The day of egret Tang Xiaobai begins with combing his feathers.
In the early morning, it wakes up on the island of Qiandiao Lake, cleaning its spotless white feathers with its orange mouth in spring and summer, and its posture is very elegant.
As a yellow-billed egret, also known as Tang egret, Tang Xiaobai is the child of a female egret in the breeding center of the egret reserve and a wild male egret, but his father is not a big monster, so there is no harm in giving birth to Tang Xiaobai Humanoid. It's just that it has a higher starting point than other ordinary egrets, and with hard work, it may be able to take human form.
The world is different from the past, the city is dangerous, and the forest resources are getting less and less. It is better to stay in the breeding center and have food and drink.
Later, Tang Xiaobai made the most correct decision in his life. It has been in the protected area for so long, and I also want to go outside to have a look. For a change of environment, the fish and shrimp here are tired of eating.
Tang Xiaobai overheard that a free-range area of a zoo wanted to introduce egrets, so he got involved. It knows what a zoo is, and it has the same free food and drink as the conservation center, but there are many more tourists. This is also convenient for Tang Xiaobai, if he wants to cultivate into a Dao body in the future, he has to observe the appearance of various human races.
So, following the transport vehicle, Tang Xiaobai came to the Lingyuan Zoo in Donghai City, hundreds of miles away.
As soon as he entered the Lingyuan Zoo and was quarantined, Tang Xiaobai felt an extremely frightening sense of oppression and passed out on the spot.
After waking up, Tang Xiaobai saw two people... No, it should be a human race, and the other one can't tell, anyway, it's very powerful, and the sense of oppression came from him.
The human race had curly hair, and later it knew that this was the director of the zoo. The director pointed to Tang Xiaobai and said, is this a monster? Did he mix in
Well, it's possible that they sneaked in to steal the feed. Another very awesome senior said.
Tang Xiaobai was dumbfounded, why didn't he know what was stealing feed, he quickly explained: I am a native bird in the breeding center, a half-demon, this time I came here through the formal procedure! It's okay for me to steal some feed, the two adults should be careful!
The two looked at each other and asked about Tang Xiaobai's background carefully.
Later, Tang Xiaobai also knew why they felt that he was here to steal the feed.
After eating the first meal here, Tang Xiaobai was shocked. Why is there such delicious food with such aura? The zoo outside is treated so well. Is it because it has been watching the sky from a well before?
No, obviously my father said that the food now has a lot of impurities, and there are very few people who grow immortals with less impurities, but according to his description, it is definitely not at this level.
Anyway, after confirming that Tang Xiaobai didn't sneak in on purpose, the director agreed to let him move in, and sent a senior named Hu Dawei to give him a training class.
This is the experience of Tang Xiaobai's entry into the job. Now, he is an egret in Qianniao Lake in the free-range area of Lingyou Wildlife Park in Donghai City. He works as an animal during the day and is allowed to discuss cultivation tips with senior Hu Dawei at night, hoping to transform into a form as soon as possible.
Today is also a very important day. The free-range area is about to be officially opened to the outside world. After short-term training, Tang Xiaobai is no longer demanding himself by the standard of ordinary egrets.
If it is an ordinary egret, then eating, drinking, and showing off your body is fine, there is no task.
But Tang Xiaobai, it feels that it wants to become a real monster, with a high IQ, and thinks more than those silly birds. Only when the spirit cage is flourishing, can they stay here forever, eating and drinking well.
Therefore, Tang Xiaobai has been waiting for this day for a long time. He wants to work hard for Lingyuan's future and his own future!
Tang Xiaobai began to comb his feathers early in the morning. This is the breeding season of egrets, and it is also the time when they are most beautiful.
The egrets are covered with coir raincoats on their chests and backs, which are fluffy and thick, hanging down like wisps of white threads, like a white coir raincoat, with a few long feathers behind their heads. It is these feathers that once attracted human coveting, hunting egrets wantonly, and using this beautiful feathers as decoration.
The male birds are showing off their beautiful feathers, and the female birds are also picking objects.
In this courtship performance, only Tang Xiaobai was indifferent, indifferent to courtship, and concentrated on waiting for the guests to arrive.
Occasionally, a female bird takes a fancy to Tang Xiaobai's clean feathers, and leans closer to her, but Tang Xiaobai will peck her instead, "Go away, go away, I'm a celibate!"
— Tang Xiaobai would not find a girlfriend before he had his transformation.
It has seen such a tragedy, that is, his parents. Its father can change form, but its mother has never had a human form. Sometimes, when the father and mother who work nearby are together, they will always be regarded as people and pets.
The mother's talent is not good, and the father has been looking forward to it for a long time, but it was not until the mother died of death. He has not cultivated to the point of transforming into a human form.
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The sun gradually rose into the sky, and from eight o'clock to nine o'clock, tourists began to enter the zoo one after another.
Tang Xiaobai hovered in the sky, looking at the crowd in the distance, wishing that they would enter the free-range area immediately.
While in the air, Tang Xiaobai saw the beast area. On the green and yellow ground, there was a particularly conspicuous animal, a pure white lion, resting on a stone.
Tang Xiaobai looked at it curiously, and the lion immediately raised its head, accurately found Tang Xiaobai in the air, and glanced at it too.
Seeing Tang Xiaobai's whole body trembling at this glance, it was as if he had been seen naked and not a single feather was left. It turned around, flew to the river, and landed by the river.
Egrets are wading birds, and Tang Xiaobai walked in the shallow water with his long legs submerged in the water. Just now, with a glimpse in the air, he had already seen a ship approaching.
After about ten minutes, a swan boat came down the river with twenty tourists on board. They are all wearing uniform hats, these are cadres of a certain city government agency, Lingyuan has signed cooperation agreements with many public and private units, and will visit the zoo as their group activity project.
A young woman first discovered Tang Xiaobai's existence, "What kind of bird is that? It's so beautiful!"
Everyone followed her guidance and saw a white water bird standing lightly among the lotus leaves. It had a long yellow beak and several long feathers on its pillow were floating softly in the air. Demoiselle feathers like thin threads hang down on the side, which is very beautiful.
An older male human race said: "This, it seems to be an egret!"
"A group of egrets flying into the blue sky, that egret? This is the first time I've seen a live egret." The woman took out her mobile phone to take a picture.
"Hey, didn't you say that there are thousands of water birds here? Why only one is seen here." An aunt asked.
The guide said: "All the water birds live in Qiandiao Lake, and they haven't arrived yet. This bird may be alone. It stands to reason that it shouldn't appear here."
"It is estimated that this is the front stand, and most of them are still behind." Someone joked.
In fact, the scenery in front of them made them feel very appreciative. On the clear river, lotus leaves are squeezed together, and lotus flowers are blooming. Sometimes their boats pass by the lotus flowers. The bright red color is really beautiful.
The water surface clearly reflects the flowers and leaves, and now there is an extra egret standing gracefully among the lotus flowers, which is also a natural picture.
And on the shore, they could still see animals. Just now, they saw two sika deer, one big and one small, wandering on the shore to drink water. If there were no guardrails, they would all want to poke their heads to drink water. Said to be very ecological and natural.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I always feel that free-range animals are more relaxed and comfortable than those in cages. People are also very relaxed and happy in such an environment.
At this time, the bushes on the shore moved several times, and the egret looked back vigilantly, causing the tourists to look there too, but only saw a thick bush.
The next moment, the bushes were parted, and a white male lion stepped out. It looked at everyone coldly, and let out a lion roar, "Oh—"
"Wow!" Everyone exclaimed.
It's spectacular! A pure white lion!
Its ice-blue eyes are like eternal icebergs, and its fluffy and snow-white mane gives it an unreal beauty.
Afraid to disturb it, a tourist whispered: "I heard that this kind of lion is not like those animals with albinism. It has snow-white fur because it lived in the polar regions in ancient times. However, with the change of time In the middle of the day, its place of residence became Africa, and the body has not had time to change."
However, at most he dared to speak. Under the cold gaze of the lion, everyone did not dare to move too much. They stared at him cautiously and took pictures with their mobile phones or cameras until the boat left its sight.
It was also at this time that some people realized that the egret flew to the boat at some point and stood on the bow.
"Well, it seemed to see a lion coming out just now, and it got scared, so it came to us." Someone said what he saw before.
The narrator said: "This guy, he wants to take a ride with the wind." In fact, it was only at this moment that he came back to his senses and began to explain the identity of the white lion just now.
Standing at the bow of the boat, Tang Xiaobai thought to himself, I was scared to death, is that lion a monster? It seems that I have never seen it in the garden these days, it is too scary.
Tang Xiaobai turned around in a daze, only to find that a mobile phone was about to hit his face when he turned around, startled it, and took a step back.
Holding the mobile phone, the female tourist said in surprise, "This bird doesn't even run away..."
"Scared you silly." Someone touched his chin and said, "Look at you, you got so close just now and it didn't notice."
"Pfft, I was so shocked just now."
How could Tang Xiaobai run away? Didn't he come here just to let tourists see his own charm? Although he was startled, he quickly calmed down and even spread his wings to facilitate tourists to take pictures.
These tourists were surprised to see a bird that didn't dodge, so they took close-up shots, took turns taking photos with Tang Xiaobai, and recorded small videos.
Tang Xiaobai was quite proud of himself. People used to visit the breeding center from time to time, but it was just one of the many egrets, and he couldn't reveal his identity. Besides, there were too many birds to see, so it was rare .
Now Tang Xiaobai enjoys the feeling of being a star a little bit.
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After a while, the swan boat drove to the nearest place to the waterfowl lake, and the waterfowl lake could already be seen, and there was a ditch connecting the two.
Tang Xiaobai, who had been standing on the bow of the boat without moving, flapped his wings and flew out.
Tourists stood up to see it off, feeling pretty good about themselves, "Goodbye — Egret —"
"We'll see you next time—"
But saw that egret flew to the sky above Qianniao Lake, circled for a circle, blew a few times, and then flew back again.
Immediately afterwards, an even more astonishing scene appeared.
Hundreds of egrets fluttered up from the water and flew straight up to Qingxiao, and the fluffy demoiselle feathers fluttered in the air, letting people know that pure white can be so gorgeous. They followed behind Tang Xiaobai and quickly caught up with it.
A more beautiful picture than a line of egrets climbing into the sky is a group of egrets climbing into the sky.
They flew over the grass-covered land, sang above the river, and flew down. Amidst the exclamation of the tourists, they flew past the sides of the swan boat one by one, and passed by the tourists.
When viewed closely from the side, their feathers look even more beautiful. The long feathers undulate like waves. When the broad wings flap, the demoiselle feathers fly, occasionally gently brushing across the faces of tourists sitting by the boat.
The egret rubs against each other, making people feel like they are in a dream. If you don’t look at your feet, you almost think you are in the air. Otherwise, how can there be birds passing by
Egrets flew along the river, and they could hear the screams from the boats behind.
The guide swallowed, and said: "It seems that we are very lucky to meet egrets looking for food. Egrets generally feed on small fish, amphibians, etc. Their long mouths can help them accurately catch the prey in the water... "
But he also couldn't explain why the egrets didn't forage in Chidori Lake, but came to the artificial river full of tourists. After all, the breeders usually sprinkled food in Qiandiao Lake. Maybe, for a change
The guide watched the egrets go away, and it was obvious that the tourists' minds had drifted away with the egrets.
No way, the scene just now was too shocking.
After a long while, someone still asked in doubt: "The egret that parked on our boat before, can't it be the first bird?"
Seeing it go around in a circle, those egrets all followed it and flew over.
Someone really discussed it seriously: "I feel like a scout. It ran over there to test whether the food in the water was good, and then called its companions to come with it—what a smart bird!"
The guide thought silently in his heart, although this is a free-range area, we will really put food to the animals...
In addition to egrets, the largest group of birds in Qiandiao Lake is cormorants. These black water birds have big mouths, also known as ospreys, are good at diving and fishing, and can be domesticated by humans to help fishing and hunting.
These cormorants don't have the leading birds like Tang Xiaobai, they stay in Qianniao Lake obediently. The breeder is feeding, and the cormorants that have recently moulted need to eat some beans.
However, just as the cormorants were devouring, a group of uninvited guests arrived.
Not to mention the breeder, even the tourists recognized it: "Damn it, the rogue sparrow!"
The rogue sparrows of Haijiao Mountain are already well-known far and wide, and now they not only haunt Lingyuan, but sometimes even snatch things from mountain-climbing tourists in the park next door. Many people who come to climb the mountain are old men and old ladies. Because of these sparrows, the park specially sent people to chase the birds so as not to disturb the elderly tourists.
And Lingyuan is where they became famous in the first battle. These sparrows multiplied more and more, and they flew to Qiandiao Lake, not afraid of death, to grab food with the cormorants.
Anyway, the cormorants can't protect them well, as long as they can steal even a few bites, it's bloody money!
With such a size gap, the sparrows took advantage of the large number of birds to dodge flexibly and play guerrilla tactics. They never liked to fight, and retreated immediately after eating a few bites.
Fighting and leaving quickly, they come and go in a hurry, and when they leave, they leave only some scattered feathers.
After appreciating the "war", the tourists were also stunned, wondering whether they should applaud or not. Although it was wonderful, it did not seem to be a performance arranged by the zoo.
Why are these sparrows so unafraid of death
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Halfway through the cruise, you can disembark at a pier to visit the scenic spot on the mountain.
Here you can choose to walk up the mountain from the trail, or you can choose to take the cable car. Tourists who have been sitting in the office for a long time say that it is better to walk up the mountain to exercise your muscles. If you are tired from going up the mountain, you can also take the cable car down.
This scenic spot divides a part of Haijiao Mountain, but the highest point is not at the top of the mountain, it is only halfway up the mountain. From a distance, you can see artificial buildings, the lens of the cable car, and a viewing platform.
Walking on the walkway, some tourists said with emotion, "Although the former Lingyuan was good, it was still a bit cramped. Now it's so good, the place is big, the animals are more natural, and we can still have close contact with them."
What he was talking about was just now, what happened to a group of egrets flying by.
"Yes, but it's still better than other zoos." Someone echoed, "In other zoos, the birds have their feathers clipped and they can't fly. It's absolutely impossible to be like today."
"That bird doesn't run away?"
"Have you ever seen birds in the reserve escape? If the habitat is suitable, why would they run away?"
Everyone discussed it, and it was still the other party who never forgot the close contact with the egret.
At this moment, several monkeys climbed up from the tree outside the protective net, fell down on the branch and looked at them.
"Ouch, monkey." Everyone was relieved to see the monkey.
"What kind of animals are there in the scenic spot on this mountain?"
This sentence caught everyone's attention. I was immersed in the shock of egrets and cormorants before, and few people paid attention to the information on the notice board.
Above the head, the cable car slowly passed by, not particularly high, but there are still a few people who take the cable car up the mountain, and most of them choose to walk up the mountain.
The monkeys squeaked and made faces at the tourists, but everyone always felt weird, as if they had overlooked something.
At this moment, a roar came, followed by heavy gasps behind him. The tourists looked back and saw a black bear standing outside the protective net on the other side of the trail.
"Damn it, why is there no sound!"
"That's right, it's a bear, we didn't see a bear down there..."
This big black bear showed everyone its white teeth through the net, even though it knew it couldn't get through, it still made people break out in a cold sweat.
"Damn it, this guy keeps his mouth open..."
Before the tourists could finish their complaints, the big black bear stuffed a bamboo shoot into his mouth and began to eat it.
"Huh... eat..."
Xiong Siqian sat down with his legs curled up, exposing the crescent-like white hair on his chest, and consciously ate bamboo shoots in a "naive" manner.
Oh, it's not easy. Thinking of him as the majestic black wind king, when he first came to Lingyuan, he was arrogant for more than five minutes, and he dared to threaten the director, who would dare? Of course, he was stepped on by Daoist Lu Ya later.
But later on, King Little Bear lived a very chic life in the cage area, just watching the news every day.
Until later, Pan Xuanfeng came. It hasn't been on duty yet, and the headmaster dotes on it so much, no, it's not a favor, it's just doting. When Pan Xuanfeng was naughty during the test some time ago, the director just punished him to roll on the ground, and said that he couldn't be punished to break it.
Xiong Siqian was heartbroken when he thought of how he was trampled on by Taoist Lord.
Will this affect his rating? Everyone is a bear, and they even got nicknames. His name is Hei Feng, and that guy's name is Hei Xuanfeng—you say it's irritating, but he can't immediately change it to Black Tornado, right
As a result, Xiong Siqian had no choice but to work a little harder in his daily work, at least to attract some fans, don't let Pan Xuanfeng get too complacent, if he can't even compare with a mortal bear, it would be too embarrassing.
Besides, whether it's a bear or a name, it's obviously mine first... Xiong Siqian thought.
So, at this very moment, Xiong Siqian tried his best to do his most fan-attracting action—it was also what he thought of after watching the video of the Panda Base!
A group of tourists stood outside the protective net and watched a group of big black bears sitting on the ground and eating bamboo shoots, and the debris fell on their stomachs.
Tourists: "Well..."
About half a minute later, everyone said nonchalantly: "Let's go, see what other animals are ahead."
Xiong Siqian: "??"
I'm so angry, my majesty put aside his family and country affairs and didn't care about it, and came to show you how cute he is, and he pretended he couldn't see it? Xiong Siqian got on all fours and followed them up. I don't believe that no one will notice his cuteness!
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Standing by the river, Duan Jiaze saw a group of egrets flying past, with a question mark on his face, "What is this for? Why are they flying along the river?"
"Director, don't you know?" Xiao Su also said blankly with a camera in her hand, "I thought you tamed a bird."
Duan Jiaze wanted to say that you really think I'm a fucking expert at raising birds. He looked at it for a while and said, "It's none of my business, and it's not like I train birds... Set a course for them!"
With Duan Jiaze's style, it must be the same as before, let all the birds fly around together, showing off their flying skills, but there are only egrets here, and they just fly on the river in a daze, circling in circles, as if participating in a sports meeting, this spirit It is also commendable.
Xiao Su hesitated for a moment, and then said: "...then do you want to invite "Go X Science?"
Duan Jiaze almost sprayed, "That's okay, I can explain it to you if you don't need an expert. The magpie builds the bridge because there is food in the lake, and the egret flies like this because of course it picks up food in the river and eats it all the way across. "
Xiao Su: "..."
Xiao Su raised the camera: "Then I will also say the same in the publicity later...?"
Duan Jiaze said with certainty: "That's it!"