"Pandaren" team: "Where is the panda?

【Natural Notes】

Located on the Tiantai Mountains in Wolong, Sichuan, there is a dangerous and hidden ban -the panda wild training ground. Climbing from the yellow lawn and passing through an iron gate that has been locked all year round, even if it entered the territory of wild pandas. At the Chinese Panda Protection Research Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Panda Center"), every giant panda that needs wild training after the age of age must be trained in the second stage of life and training with his mother.

"This kind of thing will not be planned. Often where the panda is, we have to follow." As a member of the wilderlier training team, Wu Daifu and He Shengshan often want to cross the deep -cut canyon and swarming through the river over the snow mountains. , Follow the radio signal to track the giant panda.

Will they be mixed in the giant panda all year round, will they be recognized by them? "Applying the panda's urine can cover the smell of people and exude the taste of giant panda that is difficult to discern." In this way, they became authentic "pandas".

In 2013, the Panda Center rescued a wild giant panda -Joe, a wild panda abandoned by his mother from the wild. Because of his docile personality, Qiao Qiao was selected into the wild category plan after his adults and made it twice to produce cubs twice. In March of this year, the estrus Qiao Qiao was sent to the wild again and participated in the introduction for the third time.

Qiao Qiao wore a GPS collar, and the team members tracked using signal receiving devices, and found that it had contact with wild pandas in a few days. At the end of March, Qiao Qiao finally matched successfully, and the team members were lucky enough to see this scene.

Listen, the roar of giant pandas came from far away, and the signal of Qiao Qiao was the same direction. Everyone was very excited. He Shengshan quickly took a player and quietly touched the sound along the sound. Afraid of stepping on the bamboo to alarm the giant panda, they were lying on the thick snow, climbing through the bamboo forest, and seeing two wild pandas are demonstrating their roar -it seems that they are competing for the mating right with Qiao Qiao Essence "We were very close to the two male wild pandas at that time, just 2 meters. One of them came towards us." Remembering the shocking scene, He Shengshan still had a lot of heart.

Not good, I was discovered! The male giant panda runs around and runs, and soon disappears in the bamboo forest ...

In the wild giant panda in the love season, there are often many male competing for a female. They fight each other, and only the strongest can "hold the beauty", and the female panda usually stays on the tree to watch the war. Due to the bottom of the bamboo forest and the vision was blocked, He Shengshan failed to see Qiao Qiao's figure in the end, "but it must be nearby."

After receiving the task of catching Qiao Qiao, He Shengshan and the team members took the bag and set off early in the morning. "The most variables are the biggest pandas, because you don't know where it will go, you can only chase it and run all over the mountains." Qiao Qiao spent nearly one month, He Shengshan and others were in the wild in the wild. Facing the raging Chunxue, crossing the cliff deep, over the countless mountain beams, and the wind meal slept for 1 month.

"In the wild, wherever you go at night, you can rest, squatting rock nests and stone caves are common. However, this is not the most difficult ..." Wu Daifu paused, and then said, "Tracking the panda for a long time for a long time , The longest time is more than two months, and the movement position is not allowed. With all pandas, it is easy to have logistics support. "

"Once, we chased for more than 50 days. The signal in the mountains was not good. It could not be connected for a few days in a row. The supply could not keep up. Everyone was hungry for several days. Just rushed in to fish from the pot, and they were still raw, and they finished it. "Wu Daifu said distressedly.

Tracking pandas is very consuming, the panda moves a large range, and it is all high mountain canyons. If you can't keep up with the supplies of the supplies, you will be particularly hard and can only be supported by firm beliefs. In the minds of "Pandaren", this belief is a persistence of protecting the cause and adherence to the mission.

However, "Pandaren" never thought it was difficult. "Accommodation in the wild, you can cope with your sleeping bag; the weather is cold, and a piece of oil can be covered with snow and snow." In He Shengshan, the most difficult thing is that "the radio signal has errors and limitations in the mountains, which will increase the difficulty of the catch. It's much bigger. "

Remember to track a rigid giant panda at a time. The signal that was originally monitored was very close. The team members carefully approached it in its direction, but the alert panda still heard the abnormal noise from the bamboo forest and quickly ran out of the out of the way The scope of monitoring of players. "The signal received by radio is getting weaker and weaker, so everyone finds the signal all over the mountains. When the signal is captured again, it has turned over a few beams and ran to a far place." At this time, it was late, the team members were late, the team members were the team members, the team members We had to give up the tracking and settle down the next day.

Fortunately, Qiao Qiao gave birth to cubs as scheduled in August. Wu Daifu once used such a text to describe "Pandaren" for ten years to adhere to: "Tiantai Mountain! We are blowing away by the whistling mountain breeze here, we are knocked by the hail here by the big eggs here. The New Year. Perseverance, maybe ten years and twenty years? Just see that stainless steel has eroded rust spots, and the guys also boiled their hair. "

In this way, for 20 years, the "Pandaren" team dedicated to the wild and wild species in the wild, through creatively implementing the "Mother Beast Bringing Cub" research plan, broke through the key technologies of wild training, and successfully carried out successfully.Research on panda field species not only enriches the genetic diversity of giant pandas, but also further accelerates the recovery process of the panda field population.Good, "Pandaren" team!

(Reporter Zhang Xiaohua, a correspondent Long Tingting)

【Edit: Chen Wentao】

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