.
This caused the mother bear to keep one eye on her baby when she was sleeping, for fear that she would not be able to find her baby when she woke up.
Even though the mother panda is cautious enough, she uses her front paws to "tie" the little bear to her arms when she sleeps to prevent her big cub from running away from home.
When the mother panda fell asleep, the little bear, who had inherited the talent of sesame dumplings for fooling around completely through acquired learning, twisted his plump butt and broke free from his mother's arms.
The baby took steps with his short legs, twisted his short tail, and quietly left the tree hole in his mother's house.
"Hey~"
Some bears, at their most helpless age, become orphans by their own strength.
The little bear grew up drinking milk from various families. In his simple and pure understanding, the mother panda, like the red panda and the black bear, was a "temporary wet nurse" found by Sesame Tangyuan for himself.
Once you have had your fill, the sesame dumplings will take you home.
The little bear, who was used to going with the flow, gulped down his milk and waited patiently for a long, long, long time...
Until the other little bears fell asleep, their parents still didn't show up.
The uneasy little bear sniffed the smell carefully and found that the smell left by the sesame dumplings was getting weaker and weaker.
The realization that 'Mommy doesn't want me anymore' emerged in his mind, and an indescribable feeling of panic gradually enveloped the little bear.
He crawled out of the female panda's cave, intending to follow the smell and find sesame dumplings.
The mother panda 'obstructed' several times and successfully stimulated the talent that every panda child has: rebellion!
The little bear bided his time and fought secretly, and finally got the chance to break away from the mother panda.
Panda mother: A forced melon is not sweet, and a forced panda is not obedient.
Finally leaving the tree hole, the little bear raised his head and looked around the forest, then bravely took steps along the way he came!
[Mom, I’m going to sail away today.jpg]
The weak and helpless little bear was three and a half months old at most, and he couldn't even walk steadily, let alone be "competitive in the wild."
He walked very slowly, lying on the ground with his butt sticking out, sniffing everywhere, trying to catch the scent left by the sesame dumplings.
At the beginning, he could still smell a little bit, but before he walked far, the smell of sesame dumplings was replaced by a mess of wild beasts, and the little bear was completely lost.
"Hey..." Mommy...
For the second half of the journey, the poor little bear had to rely entirely on instinct.
After wandering alone for two hours, Zizi felt hungry.
Unfortunately, there were no sesame dumplings around him, so he had no one to beg for food from.
After enduring for dozens of minutes, the little bear was too hungry to move, so he pushed aside the grass to find a hidden tree hole and squeezed into it, turning on the power saving mode to conserve energy.
In just a few months of their life, the little bear has plenty of experience with starvation.
If you are too hungry to bear it, just close your eyes and go to sleep.
When you wake up again, the sesame dumplings will appear.
He hugged his hind paws, curled himself up into a ball, and buried his round face in his soft belly.
After a long sleep, the little bear woke up slowly. Sesame Dumpling didn't come back, but a strange sound came from near the tree hole.
The little bear was very scared, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity.
He moved forward and quietly approached the cave entrance, revealing one eye and looking outside timidly.
Outside the tree hole, there were two standing deer.
Little Bear had seen them many times and knew that the upright deer would not attack the pandas.
Sometimes steamed corn bread would fall down, and I love to eat sesame rice balls!
Once, Little Bear also wanted to get food from the upright deer.
Before he got close, Sesame Tangyuan immediately pounced on him, vigilantly carried him into the nest and hid him, babbling to warn him not to approach the upright deer.
Yu Yiyun knows those bear dealers too well!
If the little bear falls into their hands, he will definitely be beaten bald!
From then on, Little Bear understood: Sesame Dumplings can rob upright deer, but he himself cannot.
Because Sesame Glutinous Rice Balls is super powerful and is the most powerful bear in the entire forest!
The little bear was not as strong as his parents, so he retreated into the cave obediently, afraid of being discovered by the cowardly upright deer.
He held his flat stomach, sniffed aggrievedly, and heard the upright deer outside talking loudly.
"Can you hear me? This is Area 22. No target found."
After the report, he used his trekking pole to pick at the surrounding grass again, muttering to himself, "He's only three months old, where can he hide?"
The trekking pole was quite long and almost poked the little bear several times.
Fortunately, he has been following Zhima Tangyuan around for many years and is very good at playing hide-and-seek.
The hiding place is located at the roots of a big tree, and it is difficult to find the entrance even if the surrounding grass is peeled away.
The little bear didn't dare to make any sound. He was both scared and worried.
They are afraid that they will be caught by upright deer or other wild animals and become food.
If you become food, you will never find your baby again when you get home.
The little bear endured the hunger, closed his eyes again and coaxed himself to sleep.
Just before falling asleep, I was still thinking, "Where did the sesame dumplings go?" and "Does he not want the baby anymore?"
Outside the tree hole, the light turned from dark to bright.
When the little bear woke up, his stomach was numb from hunger.
In a trance, he heard the voice of the upright deer again, saying the same words as last time.
The little bear pricked up his ears and listened for a while, but all he heard were sounds he couldn't understand.
Suddenly, a clear "beep" sound came from the intercom.
The little bear recognized his mother's voice, his eyes widened in surprise, and he subconsciously made a sound in response.
"Hey!" Mommy!
"Wait, what's that noise?"
The 'Upright Deer' pressed the intercom and was about to speak when he heard a sound similar to that of a bear cub. He instantly became alert and glanced again at the area he had searched more than once.
Before he could thoroughly investigate, a colleague on two hills away shouted anxiously:
"Attention No. 22, attention No. 22, attention No. 250 is running towards you!"
"What?" The upright deer was briefly stunned. "What is he doing here? I don't have any steamed bread with me!"
"He has robbed our people too many times. He probably understands human language and knows that Baby Bear is lost. He just kept trying to pick on us. When he heard the voice coming from your intercom, he rushed out."
"Oh my god, this is the first time in my life that I've seen a panda run so fast."
"…Wait, does he know where Area 22 is?"
"Even if you know, can you 250 recognize the road?"
The rescue team searched all over the mountains for the lost little bear, but they couldn't feel at ease when they thought about the 250 lost bears in history.
Although there is no evidence to suggest that 250 could fully understand human language, he rushed out to find Little Bear.
The staff along the way gave guidance tacitly to ensure that the sesame dumplings could arrive at Area 22 smoothly.
When they arrived near Area 22, the staff considered that the little bear had run away from home and had not eaten for more than 24 hours.
When he found 250 running towards him, he 'accidentally' dropped several sheep stomach milk bottles to ensure that Sesame Dumplings could get the props 100%.
Sure enough, under the watchful eyes of countless staff members, Zhima Tangyuan picked up the bottle and ran at full speed straight towards the cave hidden in the grass and at the roots of the big tree.
Staff responsible for searching Area 22: …
Damn it!
The little bear was hiding right under his nose, but he didn't notice it at all. He will definitely have to write a self-criticism when he gets back.
"Eeyee!"
Baby cub!
Yu Yiyun shouted excitedly, half of her head was plunged into the narrow cave, and then——
The body is stuck, stuck.
The little bear is very good at choosing a place, and the tree hole he chose seems to be tailor-made for him.
The sesame dumplings are so round that even your head can’t fit in them.
He stepped back, pulled his head out, and was about to give the sheep's stomach bottle to the cub.
The little bear had been hungry for more than a day and his stomach was already deflated.
At this moment, she smelled the fragrance of milk, but without even looking at it, she crawled out of the tree hole and dived into Sesame Tangyuan's arms and acted coquettishly.
“Hey!” Mom——!
"Hey, hey!" Why abandon the baby!
“Hey, hey, hey!” Woo woo woo…
The little bear felt very aggrieved and rubbed against Sesame Tangyuan's arms, making his chest wet.
The germaphobic bear looked down and saw something.
Saliva, snot and tears all come together, it's like rain and dew hitting everyone equally.
After all, it was a cub that she raised with her own claws. Yu Yiyun tried hard to suppress her disgust, comforted the little bear, patted his back and fed him milk.
Seeing that the little bear was drinking so happily, Yu Yiyun turned around and planned to take the opportunity to go to the river to soak in the water and wash the hair on his chest.
The saliva would be fine, but the little bear's body is covered with snot bubbles, which is hard for the germaphobic little bear to bear.
As soon as Yu Yiyun turned around, she felt her legs being hugged.
When the little bear found that Sesame Dumpling was about to leave, he immediately dropped his bottle, rushed over and hugged him tightly.
"Hey, where is mommy going!
"Hey, hey, hey!" Take me away!
"Na na na na!" How can I live without you!
"Eh..." Baby, listen to my explanation...
"Hey, hey!" I don't want to listen!
Even though Sesame Dumpling told Little Bear that he just wanted to go to the river to wash his fur.
The little bear, who was cruelly 'abandoned' by his mother, has developed PTSD and suffers from severe separation anxiety. He must stick to his mother all the time and serve as a leg pendant.
Sesame Tangyuan had no choice but to turn back and watch the hair on his chest gradually dry up and stick together into clumps.
He looked at the little bear who had eaten and drunk his fill and was now bathing himself with snot bubbles in his arms. He then looked helplessly at the standing deer who were watching from a distance.
"babble?"
Don't just stand there and watch. Who will save me?
When the little guys saw the "Qinling Mountain Overlord" fall to this state, instead of offering a helping hand, they rushed to record high-definition black history material.
That night, the most touching panda-searching drama of the year was officially released to the entire network, and its popularity was comparable to that of star-studded TV series.
Countless netizens watched the video released by the rescue team for fun and were deeply moved by the two bears.
[Woo woo woo… The bear cub hid for so long, enduring hunger. It only came out after hearing the big bear’s voice. The baby must be very scared, right? ]
[Mother is the biggest support for her baby! ]
[This mother panda looks very clean, her fur is as white as snow, cleaner than the pandas kept in the zoo]
[If you look back, he will soon become unclean (dog head)]
[It seems like there are a lot of new viewers here. Let me remind you that 250 is not the mother panda. Although he looks about the same size as an adult female bear, our 250 is less than one and a half years old.]
[Yes, yes, 250 is purely fat]
[So, 250 is a little male bear? Why did he become the mother of the bear cubs?]
[This is a long story, I suggest you check out the rescue team’s live broadcast records from the past three months to catch up]
…
For a long, long time afterwards, no matter whether it was a weekday morning or a dark and windy midnight, there were always many viewers who enjoyed watching the video of 250 and recommended it to their relatives and friends on a voluntary basis.
As more and more people take extra classes, the title of "Qinling Mountain Overlord" has become completely popular and has become a hot topic on the Internet.
Previous videos of Sesame Rice Balls teasing cats and dogs have become popular, causing netizens to exclaim, "How can there be such an arrogant panda in the world?"
However, Yu Yiyun never dreamed that his most popular video would be——
Open the Qinling Mountain Overlord video collection, click on the video with the highest number of views, and a round, bear-like head will appear in the center of the screen.
He raised his round face and looked at the big tree in front of him. A bear OS added by humans appeared next to it: Honey is found, bear attacks!
The brave little bear spread out his paws and ran towards the big tree.
When he got to the tree, he grabbed the thick trunk and turned it clockwise twice, then counterclockwise twice.
When I looked up, I saw a soft, long object with a ring on it hanging from the tree.
ah!
Discovered the Qin Britain Black Ringed Diamondback Cobra!!!
The little bear was so scared that he immediately retracted his paws, fell backwards on his butt, and did two backflips.
High up in the tree, the startled red panda shook off the Qin Britain Black Ringed Diamond-spotted Cobra and looked at the little bear in confusion.
——Is my tail that scary?
Compared with the later videos of teasing cats and dogs, and robbing small people, the precious videos of Qinling Mountain Bully's early battles of wits and courage with the air have become the electronic pickles of thousands of netizens, and are dug out every now and then for public execution.
The number of public executions increased, and it actually contributed to Zhima Tangyuan's first "straight shot" that exceeded 100 million yuan in viewership.
Sesame Tangyuan: Didn’t they say that Beast Life wouldn’t have so many viewers?
What happened to the Internet having no memory?!
Trick bear!!!
Fortunately, there is no internet access on the top of the Qinling Mountains, and our Shanba is unaware of his early dark history, and has already added luxurious sand sculpture materials.
Amidst all the turmoil in the world, Yu Yiyun was only concerned with coaxing her children.
Because of the experience of being 'abandoned' by his mother, Little Bear's separation anxiety has become very serious. He has to stick to Sesame Tangyuan all the time, which greatly affects his pace of fooling around.
As the summer gets hotter, most pandas have found new habitats and climbed to high places in the mountains to escape the heat.
Yu Yiyun realized that returning the little bear to its mother panda would not work.
According to normal habitat rules, I should also find a new habitat and take the little bear up there to escape the summer heat.
But finding a habitat is not that easy.
The mountains are steep and difficult to climb, and the cubs who have just learned to walk may slip off the mountain at any time.
Whenever Yu Yiyun planned to set out to look for a habitat, the little bear would always follow behind, and would not retreat even if he fell down several times.
Sesame Tangyuan had no choice but to give up his plan of looking for a habitat on his own.
As the number of pandas left in low-altitude areas decreases, large tracts of bamboo forests are withering seasonally, and some bamboos are even blooming.
'Bamboo flowering' was originally a very common natural phenomenon, but it became a hot topic in the last century and almost caused a disaster for pandas.
There are two main ways of reproduction in wild bamboo, asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.
Among them, asexual reproduction is more commonly used.
Bamboo shoots grow around the bamboo, absorbing sunlight and rain to become new bamboos.
As the mother bamboo, after several generations of asexual reproduction, can only provide limited nutrients to the offspring.
At this time, it will bloom flowers and use insects for sexual union.
To complete the union ritual, bamboo flowers often bloom in large patches.
After flowering, the bamboo will run out of oil and die completely.
Last century, foreign media hyped up the "bamboo flowering" phenomenon, claiming that giant pandas would starve to death after the bamboos bloomed and died.
A highly popular song was composed for this purpose, calling for all pandas to be captured and raised in captivity.
Some areas even set up funds to capture giant pandas.
As a result, many wild pandas have entered zoos, making the situation of wild giant pandas even worse.
In fact, those bamboos that bloom are often old bamboos, not the bamboo shoots and young bamboos that giant pandas like to pick.
There are many bamboos growing in the mountains and forests, with different growth cycles and flowering times.
All the pandas in the entire Qinling Mountains eat less than 2% of the bamboo.
Bamboo has continued to flower for millions of years, yet pandas have survived the extinction of the plant.
Fortunately, a professor in the animal field realized the matter in time and reported it to the central government, thus stopping this farce.
Although the flowering of bamboo will not affect the survival of giant pandas, the large-scale flowering of bamboo near the habitat means that it will be more difficult for Yu Yiyun to find staple food here in the coming summer.
Just as he was thinking hard about whether he should take the little bear to the top of the mountain to find a habitat, or shamelessly rub into other bears' territory.
Next door, in the fierce territory, there came waves of barking that became louder and louder.
As the name suggests, the Xiong Xiong Bear is highly alert and has stronger attack power than most pandas.
When most pandas encounter an enemy animal, they will immediately hide in high places, but Xiong Xiong will intimidate the opponent by roaring.
Hearing the fierce roar, Yu Yiyun naturally thought that another enemy beast had appeared, and immediately ran over with the bear-shaped pendant to join in the fun.
When we arrived at the Xiong Xiong's territory, we found that there was no trace or scent of enemy beasts around.
Instead, Ziwei curled up timidly and whimpered like a little bear.
"Woof!"
Xiong Xiong called out to his baby daughter, turned around, and seemed to be planning to go to a new habitat.
"...Woo." Ziwei followed tentatively, but after taking two steps, she was roared at fiercely again. She was so scared that she shrank into a panda ball again.
"Woof!"
When Xiong Xiong saw Sesame Dumpling, he roared at him again, then disappeared into the depths of the jungle without looking back.
Yu Yiyun knew that Ziwei was more than two months older than her and was almost one and a half years old.
Although the mother panda is slightly more tolerant of her cub, her daughter is gradually maturing, and it is impossible for Xiongxiong to keep Ziwei by her side forever.
It is only a matter of sooner or later that mother and daughter are separated.
Ziwei watched her mother's back disappear from her sight and whimpered more in grievance.
She is still in the learning stage and does not understand the so-called 'panda instinct'.
Ziwei only knew that her mother was not as gentle as usual. She yelled at her harshly and did not take her with her when she moved.
"Wow, wow, wow..." I don't have a mother anymore.
"Yiyi~" Think positively~
"Yiyiyi!" Next time you encounter this situation, you can let your mother go first!
Yu Yiyun has seen countless animals and has a lot of experience with being abandoned.
As long as you let the animals go free in advance, it's not that you don't have a mother, but that the mother doesn't have a child.
From then on, he will become the white moonlight and cinnabar mole that his parents always think about and love but cannot have.
Even if you occasionally go home to visit your relatives as an adult, there is a high probability that you will not be expelled.
Seeing that Ziwei was about to break in grief, Yu Yijun came over and stretched out his paw——
Roll her into a ball.
"Hey~"
The little bear came out from behind the sesame dumpling, saw a big panda ball, and excitedly jumped over to grab it.
Ziwei, immersed in sadness, was treated as a toy by the two bears. They shook her brains until they were almost mixed up, and the little emotion she had completely disappeared.
If you think about it, Ziwei is a happy little girl bear.
Enjoy the meticulous care of your mother and the company of your good friend Bear.
Over the past ten months, she has learned many survival skills and can take care of herself.
"Woo!" Ziwei put away her sadness, pounced on the little bear who had been pulling her, and rolled into a ball with him.
"Hey!" Mommy, help!
"Eeyee!"
The person who started the fight was so happy to see the two of them fighting.
After laughing happily for a while, Yu Yijun looked at the little bear who couldn't go back to the mother bear, and then looked at Ziwei who was homeless.
In an instant, an idea that I had long had but had no chance to put into practice in the past gradually took shape in my mind.
Indeed, Sesame Tangyuan can find a habitat in a high-altitude area like all the bears around it, and then climb up with the little bear to escape the heat.
When the weather turns cooler, we return to the foot of the mountain and stay on this mountain year after year.
However, Yu Yiyun had learned from her colleague next door that there are 16 giant panda reserves in the Qinling Mountains.
The habitat area reaches 3,600 square kilometers, and the potential habitat area is about 2,500 square kilometers.
Most of them are located in the middle section of the south slope, with a small amount also distributed on the north slope and the west section.
The southern slope where Yu Yiyun is currently located is one of the larger protected areas.
Even so, pandas living in this habitat rarely wander into nearby protected areas when food is plentiful.
As for the habitats in the western section and northern slopes, they are even more severely isolated.
Human intervention is necessary to ensure the genetic diversity of local pandas.
You know, the reason why the number of giant pandas has declined sharply in the past few hundred years is precisely because of habitat isolation.
Humans, in an attempt to remedy their situation, built a nature reserve across three provinces for the pandas, but they were unable to stop the pandas from imprisoning themselves in their own prison.
If the habitat of the giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains is isolated for a long time, they will either differentiate into new subspecies due to geographical isolation, or their genes will gradually decline due to the small number of populations, leading to extinction.
Yu Yiyun climbed up the tree in a few steps, and looked at the foggy northern slope through the high mountains and long rivers with blurry vision.
He wanted to know:
Is the road that our ancestors took when they came here completely cut off?
What kind of scenery do the bears living on the other side of the mountain enjoy and what kind of bamboo do they eat?
"Yiyi~" I want to go to the other side of the mountain.
"Eeyore?" Do you want to go with me?
"Woo?"
"Hey~"
Ziwei and Little Bear still didn't understand, but they seemed to understand.
Yu Yiyun took a few steps and turned around. Her two companions followed her, playing and joking. They followed the footprints left by their mother's mother and walked forward.
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