Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 156: These Jackals are Quite Particular

Feeling threatened was unpleasant, but for wild animals, the threat to their life was their greatest reliance.

"Make some room, let me get through."

The male jackal growled softly, and the others reluctantly moved aside, digging their forepaws into the ground, desperately trying to control their instincts.

Chen Ying plucked up the courage to step forward and check on the female jackal.

The situation was not good.

Of the three cubs that had been born, two were in a slightly better condition, but the smaller one still had amniotic fluid on its body and was a bit hypothermic.

Chen Ying pulled a towel from his bag, wrapped the little cubs in it, then dragged a jackal over to lie down and hug the bundle of towels to keep the cubs warm.

The jackal looked bewildered, the entire beast too scared to make a sound, only managing to let out a short, low breath after a long while.

"There's a cub that's stuck in a difficult birthing position, lodged in the birth canal. I need to figure out how to get the cub out, but it definitely won't survive."

Chen Ying observed for a moment, then looked up and explained to the attentive male jackal.

"If we don't get the cub out, the female jackal will surely die."

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"Save her," the male jackal nudged the female jackal's body without hesitation, his attitude firm and decisive.

The freezing cold made it clear that there should be no delay.

When the stuck cub was extracted, it was already completely dead. Chen Ying placed it aside, felt the female jackal's belly, and discovered there were still more!

The female jackal had no more strength, her life force continuing to diminish.

Chen Ying took out a medicine chest from his bag, inside were three life-saving herbal medicine pills.

Without much hesitation, he dissolved one in warm water, lifted the female jackal's head, and inserted a baby bottle into her mouth, encouraging her to suckle vigorously to replenish her strength.

Perhaps it was the powerful maternal instinct, or perhaps the medicine was notably effective, because ten minutes later, the female jackal began to struggle again.

With Chen Ying's help, the remaining two cubs were successfully born, but one of them lived less than ten minutes before following its brother in death.

After ensuring all the cubs were born, the male jackal, along with another younger male jackal, went to find food for the female jackal.

The male jackal, previously forced by Chen Ying to lie down to keep the young jackal cubs warm, only shakily stood up and ran to the side, frantically exercising his nearly frozen body after Chen Ying removed the cubs.

Jackals, unlike African hyenas, don't have such strict hierarchies within their packs and are actually very loving to their children, evidenced by their hunting behavior; they generally let the cubs eat first, and then the adult jackals eat.

It was precisely because he knew this that Chen Ying dared to make the male jackal lie down to keep the cubs warm.

After confirming the female jackal's safety, Chen Ying sighed with relief, feeling his undershirt was all damp.

He glanced at the two dead cubs beside him, wanting to take them away for burial, but was unsure whether he should do so.

In fact, quite a few wild animals will eat their own dead offspring, especially the mother after giving birth, when lacking food, they must make such cruel choices.

The female jackal also looked at the two dead cubs and after a while, turned her head away, whimpering a few times before lowering her head to lick the children nursing and sleeping at her belly.

"Take them away, don't leave them here."

Chen Ying took out a bag, packed the two cubs, and prepared to take them to an appropriate place for deep burial.

He couldn't return to the rescue station just for the disposal of the two young cubs; he had to make the best choice under the current circumstances.

Before he left, the male jackal returned, watching Chen Ying leave the area before it lowered its head and gently rubbed its cheek against the female jackal's.

Old Gao was anxiously waiting, almost on the brink of calling Yin Li for help, when he finally saw Chen Ying return with a backpack.

"Let's go back to the hot springs. My clothes are soaked, and I need to soak and change them, otherwise, I will definitely catch a cold."

The troop of monkeys looked bewildered as the two returned, carrying a faint smell of blood.

Two little cubs were buried under the roots of the rocks, with stones pressing down the overturned soil to prevent scavengers from digging up and eating the corpses.

Although this behavior is also part of the natural ecological chain, Chen Ying still felt a bit uneasy.

Soaking in the hot water, his dizzy head felt slightly relieved.

He hadn't felt anything while helping the female jackal give birth, but now he realized his entire body was soft.

It was probably a hangover from the last jackal attack on the emergency station; he didn't even feel this tense when encountering the Giant pandas.

But under the watch of the jackal pack, his whole body tensed up, and afterward, he felt as weak as if he had been seriously ill.

After soaking for more than ten minutes, he sat up and put on his clothes, found a sheltered spot to set up a tent, and called Little Sen and Yin Li to explain the situation, estimating it would take one or two more days to return.

Old Gao volunteered to keep watch, letting Chen Ying rest first.

The young mother monkey and her cub circled curiously around the tent, showing great interest in the strange object.

It even tried to crawl inside to feel it, but was pulled away by a slightly older female monkey, its face full of displeasure.

After sleeping for three hours, Chen Ying regained his strength.

It was not suitable for continuing upward, and besides, the road above was the territory of the jackal pack, which had just given birth; they needed to find another route to climb the mountain.

"I just asked the conservation center, this mountain is the territory of a seven-year-old male Giant panda, including the next mountain over," Old Gao pointed on the map, "Let's change directions and walk from here. The infrared location where the Rabbit cat was photographed is also on this side."

He had a bit of a personal motive.

During the contact, the center's staff mentioned to him that a Forest Patrol Officer had photographed a Bearded Vulture here.

The breeding season for the Bearded Vulture starts around December, and now it was just in the early part of its breeding season; maybe with some luck, they could photograph a Bearded Vulture incubating eggs.

His main research was on the Green-tailed rainbow pheasant, true, but that was his true love, and not the only species he liked.

As they made a fire in the evening, a troop of monkeys came to roast chestnut fur, and three to five little monkeys recently weaned clambered all over Chen Ying like a cat climbing frame, making a ruckus.

Sitting by the fire, Old Gao didn't have this problem.

The monkeys were cautious and kept a certain distance from him, vigilantly watching his every move.

The young monkey mother rubbed and moved closer to Chen Ying, then started to fish out roasted chestnuts from his hand.

She really didn't regard herself as an outsider!

The little monkey, probably uncomfortable under its mother's pressure, reached out its tiny paw to Chen Ying.

No one could resist those big, adorable little cubs.

Chen Ying took the little monkey into his arms, then pulled out a handful of dried fruits and stuffed them into the young mother's hand.

The little monkey was too young to eat other foods and could only wistfully suck on its fingers while watching its mother eat.

After a while, the young monkey mother was slapped by an older monkey, making her body sway sideways, and reluctantly took her child back from Chen Ying's hands, nestling it against her chest.

The old monkey looked displeasedly at Chen Ying, baring its teeth as if to scold him for indulging the young female monkey not to take care of her child properly.

Chen Ying guiltily lowered his head, pretending not to see.