"The snow stopped. I took off their collars, which were the last vestiges of humanity left on them. I watched them fade away on the horizon, and that was their world. This is the last paragraph in the video storybook "I and the Little Wolf", vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Writers Association and natural literature writer Gezhi Leqimuge Heihe (hereinafter referred to as "Black Crane") in his latest video storybook. As a conclusion, but still unfinished, it tells his memories of raising wolves as a child and his choice to let the wolves return to the wilderness.
Raise wolves
In his childhood, he raised two wolf cubs
Among the relatives of the black crane are hunters, and the two baby wolf cubs are gifts from relatives to the childhood black crane.
Black Crane recalled: The two little wolf cubs were born about 12 days ago, probably just opened their eyes, and their eyes were still blue. Initially, the little wolf cub was extremely frightened and shrunk in the bag. When the black crane took them out, it made almost no sound, but soon they adjusted to the warmth of his arms and began to probe and try to suck his fingers with their noses.
The black crane mixed the fresh lamb with goat's milk and let the two little wolf cubs share it. But as the little wolves grew older, the black cranes found that they began to alienate him, and they always kept a polite distance from him except when feeding. He also sadly discovered that his connection to them was only food, that he was the giver, that they were the recipient. They are eager when they see food, and they eat it too quickly. Finally, he lost the courage to feed them directly with his hands, and could only throw them, or put it in a basin and push the basin to them. The little wolves also began to refuse to play with him, and even when they played, their power was too strong, and they bit his hand more than once.
Once, when a wolf fled under the bed, and when the black crane tried to pull its tail, the wolf turned back to him and issued a gloomy low howl. Under the dim bed, the little wolf's eyes flashed with green fluorescence, and it shrunk its upper lip to reveal its snow-white fangs. At that moment, the black crane realized the nature of the beast.
Since then, the two little wolves have become increasingly difficult to control. In addition, the damage caused to the young black crane is gradually escalating. Finally, one morning when he woke up, they were gone. The adult told him that he had put them deep into the prairie. Black Crane cried for a long time until he got a puppy as a gift.
Say wolf
Do not bring the wolf into the human world
Growing up, Black Crane finally understood that even if the little wolf died in the wilderness because it lacked sufficient survival ability, it was better than continuing to live in the human world. He saw some wolves living in the zoo's pen, sleeping listlessly for visitors to visit; and some prairie playgrounds, where wolves were kept in captivity, setting up a paid program for taking photos with the little wolves. In order to ensure safety, the 4 fangs of the little wolf were clipped by the staff of the tourist attraction with pliers.
In addition, he learned that in recent years wearing wolf teeth (beast fangs) has become a fashion. Black Crane said that when humans use hunting as a basic means of obtaining survival information, hunters wear a part of their prey on their bodies to show their courage and strength, enhance self-confidence and sense of control. It is now enough for humans to change and control nature, and it is no longer necessary to gain self-confidence in this way.
Wolf teeth are obtained by killing wolves, and a wolf has only 4 fangs and is non-renewable. In this regard, the black crane advises people not to eat wild animals, not to buy wildlife products - there is no trade, there is no killing.
In his novel, Black Crane also warns readers never to believe such a warm story - someone rescued a little wolf abandoned by a she-wolf and raised it... It seemed to him to be the most hypocritical story in the world, where a she-wolf would have an amazing courage to protect her cubs during lactation. The nomads on the steppe know that once they dig up the wolf's nest and steal the wolf cub, then what awaits him will be the endless revenge and entanglement of the she-wolf.
In this regard, the black crane reminds in the book that if tourists see a lone wolf in the wild, under normal circumstances, the best thing to do is to keep a distance from it and leave it where it is. Don't try to bring the little wolf into the human world, once it's taken away from where it is, it's hardly ever going back into the wild.
Write about wolves
It is hoped to promote the harmonious coexistence of wolves and humans
The black crane, which has lived in the Hulunbuir steppe for many years, found in an in-depth study of nomadic culture that wolves have always been an important part of the nomadic living system. Over the course of time, they have forged an ancient contract with nomads: they help nomads digest and decompose livestock that have died of disease in order to prevent the plague from occurring. As long as they do not attack the herd, the nomads will not harm them, even feeding them during the season when wolves are feeding their cubs. Wolves have always maintained mutual respect and just the right distance from the nomads, sharing the grasslands and forests in the wilderness.
Today, Black Crane has set up a writing camp on the Banks of the Mozhigrad River in the Hulunbuir Grassland in Inner Mongolia, and in order to let more people know about wolves, he is writing another novel about wolves in addition to creating the animal novel "I and The Little Wolf Fenrir" and adapting it into a video book "I and the Little Wolf". The novel, titled The Wolf of the Windy Mountain, is scheduled to be published in January 2021. Kurozuru hopes that through this trilogy of wolves, readers will be able to establish a correct view of nature.
correlation
Liu Hu's novel The Return of the King was published
Recently, animal novel writer Liu Hu's novel "The Return of the King" was published by Hope Publishing House. The book continues to be set against the backdrop of qilian mountain, which is very familiar to the author, and tells the story of the long-term battle between the local timber wolf and the steppewolf for territory.
In the novel, the Timberwolf and Ji ji are weak and frail since childhood, and they struggle to survive in poverty. But suffering did not crush it, but became an opportunity for it to temper its will and exercise its physical strength, making it stronger and stronger. As an adult, the Wolf King is brutal, and in anger, he hides in the paradise, and the Steppenwolf takes advantage of the void. When the population was in danger, Ji Ji decisively cooperated with the Wolf King and the tribe to unite and fight, successfully protected the homeland, and composed a song of the weak and the weak, full of ups and downs, hardships, but without losing warmth and tenacity.
As a senior geological engineer who has worked for many years in the northern forest area of the Qilian Mountains, Liu Hu is very familiar with the local wolves. Timberwolves are large and brownish-gray; steppe wolves are relatively small and earthy yellow. Local herders told him that steppe wolves were more powerful. These two wolves, which have significantly different habits and appearances, often clash territorially because they are neighbors.
A few years ago, Liu Hu was inspecting a gold mine on the northern edge of Qaidam, and was followed by several wolves along the way, until they left each other's territory, and the wolves stopped tracking, crouched on the top of the mountain, and silently watched them go away. "Animals can't think rationally, but they are spiritual. This spirituality is no less binding on their actions than the moral or legal binding force of human society. From this, Liu Hu felt that he had found a reason and necessity to write this story.
This group of articles / reporter Zhang Enjie coordinator / Liu Jianghua