Bird Battle
A Jin: Ji...
As a subadult peacock that was watching a green peacock blind date for the first time, it was quite curious at first, but after seeing a few green peacocks coming over to show their goodwill, it felt that there was nothing to see.
Compared to its real parents, the male birds that came over were not very capable, and their tails were not good-looking, which was disgusting.
Ajin's mother bird thought the same.
Especially after it discovered that even after it gave a warning, some female birds were still bewitched by the bluffing male bird and approached it to test its closeness.
No way...
The mother bird was a little uninterested, so she took the initiative to leave the blind date scene and take a walk with the little peacock on the edge.
Looking at its own cubs and those of other mother birds, and comparing the slight differences in size and feather color, it became more determined in its opinion.
Look!
What a gap!
Since it was two months old, it has been enjoying high-quality feed carefully prepared by human keepers. Once it shows any signs of illness, several experts from the nature reserve will hold a meeting overnight to remotely analyze the cause and prescribe medication. Even its fallen feathers will be carefully picked up to analyze its health condition. Under such almost cheating protection, Ajin is of course healthier than other little peacocks.
Of course, the mother bird is unaware of this.
It will only think that it and its partner from last year have good genes, so they have such healthy and lively cubs.
This awareness makes it the most picky and demanding one among this group of female peacocks.
"Whoa whoa."
Although he was not interested in the male peacock that came over and spread its tail, A Jin was still quite curious about the other little peacocks.
After all, it was the only chick in its nest, and it was the first time it saw a bird of the same age since it grew up. It was really rare, so it took the initiative to approach it and flirt with it.
Occasionally, a female peacock would look up at it, but when she realized it was just a sub-adult peacock, she would not be too wary and would allow the little peacocks to have simple communication with each other.
After a while——
"Chichi! Chichi!"
I thought it was just a simple communication, but I didn't expect my cub to come back crying, and its parent bird became furious.
What!
How dare you bully my kid!
Looking again, the particularly proud little peacock that had just come close to it slipped away and hid beside its parent bird, which looked not easy to mess with.
Victim bird parent bird: …
Impotent rage.
hateful!
If you can't afford to provoke it, can't you just hide from it?
It angrily called its peacock cub, packed up and went to another blind date venue.
At this time, Ajin's bird had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter. It was still sipping slowly by the river, staring intently at the insects in the moist soil on the river bank, trying to get a bite.
Although it’s not as delicious as the food down the mountain, it has a unique flavor, hmm…
When it came to its senses and turned around to check the situation, it found that the original blind date venue was empty, with only its silly son standing there in a daze.
Parent bird: ? ?
What's going on!
Where is the peacock!
——Some of them were angered and ran away by Ajin, and some of them left after the blind date with the male bird.
When the carefully prepared former parent bird and now single male peacock made his grand appearance, only a familiar figure was seen here.
Well, it should be said that there are two...
"grumble!"
Ah Jin shouted loudly and greeted happily his father whom he had just seen for a short time.
Jiji, we meet again!
Is it time to spread out the wings and get close to the bird next?
Can't wait to watch! Let's get started!
Male Peacock: ...
In fact, it was a similar experience during last year’s blind date season.
As a fledgling male bird, it did not have much experience in courtship so was very nervous. It kept delaying until all the female birds were about to run away before it mustered up the courage to come over to court.
Then, only the picky and proud female peacock is still waiting here.
It tried hard to spread its feathers and dance to show itself. I don't know if the female peacock had no other choice or was really moved by it, but it finally chose it. They formed a small family for a year and successfully gave birth to a very special peacock cub.
Maybe it will still start a family with this female peacock this year, but for some reason, it does not feel disappointed, just a little nervous.
After a year of preparation, it felt that it was more confident than last year's mating season, but when it thought about spreading its feathers to woo the female peacock under the gaze of the female peacock, it paused a little shyly.
“Meow…”
After a symbolic call, the male peacock moved a few steps closer as if nothing had happened, lowered his head and pecked at the peacock, then moved a few steps closer and lowered his head and murmured again.
Seven or eight small concealing movements per second.
But the purpose of coming here at this time is just for a blind date. All these little actions are completely meaningless.
The female peacock watched it show off in silence, and finally waited for it to spread its feathers.
"Meow! Meow~"
The male peacock called out a few times in a high-pitched voice, raised his tail, and shook his whole body hard, forming a perfect and gorgeous tail screen.
The extremely beautiful colors on its coverts pour out like waves as its tail shakes, like flowing mountains.
No wonder everyone who has seen a green peacock spread its feathers thinks it is a good omen. Such incomparable natural beauty is truly bewildering.
After creating a perfect tail screen, the next step is dancing.
The male peacock, with a huge feather screen on his head, took small steps and walked towards the female bird eagerly.
The female bird retreats, and it chases;
The female bird flashes, and it follows;
The female bird hides, it looks for it.
Normally, a male peacock spreads his feathers towards all the female birds in the dating field. He will look at one for a few seconds and then turn around to show himself to another one. If he cannot catch up with one, he will switch to another. There is no such thing as the relentless one-on-one pursuit as he does now.
During this process, the little peacock who was watching with great interest was accidentally hit several times by the male peacock's tail screen when he turned around in a hurry.
Little Peacock: ... (stunned)
Exploding hair.
grumble!
What does it have to do with it!
Is it also part of bird-friendly play?
Narrator:
"There are some romantic affairs in his family... but they have nothing to do with his immediate family."
"Perhaps it is because he/she is there as a link. In any case, his/her immediate family members are always with him/her."
"This is rare in the fairy world."
[Oh, oh, oh! So Jinbao's bird family is a one-on-one small family, right? Great, I like this kind of pure love! It's really rare! ]
[Although, the bonding effect mentioned by the narrator, could it be that Jin Bao drove away all the other female birds? ]
[Hahahahaha, I am dying of laughter. I really don't know what the little peacock said that made all the peacock cubs who talked to it leave in anger.]
[Maybe it was just some kind of bragging or showing off. I saw the little peacock glance at the feather crests of other birds several times...]
[It's so funny, so naughty, I thought it was intentional, but it turned out to be a coincidence. ]
Soon, the female bird, who had retested the male bird's qualities in all aspects, finally nodded in approval, symbolically moved closer, pecked the male bird's cheek lightly, and then agreed to follow him.
"Whoa whoa--"
The peacock was visibly delighted.
It doesn't have any particularly big ambitions and won't think about continuing to seduce female peacocks elsewhere. It is just seriously considering the territory issue for the next breeding season.
According to previous ideas, the chosen territory must be deep in the mountains, the farther away from those two-legged beasts the better.
Most of the green peacock community thinks so.
But from their actual experience, although they stayed on the periphery last year, they lived a pretty comfortable life and could even go down the mountain from time to time for a snack...hiss.
It seems that even if we stay in last year's territory, there won't be any big problems?
The other two members of the small family readily agreed.
So, the reserve monitors saw a familiar family in a familiar place.
Two adults and one child were taking a leisurely stroll along the river bank.
Behind the screen, they were filled with emotion:
"Ah Jin's parents didn't separate? Are they still in pairs this year?"
"It's really touching... I think there must be some affection between them!"
"Hahaha, although it's a bit inappropriate, it suddenly occurred to me that maybe it was because of the things that Ajin caused that the two birds developed other emotional ties besides the instinct to reproduce?"
"Pfft, I guess so. After all, other green peacocks in the mountains don't have such rich experience. How could they have thought that a young bird would take the initiative to hook up with humans to eat public food?"
Even if it is the same animal, different experiences will shape different personalities. I think this is also the case with the green peacock family that has attracted much attention.
Just as this thought came up, another monitor reported the situation:
"Huh? In those shots where I couldn't see the green peacock before, I seem to have seen other green peacocks!"
What what?
Let them see!
The green peacocks that live secludedly in the mountains are also a headache for people. They can't choose the right location to place the camera and are always troubled by the inability to accurately control the specific situation of their small group. Who would have thought that there would be a surprise today.
And there's more than one!
Half-grown peacocks appeared in front of at least four or five cameras.
Although their reactions were a little strange and they kept pecking at the camera with their sharp beaks, this did not stop the group of people from smiling as they hurriedly recorded the situation of the green peacocks in the mountains.
After writing a lot of analysis and record documents, they quickly arranged for people to go to the corresponding points for supplementary feeding. After all the important matters were arranged, some people finally had the mind to consider -
What happened that made the little peacocks gather in front of the infrared camera in such a united manner?
“Chichi!”
Several sub-adult peacocks chirped around the infrared camera.
They racked their brains but couldn't figure out where the "meal ticket" that the bad guy mentioned was.
Communication is hasty and information is scarce.
After all, the peacock's cry was really unpleasant.
Although it does look a bit more majestic and beautiful, is that a reason to belittle their crests and tails? No!
After a few words, a group of proud little peacocks went home crying to find their mother. Afterwards, they recalled the growth tips mentioned by the other party and wanted to try them out. However, they only remembered the block hanging on a tree trunk described by the other party.
That’s it?
They chattered with their mouths and fluttered with their wings, but no one could see what was magical about it.
At most, there is a strange black circle, and it seems like you can see a peacock inside it... eh?
It was as if they had discovered a new world. A group of little peacocks jostled each other and came up to observe. Many of them spread their feathers and danced, making the staff behind the scenes so happy that they almost fainted.
Even though most of the peacocks were not interested in this later, there were still a few who were curious about the small square that reflected them and would come over to stroll around from time to time. This alone was enough for the staff of the nature reserve to understand the current distribution area of their small group and provide spot feeding.
I hope that in the coming breeding season, they can safely give birth to the next generation.
People hope so.
"oh?"
A Jin walked around the parent bird curiously, and couldn't help but glance under the mother bird's body. He seemed to be very curious about the eggs underneath and wanted to pull them out to play with them.
If it wasn't its own cub, the mother bird would have pecked it long ago.
It lowered its neck and incubated the eggs carefully.
Last year, only one cub survived. This year, we must not scare it away. We must ensure that all the cubs hatch successfully...
There seemed to be some sound in the air.
It was piercing, almost giving the bird palpitations.
The female peacock subconsciously stood up and flapped its wings, wanting to run away, but her love for her cubs made her hesitate for a moment.
The male peacock guarding nearby apparently sensed some kind of danger and started crowed and paced around in annoyance.
Then, the sound got louder.
The female bird, who was already sensitive during the breeding season, couldn't help it after all. She stood up in panic, flapped her wings and flew away almost as if escaping.
The female birds all ran away, and the male bird couldn't find where the enemy was, so he could only call out anxiously a few times and flap his wings to catch up with the female bird to prevent it from being in danger.
In their fear, they did not realize that their cubs were not following them.
A Jin, who stayed where he was, looked at the direction the two parent birds left, then looked at the peacock eggs that were still slightly warm in the nest, and thought for a while.
Then, it walked forward tentatively, aimed at the location of the nest, and slowly laid down.
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