Chapter 294: Hearing the Tiger's Roar in the Mountains
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Ye Quan has always been disdainful of the practice of killing wild animals if they want to kill them and protecting them if they want to protect them.
Taking wild boars as an example, after returning farmland to forests and closing mountains for afforestation, many areas have restored a good ecological environment, but because of the ban on guns and hunting and the absence of natural enemies such as tigers and leopards, wild boars have flooded in many places, destroying fields and even injuring people in an endless stream, and there have been several incidents of death.
At this point, in fact, there is no longer any protection, although human beings are not the only masters on the earth, they do not have to be wronged to the point where they can only be beaten and cannot fight back.
Just because the wild boar has the status of a "national second-class protected animal", all localities dare not do it, and finally some local governments want to hunt some wild boars, but the result is to attract many people to oppose, and there are also some "10,000 signatures to protect wild boars" opposition demonstrations, anyway, the losses and injuries will not be these signatures.
Ye Quan has no enmity with wild boars, let alone wants to eat wild boars, protect it, but the government departments can't come up with special funds to compensate farmers for various economic losses.
In fact, as long as there is no large-scale man-made killing and no destruction of natural resources, it is difficult for wild animals to become extinct.
According to historical records, the South China tiger was widely distributed in East China, Central China, South China, Southwest China and other regions, and the number should be more than 1o thousand.
Until the middle of the last century, the number of South China tigers remained above 4ooo, and if it were not for the frenzied hunting in the sixties and seventies, it would never have been endangered in such a short period of time.
Animals like wild boars, which are fecund, adaptable, and can survive as long as they have food, should have been re-examined and investigated, removed from the protection list, and replaced with other species that need more protection.
Ye Quan wants to protect animals and leave a better world for future generations, but he is not an animal protectionist, let alone a paranoid person with a "psychological cleanliness" in protecting nature.
In the final analysis, birth, old age, sickness and death, and the law of the jungle are the laws of nature. And humans are the most powerful meat eaters on the planet.
Yan Xuechuan stayed in the Nanyueling Nature Reserve all the year round, and had a lot of time to deal with the local mountain people, and he was also very open-minded, so he stopped Zhang Yu at the moment and said: "The number of wild boars in the Nanyueling Nature Reserve is at least six or seven thousand, and a certain number of wild boars are hunted every year, which is approved by the higher authorities." It's not illegal. ”
Many of the work of the Reserve Management Bureau requires the cooperation and support of the villagers, and it is not feasible to completely prohibit hunting, medicine collection and other activities according to the law, not to mention that before the establishment of the National Nature Reserve, there were hundreds of mountains in the reserve that belonged to the Taoyuan Village collective.
More than 100 pounds of wild boar. Excluding the internal organs, head, etc., there are only dozens of catties of meat, just enough for more than 20 people in the team to eat.
Pure wild boar is a bit rough and fishy, not carefully cooked, and not very delicious if it is grilled alone, but the team has been eating compressed biscuits for three days. The bird has long faded out of his mouth, and he is naturally happy to improve his food, even Zhang Yu, who was the first to object, couldn't stand the temptation of the smell of meat and ate a lot.
The first destination of the expedition team is Baizhang Cliff, where the nearby woodlands, basins, slopes, cliffs and other terrains are diverse, and the tigers' favorite food is rich in artiodactyls such as wild boar, yellow muntjac, wild sheep, sambar deer and Sumatra antelope, which provide great possibilities for the survival conditions of wild South China tigers.
It was still the first trace of Lao Hu of Shangshui Village to consider here, and he led everyone to follow a beast path to progress. Sure enough, I found several tiger footprints, which were plum-shaped, about 167 centimeters long, which was completely consistent with the footprints of the South China tiger.
The average cat does not have that large footprints, and the shape of a tiger's footprint is very different from that of a leopard.
This made everyone very excited, and the old man Ji Kun almost cried, he had also seen all kinds of tiger traces in several scientific expeditions in other regions before. But because no real tiger has ever been seen, there is no way to prove whether the South China tiger is really not extinct in the wild.
The footprints of Baizhang Cliff are not heavy, but when they are linked to the several tiger photos that Ye Quan took out, it can almost be concluded that there are really tigers in Nanyue Ridge!
Inspired by the footprints of the tiger. The crowd collected evidence and information related to tigers, such as tiger footprints, lying tracks, tiger hair, hanging claws, and food residues.
And the results did not disappoint everyone, and then someone showed the traces of the tiger's claws left on the tree and a pile of tiger droppings, both old and fresh.
It's a pity that there is a tiger trail, which does not mean that the tiger is in Baizhang Cliff!
Sure enough, the team stayed here for a day and a night, from a wide range of searches to the application of various instruments, but never found the South China tiger.
Ye Quan didn't have time to stay in the mountains with everyone for ten days and half a month to slowly find the tiger, he didn't care about anything, and he couldn't leave for too long, after discussing with Ji Kun and the others and obtaining their support, he took everyone straight to the tiger's hiding place according to the positioning of the Tianyan satellite.
On the night of April 1, the team camped on a huge rock on the north side of Hutou Mountain.
After nightfall, almost everyone is so tired that they lie down to rest, the long journey and the terrain is difficult to walk, and many places even have to use ropes to advance or climb, except for Ye Quan and Ye Ming Mountain, everyone else's body is basically exhausted.
Tonight, though, was destined for a sleepless night.
The camp chosen by Ye Quan was not far from the location of the South China Tiger, and at about eleven o'clock in the evening, a low tiger roar came from the west.
Everyone was sleeping soundly, and they were naturally unhappy after being woken up, and they didn't hear any tiger roars after almost half an hour, and a few people couldn't help but wonder if Ye Quan had heard it wrong.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were staring at him, Ye Quan had a hint of childlike heart, put his hands together at his mouth, and let out a tiger roar like a cloud-piercing stone!
Ye Quan doesn't imitate any ventriloquism, but he relies on the strong spirit of the dantian, and the tiger roar from his mouth shakes the four wilds, full of domineering, but it is also vivid.
In less than three breaths, there was a "whoosh" from not far away, which was the sound of a tiger roaring in response.
This sound for everyone, is undoubtedly the dream of the sound of heaven, more than 20 people in the team as if playing chicken blood, excited inexplicably, many people have experienced several times more than the difficult tiger search process, at this time mixed feelings, have shed tears, if not for the night is too dark, and in the complex terrain of the Hutou Mountain, everyone is afraid to immediately run over, a glimpse of the tiger's face!
Ji Kun and Yan Xuechuan ignored the third watch in the middle of the night, took out their satellite phones and reported the good news to the relevant departments.
A member of the team carefully identified the place where the tiger roar came from, and said: "The sound is coming from the west direction, and we installed a total of seven infrared cameras in that direction before evening, all of which are installed on the road where the tiger hunts, if it is not too unlucky, we should be able to capture the figure of the tiger." ”
After more than ten minutes, there was no sound over there, and everyone begged Ye Quan to imitate a tiger roar again, but Ye Quan refused with a smile, only saying that the real tiger would be visible tomorrow, and he was not in a hurry.
There were a few young people in the team who imitated Ye Quan's appearance, and they also imitated a few tiger roars, but I don't know if they didn't learn it well, or the sound momentum was insufficient, and the South China tiger didn't respond.
In the following time, everyone sat around and talked to each other with excitement about how to protect the last South China tiger; How to take advantage of this great opportunity to call on everyone's attention to the cause of natural ecology and animal protection.
Even if the body is tired, there is no sleepiness at this time, until two or three o'clock in the morning, sleepiness strikes again, and I seize the time to rest for a while.
The next day, everyone packed their belongings early, ate breakfast, and waited for dawn to rush to the approximate place where the tiger's roar had been heard last night.
As luck would have it, an infrared camera tied to the trunk of a tree captured the South China tiger at around 11:53 last night, although the time was only a little more than a second, and the figure was also very blurry, but the tiger's unique black and white stripes could still be recognized!
There are really tigers in Hutou Mountain!
The South China tiger is not extinct in the wild!