Seeking wildlife stories

A house is about to be demolished, and the owner of the house discovers a lizard with a nail through it in a half-demolished wall. The owner remembers that he put the nail into the wall 20 years ago to hang his wedding photo, but he never thought that it would stay in the wall. But the most surprising thing was that the lizard was slowly moving, and it was still alive.

The owner was amazed. He sat down carefully and watched to see why the lizard could be nailed to the wall for 20 years. After a few days of observation, the owner discovered the secret: it turned out that the lizard's companion kept finding food from all over the place to feed it, and it fed it for twenty years!

After the lizard was nailed to the wall, it could be said that the lizard had already decided that it would be "useless" in its life, and that it could neither "get promoted" nor "get rich". But those companions are still unhesitatingly to take care of it for twenty years, change is human, how many people can do?

2 python "visiting relatives"

Last year, "August 1" eve, the resident village crowd condolences ten company officers and soldiers, carried a more than 10 kilograms of heavy, seriously injured python. Tan instructor did not move, accepted this "gift". Several veteran soldiers "stupid": "as a soldier for two or three years, never tasted the 'animal kingdom' of wild food, home will be laughed at. Since people have the intention to send, why not let everyone taste it?" Instructor Tan saw what the soldiers were thinking and educated them, saying, "The python is a state-protected animal, no one can touch it." He then ordered the hygienist to adjust the medicine and carefully treated the wound of the python. After the festival, all the wounds of the python were healed. Tan instructor then called two soldiers, the python will be released back to the outside of the camp in the shrubbery.

A week later, a strange thing happened in the company. A group of ducks, which breeder Zhang Yong had worked so hard to feed, disappeared more than ten in two nights. The company's chickens and ducks are penned together, ducks in the bottom, chickens in the upper, chicken but unharmed, Zhang is puzzled, that night, Zhang will be guarded next to the poultry circle, ready to explore the truth. Around zero hour, there was a ringing near the chicken coop, and the ducks began to stir. Xiao Zhang opened the flashlight, a stake like thing is heavy wobbling head, chucked the ducks scurrying all over the place. To be closer to see when, Xiao Zhang stunned, turned out to be not long ago released the python.

"What an ungrateful beast, do not give you some color, you do not know what is good and bad." Xiao Zhang, while indignant, while taking off his camouflage clothing, wrapped into a ball set on a wooden stick, carefully stuffed into the mouth of the python, and then called a few warriors, seven hands and eight feet to the python back into the iron cage.

The next day, Zhang reported to the instructor. Everyone was very angry, all said to keep it is a scourge, it is better to cook it. Tan instructor said seriously: "We all know the wildlife protection law, not because of the bite of a dozen ducks and do not do a confused thing." Then people will be this "ungrateful" python carried to more than 10 kilometers away into the primitive forest.

3 "fire" retreat Asian elephants

Ten companies stationed in the village and Yunnan Province less than 4 kilometers, where the dense jungle, cool climate, remote location. "Into the mountain goat intestines, daily newspaper into a monthly newspaper; beasts run around, just can not eat", this ten company officers and soldiers orally circulated limerick, is their daily life is a true depiction of. There is a Yao ethnic minority cottage in the company's compound. In 1999, the 10th Company formed a helping pair with the cottage and led them to the road to prosperity. In particular, the company helped the villagers to introduce good corn varieties suitable for the local soil, climate, so that the corn yield from the original 300 pounds at once doubled. In recent years, the extensive planting of corn has become another income-generating project in the village.

The day there is an unpredictable storm clouds. I don't know where to come from a wild elephant aimed at this piece of "wind and water". In a few nights, dozens of acres of corn field as the autumn wind sweeping leaves, was trampled in a mess. The farmers were furious, but could do nothing about it. Finally, the village chief Erzhan Sang sent someone down the mountain to find two special big game hunting primitive equipment, ready to catch at night. Er Zhansang also came to the 10th company and asked the company to send a few strong soldiers. Liu Company Commander was surprised and asked him what he was doing. Er Zhansang stammered, "These days, there are always wolves around the village, disturbing everyone, I want to ask a few soldiers to help get rid of it." As soon as Company Commander Liu heard this, he knew that he was telling a lie, because there were very few wolves around the garrison and along the Yunnan border. In the end, he agreed to personally lead the warriors forward to protect the interests of the people. Erzhan Sang tried to politely refuse, but the company commander just did not comply, so he had no choice but to tell the truth. Liu company commander was shocked: Asian elephants only Yunnan, it must be accidentally scurried to this side of the "guest" to come. Asian elephant is a national level of protection of animals, has been endangered, harm it is a serious violation of the law. Must think of a way not to hurt the elephant and can protect the corn. After discussion, we decided to use "fire". On this day, as soon as it was dark, Liu Company Commander led more than ten soldiers and villagers to lurk around the cornfield. At midnight, the elephants flung a long trunk, breathing heavily, strutting toward the cornfield. Getting closer and closer, we hold our breath, only to hear Liu Company Commander's order, the soldiers immediately lit a few piles of dead wood already prepared, and knocking gongs and shouting, the elephants fled at the sound. This continuous guard for three nights, the Asian elephant finally safe back to Yunnan "home".

4 Xu Xiujuan is originally from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, a Manchu ethnic group. She was born into a family of crane tamers, and at the age of 17, she went with her father to the Zalong Nature Reserve in Qiqihar to work as a temporary laborer in charge of raising and taming cranes. 1983, she was in charge of raising crane chicks there, and the survival rate of the chicks reached 100 percent. In 1983, she was in charge of raising cranes, and the survival rate of the chicks was 100%. As a result, Zalong Nature Reserve's crane hatching, rearing and taming techniques became famous in China and abroad. The president of the International Crane Foundation, Mr. George Archibald, said "OK" after visiting the reserve. Xu Xiujuan was also noticed by the film industry and the press, and public opinion called her "China's first crane taming girl".

In May 1986, Xu Xiujuan received an invitation from the Yancheng Nature Reserve to work in the Sheyang Mudflats, just after she finished her training at the Northeast Forestry University. Yancheng Nature Reserve and Zalong echo each other, one south and one north, and this is the main wintering ground of the red-crowned crane. If a non-migratory wild population of red-crowned cranes could be established in this place, it would be a major breakthrough, and perhaps a world-class scientific and technological subject. For the sake of her career, Xu Xiujuan convinced her grandmother, parents and siblings to leave the Zalong Reserve in Qiqihar, which she was familiar with, and traveled thousands of miles south to Sheyang.

The best building in the crane farm at that time was an abandoned post with two floors, each less than 6 square meters. There is no doubt that since this is a paradise for birds, it cannot be a prosperous place for human beings to aspire to. Not to mention the lack of human presence, the winds of the sea, the roar of the tides, and the cries of the birds and animals are a necessary symphony.

The conditions were even worse than Xu Xiujuan expected.

But Xiu Juan didn't flinch and got down to work immediately. There was no advanced incubation equipment, so she built a kang, on which were placed the crane eggs, the treasure Xu Xiu Juan had carried from Zalong. She and her two assistants worked around the clock, fearing that the temperature would get out of control - no heat, no cold, these baby bumps are delicate!

Finally, one day, from inside one of the eggshells came a "duk" sound, which was so low, so low that it was lighter than the sound of a match falling to the ground; and this sound was so high-pitched that it could penetrate through the clouds and crack the silk, and went straight to the sky.

This sound is the marching song before the birth of a new life. This sound is a sign of a miracle to come: the successful hatching of the cranes in the low-latitude wintering area - a world-class problem!

Born in October 1964 in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, to a Manchu fisherman's family, Xu Xiujuan received a good family education from a young age.

At the age of 17, Xu Xiujuan followed her father, Xu Tielin, to the Zalong Nature Reserve to raise cranes in August 1981.

This is the first time that Xu Xiujuan was born in the Zalong Nature Reserve, and the first time that he was born in the city.

Raising cranes is the most exhausting job in the reserve. Xu Xiu Juan water, food, feed the cranes, put the cranes, clean the crane house, diagnosis and treatment of sick cranes, all do very well, she raised alone young cranes to reach 100% survival rate. After domestication of the cranes can listen to people command dance, fly. State leaders came to visit the reserve and watched Xu Xiujuan's crane-taming performance, and the Zalong Nature Reserve's crane-taming skills became famous.

In May 1986, after completing two years of study at the Wildlife Department of Northeast Forestry University, Xu Xiujuan left her hometown and came to work at the Yancheng Mudflat Rare Bird Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province. Here is the main wintering place of the red-crowned crane, there is a large area of mudflat marshes, full of reeds, salt artemisia, a north to south of the Fudu River naturally separates the marshes and villages, and is very rare, is very ideal for the red-crowned crane habitat. In Yancheng Reserve, Xu Xiujuan's talents were fully utilized. She used her theoretical knowledge to study crane breeding techniques. At the third meeting of China's Joint Crane Conservation Committee in 1986, Xu Xiujuan wrote a paper that was well received by experts.

On September 15, 1987, a night when Xu Xiujuan had been working in Yancheng for one year and four months, she died in the Fudu River in search of a lost swan. Xu Xiujuan is China's environmental protection front of the first martyrdom in the line of duty, she will be 23 years old youthful years, dedicated to a lifetime of love and dedication to the cause of raising cranes.

In order to commemorate this young angel of crane protection, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province and Zalong Nature Reserve in Qiqihar City have built memorial halls and monuments to publicize Xu Xiujuan's deeds, and to inspire people to love nature, protect wild animals and live in harmony with nature.

In October 1964, Xu Xiujuan was born in Zalongtun, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, into a family of crane breeders. Her father was a crane conservation engineer at the Zalong Reserve, and her mother raised cranes there for 10 years. Xu Xiujuan often helped her parents feed the cranes when she was a child, and she fell in love with the cranes by osmosis.

In 1981, when the local high school was closed, 17-year-old Xu Xiujuan went to the Zalong Nature Reserve to raise cranes with her father, becoming the first girl to raise cranes in China. She soon mastered the full set of techniques for raising, grazing, breeding, incubating, and brooding rare birds such as red-crowned cranes, white-pillowed cranes, and bad-feathered cranes, and the survival rate of the young cranes she raised reached 100%. Her excellent work was praised by Dr. Archibald, president of the International Crane Foundation.

In March 1985, Xu Xiujuan went to the wildlife department of Northeast Forestry University for further study at her own expense. Although the school took into account her practical difficulties and reduced her tuition by half, she still could not afford to eat 60 cents a day, and relied on steamed buns and pickled vegetables to maintain her intense study every day. In the second semester, because she could not pay the tuition fee, life is difficult to sustain, she had teachers and classmates behind their backs, several times to donate blood in exchange for some money to maintain their studies. Later, she decided to compress two years of study into one and a half years. After hard work, she was able to score "excellent" or above 85 in 10 out of 11 subjects in the final exam. During this time, she also taught herself English. The fact that she donated blood for money was discovered after her death in a few pages of her diary written in English.

In 1986, Xu Xiujuan traveled to the Yancheng Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province, a migratory wintering ground for red-crowned cranes, and took three crane eggs with her. This is a gift that Xiu Juan brought to the Yancheng Reserve, three crane eggs for her are three future cranes. A distance of 5,000 miles, Xu Xiujuan used a synthetic leather bag, a warm water bag, half a catty of cotton wool, a thermometer to take care of the three crane eggs. Eggs in the artificial leather bag, temperature, humidity, as long as the slightest change, the baby crane will not hatch out. If the train cuts off the boiling water, she will have to put the crane eggs against the flesh in her arms, because the human body temperature is exactly 37 degrees. In this way, all the way to the train and all the way to the car, the baby cranes finally broke out of their shells. The three cranes were called Longlong, Dandan and Shasha by Xiujuan.

No one knows what kind of care Xiu Juan gave to the three eggs; but people know that the cranes died in the state-of-the-art incubator imported from the United States.

After 83 days and nights of meticulous care, the three young cranes finally spread their wings and flew into the blue sky.

Xu Xiujuan loved these creatures so much that the cranes had become an inseparable part of her life.

In June 1987, Xu Xiujuan rushed to Yancheng from her home, accompanied by two swans brought from Inner Mongolia. She called them Dawn and Muren. As soon as she got off the train, she was greeted with the news of Dandan's death. This is her most heartbreaking crane. Dandan had a problem with one of its legs and walked like it was jumping. He was especially close to Xiu Juan when she took him out into the wild to catch bugs.

No one knows how many tears Xiu Juan shed in that situation.

Because Dawn was sick, Xiu Juan took care of her for 8 days in the dormitory, and while Dawn recovered, she fell ill. Before she got well, she experienced another blow. She never expected that Longlong would vomit blood and die during the injection.

Xiu Juan bawled her eyes out, she said in her diary: never cried like this in front of people, Dandan went away, so did Longlong, and poor Shasha turned away in fear, and it was hard for me to be calm.

After Dawn recovered, she and Muren bathed and played in the Fudui River, and the two swans forgot to go home because they were too happy to play. The two swans were found in the Fudui River on September 16th, and they are now in the same place as the other swans. Her body was curled up, as if she was still feeling guilty for losing the swans and blaming herself for the deaths of Dandan and Longlong.

On Sept. 18, the white swans, Dawn and Muren, flew back, but they could no longer see their life-saving sister, Xiu Juan; they saw more than 1,000 people gathered for a ceremony. Xu Xiujuan was only 22 years old when she died. That day, there was also a total solar eclipse in the sky.