Forest protection starts with picking up a lynx girl

Chapter 558: Shocked, Falcons are different, how do they intersect?
The voice is quite crisp, maybe she is a cute girl.

Chen Ying waited for her to introduce herself, but the girl came up and asked him when she would be there.

Past? Where to go, sister, I am an honest man!
"Ah! I'm sorry, sorry, didn't Teacher Gao tell you?"

Lao Gao? I haven't contacted this guy for a few months. He has been stationed in Gaoligong Mountain recently, doing some cooperative research with a research institute of a university in a neighboring country. He is so busy that he can catch up with Dayu. He doesn't go home for several years.

"I guess Lao Gao was too busy and didn't have time to tell me. Is there something wrong?"

"It's like this, Mr. Chen. You asked about the golden monkeys before. It just so happens that one of our observation targets, the peregrine falcon, seems to have been fighting with the monkeys recently. This phenomenon is very rare, and both sides feel that they will fight to the death. We would like to seek your help to see if we can solve this problem."

The peregrine falcon is a medium-sized bird of prey, with a body length of approximately 35-80 cm and a wingspan of approximately 74-120 cm. Its main food source is medium-sized birds, and its diet has absolutely no overlap with that of the golden monkey.

Moreover, one flies in the sky and the other runs in the woods, and their living areas have no overlap.

For these two to face off, some very rare accident must have happened.

While bird watchers are worried about peregrine falcons, Chen Ying is more concerned about the cute Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkeys.

The original plan was to send the baby monkey back to the emergency station for observation for a few days before looking for its relatives, but now the other party was in a hurry, and Chen Ying was also worried that more golden monkeys would be injured or even die, so she agreed without saying a word.

When he came here, he took Yin Li's car. This time, when he wanted to go up the mountain, it was the Bird Research Institute that helped him coordinate with a car owner who operated an online car-hailing service in the town to charter a car to go up the mountain.

"Teacher Chen, I'm so sorry for taking the trouble to make this trip. We really can't do anything. It's so heartbreaking to see them fighting so badly."

"Teacher Chen, look, they're still fighting over there. And there are other birds joining in."

Originally it was a one-on-one fight against a group, but now it has turned into a group fight, and the scope of the fight is getting larger and larger, making these humans who can't understand or see anything worried and helpless.

Chen Ying didn't know much about birds, but she could recognize some of the species.

Flying across the mountain wall and in the sparse woods are peregrine falcons and hunter falcons.

"Why are there hunting falcons here?" Putting down the telescope, Chen Ying looked at the two female observers in surprise.

"Originally there was only the peregrine falcon, and its nest is on the cliff next to the woods. The hunter falcon joined this afternoon. It was originally just observing on the rock, but when I called you, it joined the battle."

Otherwise, the two of them wouldn't be so anxious to ask Chen Ying to come and help.

It is normal for girls to have a lower tolerance for these things. After all, girls have stronger empathy.

Chen Ying watched for a while, but there was no way to stop the fight between the monkeys and birds on the opposite cliff. After thinking it over, he decided to go over and take a look.

There is a passage between the two mountains, but it is very dangerous.

Either you go down from the bottom of the ditch and then go up again. In this case, you probably can only take action tomorrow. Otherwise, it will be dark when you reach the bottom of the ditch, and you won't be able to continue climbing up.

Or you can take the dangerous path and fly over it via a zipline at the narrowest point.

When Chen Ying was a child, he often flew around in the ravines with his friends. As he grew up, he had fewer opportunities to use it, but the skill was still there.

The zipline here has been there for decades. Some people used it before the centralized relocation. Now, maybe only the forest rangers use it occasionally.

After confirming with the maintenance station that the zipline was safe, Chen Ying took out the hanging rope from the stone hole where the zipline was fixed and checked it.

Seeing Chen Ying taking out his equipment with ease and preparing to slip to the other side, the two girls' faces turned pale.

"Teacher Chen, why don't we go tomorrow? This is too unsafe."

"It's fine. There's nothing unsafe about it." Chen Ying smiled at the two female observers. "It's OK. I just asked. This zipline is inspected every six months. It's used more frequently than ours."

After saying that, Chen Ying kicked his feet hard and flew towards the other side like an arrow.

The two banks were not far away, only about twenty meters, and it was there in the blink of an eye.

Chen Ying put away the zipline as he would need it when he returned.

The fixed point of the zipline is not far from the location of the monkeys. It is also a convenient spot for bird watching and observing monkey wildlife. It is probably for this reason that the zipline has been preserved and maintained every year.

Another older female observer had been paying attention to Chen Ying's movements, including how she used a simple zipline to slide to the other side.

At this moment, she seemed to have made up her mind and patted the young girl on the shoulder, "Tongtong, you stay here, I'll go over and take a look."

He fished out another safety rope from the cave and put it on himself a little clumsily. It took him several tries before he successfully hung himself on it.

Chen Ying was about to leave when she saw the older female observer coming over. She quickly stood at the end to meet her and explained to her the key points of the zipline.

This zipline looks simple, and it is indeed simple, but an inexperienced person may get stuck in the middle and be caught in a dilemma.

Fortunately, this sister was obedient and came through smoothly.

Following Chen Ying's example, they tied the safety rope around their waists and ran quickly towards the monkey group.

The two sides are in a truce at the moment, but a lot of broken branches and flying feather monkey hair can be seen on the ground.

"Teacher Chen, wait for me a moment. I think I found something."

The female observer picked up the camera, zoomed in, and took two pictures.

"Teacher Chen, look, this is a bird's nest, a damaged nest with eggshells inside."

As a bird expert after all, she could tell at a glance that this was a peregrine falcon's nest.

Peregrine falcons usually choose to nest in the recesses of cliffs or in the crowns of tall trees. The abandoned nest they found this time was located in the sunny part of the tree crown on the edge of the cliff.

Chen Ying thought quickly. Judging from the monkeys' past behavior, the abandonment of the bird's nest was most likely related to them.

But unlike macaques and Tibetan macaques, golden monkeys do not have the habit of eating bird eggs. They are pure vegetarians. Their digestive systems are adapted to high-fiber foods and lack the ability to efficiently secrete enzymes to digest animal protein.

But monkeys are very curious little creatures. Even a very Buddhist golden monkey will inevitably climb up out of curiosity to see what the bird eggs look like.

As they were talking, the little golden monkey hidden in the special backpack on Chen Ying's chest woke up, squeaked twice, and quickly crawled out.

"Squeak, squeak, I seem to have been here before?"

The little monkey rubbed his eyes and looked around.

"Squeak, squeak, this is my home!" The little monkey struggled to unzip his clothes, climbed onto Chen Ying's shoulder with his little head wrapped in gauze and sat down, grabbing his hair with his little paws and not daring to let go.

Perhaps the squeaking of the little monkey attracted the monkeys on guard nearby, and soon, two larger golden monkeys appeared on the ground near them.

The little monkey seemed to sense something and wanted to get closer, but was afraid to get closer. After trying several times, he didn't dare to leave Chen Ying's side.

Finally, Chen Ying couldn't bear it anymore, so she held the baby monkey in her hands, signaled her companions to stay where they were, and then slowly approached the two big golden monkeys.

Seeing Chen Ying approaching, the slightly younger golden monkey showed vigilance and even had some attacking intentions, but the other older golden monkey seemed to be in a daze.

"Squeak~" Just when the young golden monkey was about to attack, the older golden monkey suddenly slapped it and rushed over to Chen Ying, pulling Chen Ying's hand and sniffing it hard, looking like a pervert. The female observer's face turned abnormal.

Chen Ying seemed to have discovered something as well. He put the little monkey back on his shoulder and used his free hand to touch the older monkey's ear. There was a finger-sized piece missing there, and a small piece of hair next to it was also missing. There was also a scar left by the stitches.

"Little Scar? You are Little Scar!" Chen Ying was so happy that she half squatted down and hugged the elderly golden monkey into her arms. "I didn't expect to see you again."

Xiaoba also excitedly hugged Chen Ying and squeaked several times, and wanted to pull him into the woods.

"Don't worry, little scar. Come here, is this your tribe's little treasure?"

Xiaoba took a look at the baby monkey, then took it and stuffed it into the young monkey's arms.

"Squeak, this is my child, the most naughty one. I thought it was dead."

Chen Ying understood what Xiaoba said, but she didn't feel that Xiaoba was sad at all. This guy didn't hold back at all when he was scolding the kid.

But now is not the time to argue with Xiaoba about this. It can be seen that Xiaoba wants to take him to say hello to the other monkeys in the tribe. Could this tribe be the one that lived at the first aid station before?

But he was sure at that time that the golden snub-nosed monkeys living near Hualien Valley had all moved to the deep mountains of Laobeigou, where the altitude was higher and there was almost no human disturbance, making it more suitable for the golden snub-nosed monkeys to live.

After walking about thirty meters into the forest, the trees here became denser, and medium and large birds, at least medium and large birds of prey that were known for their speed, could not enter.

A skinny female monkey was being held and pulled out of her fur by an older monkey. The atmosphere in the entire monkey group was a bit depressing.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" The young monkey rushed to the mother monkey holding the baby monkey. Before the young monkey could sit firmly, the mother monkey snatched the baby monkey from him.

The mother monkey was so excited to find her lost child that her whole body was shaking. She hugged the child tightly and quickly climbed up the tree, hiding in the dense canopy.

Chen Ying felt relieved when he saw the baby monkey return to its mother's arms. Turning back, he saw a somewhat familiar monkey face in front of him.

"Monkey? Is that you, Monkey?"

The strong male monkey is now a bit bigger than before, not as handsome as before, but more stable.

As expected, he was an experienced monkey. Chen Ying hugged Monkey Brother again, then sat down under the shocked gaze of the female observer and let Monkey Brother comb his hair while they chatted.

"So you were caught in an unprovoked disaster? It was a rat that did the bad thing, and you were the ones who prevented the disaster? That's not right. What kind of rat is so bold as to deliver food to my door?"

"Squeak, squeak, that mouse looks different. I've never seen it before. It ran to the bird's nest, stole an egg and ran away. A little monkey followed it out of curiosity and took a look, and then it was discovered."

Generally speaking, peregrine falcons will not leave the nest for too long when they are incubating. However, the incubation period is very long, and they have to get up and move around, so there is always a short period of time every day when the female bird will leave the nest, and this period is also the most dangerous time for the eggs.

The unknown rat stole the eggs and happened to be there during this time period. I don’t know if it had been lurking there before.

Then the monkeys went to check the nest out of curiosity, but were blocked by the female bird returning to the nest. In panic, the little monkey kicked over the nest...

Under the cover of the nest, An You has finished the egg!
The female bird didn't know what the reason was, but she knew that it was these two monkeys that destroyed her home and killed her children!
Oh my god, this is a life-and-death feud.

Chen Ying had a headache so severe that his brain was about to explode. "Brother Monkey, how about we move? It's also good to go back to the first aid station. You can come back after the birds fly away."

The monkey was a little reluctant to agree. No matter how docile a golden monkey is, it still has a temper.

But Chen Ying had dealt with Monkey King before and knew his weaknesses.

"Look, many of your tribesmen are injured. You have to check them one by one when you return. Only when they are sure they are fine can you move freely. If there are any problems, they must be treated in advance, otherwise what will we do if something really happens?"

Golden monkey groups do not have the strict hierarchical order like macaques and Tibetan macaques. They usually gather in small family units to form a larger group. Although Monkey King is the king of monkeys, he may not be able to command all the monkeys.

Fortunately, many of the monkeys in this small group had lived with Monkey King since childhood and were willing to listen to his command. At Monkey King's command, the monkeys began to evacuate this home on their own initiative.

"Brother Monkey, you take your wife and children over first. The little monkey has a wound on his head and needs to have the bandages changed. We can't delay, okay? I'll go back to the other side with the two-legged beast first. We still have some work to do."

Monkey Brother nodded perfunctorily. He was familiar with the first aid station. If Chen Ying had not been away for the past two years and there had not been a lot of unfamiliar two-legged beasts, Monkey Brother would not have moved his group of monkeys here.

Who knew that when they set off, the little monkey would act up again. It refused to follow its mother and insisted on sticking to Chen Ying, even showing its tiny teeth to its mother.

Seeing that some baby monkeys were about to be beaten, Chen Ying took the initiative, took the baby monkeys from the mother monkey's arms and put them in his own arms, then ran away in the mother monkey's angry gaze.

The female monkey tried to chase after the monkey, but was stopped by the older monkey and another older female monkey. They were squeaking and communicating something.

Chen Ying held the baby monkey in her arms and took the female observer to the tree at the edge of the cliff and marked the location.

"Do you have an artificial bird nest at your bird watching station? The golden monkeys destroyed their nest, so let's compensate them. It's better to resolve a feud than to create one. I hope that for the sake of the new bird nest, they will give up chasing us."

As to why the rarely seen passing falcons would help the peregrine falcons fight the monkeys, this is something that bird researchers will have to explore for themselves.

"Yes, shall I go back and get it?"

"No need. Contact your companion and ask her to prepare it immediately. I'll go get it. It's still early, so we can get it done quickly and make it convenient for the couple to stay overnight."

This year, the peregrine falcon couple will not be able to have chicks, but I hope they can complete their reproduction mission next year.

By the time it was getting dark, the bird's nest was finally fixed.

This time with the help of forest rangers, they placed the artificial bird's nest in the recess of the rock wall, and put grass stems and other things from the half-destroyed nest into the new nest, hoping to attract the peregrine falcon couple to live in their new home.

However, a week later, the two observers confirmed that the male bird had left, but the female bird stayed and tried again and again for three or four days before finally settling down in the new nest. She no longer went looking for the monkeys every day for revenge.

But surprisingly, the falcon that was supposed to be passing by actually stayed and occupied an abandoned bird's nest on another cliff not far away. Every day, it would stroll around the female peregrine falcon's nest at a fixed time, and occasionally bring it a mouse or a bird as a gift.

"Oh my god, are these two falcons in love with each other?" The young female observer was so shocked that her voice broke.

(End of this chapter)