northernbook Chapter 692: 557: Shocked—Dissimilar Falcons, How to Relate (Part 2)
Chapter 692: 557: Shocked—Dissimilar Falcons, How to Relate (Part 2)
Chapter 692: Chapter 557: Shocked—Dissimilar Falcons, How to Relate (Part 2)The female observer picked up the camera, zoomed in, and snapped a couple of pictures.
“Mr. Chen, look, this is a bird’s nest, a damaged bird’s nest, with egg shells inside.”
Being a bird expert, she instantly recognized it as a falcon’s nest.
In the wild, falcons usually choose cliff rock cavities or tall treetops. This time, the abandoned nest they found was located right at a sunny treetop edge of the cliff.
Chen Ying quickly pondered; judging from the past behavior of the monkey group, the abandonment of this nest is likely related to them.
However, unlike macaques and Tibetan chief monkeys, golden snub-nosed monkeys do not have the habit of eating bird eggs. They are pure vegetarians. Their digestive systems are adapted to high-fiber foods, lacking the ability to efficiently secrete enzymes for digesting animal protein.
But monkeys are curious creatures, even the zen-like golden snub-nosed monkeys can’t resist the curiosity to climb up and see what bird eggs look like.
Just as they were talking, the little golden snub-nosed monkey, hidden in a specially made backpack on Chen Ying’s chest, woke up, squeaked twice, and swiftly emerged.
“Squeak, I think I’ve been here before?”hat lived near the emergency station before?
But at that time, Chen had confirmed that the golden snub-nosed monkeys living near Huaqiu Valley had moved to the depths of Old Northern Gully, where the elevation is a bit higher, with almost no human disturbance, making it more suitable for golden snub-nosed monkeys to live.
After walking about thirty meters into the woods, the trees here were denser, preventing medium and large birds, especially speedy medium and large raptors, from entering.
A skinny female monkey was having her fur groomed by an older monkey, and the atmosphere of the whole monkey group seemed a bit downcast.
“Squeak, squeak squeak!” The young monkey carrying the monkey baby darted to the female monkey’s side, and before it could settle down, the mother monkey snatched the monkey baby away.
The mother monkey, overwhelmed with excitement by the return of her lost child, trembled all over, clutched her child tightly, and climbed up the tree in a few moments, hiding in the dense treetop.
Seeing the monkey baby return to the mother monkey’s arms, Chen Ying finally relaxed, only to turn around and see a somewhat familiar monkey face right in front of him.
“Brother Monkey? Is that you, Brother Monkey?”
The strong male monkey was now a size larger than before, less youthful, but added a level of composure.
Indeed, it was an old familiar monkey; Chen Ying hugged Brother Monkey again, then sat down to let Brother Monkey brush his hair while having a casual chat under the astonished gaze of the female observer.
“So you guys suffered from a disaster beyond your control? The culprit was a big rat, and you took the hit? Doesn’t make sense, what rat is so bold to deliver itself to the door?”
“Squeak, the rat looked different from what I’ve seen before. It went to the bird’s nest and stole an egg, then ran away. Some little monkeys curiously followed to take a look and got caught.”
Generally speaking, when falcons are incubating, they won’t leave the nest for too long. But incubation takes a long time, they need to move around a bit, so every day there’s a brief time when the female bird leaves the nest, and it’s during this period that the eggs are most at risk.
The unidentified rodent stole the egg right at that moment, no one knows if it was staking out.
The monkeys curiously went to check the nest situation, but were caught by the returning female bird red-handed, and in the chaos, the monkey kicked over the bird’s nest…