Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 236 - : The child is just one month old, and you’re already fantasizing about it having offspring?
Chapter 236 -236: The child is just one month old, and you’re already fantasizing about it having offspring?
Brother Leopard and Leopard Sister came back full and also packed up half a deer for their daughter and Little Fox.
“There’s a tiger on the mountain, but by the time we got there, it had already gone up the mountain and hid after a glance.”
Leopards are numerous and strong, and the tiger isn’t stupid, how could it possibly fight them to the death.
It probably took an extra look out of curiosity about why a male and female would be out together.
Leopard Sister thought for a bit and then added, “That tiger is a female, seems like she’s still bringing up cubs.”
She was sure she had smelled the scent of the cubs, after all, the milky smell was too strong.
Jinya also saw that tiger, unlike Leopard Sister, the overly curious Jinya dragged Little Jin to track the tiger, and then they saw five skinny little tiger cubs.
The female tiger was already hunting hard, but because she had given birth to so many cubs and the consumption was too high, she had to spend more time hunting and eating.
Although the little tiger cubs were relatively small, they all appeared very healthy.
After spying for a while, Jinya began to sympathize with the female tiger that was nearly collapsing from nursing.
She had heard from Chen Ying about a tiger mother and child she had encountered far away.
That female tiger had only one child and already seemed overwhelmed, yet this tiger mother actually had five, five of them!
Were all the animals this prolific this year?
What kind of cursed day of sacred birth was this?
Jinya quietly backed away, then went and caught a young musk deer, dragging it with great difficulty to about seven or eight meters outside the female tiger’s den.
The female tiger had already assumed an attack posture, and it seemed like Jinya didn’t take it to heart at all.
She dropped the young musk deer and stuck out her tongue to rest for half a minute.
“This is for you. Sorry for disturbing your hunting. We’ll be here for another day, and I’ll make it up to you with food.”
The female tiger was dumbfounded; could there really be such strange creatures that would offer food to her?
The tiger hadn’t seen a lynx before, but it could tell from the smell that this was an incredibly formidable beast.
Of course, the tiger wasn’t afraid of the lynx, but being a mother with cubs, she also had to consider what would happen to her cubs if she lost a fight and got injured.
It’s certainly better not to fight, not to mention she was now being fed.
Jinya climbed up a tree and hid with Little Jin in the dense foliage.
The female tiger hesitated for a moment, then came over and sniffed.
The smell was right, why not take a few bites first?
Tearing and swallowing big bites, the female tiger only ate until half-full.
After all, she was bigger than Jinya and had a bigger appetite.
Jinya could spare some of a young musk deer, and could even share it with Little Jin.
But for the female tiger, another one might just be enough.
Just as Jinya was thinking of catching another piece of food for her, she saw Brother Leopard dragging over a young deer.
He dropped it farther away and then coolly turned around and left without a word.
The female tiger looked up at the sky with a blood-streaked face, grateful that there was no sun; she didn’t know which eye the heavens were opening today.
Seeing that the female tiger hadn’t gone to eat the deer for a long time, Jinya couldn’t help but jump down a bit and poke her head out from the tree.
“That sister, go eat, that deer was caught for you.”
Jinya would scratch whenever she met Leopard Sister, but she really respected Brother Leopard; responsible male leopards like him were too rare in the cat family and had to be cherished.
Eating one was just eating, and two was still eating.
The female tiger had never enjoyed such treatment; it was truly a case of food being served to her without lifting a paw.
After eating, she stretched her body vigorously, feeling an unusual fullness in her belly.
The five little tiger cubs were just over a month old, in the peak of nursing ferociously.
The female tiger managing to raise five cubs on her own was proof of her considerable strength.
Chen Ying was led by Jinya to see the tigers.
Startled at first, the female tiger then displayed an angry, threatening expression.
However, after smelling Chen Ying’s scent, she gradually calmed down and even performed a roll to show her belly to Chen Ying.
Chen Ying first checked the condition of the female tiger.
She was thin but had solid muscles, smooth fur, and seemed to be in good spirits.
After rewarding the tiger with three hares, Chen Ying examined the tiger’s den in front of her.
The five little cubs were uniformly sized, without any significantly larger or smaller.
Paws, ears, eyes, mouth—each was checked in turn, and he recorded the findings and archived genetic samples of their fur.
He also took about a dozen photos of each cub, capturing everything from the shape of their faces to the pattern of their fur to clearly mark each individual.
Having recently boned up on the Huanan Tiger, Chen Ying could tell that these six, one adult and five cubs, bore the typical features of the breed from their appearance.
But from their living environment, it was clear they did not reside only in tropical rainforests and evergreen broadleaf forest areas as the records indicated.
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Biologically speaking, the change in living environment could be due to the need to adapt in order to continue the species, a dual selection by nature and life itself.
The tiger mother wasn’t very fond of interacting with Chen Ying, and she had a rather aloof demeanor.
After Chen Ying finished examining the cubs, the tiger mother started to usher him away.
After all, they were her offspring. It was fine for him to play with them for a bit, but not forever. Didn’t he know he should have his own if he wanted to play that much?
She licked the fur of each cub one by one, thoroughly cleaning away the nearly non-existent human scent.
Afterward, she refused to let any creature come near her cubs again.
Back at the cave, Old Gao had just released a pheasant.
“Back already? How was it, any problems with that old tiger?”
“How could there be any problems? She’s living well here.”
Chen Ying showed the photos to Old Gao.
“That mother tiger is really incredible. Without any human help, she has managed to keep five cubs alive. You have no idea how shocked I was to see the five cubs.”
The fuzzy little brain tigers were so adorable; such charm is unique to the young of the cat family.
Chen Ying’s earnestness in photographing and documenting the little brain tigers was because he had a deep conversation last time he went to Dian Province with colleagues from the M Alliance. They all liked the Huanan Tiger and wanted to help the species continue in the wild.
Currently, only two Huanan Tiger breeding and conservation centers are doing well in this regard, while other zoos are independently researching how to perpetuate the population of tigers.
Chen Ying felt that if he could find enough Huanan Tiger genetic samples in the wild, he might collaborate with colleagues from the M Alliance to propose a project for reintroducing the tigers into the wild.
At present, although the number of Huanan Tigers in domestic zoos seems to have increased, the biggest problem they face is inbreeding.
If this continues, the captive tiger population will naturally decline, and there will be no saving them.
“Five little tigers, I really feel like coaxing a couple of them to settle down in Jiamu Gully.”
If he could entice a pair of young siblings to settle there, maybe other Huanan Tigers would come for mating.
Even better, if Jiamu Gully had a pair of wild Huanan Tiger siblings, maybe they could arrange for those few Huanan Tigers from the provincial zoo to come for a meeting.
The old tiger that previously roamed in Jiamu Gully might spend more time in this area because of the presence of a tiger girl.
Listening to his endless chatter, Old Gao rolled his eyes.
“They’re just cubs a little over a month old, and you’re already fantasizing about their future of calling friends. Save it, even if your plan could work, it would take at least three or four years.”
Doused with cold water, Chen Ying let out a wail and flopped onto his back.
Just then, Jinya and Leopard Sister each came in with a hare in their mouths, and upon seeing Chen Ying fall, the two beasts let out the biggest roars of their lives.
