Snow Leopard Elegy

Chapter 12 Snow Leopard Elegy (12)
Fortunately, the Beidou female leopard is a conscientious and good mother, and she is extremely patient. She takes the snow demon to the Gamar Grassland to find prey time after time, and demonstrates various hunting moves for the snow demon over and over again.When the snow demon behaved stubbornly, even after many times of teaching, it still couldn't get rid of the problem of roaring and screaming to scare the prey when attacking. With a caring and caring motherly face, she gently hits the snow demon with her body, or puts a kiss on the snow demon's mouth, gently reminding the snow demon to keep silent at critical moments.Sometimes, the snow demon's chaotic head suddenly opens up. After finding the prey, it knows to lower its body to hide itself without reminding, and raises its beard to accurately test the direction of the downwind. Show praise and encouragement.

One morning, Qiangba and I went to the Gamar Grassland to collect a wild edible fungus called matsutake, and happened to see a mother and daughter leopards chasing and killing a wild donkey.It must be to let the snow demon accumulate more actual combat experience. The Beidou female leopard went around to the side of the wild donkey and served as the second echelon, letting the snow demon be the main attacker; The wild donkey howled in pain, lost its temper, jumped up and down, stood upright on its hind legs for a while, raised its buttocks and kicked its back for a while; The demon was hanging upside down on the donkey's neck. I don't know if it was because the claws were not sharp enough to be driven into the thick and tough skin like nails, or because the wild donkey was jolting so hard that its head was dizzy. The claws fell off from the base of the donkey's neck, and the buttocks and tail dragged on the ground.The wild donkey is still running wildly, which is very dangerous. If it continues to hang upside down, the rock will grind its butt, and the leopard's tail may be cut off by the sharp thorns; if unfortunately it falls off the donkey's neck, it will be even worse. It's tragic, if you just fall under the donkey's hoof, you will definitely be trampled by the donkey's hoof, which will break your ribs if it is mild, and your belly will be broken if it is severe.At this time, the Big Dipper female leopard, who was running with the wild donkey to prepare for it, rushed forward without hesitation and bit one of the wild donkey's hind legs.This is a dangerous game. The wild donkey has no horns on its head, and its teeth cannot be used as sharp weapons for killing. The only weapons to fight against the enemy are the four donkey hooves. The horny hooves are hard and heavy, like four hammers. , the wild donkey has a violent temper and great strength, kicking, kicking, slamming, stepping on, stepping on, and the tricks are breathtaking; therefore, when the snow leopard encounters a wild donkey, it will try to avoid the annoying hoof of the donkey as much as possible. No snow leopard has ever dared The one who bites the donkey's leg with his mouth open.Obviously, in order to avoid the Snow Demon being injured, the Big Dipper Mother Leopard has put her own safety aside.

The wild donkey had a snow leopard hanging from its neck, and another snow leopard was dragged by its hind legs. After stumbling a few steps, it was forced to stop.The situation is still favorable for the mother and daughter leopard. At this time, as long as the snow demon insists on hanging on the donkey's neck and does not let go, so that the wild donkey can't get kicked. It fell to the ground and turned into a pile of donkey meat waiting to be slaughtered.At this juncture, the snow demon saw the wild donkey stop, and thought it was a good chance for him to get out of the predicament, or maybe he was hanging upside down on the donkey's neck, his muscles and bones were numb and his limbs were weak, so he couldn't hang it anymore, so he let go of the leopard. With teeth and leopard claws, Gudong rolled down from the donkey's neck, rolled again, and lost contact with the wild donkey.The wild donkey was relieved of its heavy burden, and its breathing became smoother, so it concentrated its strength to deal with the Big Dipper female leopard behind it, hooked the donkey's face and bowed the donkey's waist, swished up the other hind leg, aimed at the Big Dipper female leopard's face and kicked it hard Go——If you kick the eyes, the female Big Dipper will become a blind leopard; if you kick the bridge of the nose, the female Big Dipper will become a flat-nosed leopard; Forehead, the Big Dipper female leopard becomes a concussion leopard.The Big Dipper Leopard had no choice, so she quickly let go of her mouth and turned her head to dodge, but it was still half a beat late. The hoof of the donkey like a meteor hammer brushed against the base of the Big Dipper Mother Leopard's ears, scratched the flesh, wiped off a large piece of leopard fur, and dripped blood .The wild donkey took the opportunity to spread its hoofs and ran wildly into the wilderness, and soon disappeared.The donkey meat that arrived flew away.

To be honest, the snow demon is all to blame. If it hadn't bitten the wild donkey's throat for a long time, if it hadn't rolled off the donkey's neck at a critical moment, the Big Dipper female leopard would never have been injured, and she would have enjoyed a free meal. A feast of donkey meat is more than enough to succeed than to fail!
Snow Demon himself felt that he had made a mistake, and timidly looked at the blood-stained wound on the base of the Big Dipper's ear, and huddled under a stone, as if he was afraid of being punished.Both Qiangba and I thought that the Big Dipper mother leopard would use her leopard claws and fangs to severely punish the snow demon, at least she would pout her face and let out a rough roar from the depths of her throat to complain to the snow demon.But our thinking was wrong, the Big Dipper female leopard got up from the ground, shook her injured ear, looked regretfully at the direction where the wild donkey was running, quickly looked away, walked to the snow demon, and softly called two He stretched out his tongue and licked the snow demon's back, and his kind and gentle movements clearly said: Don't mind, everyone in the hunting field will inevitably miss. Hunting and killing large herbivores is inherently difficult. It's normal, I just scratched the skin a little bit, you don't have to be so sad!
This kind of teaching attitude is more than enough to judge a special teacher.

The Big Dipper female leopard has to feed a litter of cubs that are still breastfeeding, and also take care of the snow demon who has no life experience. She is busy at both ends and worrying at both ends. Imagine, physically and mentally exhausted, living quite tired.In just over three months, its body has lost a lot of weight, and its ribs protrude one by one. It must be because of too much hard work. It has lost a lot of hair on its abdomen and cheeks, and its silver-white beard has also turned yellow. He looks a lot haggard.

In stark contrast, Snow Demon's thin body has become round and plump, the leopard's eyes are shining, its fur is shiny, and its whole body is full of youthful charm.As the saying goes, female leopards have eighteen transformations, and female leopards have eighteen transformations, and snow demons have become stronger and more beautiful.

There is a Tibetan proverb that as long as you water it with your heart and soul, the desert will also bloom with delicate and beautiful roses.Snow Demon is a snow leopard that has only been captured and raised by human beings. It missed the golden age of learning, and some of its natures were also distorted.After more than three months, it has learned to approach its prey quietly and silently, learned to select the old, weak, sick and disabled as its targets from many prey, learned to bite the neck of the prey to suffocate the prey quickly and lose the ability to resist, and other basic hunting subjects. .Although it progresses very slowly, like a snail crawling, it is always progressing and maturing day by day.

At noon that day, Qiangba and I passed through a peacock fir forest near the snow line, and happened to see a female Big Dipper leopard rushing down from the snow slope with a snow demon, catching a group of golden monkeys who came to the ground to eat pine nuts and berries.The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey is an arboreal animal. It climbs up trees and jumps as fast as flying, but when it comes down to the ground, it looks clumsy and can't walk fast or jump far.The mother and daughter leopards attacked from the side, and their intention was obviously to drive the group of golden monkeys from the edge of the forest to the open snow slope, so that it would be much easier to catch them.

The golden monkeys found that two snow leopards were rushing towards them, and they were frightened out of their wits. They wanted to run deep into the woods, but their escape route was blocked. It was like throwing themselves into a trap. Let’s flee to the snowy slope. ——Immediately climbed to the big tree next to me.Once the golden monkey climbed the tree, its safety was guaranteed, and no matter how powerful the snow leopard was, it could only be sighed by the monkey.

The golden monkeys are foraging at the edge of the forest. There are few trees on the edge of the forest. Within a few steps of jumping, there are only three or four tall and straight trees within reach. The rest are low shrubs and small trees with crooked necks.Snow leopards can climb trees. Although their skills are far inferior to those of clouded leopards and leopards, it is not a problem to climb these small trees with crooked necks.There are only three or four trees in the safe passage for dozens of golden monkeys.Every snub-nosed monkey wants to climb up the big tree one step ahead. One step ahead is equivalent to grabbing the hope of life, and one step behind is equivalent to falling into the arms of death.The group of monkeys was in chaos, jumping on the big tree and scrambling to climb up, fighting each other and huddled together.The young and strong male monkey kicked over and the weak female monkey stepped on the old monkey's head and swished up the tree first. The single female monkey grabbed the old monkey's tail and bit the young monkey who blocked the way. Jumping up the tree, the old monkeys and the young monkeys used the mother monkey with cubs as a springboard, stepped on their backs and fled up the tree screaming. The monkey was crushed and injured, and did not dare to fight recklessly like other monkeys. The burden on the body also affected the speed of escape, so it fell to the end.The Big Dipper female leopard was about to rush under the big tree, and there was also a red-haired female monkey with cubs stuck under the big tree.

In fact, when the golden monkeys found the mother and daughter leopards, they were still at least 200 meters away from each other. The time left for the golden monkeys to escape was not so hasty and tense as imagined. If everyone should not be crowded, line up in order and observe discipline. , with the golden monkey's vigorous posture and superb tree-climbing skills, all golden monkeys, big and small, can escape to the treetops calmly.But at the moment of life and death, they all panicked and messed up, and the selfish nature of life was fully exposed.

Of course, the Big Dipper female leopard was unwilling to miss this hunting opportunity, and rushed towards the red-haired female monkey like a whirlwind.The red-haired female monkey was anxious, hugging the tree trunk and desperately trying to climb up. Just about three meters up, the Big Dipper female leopard had already arrived under the tree, leaping up like a high jump competition, and her body soared into the air, jumping three meters High, the right front paw accurately grasps the hind leg of the red-haired female monkey.Maybe it's because of jumping up and grabbing to disperse the strength, maybe it's because the red-haired female monkey has a strong will to survive and won't let go of her claws even if she dies. The red-haired female monkey grabbed it and slipped a section of the tree trunk. It was originally three meters above the ground, but now it is only two meters above the ground.The red-haired female monkey's hind legs were ripped apart and the pain was unbearable. Although she still struggled to climb up, her injured hind legs could not use her strength, and she climbed more clumsily than a bear.After the Big Dipper female leopard landed on the ground, she took a few steps back, preparing for the next round of leaps.

The red-haired female monkey probably knew that she was unable to climb the treetop in a short moment, so she tore the baby monkey off her body and put it on the tree trunk. The only thought was to save the baby monkey from this catastrophe.The baby monkey is still too young, and it is not a problem to grasp the hair of the female monkey with its immature claws, but it seems powerless to grasp the trunk of the big tree.The red-haired female monkey supported the baby monkey's buttocks with her claws and sent it up the tree, while baring her teeth and screaming sharply towards the treetops.

I moved the binoculars to the canopy of this big tree, oh, all the other monkeys have escaped without a trace, only a big male monkey with gray-brown fur and broad shoulders is still on the top of the tree, writhing nervously among the branches .I suspect that this broad-shouldered male monkey is the mate of the red-haired female monkey, and is likely to be the biological father of the young monkey struggling hard in the middle of the tree.Because as far as I know, for primates other than humans, only direct blood relatives will rescue each other when disaster strikes.Hearing the call of the red-haired female monkey, the broad-shouldered male monkey quickly jumped from the top of the tree to the lowest branch of the canopy, hooked his hind limbs on the branch, hung his body upside down, lowered his arms, hugged the baby monkey, and swayed like a swing With a shake of the body, he flipped over to the canopy of the tree.All this was completed in a very short moment, almost at the same time, the Big Dipper female leopard had run up to the big tree again and jumped up. This time, the two leopard paws landed heavily on the back of the red-haired female monkey.I saw clearly through the binoculars that when the red-haired female monkey was pulled from the tree trunk, the fear in her monkey eyes disappeared, and she gazed lovingly at the rescued baby monkey who climbed up to the top of the tree, with a gratified expression on her face .

The Big Dipper female leopard and the red-haired female monkey fell to the ground at the same time from a three-meter-high tree trunk. I don’t know if the red-haired female monkey resisted to the death and refused to be caught without a fight, or the Big Dipper female leopard deliberately gave Snow Demon a chance to exercise. After landing, the red-haired female monkey The female monkey suddenly broke free from the paws of the Big Dipper mother leopard, and it was impossible to climb the tree again. The way to escape to the depths of the forest was also blocked, and the only way to escape was towards the bare snow slope.At this time, the panting Snow Demon had also chased to the edge of the woods, roared and rushed towards the red-haired female monkey.The golden monkey is weak when walking on the ground, and it is even worse when walking in the snow, not to mention that the red-haired female monkey was injured on one hind leg, dripping with blood, limping, of course it is impossible to escape in the snowy mountains Dominate the chase of the snow leopard.In the blink of an eye, the snow demon caught up to the red-haired female monkey, jumped on it, tore it up and bit it recklessly, one bite just happened to be on the skull, and the poor red-haired female monkey lost a wisp of fragrance with the wind.

The Snow Demon pressed the red-haired female monkey who had died of anger, raised her head and let out several mighty roars towards the blue sky, looking very proud.In the other side, the Big Dipper female leopard also applauded for the Snow Demon, her eyebrows stretched and her beard raised, expressing the joy from the heart.Although it was the Big Dipper female leopard who pulled the red-haired female monkey off the tree trunk, although the red-haired female monkey lost her ability to resist due to leg injuries, and although the golden snub-nosed monkey left the forest and entered the flat snow slope like a turtle in a urn, no matter what, it was the snow demon who finally After overtaking and throwing down the red-haired female monkey, he completed the hunt independently.

This is the first time that the snow demon has captured prey in the wild with its own power, and has achieved a zero breakthrough. Once there is the first time, there will be the second, third or even countless times.This is an important milestone in its life and growth history, an important turning point for a cat raised by humans to become a wild snow leopard, and an important sign of maturity from childishness.Qiangba and I are also sincerely happy for Snow Demon's progress.

Although there is still a long way for the snow demon to become a real wild snow leopard, compared with those snow leopards of the same age who grew up in the wild, both hunting skills and life experience still need to be further improved, and there are still some deficiencies in the character that need to be repaired polished.But Qiangba and I agree that with a good mother like the Beidou female leopard, in three or four months, the snow demon will definitely be reborn, from appearance to temperament, from hunting skills to life attitude, and become a wild animal in the true sense. snow leopard.

With sincerity, gold and stone are the same. As long as you work hard, iron rods can be ground into needles, and rotten wood can also be carved into beautiful handicrafts.

I hope there will be no accidents during this time, so that the Snow Demon can complete its studies smoothly.

seven siblings

Jealousy made Snow Demon go crazy and brutally murdered his younger siblings.

Xue Yao longed for more maternal love, but the mother Beidou had to allocate time and energy to raise another litter of cubs, Xue Yao felt deeply pained by this.

Unexpectedly, the Beidou female leopard, who has always been gentle and kind, would be furious and bite the snow demon with her mouth open.

The thing is like this, this morning, as usual, the Big Dipper female leopard came to the crescent-shaped cave in the rose-red morning light, and the mother and daughter searched for prey all over the mountains and plains.Near noon, I finally found a group of wild yaks in a field of wild rhododendrons on the west slope of Gaoligong Mountain.After a desperate struggle, the mother and daughter worked together to kill a half-year-old yak calf.During the fight, Snow Demon's actions were a little too reckless, and for some reason, he was hit on the forehead by a bull's horn.The horns of the half-year-old yak calf are not too sharp, and the strength is not too strong, and it was bumped inadvertently when the bull's head was swinging, so the impact was not severe, but there was a two-inch-long blood mark in the center of the forehead. A bunch of leopard fur was shaved off like a razor, and a few drops of blood leaked out.In fact, at the time of being scratched by the horn, Snow Demon fought nervously and didn't notice the pain. While eating the beef feast, she was immersed in the joy of victory and didn't realize that she was injured. After calming down, I felt a dull pain on my forehead and a whine from my throat.The Big Dipper female leopard hurried over, crouched down, and performed traditional feline medical methods, carefully smearing saliva on the snow demon's wound with the tip of her tongue.Snow Demon nestled in the arms of the Big Dipper mother leopard, with her eyes closed, she looked weak and weak, enjoying the deep maternal love and family affection.

After about a few minutes, the Big Dipper female leopard suddenly stopped licking and raised her head, squinting her eyes and looking up at the sun at the top, as if remembering something, she struggled to get up.Xue Yao didn't want her mother's warmth to be interrupted, so she hugged the Big Dipper's waist with her two front paws, and acted coquettishly to prevent the Big Dipper from getting up.The female Big Dipper's nose was wrinkled like a bitter melon, with an anxious expression on her face.

Of course I know the reason for the mood change of the Big Dipper mother leopard. It is already twelve o'clock at noon, and the biological clock in her body is reminding her that it is time to go back to the nest to nurse the cubs.It had been away from home for at least three hours, and it left a litter of nursing cubs in a cold cave. After a long time, it was really worried, worried that the cubs would be hungry, worried that the cubs would be frozen, Also worry that the little guy will be hurt by poisonous snakes and beasts.

The Beidou mother leopard lowered her head and licked the snow demon's paws, which meant to say: Mom is sorry for you, mom is really leaving, mom is running out of time, good boy, good boy, loose your paws, mom will come to accompany you tomorrow morning!

Not only did the snow demon not let go of its claws, but the hook hugged it even tighter, and hung on the Big Dipper mother leopard with all its strength, making a gurgling sound in its throat, obviously scolding: No, I won’t let you go, I want you stay here with me!

(End of this chapter)