Daily Forest Ranger: Start Saving Giant Pandas

Chapter 312 I Didn't Play With You

Lin Xuan smiled desolately.

Even though this happened centuries ago, he still felt distressed and regretful when he saw such a case.

Scholars who want to protect these natural spirits, no matter what era they are in, have the same mood.

Lin Xuan, a zoologist and botanist, can empathize with the heartache of being rejected by the ruling party for legislation, and the loss of trying artificial breeding but failing.

However, even though passenger pigeons were found to be less and less, the North American people at that time still did not stop the pace of not killing passenger pigeons, and put down the butcher knife to slaughter them.

In 1896, a flock of more than 25 passenger pigeons was hunted, making it the last large population of passenger pigeons known in human history.

After that, the passenger pigeon was very rare, and there was basically no record of its discovery in the wild.

The following year, the rulers finally legislated to ban the hunting of passenger pigeons within 10 years, but it was too late.

Lin Xuan let out a long sigh:
"Didn't I tell you just now that some ornithological experts tried to artificially breed passenger pigeons after discovering this situation?"

"One of the ornithologists gave a few passenger pigeons he rescued so hard to the local zoo, hoping to preserve this precious species through professional breeding.

If this is a fairy tale, then here it should be through artificial breeding, the passenger pigeon has been bred again, and it is no longer on the verge of extinction.

It's a pity that the real world is so cruel, and the last road was also shattered.

As of 1910, all the artificially bred passenger pigeons had died one after another, leaving only one passenger pigeon, which was called Martha.

Four years later, this lonely passenger pigeon stopped breathing forever in the pigeon loft of the zoo, and was made into a specimen that was not displayed publicly. So far, a bird that once dominated the earth and has a population of 4 billion, Just like that, it died completely. '

Lin Xuan's lips curved into a sarcastic smile.

Now I am eager to jump out and name the passenger pigeon I just discovered, so what's next?
Do you want to find an excuse and then ask Xia Guo to bring hundreds of them back to raise? This is really not Lin Xuan's imagination.

After all, for people like them, they can really do this kind of thing.

Really, some countries, you can never imagine how thick their skins are.

Not long after, some viewers posted a link in the live news:
[Everyone, take a look! The Xia Country Wildlife Conservation Association, the Endangered Animal Research Institute, and the Bird Conservation Association have issued a joint announcement! 】

Um?
Lin Xuan himself clicked in curiously and took a look. Before he finished reading, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

It was a temporary notice titled "Notice on the Discovery of Passenger Pigeons in the Qinling Mountains of Xia State".

The content is also very short, mainly as an official joint statement swearing to have absolute sovereignty over the wild animals existing in the land of Xia Kingdom, and a protection expedition team will be organized immediately to conduct protection investigations in the Qinling area.

This is actually not a big deal, what mainly made Lin Xuan laugh was one sentence in the announcement:

"Because the passenger pigeon has been extinct for more than a hundred years, based on the current image data, it is still impossible to determine whether this species is a North American passenger pigeon that once existed and became extinct, so it is tentatively named Qinling Passenger Pigeon." (
Laughing to death, isn't this clearly supporting him?
It is estimated that the viewer who just posted the link also saw this, so he deliberately posted it in the live broadcast room.

Sure enough, there was a short silence. After reading the announcement in that link, everyone burst out laughing:
【Hahahaha, the official reaction speed is too fast! I was shocked!】

【How about the Beijiang Passenger Pigeon? Ours is different! Ours is Qinling Passenger Pigeon, hahahahaha!】

[I can’t stop laughing, our official is too cute, isn’t it? I’m afraid that one Wildlife Conservation Association is not enough, and they even issued a joint statement, hahahaha!]

Although Lin Xuan laughed for a long time, but after laughing, he was very grateful for the country's quick response.

Although there was no explicit notice to him, or any promise to him, such a quick response was a proof.

Let him do it freely, the country is your eternal backing!
After a burst of laughter, the jumping clowns in the live broadcast room disappeared without a trace.

Lin Xuan walked towards the forest while chatting and laughing with everyone in the live broadcast room.

The group of passenger pigeons just flew out and haven't come back yet. There are many nests left by passenger pigeons on the trees in the forest.

It's just a pity that it's the end of summer now, and most of the young passenger pigeons hatched this year have already learned to fly, so most of the trees are empty nests.

But there are exceptions.

After walking a few steps into the forest, Lin Xuan heard a few very immature "cuckoo" calls.

Following the sound, I saw a half-sized passenger pigeon waddling on the ground, flapping its featherless wings from time to time, wanting to fly but unable to.

According to the current season, the cubs of the migratory birds should have grown all their fur and can fly. Why does this little passenger pigeon look like it is still moulting?

The distribution of females and males in the passenger pigeon population is not very even. Generally speaking, there are more females and fewer males. In other words, several passenger pigeon mothers may be allocated to one husband.

Some single pigeons cannot attract the opposite sex and train themselves, so the hatching time of the young pigeons is naturally late. Like this season, it is also possible that the fur has not been completely changed.

Lin Xuan walked over, the little passenger pigeon didn't look as vigilant as the adult passenger pigeon I saw before, not only didn't run away, but turned towards Lin Xuan's direction and greeted it .

Very nice.

Lin Xuan stretched out his hand, intending to take the little passenger pigeon into his palm and examine it carefully, to see if it accidentally fell off the tree and whether it was injured.

In the end, before Lin Xuan could close his palms, the familiar little guy jumped onto Lin Xuan's hand, and gently pecked the strap on his wrist, as if he wanted to see if it was edible .

Although this little passenger pigeon is in the ugliest period of its life, its breast hair has not yet faded, and its new feathers have not grown fully, but this cute little expression and small movements are cute enough to attract everyone.

Including Lin Xuan, An Keer and others.

Lin Xuan stretched out his fingers to tease the little passenger pigeon with an aunt's smile on his face.

It seemed to regard Lin Xuan's fingers as some kind of food, and kept pecking and nibbling gently with its bright yellow mouth.

But because he was still young, this kind of pecking and biting didn't have much strength, but made Huang Xing's fingers itchy.

Although he wanted to spend more time with this little guy, Lin Xuan was not sure when the group of passenger pigeons would come back. It would not be a good thing if the mother and father found out that the baby was hanging out with him.

So Lin Xuan looked up, climbed up the tree with great difficulty, and put the little passenger pigeon back into its nest on the tree.

Rubbing the moss all over his body, before he could pat the dirty things on his body, Lin Xuan could only hear a burst of cheerful gurgling.

He looked up subconsciously, and saw the little passenger pigeon that he had just sent back to its nest, flapping its wings happily, its short legs jumped, and unexpectedly hit him and flopped down again.

???

I'm not playing with you!
(End of this chapter)