97. Heavy snow in winter
It's a pity that the feeling is fleeting, and the tiger mother only feels dangerous, and nothing else can be said.
Of course, with the wisdom and thinking ability of the tiger mother now, she can't think of a reason.
The female tiger walked into the snow, looked at the first snow of the year, and shouted to the tiger cubs nested in the burrow.
"Roar?" Don't the cubs come out to play?
In the memories of the tigresses, the tiger cubs loved to play in the snow, not to mention that this was the first time the two cubs had seen snow.
It's strange, why are you still nesting in it when you wake up, this really doesn't look like the style of a little tiger.
It clearly remembers that when it first saw the snow, it was excited to roll in the snow all day, and then it was a little cold and couldn't stand it before returning to its mother to keep warm.
When the tiger mother heard her sister's low roar, she also thought of the scene where the sisters played in the snow when they were children, and looked back at the cubs.
"Roar." Go play.
That bad feeling has disappeared for so long and nothing has happened, Tiger Mother thought, it should be fine.
The courage was detained and wanted to go out for a long time, and this permission was immediately rushed out.
Lin Qian didn't go out to play, and still accompanied the tiger mother.
The little tiger raised his head and rubbed the tiger mother's head.
"Whew." Mom, don't worry.
Although I don't know where the hunch of the tiger mother comes from, but the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, as long as they are a tiger together, if there is danger, they will solve it, and if they can't solve it, they will run, there is always a way.
The tigress saw the courage to run over, and grabbed a ball of snow in her paws.
In the morning sun, the snowball snapped apart, and the debris burst into the sunlight, like a crystal diamond.
However, the tigers would not appreciate this subtle beauty, and the courage to be hit by the snowball screamed.
Then excitedly lifted the snow on the ground with his paws and pounced on the female tiger.
The tigress stood on the ground, flicking her big tail, coping with courageous counterattacks with ease and ease.
Roar, can't pounce!
Little cub, don't even think about playing with me, these are all leftovers of this tiger's play.
The excitement of courage to play is incomparable, there is a female tiger to play with it, either throwing snowballs or scattering snow is very rich, and the little guy who plays on it does not notice that his brother has not come to play.
In the cry of courage and joy, the sun gradually warmed up, and the snow became pure white under the sunlight, as if with a faint light, which was much more beautiful than when there was no sunlight.
The tigress squinted her eyes and dodged the snowball lightly, in a happy mood.
The cub's energy is strong, and he is not tired after playing for so long.
What a cute little guy.
Alas, it's a pity that this queen can't be a mother for the time being.
Yes, the last honeymoon did not allow the female tiger to conceive.
This matter, it must be Lai Hu's father.
The tigress looked at the snowflakes and thought that she would call her mate back in a few days.
The longer she spent with Lin Qian's mother and son, the stronger the female tiger's desire to be a mother became.
It's not just a choice for the creature to reproduce, it's also that it really likes cubs, so it was moved when he saw the cubs for the first time.
Gradually, the sun rose in mid-air, and the female tiger glanced at the sky and shouted to the tiger mother.
The tiger mother opened her eyes, raised her head, and replied.
Seeing this, the female tiger restrained the courage to pounce on her paws, and then stretched out her big tongue to lick off the ice that had congealed on the cub's hair.
It's fun to play in the snow, but it's not easy to deal with the snow on the hair.
Resisted without courage, and obediently let the female tiger clean her hair.
Now that the female tiger is very close to the mother and son, these intimate actions can also be done. The main thing is that the tiger mother is intellectually civilized, so she doesn't mind her sister being close to her cubs.
It is also with the permission of the tiger mother that the female tiger dares to play with the little tiger unscrupulously.
When the ice slag on Courage's body was disposed of, the tiger mother roared. "Roar." Let's go.
When Lin Qian heard that he was going out, he immediately ran out energetically.
Courage and the female tiger you played back and forth for a long time, and I was still a little angry when I was held down. Now when I heard that I was going out, I immediately happily kept up with my brother's pace.
The fast little tiger chased after him, Lin Qian looked at his younger brother's speed and was a little envious, if he had this speed, he would definitely be able to attack the adult red deer!
Courage has also tried to attack the adult red deer, the speed is to keep up, but the strength is still not enough, every time you pounce on it, you are instantly thrown off by the deer.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
After all, courage is a pure little tiger, without Lin Qian's twists and turns.
Even if Lin Qian taught it on the side, it was useless, he even taught Brother Pingtou's stunts......
It's a pity that courage is not enough! I can't even touch someone's deer buttocks.
Adult herbivores who can live to this age must have sufficient survival experience, don't look at the fact that people don't have fangs and other attack methods, but there are many skills to save their lives.
It is difficult for a half-sized tiger cub to hunt an adult red deer unless you are lucky enough.
Courage is not discouraged by this, every time I see an adult red deer, I still chase it happily and run to take off.
If it weren't for his lack of physical strength and stamina, this little guy would have chased the red deer until he ran out.
Outside, the only sound of tigers walking on the snow was in the silent forest, and the snow-capped forest was silent, as if all the animals had disappeared overnight.
Lin Qian looked at the plum blossoms left by the tiger's paw and thought of the picture in the classroom when he was a child.
The palm of the palm tiptoed hard, leaving a deeper plum blossom print. The little tiger was in a happy mood and a little ashamed.
Courage looked sideways at his inexplicably happy brother and was a little puzzled.
It didn't know that there was a saying that "a man is a teenager until he dies." "Otherwise, it will definitely complain, my brother is childhood!
The sound of "squeaking" snow made Lin Qian divert his thoughts, and he thought of a question.
As soon as this heavy snow falls, it will definitely affect the hunt for his own tiger.
Originally, they could take advantage of various silencing advantages in the forest to quietly get close to their prey and carry out surprise killings.
But now that everything is depressed, there is no lush vegetation to hide its shape, and even the sound of lurking footsteps can hardly be hidden.
Wouldn't it be easy to spot if you encounter prey?
Lin Qian was right, Siberian tigers are indeed difficult to hunt in winter, so it is said that winter is the most difficult season for Siberian tigers.
Not to mention that it is not easy to find prey, even the advantage of hunting has been weakened by most.
Therefore, the Siberian tiger will try to make itself full in summer and autumn, raise a fat body, and wait for the winter.
Of course, everything is not absolute, and there are two sides to it.
Thick snow does prevent animals from walking and getting food from the ground, but it also acts as a good thermal barrier to protect the plants, insects and soils that are buried under the snow from wintering.
Zoologists in the former Soviet Union roughly divided animals into snow-loving animals and snow-loving animals.
Snow-loving animals live under the snow, such as voles, lemmings, prairie rabbit-tailed rats and other rodents, they have tunnels extending in all directions on the ground under the snow, nests under the snow, and feeding under the snow, and their lives are not hindered.
And many of the plants under the snow can stay alive,
They even grow green foliage, and these plants provide an abundant source of food for herbivores.
Therefore, snow-loving animals do not hate winter, but have a higher survival rate in snowy winters.
And the snow animals live on the snow. Hares, squirrels, mus mus mouses, and all hoofed and carnivores live on the snow, and they run in the snow by increasing the support area for their four-legged landing.
Large carnivores such as Siberian tigers generally don't like winter, but deep snow doesn't all have a detrimental effect on them, as their staple food hoofed animals are in a worse position.
Cats like Siberian tigers and leopards have thick, wide palms that allow them to move much more easily on snow, and although they can't walk on the ground, they won't get stuck in it.
Animals such as deer are miserable, their hooves are very small, and they naturally get stuck in the snow.
The thick snow hinders their movement, and it is difficult to run as quickly as they do in the future.
And in such an environment, if you encounter a Siberian tiger, the outcome can be imagined.
Therefore, in general, the Siberian tiger is not without advantages, as long as the prey is found, the success rate of hunting may be even higher.
Lin Qian had never touched on this knowledge, so the little tiger was looking for prey very seriously.
The tiger cub followed the two females as they looked around, looking around and looking around, trying to find the scent of their prey as usual.
But at this time, the forest is full of white snow and dark brown dead branches, and the scenery is almost exactly the same everywhere at a glance.
To say that Lin Qian could still enjoy the snow scene at the beginning, after coming out for a while, he saw the same scenery, he was really tired of seeing it.
Moreover, this snow also concealed all kinds of smells, even if he had a keen sense of smell, he did not find the slightest smell of his prey, and it was obviously very difficult to explore information with a strong nose in such a cold and snowy place.
Lin Qian was a little annoyed and anxious, how could he find prey in such a situation?
They don't have to starve all winter!
He had heard that Siberian tigers would wake up hibernating brown bears when they were hungry in winter, and then grind them to fill their stomachs.
Tsk, how hungry do you have to be to find a brown bear that has hibernated!
I have to say that Lin Qian is a little panicked now.
The little tiger looked up to his mother and wanted to ask his mother how to hunt in such a harsh environment.
But when he saw this, Lin Qian was stunned.
It's strange, why the tiger mother looks comfortable, and she walks without scruples, not at all like the previous caution.
Then I turned my head to look at the female tiger, and saw that the female tiger was also very wanton, and she didn't look like she was looking for prey at all!
"Ka!" The sound of a tree branch being touched suddenly sounded, interrupting Lin Qian's move to ask.
A pair of tiger eyes instantly looked in the direction where the sound came from.