Chapter 279 The Red Pandas are Fighting
The hospital's wild boar, coming from the forest to the city, was probably searching for breeding opportunities!
Once in the city, unfamiliar with the environment and hiding at the sight of people, it might have gotten lost while hiding.
After Lin Ying's examination, it was confirmed to be a sow.
Upon hearing this news, Fang Ye immediately became delighted!
With wild boar, an animal prone to human-animal conflicts, thorough investigations must be done before any release into the wild. Continue your journey on empire
But laying down infrared cameras and gathering enough data isn't a matter of one or two days.
Now isn't this perfect, with Milk Tea the wild boar, they could just breed in the zoo.
Once brought back, she was placed in a separate enclosure, and if she wasn't injured, she could have been put together with Milk Tea the wild boar directly.
During a visit to the hospital boar, it had just woken up from anesthesia, still a bit groggy, staggering as it walked.
Huddled in the corner of the enclosure, it seemed somewhat panicked, wondering how it suddenly fainted and ended up there.
Fang Ye threw a corn cob into the enclosure and said with a chuckle, "Piggy, don't be scared!"
The hospital boar sneakily glanced at Fang Ye and Lin Ying outside the enclosure with the corner of its eye. Although a bit scared, it stayed motionless, trying to appear calm.
It produced a very loud purring noise! It didn't go near the thrown corn cob.
Sensing its nervousness, Fang Ye and Lin Ying moved to a more concealed side of the enclosure and quietly observed the hospital boar's behavior through a spying hole.
Seeing the humans disappear, the hospital boar relaxed a bit, appearing more at ease, not as stiff as before, and its tail started wagging slightly.
It walked up to the corn cob, sniffed it with a grunt, stepping on the corn leaves, looking like it really wanted to eat, but shook its head in pain whenever its nose touched it. After much effort, it finally opened its mouth, but still couldn't hold onto the corn.
Lin Ying softly voiced her opinion, "The nose appears to be badly injured! Seems like it happened when the security tried to catch her, and during the struggle to escape, its nose hit a rail or a chair."
Stroking his chin thoughtfully, Fang Ye murmured, "No wonder the purring noise is so loud."
Lin Ying was a bit worried, "What if it can't eat anything?"
"Then let's feed it some corn porridge for the next few days? Put the medicine in the porridge."
Milk Tea the wild boar is living quite comfortably now!
Eating and drinking every day, and sleeping after finishing her food.
Although the staff couldn't enter the enclosure to clean up, it remained quite clean, as Milk Tea the wild boar always chose a fixed corner for defecation, accumulating feces in that small patch.
For wild boars, soil is of utmost importance, the health of the soil determines the health of the wild boar.
Thus, Milk Tea naturally chose a corner for defecation, which was an inherent survival wisdom, not needing anyone's teaching.
The bedding of fallen leaves and dry grass thrown in was also spread out in the enclosure by her, and the area where she slept had the thickest and driest bedding.
When she saw someone coming, she defensively tucked her head behind a tree stump, lowering her body and taking on a covert observation stance, sneakily peering out at them with her beady eyes.
"Hehe."
Having observed her and seeing she was in good spirits, Fang Ye left.
He thought to himself that since they planned to let the two boars pair up in the zoo and breed long-term, it was good to give them names.
Milk Tea the wild boar shall be Black Whirlwind, and the hospital boar, Maymay!
Black Whirlwind, of course, takes after Li Kui's nickname from "Water Margin," being dark and charging around. Maymay, however, is a pun on "unklucky," as its nose is so injured it can't eat, which is quite unlucky.
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Red panda exhibit!
The afternoon is a perfect time for sunbathing.
Now entering autumn, the sun in Linhai is comfortably warm.
Unlike the oppressive heat of summer when they had to be given cool ice blocks to prevent them from melting away in the sun.
Chestnut lay lazily on a slanted perch, basking in the sunshine, feeling so warm and cozy that it was unbearable!
At that moment, Shuaishuai climbed up from underneath the perch, planning to take the aerial walkway to sunbathe on a tree across the way.
Seeing Chestnut on the perch sunbathing, he hesitated briefly before stopping.
Should he ask Chestnut to make way, or turn back and run to the bottom of that tree before climbing up again?
Clearly, passing here would be a bit shorter!
So Shuaishuai reached out a paw and gently pushed Chestnut.
"Hey, make some room!"
Chestnut got up, saw it was Shuaishuai, and lay back down to continue sunbathing, too lazy to move.
Had it been another red panda, he might have made way, but not for Shuaishuai, whom he found annoying at the best of times.
Ordinarily, red pandas are solitary creatures in the wild, not social animals, but they are kept together because they are relatively mild-mannered. Still, there were minor conflicts between them.
Shuaishuai also happened to be the only other male, which made him even less likable.
So it goes: opposites attract, like repels like!
Shuaishuai pushed Chestnut again with his paw, but not only did Chestnut not move aside, he even opened his mouth and roared at Shuaishuai.
It was as if saying, "Scram, get lost!"
This instantly infuriated Shuaishuai!
He too opened his mouth, letting out a threatening sound.
Chestnut stopped sunbathing and faced off with Shuaishuai on the bridge-like perch, both of them looking fierce at each other!
While red pandas normally appear adorably cute, soft, and cuddly, when they get angry, their mouths open wide to reveal sharp teeth, and their eyes stare and brows furrow... yet they still manage to look pretty cute.
In a word, they look fiercely adorable!
Visitors outside noticed the commotion and turned their attention here.
"Hey, what's going on with those two red pandas, are they about to fight?"
"Red pandas, such gentle creatures, they fight too?"
Shuaishuai, being on the lower ground, was slightly crouched. His back arched, ready to pounce!
Seeing Chestnut raise his paw as if to strike, Shuaishuai suddenly pushed off with his front paw, uncurling his body in a flash, and swiped at Chestnut's cheek first.
Chestnut quickly ducked his head to dodge, and the swipe landed on the thick fur covering his head, setting his red fur waving like ripples.
Looking up, he quickly swiped back, hitting Shuaishuai on the top of his head as well.
Shuaishuai, apparently feeling the disadvantage of being lower down, turned his plump body and ran off, dragging his fluffy thick tail behind him, which Chestnut quickly caught up to and bit.
However, the thick fur on the tail slipped right out of his mouth with a whoosh.
The two plump red pandas took their chase onto the grass, taking bounding leaps with their short legs, their red bodies bouncing along.
After rounding a rock, Shuaishuai stopped to look back and saw Chestnut catching up. The two red pandas stood up simultaneously and started flailing their short legs, throwing chaotic punches at each other, while grunting and emitting hoarse, intense pig-like noises as they fought!
The cry of the red panda was indistinguishable from a pig's oink!
Besides the "grunts," there was also a sharper "squeak."