After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the tourists in Chujiazhai gradually warmed up, and many of them went to see the peach blossoms, but they didn't dare to go to the valley to see it, so they could only enjoy it in Chujiaqiang's backyard. There are too many bees in the valley, and people who don't have the guts don't dare to run over.

At this time, Ding Jianhui and other biological researchers also came to Chujiazhai one after another to prepare for the first expedition of faith into the mountain. As soon as they arrived, they ran to the reservoir to see the crested ibises and other rare birds.

"Why are there so many?" Ding Jianhui looked ecstatic, and now, there are more than 300 crested ibises here. These are wild living treasures! It's not the base in the north that cultivated domesticated animals.

"That's strange, our expedition team has entered the mountains so many times, but they haven't found any footprints of crested ibises, why did they run out so much? Is it all in the heart that we haven't touched yet? Professor Wen also spoke.

"It should be, it looks like they all came out of Yunkai Mountain." Fu Shenglin was also very happy. This New Year did give them a big surprise, this kind of natural darling still has so many survivals.

After looking at the situation here, I returned to Chu Jiaqiang's old house to taste those thousand-year-old teas, and found that the two geese were still in Chu Jiaqiang's house. Fu Shenglin said with a smile: "What? Are these two guys really reluctant to go? ”

Chu Jiaqiang smiled and nodded, "Hmm! I took them back a few times, and they all ran back, and the second aunt saw that they were shrinking at the door at night, so she opened the door to let them in the patio. ”

And at this moment, there was an exclamation outside. Chu Jiaqiang and the others walked out of the house to see something. I saw a snow sculpture catch a baby elephant. Still flying in the sky.

Ding Jianhui and the others' faces changed greatly, and they hurriedly asked Chu Jiaqiang to call the snow sculpture down. In China. There are only Asian elephants, and there are only clouds near Southeast Asia. There are also two or three hundred in the south, which are also first-class protected animals in China.

They thought to themselves that the snow sculpture guy was not going to fly to the clouds. You caught it over there, right? Thinking of this, their scalps tingled for a while, and the ability of this snow sculpture to fly was too strong.

The Asian elephant is the largest animal in Asia, and it has a finger-like protrusion at the end of its nose, due to which it has a large number of nerve cells. Thus making the elephant trunk as flexible as a human finger. Male Asian elephants have tusks, while females are not too prominent even if they have tusks. A certain percentage of males do not have tusks, a proportion that may be related to the hunting pressure they have experienced in the past.

This elephant is easy for biologists like Professor Wen to recognize. The features are also noticeable, with smaller, rounder ears and 5 toes on the front foot and 4 toes on the hind foot. There are 19 pairs of ribs one less than the African elephant, and the skull has two protrusions with an arched dorsal back. It has a gentle temperament and is relatively easy to tame.

In the wild, tigers, leopards, and humans are the main enemies of Asian elephants. Asian elephant herds range from a few to dozens of elephants, with the strongest male as the leader. They do not have a fixed habitat. It is also widely distributed.

According to Professor Wen and others, the Asian elephant lives in humid tropical and subtropical forests and grasslands, but it often walks through dense forests. Asian elephants eat a lot of food, eating about 300 kg of fresh feed every day, so elephants often move in groups. to obtain a food source. In order to survive, the elephant herd has to travel 18 to 20 hours a day. Sleep only 2 hours to 4 hours. Asian elephants prefer sparsely populated, warm and humid forests and swampy areas, and are not adapted to drastic changes in the ecological environment.

When the snow sculpture put down the baby elephant, Professor Wen and others immediately surrounded it. I saw that this young elephant was the size of a calf, and seemed to be curious and timid, and when it saw everyone surrounding it, it retreated again and again. It may be that being tossed by snow sculptures like this has scared a lot.

"Don't surround it yet, this baby elephant is already injured, Lao Fu you go up and heal it first." Ding Jianhui commanded. The wound on the back of the baby elephant was made by the snow sculpture, but fortunately, it did not hurt the muscles and bones, but only some skin injuries.

Fu Shenglin first used his own means to appease the young elephant with a very frightened expression, and then bandaged the young elephant. Chu Jiaqiang also helped, otherwise the young elephant would not have settled down so quickly.

This time, the baby elephant knew that these people would not harm it, so it was not afraid of others approaching. Professor Wen and the others stepped forward to look at it for a long time, frowning one by one.

Chu Jiaqiang thought that they were frowning at the wounds of the young elephants, and complained about the snow sculpture in his heart, and immediately excused the snow sculpture: "You can't blame the snow sculpture, natural selection!" ”

"See what?" Professor Wen asked the others. Everyone didn't follow Chu Jiaqiang's words.

Ding Jianhui and others had shock, disbelief, doubt, uncertainty, and anticipation on their faces. Ding Jianhui glanced at the others and said affirmatively: "This is definitely not the Asian elephant we saw, but another species." After saying this, his tone became uncertain and excited: "I suspect that it is an extinct Chinese elephant in our country." ”

In fact, other people were also suspicious, but they just didn't dare to say it, and when they heard Ding Jianhui say this, they gave a sigh of relief, and then became excited.

"I think so, oh my God! This species is not extinct yet, and it is actually hidden in the Yunkai Mountain. Someone exclaimed.

"Chinese elephants?" Chu Jiaqiang didn't know much about these things.

Professor Wen explained to him that, to be precise, the Chinese elephant is the unique elephant in our country, the most authentic elephant herd, the cloud. Those in the south are all from border countries. However, the Chinese elephant has been proven to be extinct for a long time, and everyone can only find some tusks from the ancient tombs and dig up some fossils from the ground.

At this time, Professor Wen smiled and said to Chu Jiaqiang: "We didn't blame the snow sculpture, but hoped that it would catch a few more animals that had been verified extinct to come out and take a look." ”

Chu Jiaqiang breathed a sigh of relief, but he was also curious, he didn't expect that there was this species in Yunkai Mountain.

"It seems that this time we have to set up a special investigation team to conduct a thorough investigation of the Chinese elephants." An expert spoke.

Ding Jianhui nodded, and shook his head again: "One is not enough, our inspection team is still too small." Then inform the headquarters in the capital and send another team down to increase the funds for this inspection activity. At the same time, the protection of Yunkai Mountain is not enough, so let the legislative department improve the animal protection law as soon as possible and strengthen the law enforcement of Yunkai Mountain. ”

Hearing Ding Jianhui's words, everyone knows that this time Yunkai Mountain has become the fragrance of so many protected areas in China, and for a long time, domestic biological investigation and protection forces will be concentrated here.

"By the way, let's make a plan as soon as possible, and then let the snow sculpture lead the way and go to find the Chinese elephant, it should be a little simpler." Ding Jianhui finally suggested.

Of course, simplicity here is also relative. You must know that the snow sculpture is flying in the air, and no matter how dangerous it is, it will not affect it, and human beings are different.

"It's better to have two helicopters over there, so that you can chase the snow sculpture to the front to find out the situation." Someone suggested. But this is more difficult to implement, the helicopter is not difficult to transfer, and the main flight is not able to dock. And as a result, the cost has also increased a lot.