Chapter 132 Qinling Zoo (XVIII)
Although Sesame Rice Ball is good at climbing, it can easily handle a mere rockery.
But he is now huge in size and his movements are slow, so his flexibility is naturally not as good as that of the little monkey who is familiar with the terrain of the rockery.
After working hard for a long time, I was exhausted and didn't even touch a single monkey hair.
"Eeyore!" Humph, I don't want to play with you anymore!
The sesame glutinous rice balls, which were at the level of elementary school students, were so angry that they were powerless and furious. They roared twice in a defensive manner, climbed down the rockery and rolled away.
Behind him, the arrogant monkey continued to squeak, mocking the giant panda Chunchun for being fat and having no fighting power.
Yu Yiyun cursed and dissed the monkeys, saying that they should be sent to Sichuan to pawn them.
I was having a great time cursing when I looked up and found myself in several independent venues.
The nearest venue also belongs to the primates and is home to several chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees have a 98.8% genetic similarity with humans, and are extremely similar in many aspects of appearance and life, making them the animals closest to humans.
There is overwhelming evidence that chimpanzees possess intelligence and emotions.
Yu Yiyun climbed into the chimpanzee house with difficulty. The first thing she saw was a few young chimpanzees who were doing some small actions while no one was around.
There was a chimpanzee sitting on a wooden chair, with his face in his hands, probably wondering whether to eat bananas or oranges tomorrow.
While the keeper was away, a chimpanzee found the paper-wrapped juice that had been hidden in advance, skillfully tore open the straw packaging with his teeth, and inserted the straw into the hole in the tin foil.
Look at its movements, they are almost no different from those of humans.
After drinking a few sips of sweet water, it took out a bag of snacks from somewhere, tore open the package, and ate them with its fingers.
After taking two bites, I felt it was too dry, so I sipped on a drink to moisten it. He really knows how to match food.
Seeing Yu Yiyun falling from the sky, the chimpanzee was obviously stunned for a few seconds.
As if afraid that the strange panda would tell the keeper, he handed over some snacks that he got from somewhere.
A social ape, he is well versed in the ways of the world.
"Eeyee!"
Yu Yijun glanced at it with disdain and told the chimpanzee, "Eat less junk food given by the little man, you never know how many additives are in it."
Seeing that he was not eating, the chimpanzee took back the snack and put his finger in again.
There is a hollow cone-shaped snack inside, which fits perfectly on the finger, like the armor of a concubine in a Qing Dynasty aerial combat drama.
The chimpanzee stared at the snacks on his hands, and when he found something interesting, he put a snack on each finger.
"geigeigei~"
It shook its wrist to show its 'armor' to the sesame dumplings, then ate them one by one, and finally sucked its fingers.
When Yu Yiyun saw its sparkling eyes, she knew that the rebellious chimpanzee would not listen to her.
Next time it gets snacks, it will definitely hide and eat them secretly, and then put the Cheetos on its fingers.
Never mind.
Just a little snack, better than the older chimp inside.
There is a strange female chimpanzee in the Qinling Wildlife Park, which once became the protagonist of the news and attracted the attention of the whole society.
In the 1980s, it came to the zoo with its childhood sweetheart.
Not long after, her partner died for some reason, and the female gorilla became depressed and emo every day since then.
In order to cheer up the chimpanzee, the zoo introduced another tall and handsome male gorilla to it.
The male gorilla fell in love with it at first sight and quickly launched a courtship offensive, using various means to please the female gorilla.
Soon, the mother gorilla fell in love, regained her spirits, and gave birth to new life.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Less than a year after giving birth to the cub, the mother gorilla lost her child and her husband.
The female gorilla was extremely sad and depressed all day and night, and in the process she became addicted to smoking.
At first, it might just accidentally pick up a cigarette butt dropped by a human and put it in its mouth to smoke, imitating the tourists.
Over time, the female gorilla began to ask tourists for cigarettes, no matter the brand, she would put it in her mouth and smoke.
From the end of the last century to the beginning of this century, zoo conditions were limited and humans' awareness of animal protection was relatively weak.
After the report, many tourists came to the zoo specifically to see the "smoking gorilla". They also ignored the warning signs and deliberately handed cigarettes to the gorilla.
Gradually, the female gorilla's smoking addiction became more and more serious, from one or two cigarettes a day, to three or four, and then to a whole pack. Her smoking addiction was comparable to that of a veteran smoker and had already threatened her health.
The keeper stopped the tourists many times and tried to persuade the chimpanzee to quit smoking by force.
However, the gorilla has a high IQ. Once the keeper tries to stop it, it will hurt itself by banging its head against walls or trees, and ask the keeper to provide it with cigarettes.
The keeper couldn't bear to watch the gorilla hurt itself, so he had no choice but to meet its demands.
For more than a decade, keepers have been struggling with the mother gorilla's smoking addiction and even tried to replace cigarettes with e-cigarettes.
Unfortunately, the chimpanzee didn't buy it and broke the e-cigarette into several pieces.
Facts prove that even monkeys don’t smoke e-cigarettes!
Later, by improving the environment, increasing the time spent with the chimpanzee, and letting the chimpanzee listen to music, the chimpanzee was successfully helped to quit smoking. The chimpanzee gradually recovered and made new monkey friends.
Yu Yiyun followed the sign and found the female gorilla, who was over 40 years old, equivalent to 90 years old in human terms.
It lay there lazily, biting half a piece of watermelon, and looked pretty strong.
Chimpanzees, like humans, have friendships and kinship, forming deep emotional bonds.
Yu Yiyun stared at the primates that were highly similar to humans through the glass, and sincerely hoped that they could feel happy.
Sesame Tangyuan took a few final glances and quietly left the chimpanzee house. He circled three times based on his memory and returned to the starting point in confusion.
Look up at the bright moon, and think of the pandas.
"Eeyee?"
Am I losing my memory?
Yu Yiyun clearly remembered that the panda house was not far from the chimpanzee house.
As a result, I searched around three times and almost went back to the wild animal area, but I didn't see any trace of my own kind.
Yu Yijun couldn't help but fall into deep thought, thinking about how she had found the panda house before.
Oh, I used to have a tour guide with me to lead the way.
That's okay.
Yu Yiyun took another step, ready to start the fourth exploration tonight.
Just as he stretched out his legs, a beam of light flashed in the distance, almost blinding the little bear's eyes.
The night patrol officer holds a flashlight to confirm the safety of the park.
When the flashlight shone in a certain direction, the staff on duty was stunned and muttered to himself in surprise.
"Huh? I think I saw a panda running out just now?"
He raised the flashlight again and shone it at the same location, but there was no sign of a ghost.
The employee on duty scratched his head and rubbed his eyes hard.
"Am I dazzled?"
He thought about it and felt uneasy, "Let's go to the panda house to have a look."
Yu Yiyun, who was hiding behind the trash can, heard the employee on duty whispering, and happily followed him.
Bears who love to fool around will have good luck, because there are wild guides here!
As the largest zoo along the Qinling Mountains, the Qinling wild animals are exhibited in a very grand manner. There are two panda pavilions and a cub venue, giving the pandas an entire hill to occupy.
The night patrol staff carefully counted the number of pandas in the two panda houses and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that no pandas had escaped.
As soon as the staff left, the dog sneaked through some sesame dumplings in the trash can and immediately came in, visiting its own kind through the fence and glass.
In order not to affect the normal life of the giant pandas, glass windows block out most sounds and smells to prevent tourists from disturbing the pandas.
The bears who rule the mountain also have poor eyesight. They don't even notice whether there are bears or people outside. They just mind their own business.
Yu Yiyun called out twice, but no one responded, so she prepared to leave in disappointment.
Before leaving, he took a quick glance and was instantly attracted by what was in Xiongxiong's hand.
"Eeyee!"
Mooncakes!!!
As the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the keepers specially made the steamed buns into the shape of mooncakes to let the pandas feel the festive atmosphere.
The bears' preference for steamed corn bread varies from cat to cat. Some bears are too lazy to eat it during the day, so they take out the exquisitely shaped moon cakes now, and they are so greedy that they drool over the sesame dumplings through the glass.
"Eh?" Bear, do you want to eat mooncakes?
"Yiyi~" If you don't want to eat it, give it to me~
"Yiyiyi!" You can give me half of it.
Sesame Dumpling's cry was so earnest that it finally caught Xiong Xiong's attention.
The bear finally noticed the strange panda and curiously crawled over to confirm its scent.
As she crawled, she seemed to feel that the mooncake in her paw was in the way, so she threw it aside.
I eat that stuff every day and I'm tired of it.
Throw it away. Throw it away.
Yu Yiyun scratched the glass with her claws, staring at the mooncake, and finally realized what "the joys and sorrows of each person are different" meant.
At this moment, he understood how the stray dog felt when seeing the pet dog.
Yu Yiyun doesn’t know for the time being whether pet dogs envy the freedom and ease of stray dogs.
But stray dogs must envy pet dogs for having rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and dumplings during the Winter Solstice.
"Eeyore!" Bear, you are wasting resources!
Yu Yiyun howled in anger, not wanting to talk to Xiong Xiong who would rather throw away the mooncake than give herself one.
He took a step forward and was about to leave the panda house.
The staff on duty had not walked far when he heard the panda's cry from afar. Fearing that something had happened, he turned back to check the situation.
Sesame Tangyuan noticed the footsteps and immediately found a trash can to hide in.
Fortunately, the light was dim at night, otherwise such a small trash can would hardly hide the fat little bear.
"What's wrong?" The staff on duty noticed that Xiong had come near the glass and asked with concern, "The nanny took a leave yesterday, so there was no one to play with you, right?"
After asking, he noticed the discarded mooncakes with his sharp eyes and demonstrated his enterprise-level understanding.
"We don't like mooncakes with five-nut fillings, right? Wait, I'll give you a different flavor."
Yu Yiyun:……?
Feeding pandas with five-nut stuffing, what kind of devils are you?
In order to facilitate feeding of animals in the park, a warehouse for storing food is located next to the venue.
The staff on duty quickly brought two new mooncakes and called out to the panda from a distance, "Which one do you like, red bean paste or lotus seed paste?"
"Huwu!" The panda raised its paw in the direction of the trash can, signaling the staff on duty to look at the trash can.
——It’s such a big bear, I can see it even with my 800-degree myopia!
The employee on duty lowered his head and looked at his right hand. "Lotus paste, right? I'll bring it to you!"
panda:……?
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After he finished shouting, he muttered quietly, "They're all made of steamed bread, what's the difference? Why don't you like the ones with five kernels?"
Can pandas read?
The staff member on duty made a ridiculous guess and said with a smile, "How is it possible?" He put the red bean paste filling on the table next to him and took the lotus seed paste filling in to give to the giant panda.
After feeding the pandas mooncakes, we watched them return to the mountain.
The staff on duty returned to the outside of the venue and found that the red bean paste mooncakes he had just placed were missing.
"???"
Wait, I have amnesia?
At the same time, the Mooncake Thief Sesame Tangyuan, holding a mooncake filled with red bean paste in his mouth, walked under the bright moonlight, and swaggered over the wall and left the zoo.
After escaping the crime scene, he took a big bite of the mooncake and savored it carefully.
"Eeh!" Wow, the mooncakes and steamed buns are so delicious!
The steamed corn bread in the zoo is slightly different from that in the rescue center.
The crust of the pastry has a sweet fruity and nutty aroma, and the filling inside is made from red beans, sweet potatoes and red dates steamed and mashed, with a delicate and rich taste.
"Yiyiyi!" If I had known earlier, I should have stolen the one with five-nut filling as well.
While eating, Sesame Rice Balls even had the most dangerous thought:
I don’t know what the steamed buns in the Beijing Zoo taste like, but the pandas are disgusted with them and the cats have abandoned them.
You must try it if you have a chance~
After finishing the red bean mooncakes, Sesame Tangyuan happily ran back to Little Bear and Ziwei and continued on their journey facing the rising sun.
Little bear had no idea how much commotion his nighttime visit to the zoo had caused.
The next day, the sun was shining brightly. Staff and tourists who arrived early found a large number of bear footprints outside the panda pavilion.
"What kind of bear footprints are these?"
"Brown bear? Black bear? Could it be a polar bear?"
"Impossible! Polar bear footprints can't be that small."
First of all, excluding polar bears, everyone is torn between 'black bears' and 'brown bears'.
Bears are large in size and have longer hind claws than their front claws.
In order to share the body weight, the feet will be left with the inward-facing feet mark.
After careful observation, staff who deal with animals all year round found that the footprints were in the shape of snowflakes, unlike the round footprints of black bears and brown bears.
Moreover, the clearest claw marks prove that the bear has six fingers on its front paws, which could only have been left by some kind of national first-class protected waste.
After receiving a confident response from the staff on duty that the panda had not escaped, the zoo checked the surveillance footage along the way and came to a shocking conclusion:
Last night, a panda sneaked in to visit the zoo and stole a mooncake steamed bun.
He ate and took things without buying a ticket!
Sesame glutinous rice balls said confidently: What’s the problem if I didn’t buy it!
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[Wait, the point is that I didn’t buy the ticket, hahahaha]
Even if we bought tickets for 250 yuan, we still couldn’t enter the park by swiping our ID cards (dog head)
[250 is only two years old this year, so he is a free child. He must be accompanied by an adult to enter the park. Baby~ Mommy will take you in~]
[Sister, your abacus beads are flying on my face! I also want to take 250 to the zoo]
[I laughed so hard that I died, and I wandered around in the martial arts world in a very awkward manner]
[I've never seen a giant panda visit the panda house. So cute]
[Is it sick? Cute as hell! I've been wanting to say this for a long time. Pandas are running around everywhere, going through highway tunnels, and entering zoos. Are those people just watching? Why don't they catch them back quickly?]
[The netizen above is so arrogant. May I ask if the Qinling Mountains are your private property? How do you define "running around"? ]
[Same question, before humans built highways and zoos, the entire Qinling Mountains were their territory.]
[Humans first began to squeeze out the giant pandas' living space, forcing them into a corner. Now the pandas want to find their home again, and there are selfish people who say they are running around, right? 】
…
The arguments from sober netizens were so thought-provoking that they silenced the argumentative people.
Not long after, local animal protection organizations came out to make a statement, first declaring that they would "never interfere with the normal migration of wild pandas and help giant pandas return to their habitats."
As for the potential safety hazard pointed out by the nitpicking netizens, it does exist, and various agencies are actively negotiating plans and preparing to design a "road of life" for pandas and other wild animals in the mountains and forests to achieve true harmony between humans and nature.
Sesame Tangyuan, who caused the dispute, is too lazy to pay attention to the disturbances on the Internet.
After having enough food and sleep, Yu Yiyun babbled and called out to her friends, happily returning to their old homeland again!
This mountain and that mountain, they are all marked by our ancestors!
There are dense human activities in zoos and their surrounding areas. Wild animals' instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm makes them afraid to get too close.
Sesame Tangyuan was in high spirits when he set out, but after walking for only a few hours, he gradually became less cheerful.
I really don’t know if the wild animals nearby are too good at hiding, or if Yu Yiyun is simply unlucky.
After walking such a long way through mountains and rivers, I didn't catch a deer or even a rabbit.
The cold wind blows in the mountains. After autumn comes, in order to gain weight, sesame dumplings must be eaten with both meat and vegetables for every meal.
After gnawing on a few pounds of bamboo, Sesame Tangyuan couldn't stand the humiliation and decided to start hunting mode and look for prey in the distance.
Yu Yiyun, who had rich hunting experience, judged that there were herbivores nearby by following the smell and signs of gnawing on the surrounding plants.
He climbed to a high place swiftly and glanced to the east, which saw only bare mountains.
Look to the west again, and you will see a golden lion king drinking water by the river...wait!
The Lion King?!
After so many years in Qinling Mountains, where else can we find lions except in the zoo?
Yu Yijun narrowed his eyes, changed several trees, and gradually approached the "Golden Lion King", wanting to see if any lion had escaped from prison.
When the distance was reduced to less than a hundred meters, Sesame Dumpling stretched his head to take a closer look, and instantly gave up the idea of hunting, and rolled back to chew the bamboo.
"Hey?"
"Woo woo?"
Ziwei and Little Bear, who had been staying there obediently eating bamboo shoots, saw Sesame Rice Balls returning empty-handed and curiously asked him why he failed in the hunt.
You know, in order to get the meat from the sesame dumplings, it takes a lot of effort and means.
Almost no prey he targeted could escape.
"Eey, ey, ey." Just now, I met a takin.
The takin is a bovine animal unique to the Qinling Mountains. It is known as one of the four treasures of the Qinling Mountains along with the giant panda, the crested ibis, and the golden monkey.
It is huge in size and can weigh several hundred or even thousands of kilograms.
If Yu Yiyun put on tiger skin, he might be able to fight against such a huge monster.
Now that he has become a panda, his combat power has been epically weakened, and even if he uses all his strength, he cannot penetrate the enemy's armor.
I could only sigh and pretend to be chewing beef-flavored bamboo.
There was another reason why Yu Yiyun gave up this hunting trip.
The four treasures of Qinling were once on the verge of extinction, but later, after the animal protection organizations rescued them at all costs and their own strong vitality, their population gradually recovered.
Even though the population has recovered, the endangered levels of the four species are higher than the previous one, and they have not yet escaped the risk of extinction.
Sesame dumplings crunched on bamboo, trying to comfort themselves:
'Actually, bamboo is also delicious.'
"If it doesn't work, I'll go catch a national second grade later."
As the saying goes, "the land and water shape the people." With the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River as the dividing line, people in the north are taller and people in the south are slimmer.
The same theory applies to animals.
For example, the cockroaches and rats in the south can be regarded as the ancestors of the cockroaches and rats in the north.
The south slope and the north slope are separated by only a few mountains. The animals are not much different in size and appearance, but their habits are slightly different.
The southern slope of the Qinling Mountains is relatively gentle and long, with hills everywhere.
The northern slope is steeper, with canyons and steep mountains everywhere.
Therefore, animals living on the northern slopes often parkour between cliffs and facets, making them more flexible.
As a "pampered" southern bear, Zhima Tangyuan found it very difficult to cope with the numerous mountains.
Not to mention using short and thick limbs to chase lambs that can almost climb vertically.
"Eeyee!"
In the next few days, poor Sesame Tangyuan kept hitting a wall when hunting, and he was so aggrieved that he imagined that today the bamboo would taste like steak, lamb leg, or venison...
After six days of hardship, Yu Yiyun finally learned his lesson and decided that he couldn't go on like this!
Without meat to eat, I almost forgot what meat tastes like.
However, it was too difficult to catch prey in the mountains. After careful consideration, Zhima Tangyuan made the unpromising decision: to seek refuge with the local bears.
Although local bears are unlikely to hunt, there are definitely a lot of bamboo forests where bears gather.
There must be a lot of bamboo rats in places with dense bamboo forests!
In times of prey scarcity, bamboo rats are a delicacy!
Yu Yiyun was impressed by his own rigorous logic. He stretched out his front paws and climbed up to a higher place with a grunt.
The mountain breeze in early autumn is still a bit hot and dry. According to the habits of giant pandas, they should stay near the top of the mountain at this time.
A dumpling once again demonstrated its talent as a "social gangster" and planned to make friends with a local bear.
After climbing to a height of about 2,000 meters, Yu Yiyun estimated that the distance to the top of the mountain would still require a lot of physical strength.
Ziwei and I have no problem, but Little Bear must be finding it difficult.
"Hey~" Mommy!
The little bear used all four paws to climb over a big ridge and rolled into his mother's arms for praise.
"Eeyee!" Good boy!
Yu Yiyun hugged the little bear in his arms, rubbed it hard, and then found a nearby forest to eat.
The little bear is now over half a year old and has weaned himself on his own, so he can’t be fed even with milk.
During this period, he mainly ate bamboo shoots and tender bamboos. He was eagerly looking forward to Yu Yiyun bringing back prey so that he could have his first meat meal in his life.
Bathing the little bear with eyes full of anticipation, Yu Yijun broke off a large bamboo shoot and stuffed it into his paw.
"Yiyi." Baby, good boy bears should not be picky about food!
"Hey..." The little bear was obviously disappointed, but he still held the bamboo shoots and chewed them with a crunchy sound.
When Yu Yiyun saw how obedient the little bear was, she felt a tiny sense of guilt in her conscience.
In this situation, it seems that the whole family with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan is determined to have a third child. As a result, when the baby wants to eat a snack during the growth stage, he will be scolded "our family does not have that condition".
The more Sesame Tangyuan thought about it, the more he sweated. He couldn't chew the bamboo in his claws anymore, so he rolled over and got up.
He looked around and found that the terrain was flat.
At least you can hunt with your claws free without having to worry about rolling off a cliff and turning into a bear biscuit.
"Eeyee."
Yu Yiyun made up his mind and told Ziwei and Xiaoxiong: You stay here and don't move. I'm going to catch a wild buffalo... a wild deer... a sheep...
"babble!"
At least catch a rabbit!
Leaving aside his lofty words, Yu Yiyun rushed into the depths of the dense forest with an inward-looking gait, ignoring everyone.
Not far away, Yu Yiyun quickly smelled the scent left by the small animal.
It smells very strange, most likely an animal that I have never encountered before.
The smell of excrement is mainly concentrated on the tree trunks. According to Yu Yiyun's experience, leaving it here is 80% a way to mark the territory.
An animal that marks its territory... could it be a ferocious beast?
First, we eliminated the black bears, leopards, jackals, and the tigers that were trapped in the test area.
Are there other ferocious beasts on the Qinling Mountains?
“Puff.”
"geigeigei!"
Just as Sesame Tangyuan was confused, the main beast of the smell grabbed a tree trunk, swung shakily and 'flew' in front of him.
Found a lost panda, approaching the spot he marked.
The golden monkey, whose body was covered with golden fur and whose white belly looked like a big heart, blinked its big grape-like eyes and handed over the wild pear it had just picked.
“Puff.”
Bear, don't eat poop.
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