Chapter 157 Snow Leopard (Fifteen)
"Yo, yo..."
The unfortunate little musk deer that was carried alive onto the tree smelled the scent of powerful wild beasts all around it, which was more dangerous than the Tibetan fox and brown bear combined.
A snow leopard at its peak, with top hunting claws that are infinitely close to perfection.
It was so scared that it curled up under the pig's soft belly, trembling against the tree trunk, and almost died on the spot.
"Yoyo..."
The musk deer cried pitifully, sadly and forlornly, begging the hunter not to eat it.
Except for humans, no animal in the world would mercifully give up hunting just because its prey cries miserably.
As for Yu Yiyun, who used to be a human being——
"Meow." Deer, you smell so good.
He held the musk deer down with his big paw and licked its fragrant neck. He felt that its appetite was not particularly strong at the moment.
Yu Yiyun had just enjoyed a fat mountain goat all to herself yesterday, and now that her stomach was full, her need for food was not so urgent.
"Meow." It's okay if I don't eat you today.
Pig curiously scratched the musk deer's head and observed its tail, judging that the deer was no more than one year old and not yet at its best to eat.
Great hunters in nature like to chase prey when they are in their prime.
Not only is there a lot of meat, but it is also tough and more enjoyable to eat.
The pig approached the musk deer and meowed the devil's whisper:
'Okay, I'll let you go home for dinner.'
'I'll catch you when you're at your tastiest.'
Kobayashi:? ? ?
Thank you, King of Hell!
Yu Yiyun kept his word. After the Tibetan fox family and Tibetan brown bears that had gathered under the tree left to look for other prey, he climbed down the tree again with the musk deer in his mouth.
Before releasing its mouth, the pig bit a small triangular notch on the tip of the musk deer's ear as a mark.
Next time you encounter one, you can use the gap to recognize the musk deer among the herd.
"Meow." From today on, you are my reserve food.
"Meow meow meow!" Eat well and sleep well, and don't get caught by other wild beasts!
Although the musk deer felt something was not right, it still made two "yo" sounds and ran away.
It secretly swore that after returning home, it would never leave the herd, lest its deer head be taken away by its creditor.
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Yu Yiyun watched the musk deer run towards the deer herd, stretched his limbs lazily, jumped lightly to a high place with his short legs, and went home along the unfamiliar road.
It is autumn now, and the mountains and forests are lush and green, as if the world has changed.
Fortunately, the nearby hills are full of experienced pigs.
After wandering around for a few rounds, Yu Yijun, under the guidance of the old leopard from the next mountain, successfully returned to the mountain where her mother was.
Several surrounding mountains are connected to each other, making movement very convenient. You can jump from one mountainside to another.
The snow leopards that live here often move back and forth in the mountains due to the change of seasons.
Yu Yiyun's cat radar finally, for the first time in an incredible and miraculous way, was accurate and led him back to the nest where he once lived with Ram.
However, there was no cat inside or outside the nest.
The pig circled the nest three times and only smelled the scent of the golden eagle's fallen feet.
Damn it! Could it be a golden eagle...
“Ga ga ga!”
The golden eagle spread its wings and rushed over, hovering twice in front of his eyes, and fiercely warned the bad cat, "A cat must not accuse the same bird twice."
All right.
Yu Yiyun gave the golden eagle a "good citizen card" and carefully tracked the remaining scent, confirming that Ram must have left the nest on his own initiative.
This area is shaded and covered with snow slopes all year round. There are no meadows or bare rocks, and herds of blue sheep are almost unseen.
Ram had experience as a mother before. In order to provide enough milk for her cubs, she moved to a safe area with more prey in advance.
Zhumi lowered his head silently, looking at his feet which looked like mangosteen petals.
Who understands?
I went home to visit my family, but my home was gone.
Yu Yiyun was like a college student who had been studying away from home for half a year and returned home only to see a ruin.
After feeling lonely for half a minute, Yu Yiyun perked up, followed the ridge around to the sunny side of the mountain, and immediately smelled the scent of his own kind marking their territory.
"Meow!" Lily! You're still here!
Zhumi's eyes lit up instantly, and he rushed into the border without any sense of boundaries. He saw a nimble and heroic female leopard who was teaching her two little leopards how to hunt.
Living conditions in the wild are not as good as those in the zoo. Lily has obviously lost a lot of weight, but she is still strong and energetic, with a pair of bright and sharp eyes.
Not only did she adapt to life in the wild again, but she also took very good care of her two cubs.
After a few months of separation, Yuanyuan and Feifei have grown into one-year-old cubs and can help their mother hunt blue sheep.
The two of them followed Lily and locked onto the mountain goat that was licking the ore.
Lily lowered her body and pressed against the rocks to avoid being spotted by her prey.
Feifei and Yuanyuan tacitly went around from the back, made a big circle, and blocked the ibex's retreat route on the left and right.
Lily got more than ten meters close to the ibex and mustered up the courage to jump.
The ibex reacted quickly and turned around to try to escape, but the two little leopards on its left and right pounced on it instantly, breathing fiercely.
It was cornered and had its back broken by Lily, and soon became lunch for the leopard family.
"Meow~"
Yu Yiyun couldn't help but cheer for them.
Snow leopards are solitary beasts. If it were any other family, they probably wouldn't be able to develop such a tacit understanding.
Fortunately, Feifei and Yuanyuan lost their mother when they were young and had to depend on each other. Only then were they able to develop a tacit understanding and hunting ability that surpassed those of snow leopards of the same age through their long-term coexistence.
As their temporary mother, Yu Yiyun was very pleased to see that her babies were doing so well.
Piglet was preparing to leave quietly so as not to disturb the Leopard family's lunch.
"Meow?" Yuanyuan caught the scent, raised her head excitedly, opened her watery eyes and sent cute waves to her stepmother.
Feifei lowered his head to chew meat, dyeing his head the color of dragon fruit.
Hearing his sister's call, he pulled his head out in confusion.
"Chirp!" Enemy beast!
Feifei is growing faster than her sister. Her body size is already close to that of an adult, but her voice still retains the childishness of a cub.
When he discovered that a strange leopard had entered his territory, he turned into a gust of wind and rushed over quickly, intending to let the leopard experience the power of his meow fist.
Running closer to the strange leopard, Feifei smelled its scent, and his eyes were clear yet confused.
“Chirp.”
He didn't know why, but whenever he got close to the beast, he felt he couldn't bring himself to pounce. He even wanted to throw himself into the arms of the strange leopard and act like a spoiled child.
"Meow." Stupid cat.
Yu Yiyun's claws hardened and loosened, but in the end they did not hit him on the head.
If Feifei really attacked him, he would definitely beat that evil boy up today.
"Chirp?" Why are you scolding the leopard for no reason?
Zhumi was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Although it feels a bit lonely, it is a good thing that Feifei can be free from worries.
Leopards must spend most of their time alone.
With fewer emotional ties, your life as a solitary animal won’t seem so lonely in the future.
People like Yu Yiyun, who have too many beasts in their hearts, cannot be truly independent even if they occupy the top of the mountain.
"Meow." Goodbye.
"Meow!" Next time we meet, we will really be enemy beasts!
Just as Yu Yijun turned around, the lovely sound of the clip was heard behind her again.
"Meow~" Mommy~
Yuanyuan didn't even bother to eat the meat. He ran over grunting, his eyes filled with attachment that only animals can have for their relatives. He called out to the animal that he had lived with day and night.
Zhumi turned around and responded cheerfully.
"Meow~" Good boy~
"Meow!" Come to me if you can't grab the territory next time. Mommy will always protect you!
Feifei didn't understand, but she could clearly feel that girls were favored over boys and that boys were treated differently.
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Yu Yiyun left Lily's territory quietly without disturbing the normal life of the Leopard family.
After sliding down the hillside for a long time and almost reaching the human village, we still couldn't find any trace of Ram and his younger brother and sister.
Zhu Mi frowned, feeling something was wrong.
Could it be that Mommy was in danger while I was away?
Thinking of this possibility, Yu Yiyun was so frightened that his body trembled a few times. He wanted to rush to the rescue station immediately and look through the list of snow leopards rescued in recent months.
Before Yu Yiyun could take action, a familiar voice came from afar.
"Hoooo!"
Yu Yiyun quickly matched the sound waves. It was not Ram, but it seemed very familiar.
Who is it?
Zhu Mi fell into deep thought, suspecting that the "forgotten milk" had spread like wildfire.
The sound carried the scent of a ferocious beast and came closer and closer. Yu Yiyun blinked her cat eyes and finally saw the male leopard approaching her.
Oh, he is the biggest enemy of the Himalayas, the leopard dad who is always used as a tool.
When the piglet goes to the animal's house for a meal, he calls him daddy affectionately.
Now there is no need to feed it, it can't even recognize my voice.
"Hoooo!" Baby!
Leopard father had recognized his son a long time ago and was chuffing at him from afar, asking how his baby had been doing during the months he had been missing.
Yu Yiyun felt guilty, so she called out in a particularly clingy voice, expressing her longing (which did not exist) for the past few months.
When Leopard Dad saw his son acting like a spoiled brat as soon as they met, he naturally thought that he was hungry.
The male snow leopard has no experience in raising cubs and is not sure at which stage the cubs should be released into the wild.
The experience of eating for free last winter has made Leopard Dad develop a conditioned reflex, and he will go hunting immediately when he hears the pig begging for food.
Autumn is the season of harvest and also the best season for snow leopard hunting.
Especially when the wild grass is lush and the fruits are ripe, a large number of herbivores will migrate here with their prey.
This place is located to the north, closer to Xinjiang.
Many grassland animals living in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia occasionally show their heads here.
After searching for two rounds, Leopard Dad quickly found a northern goat, which is mainly distributed in Xinjiang and a small number in the northwest region of Tibet.
The ibex and the blue sheep are closely related and have similar habits. They both like alpine meadows and bare rock areas, but their climbing ability is not as good as that of the blue sheep.
Their weak climbing ability does not mean that ibex are easy to catch.
They often move in groups, with the leader lying on a high place to overlook the overall situation, and there are special sentinels responsible for early warning.
Before Leopard Dad got too close, the sentinel goat blew the horn, and the leader immediately fled with the flock.
Before Leopard Dad could get close, he missed, with suspicion written all over his face.
He had only seen a few ibex in his life and had even less hunting experience, so it was difficult for him to control such unfamiliar prey.
“Meow~!”
Yu Yiyun squatted obediently, and when he saw that Leopard Dad missed his target, he laughed so hard that he almost rolled off the stone.
Leopard Dad felt the taunting of his baby and instantly became angry and responded in the usual way humans do:
"If you can do it, go ahead!"
'Just go ahead!'
It was Yu Yiyun's first time as a leopard and he was not good at catching the mountain goats that were climbing walls and flying over rooftops.
He had caught too many prey like the ibex, which lives in groups and hides in the flock when encountering trouble.
Pig recalls past hunting experiences, while Cat stalks the Ibex.
Wait for them to run to a relatively flat area with lush vegetation, which is convenient for hiding and chasing.
The pig used the surrounding environment to hide its scent and quietly approached the ibex within fifty meters. It did not continue to shrink the distance to avoid alarming the sentinel sheep.
He carefully observed his surroundings, found a large rock that was closest to his body color, hid himself there, and slowly approached it patiently.
After about half an hour, the sheep had eaten enough grass in the area and planned to move.
The leader sheep walked to the front of the team, ready to lead the way for the flock.
While the flock was in chaos and had not yet found its direction, Yu Yiyun rushed out at lightning speed and pounced on the flock.
Most of the sheep had not yet found their way and were frightened by the sudden appearance of the hunter, so they ran around in panic.
The leader sheep bleated loudly, calling on its members to follow him to seek refuge in higher places.
The sheep responded one after another, but they didn't realize that they had made a fatal mistake.
Comparing mountain climbing with a snow leopard?
joke!
Our Zhumi is a legendary leopard who conquered Mount Everest!
Before the lagging sheep could climb up, the hunter pounced on it and bit its throat, and it didn't even make a final sound.
The leader sheep realized that the predator was very powerful and did not dare to take any risks, so he hurriedly fled with the remaining members.
Leopard Dad squatted in the distance, stunned.
Due to habitat limitations, most snow leopards have only one way to hunt: chase!
Using tactics like this to capture prey with minimal effort is a whole new world for snow leopards.
Seeing that Bao's father was stunned, Yu Yiyun raised her head and puffed out her belly proudly.
"Meow!" That's nothing. Next time, I'll show you how to jump left and right to catch a blue sheep.
"Meow." Daddy, come and eat.
Zhumi had eaten at Leopard Dad’s table so many times last year, so he had to give back to his old father in some way and kindly invited him to share the food with him.
Snow leopards are elegant and mysterious animals. Except for Zhu Mi, other big leopards eat elegantly and politely.
Yu Yiyun ate a whole leg of lamb while grumbling, and Leopard Dad only took two bites of the meat, with a look of worry on his face saying, "My cub, you must be starving outside."
“Meow!”
Yu Yiyun felt insulted and quickly explained that he was a good hunter and did not starve outside.
"Meow meow!" I'm not going home just because I can't make it out there!
"Huff, huff." Baby, you're suffering outside.
"Meow!" I'm going home to rub your daughter!
"Huhu?" Aren't you my daughter?
Last year, Zhumi had two cubs, which made Leopard Dad confused about the gender of the babies. He wondered, "Can males also give birth to children?" This is a difficult problem that even humans have not been able to solve.
Yu Yiyun meowed, meowed, and told him that she wanted to find Ram and rub her newborn brother and sister.
The leopard father seemed to understand what he heard, and suddenly stopped eating, hid the remaining prey, and called his baby to follow him.
The pig licked the food residue on its mouth and followed, wagging its big tail.
After walking for a long time, a large lake appeared in front of us.
There are many glaciers in the Himalayas, which form various rivers, lakes and springs. It is the source of many large rivers on both sides of the mountains.
For example, the world-famous Ganges River in India originates from the purest and cleanest glacial water in the high mountains of the Himalayas.
Yu Yiyun quickly jumped to the side of the lake and tested the water temperature.
In the warm early autumn sun, the water temperature is not too cold.
Relying on his thick fur, Pig jumped in to take a bath, and invited Leopard Dad on the shore to come down and make cat soup.
"Meow~" Thank you, Daddy, for bringing me to take a bath. It would be better to find a hot spring next time.
"……call."
The leopard father stared at the cub silently, hesitated for a long time, and then washed his paws reservedly.
The mysophobic pig washed itself clean and shook its hair for a long time when it returned to the shore.
Even if the weather is clear, the temperature in the mountains is still a bit low.
Leopard Dad found a sunny slope and lay down, motioning for the pig to crawl over to him and lick his fur clean.
When the sun was setting and Maomao was almost dried, he took Erza around the lake and climbed up a lonely mountain opposite.
The mountains here are undulating and connected into one.
It is the only one sandwiched in the middle, not connected to any mountain, as if it is isolating the whole world with its own power.
Yu Yiyun was curious, so she climbed a little further and heard a familiar voice coming from above.
"meow~"
"Meow!" Mommy!
Yu Yijun immediately recognized the voice and was particularly relieved.
Fortunately, I was not harmed by Wang Ma’s milk.
According to the date, Ram's cub should be born.
Newborn cubs need milk, and Ram must eat a lot to provide breast milk for the cubs.
Yu Yiyun followed the sound and came to the area where Ram was just now. Ram had already run away chasing the mountain goat.
Logically speaking, a mother leopard that has just given birth to cubs will not stray too far from the den even when hunting.
The pig, who had rich experience in stealing young piglets, drew a circle with Ram's location just now, sniffed carefully, and quickly found the target nest.
He poked his head to look inside. It was dimly lit. Three little kids, whose fur had not yet fully grown and whose eyes were not yet open, were huddled together, cocooning each other.
Thinking of Ram's reaction to her, Yu Yiyun did not dare to enter the den casually, fearing that the cub would be stained with the scent of another leopard and would be abandoned by the mother leopard.
The useless leopard stretched his neck and looked for a long time.
Only when he smelled the scent of Ram getting closer did he leave reluctantly.
He didn't walk too far, hiding in the dark and observing his mother and his younger brothers and sisters, hoping to get a chance to rub them.
Ram did not bring back any prey and there was no smell of blood on his body, so it seemed that the hunt had failed.
She didn't have time to feel depressed and immediately returned to the nest to breastfeed her cubs.
With the experience of the previous litter, Ram deliberately found a hill far away from other leopards and human villages before giving birth to the cubs to prevent them from being attacked.
But this mountain not only isolates humans and snow leopards, but also blue sheep.
There are always golden eagles and vultures nearby, which may harm the cubs, so Ram has to put the nest in a high and hidden place.
The high altitude means there are fewer prey, so Ram must be fed regularly. Her hunting range is limited, and she can only consume her own fat and flesh to feed her cubs.
She had planned to feed the cub and then try her luck somewhere farther away.
As a result, just as the third cub burped, Ram smelled a strong scent of prey.
Looking up, I saw a large piece of mutton and two plateau rabbits falling from the sky outside the nest.
Ram was a little confused and walked out of the nest, but there was no animal outside.
But the teeth marks on the mutton still had a familiar scent, it was the taste of my own baby sucking.
Before giving birth to the second litter of cubs, Ram considered that the babies had grown up and were about to reach breeding season.
During the breeding season, male leopards have a violent temper and do not recognize their relatives.
Mama's boy leopards are reluctant to leave home and just open their mouths to ask their mother for food. Some bastards even want to reunite with their biological mothers when spring comes.
In order to prevent his son from doing similar things, Ram had to drive him away.
After his son left, Ram, a leopard, felt lonely and searched outside the territory several times, but found no trace of his son.
After confirming that her son's breath had disappeared, Ram left the hill where she and her son had shared memories and came to this lonely mountain.
She never expected to smell her son's scent again.
His feeding method is exactly the same as last year.
but--
What are these two rabbits doing?
Ram lowered his head and stared into the eyes of the two rabbits.
The rabbit looked so innocent and didn't know why it was flying for no reason.
Meeting the snow leopard's eyes, the rabbit was so scared that he curled up into a ball and almost died on the spot.
Ram withdrew his gaze and began to enjoy the fresh mutton.
The plateau rabbit saw that she was not going to eat it, so it jumped up and down and prepared to run away.
After jumping out several dozen meters, the snow leopard that had just taken off with the two rabbits in its mouth appeared again, opening its bloody mouth and threatening the plateau rabbits not to leave.
The nearby blue sheep were far away from their nest, so Ram couldn't leave her cubs for too long.
If there are two plateau rabbits near the nest, thanks to the rabbits' terrifying reproductive ability, at least the mother will not starve to death, and the younger brothers and sisters will have plenty of toys as soon as they come out of the hole.
"Meow!" You two, live here from today!
"Meow?" Do you understand?
Of course the plateau rabbits didn't understand, but after running several times without success, they had no choice but to head in opposite directions, hiding deep in the mountains, one in front and one behind.
After Yu Yiyun finished doing all this, she turned around and looked at her mother.
Ram just raised her head, her eyes still as pure as a girl's. She was the cutest leopard in the entire snow mountain.
"meow!" Enemy beast!
"Meow, meow, meow." Okay, okay, I'll just go away.
Yu Yijun could guess what she was going to say, so she took the initiative to wag her tail and leave her mother's territory.
Although he really wanted to rub the cubs, the health and safety of mommy and younger siblings were more important.
As long as they are alive and well, why worry about not having the chance to pet the little leopard?
Ram chased a few steps and saw Erza's agile and tall figure disappearing down the mountain, and a feeling of joy arose in his heart.
As a snow leopard, she couldn't describe this feeling.
If Ram was a human, she would definitely brag to everyone she met, "How did you know that my son is 1.9 meters tall and has eight abdominal muscles and is super handsome? I wonder how many girls will be fascinated by him next spring."
At this moment, Yu Yiyun, who was completely unaware of how many girls he was about to charm, returned to Leopard Dad and marked out a small area under his territory.
Winter is coming, and Yu Yiyun does not plan to travel long distances in the severe cold, but she also does not plan to stay in this place for long.
Zhumi originally thought that as long as he could get through the winter, he would be able to step on the spring flowers and head towards poetry and distant places.
Unexpectedly, Yu Yiyun overlooked a very serious problem.
In the past, no matter whether he was a beast, a bird, or a whale, Yu Yiyun was always in the cub stage.
No matter how strong the spring hormones are, it will not affect our pigs' eating and drinking.
Male snow leopards reach maturity at the age of two, become capable of reproduction, and undergo significant body changes, allowing them to attract the opposite sex through their smell.
In other words…
In the following spring, as long as other leopards get close to Zhumi, they will find that there is a young, handsome, strong and useful male leopard here.
Yu Yiyun: ???
No, I'm just a little kitty!
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