Chapter 192 Red Panda
“Hehehe!”
“Hehehe!”
Yu Yiyun heard two pig squeals, opened her eyes and saw two pointed ears, round faces, orange-yellow furry creatures in front of her, standing up with their hands raised high.
Looking around the world, there are not many animals that use the 'surrender' posture to express fear.
The only animal that makes pig noises while surrendering is the red panda.
Yu Yiyun climbed out of the nest and rolled slowly.
The female red panda that was protecting herself suddenly squealed even louder, grunting to drive away the red panda that had entered her territory.
The little panda raised its paws high, stepped back a few steps, and left feeling aggrieved.
The red panda was victorious. It turned to the cub rolling on the ground, scooped him up into its arms with great affection, and stuffed him back into its den.
Yu Yiyun had come into contact with red pandas before and knew that red panda cubs are more independent than giant pandas. They start learning survival skills from their mothers at around three months old.
Although they develop quickly, as close relatives, red pandas are just as dependent on their mothers as giant pandas, and cubs do not leave their mothers to live independently until they are around two years old.
Judging from the size of her paws and her cries, Yu Yiyun thought she was already half a year old.
The mother is still worried about leaving the nest, mainly because she is afraid that the cubs will be frozen stupid.
"Eeyee~"
As soon as Yu Yijun was stuffed back in, she stuck her head out again and acted coquettishly, saying that she wanted to go bamboo hunting with her mother.
You know, red pandas have two layers of fur. The outer layer is rougher and can protect against weather changes.
The inner layer of hair is relatively short, dense, soft and highly water-resistant.
The two layers of fur can not only keep out the cold, but also keep them dry in rainy and snowy days.
Some humans who are lucky enough to have touched a red panda feel that the red panda's fur is prickly, mainly because they only touched the outer fur.
The underhair is so soft!
Yu Yiyun hummed twice, waking up the cubs in the nest.
Two more cubs poked their heads out and whined at their mother, apparently getting bored of staying in the nest as well.
A six-month-old red panda is equivalent to a 3- or 4-year-old human. It is full of energy, playful and naughty. How can it stay in the cave obediently?
The mother panda had no choice but to take her three children with her and go out in the heavy snow to look for food.
Red pandas and giant pandas look different, but their eating habits are very similar.
They mainly feed on bamboo leaves, bamboo shoots, fruits, other plants, insects, bird eggs and small animals.
It was winter and the snow had just fallen. All the tender leaves that the red pandas loved had fallen and there were only a few fruits left.
The mother panda can only take her cubs to look for winter bamboo shoots under the snow.
The four cats walked on the snow, searching for a while, and suddenly saw a huge footprint in front of them!
The mother panda was frightened and squealed like a pig, trying to stop her child from coming forward.
It snowed last night and there are footprints here, which means there must be a bear nearby.
Yu Yiyun followed the footprints and looked forward, recognizing where this place was.
Qinling Mountains, the hometown of giant pandas.
If I remember correctly, ahead is the ferocious winter territory with a patch of crispy winter bamboo shoots.
Thinking of this, Yu Yiyun looked at the footprint again and found that the sole was very round and a pseudo-thumb could be seen, which was very different from the footprint of a black bear.
Food is scarce in winter, and it is very dangerous to encounter a black bear that has not hibernated.
But it’s okay if you meet a panda!
Giant pandas have gentle personalities and have been neighbors for tens of thousands of years, and they still live in peace with red pandas.
"Yiyi~" Mom, it's a panda!
“Hehehe!”
The mother panda remained alert. She moved closer to smell it and discovered it was her neighbor, the giant panda. Her fur slowly calmed down.
She happened to know the giant panda that left the footprints, and she was the most ferocious female bear nearby.
When the mother panda was still a cub, she was very afraid of it, fearing that the bear would dislike her for stealing her bamboo shoots and bite her to death.
The mountains in the Panda Reserve are full of bamboo shoots, but the pandas only eat a very small portion of them. Xiong Xiong doesn't mind his neighbors sharing their bamboo shoots with him.
Once, the red panda was foraging for food alone and encountered a scary black bear. It was so frightened that it squealed like a pig.
She had just become independent and had limited survival experience, so she almost couldn't escape this disaster.
Unexpectedly, Xiongxiong, sensing that his territory was being invaded, suddenly descended from the sky and drove away the big black bear.
From that day on, the red panda slowly approached Xiong Xiong and occasionally brought fruit for him to eat.
Having shared the bamboo forest for several years, Xiong Xiong has never harmed the red panda and her cubs.
"Wow~" Auntie Xiong Xiong~
The cubs also remembered the smell of the giant panda and excitedly crawled forward following the scent.
In the cold winter, the bamboo shoots are covered with heavy snow, and it is difficult for the cubs, who lack survival experience, to find large areas of winter bamboo shoots.
Following the panda's footsteps, you will definitely gain something!
A few red pandas happily followed the giant pandas' footprints and came to a sparse bamboo forest.
There were only a few bamboos on the snow, and they were mostly gnawed.
In the middle of the bamboo forest, there sat a huge, round bear, with an expressionless face, breaking a bamboo with its bare claws.
Breaking bamboo is easy for giant pandas. Even the seemingly small red panda has the ability to break bamboo.
Giant pandas living in captivity can only learn from their nannies.
Some bears saw the little man breaking bamboos with a ferocious expression and grimacing with exhaustion, and mistakenly thought that this was a compulsory course in breaking bamboos.
Later, when humans visited the pandas, they found that they deliberately bared their teeth every time they broke bamboo.
Sometimes I forget, but I will make up for this process. My acting skills are better than many popular actors.
He broke the bamboo with a fierce "crack" and put it in his mouth to chew.
Hearing the noise, it vaguely saw a few orange furry creatures approaching. From the smell, it recognized them as the red pandas next door, and sat there without moving.
The red panda approached Xiong Xiong and bravely picked up the bamboo residue she had left over.
The bamboo poles that pandas can easily bite through are still too hard for red pandas, especially since their teeth are not fully developed, so they have great difficulty eating bamboo residues.
When the mother red panda saw that her cub couldn't bite the bamboo, she climbed up the few bamboos and tried to pick the tenderer branches and leaves at the top.
Xiong Xiong was holding a half piece of bamboo and looking at the panda family blankly, with a big look of doubt in his little eyes.
Yu Yiyun tried to analyze Xiong Xiong's thoughts. He must be complaining about these strange red pandas.
Why are you grabbing your own teething stick instead of eating the bamboo shoots?
Friends who like to eat bamboo shoots know that bamboo shoots in winter are different from those in other seasons. They are mainly hidden under the soil and do not sprout points.
This area is very suitable for bamboo growth. There are dense winter bamboo shoots under the soil, just waiting to break out of the ground in the spring.
If pandas don't eat more, this piece of soil will hardly see the sun in the spring.
Xiong Xiong gnawed on the crisp and tender bamboo shoots from morning to night every day. When his teeth became soft, he would break off the old bamboo that he had saved for the winter to grind his teeth.
Old bamboo is harder than young bamboo, and humans use it to make stools or fishing rods.
With the bite force of the panda cub, it is definitely impossible to bite it.
Xiong Xiong seemed to be crying because of their stupidity, but also seemed to be afraid of these naughty kids, so he messed up the teething stick that he had left behind.
It temporarily put down the bamboo, pushed away the snow, and dug out three winter bamboo shoots in two moves.
The growth temperature required for winter bamboo shoots is about 5-20 degrees. The bamboo shoots in deep winter have completed their development and are in a dormant stage, which is the most delicious time.
The two cubs picked up the bamboo shoots that Xiong Xiong had dug out. They felt that happiness came too suddenly, and they rolled around on the ground holding the huge bamboo shoots.
Seeing that the youngest cub didn't move, Xiong Xiong dug out another one and it fell right in front of him.
Yu Yiyun was stunned!
You know, this is not Yu Yiyun's first time dealing with Xiong Xiong.
In my previous life, I met Xiong Xiong and was yelled at by the powerful aunt before they even met.
Later, because Yu Yijun liked playing with her daughter Ziwei, she took Ziwei to the ends of the earth, causing Xiong Xiong to never treat her well.
If it weren't for the gentle temperament of the panda clan, Yu Yiyun reasonably suspected that Xiong Xiong would transform into a Kung Fu Panda and beat him up.
I never expected that when the fierce cat didn't protect its cubs, it turned out to be a good cat that respects the elderly and loves the young.
"Roar?" You don't want to eat?
"Eeyee!" Auntie, I misjudged you! You are a good bear!
The more Yu Yiyun thought about it, the more moved she became. She threw herself into Xiong Xiong's arms to express her gratitude.
When Xiong Xiong heard this voice, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
The guy in front of him was the wrong size and species, but his voice and tone were exactly the same as the bad bear that kidnapped his precious daughter.
More importantly, he really turned into a yellow-haired man!!!
"Roar!" Xiong Xiong's face changed instantly, and he roared at the yellow-haired bear, warning him to stay away from his daughter.
"Eehee?"
Yu Yiyun blinked her innocent eyes and protested aggrievedly: You can't discriminate against me just because I have yellow hair, right?
Fortunately, Xiong Xiong didn’t have a daughter for the time being. After yelling, he turned around and pushed Yu Yiyun with his butt.
If I think about it carefully, during those years when I was Sesame Tangyuan, no matter how angry Xiong Xiong was, he never really hurt himself.
Yu Yiyun, who unilaterally portrayed her aunt as a "villain", felt a pang of guilt and decided to make up for her mistake.
He ate all the bamboo shoots while munching on them, while his mommy and his younger brothers and sisters were still absorbed in eating.
Both small and large pandas are big eaters. A giant panda can eat food equivalent to 12%-50% of its body weight every day.
Red pandas are even more amazing, they can even eat food equivalent to 100% of their own body weight!
Seeing that they were holding bamboo shoots that were bigger than themselves, Yu Yiyun estimated that they would not be able to finish them in a short time, so she ran away stealthily on the snow and searched around nearby.
Since there are bamboos and bamboo shoots here, some small animals that like to eat bamboo must be hibernating nearby.
Animals in hibernation enter a state of low energy consumption, and their life signals become difficult to detect.
Moreover, most animals will choose the quietest place for their hibernation nests to avoid being discovered by natural enemies.
Normally, they will sleep until spring.
The bamboo rat never expected that the house suddenly collapsed while it was sleeping soundly!
Yu Yiyun, a professional wake-up caller, loves to wake up hibernating animals!
Low consumption does not mean zero consumption. During hibernation, bamboo rats' activity will be greatly reduced, making them easier to catch.
Yu Yiyun easily destroyed the bamboo rat's nest, lured the rats out and bit them to death, and then looked for the next target.
After destroying seven or eight nests in a row, Yu Yiyun returned to Xiong Xiong happily with a lot of spoils and gave one to it.
"Eeyee~"
Auntie, eat this rat and all the past will be wiped out~
Xiong Xiong looked down and saw that the yellow bear was holding a mouse in its mouth and dragging two mice in its claws, which he was distributing to his younger brothers and sisters.
Throughout the entire Qinling Mountains, Xiongxiong has only seen a bear that is so good at catching mice once.
"Roar!" Tell the truth, you are the yellow-haired man who deceived my daughter, right?
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Can you recognize me even though I changed my skin?
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