On the edge of the deserted Coco Siri no-man's land, local herders find a Tibetan wild donkey circling the wasteland alone under a snow-capped mountain, with a furry object hanging from its neck.
In order to figure out what was really going on, they slowly approached the hidden wild donkey. This look frightened everyone to quickly crouch down: it turned out that under the neck of this Tibetan wild donkey, there was nothing else hanging, but a snow leopard!
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Snow leopards generally live on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and are one of the world's most hardy cats, but very few snow leopards live in the inaccessible Coco Xili, otherwise the Tibetan antelope living here will suffer.
This snow leopard, which appeared in Coco Cili, had gray-white hair, a rosette-like stripe all over its body, and a pair of large light green eyes, which was very beautiful. Slender body, weighing less than 70 pounds, relatively thin, perhaps caused by lack of food.
Perhaps as luck would have it, a flock of rock sheep suddenly appeared in a canyon in front of the snow leopard, at least 50 or so, basically ewes. The rock sheep slowly burrowed into a small ravine and disappeared, leaving only three or four rock sheep still grazing outside.
There is no place to step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort at all. The snow leopard was impatient and rushed into the flock, and the rock sheep panicked and rushed towards the mountain like a tide, and then rushed down from the bottom of the mountain in a moment, all without direction and chaotic.
The snow leopards may be tired of running and stand still; strangely, these rock sheep do not run either, staring intently at the snow leopards. In this way, the rock sheep and the snow leopard confronted each other, and the valley at this time was surprisingly quiet, and the air seemed to freeze.
After about 5 minutes of confrontation, the snow leopard suddenly rushed towards the sheep and instantly rushed into the rock sheep. Who knows that these rock sheep have long been prepared, immediately hoofed to run, snow leopard can not run the rock sheep, failed to get their wishes, only to hope that the "sheep" sighed. The female snow leopard was already hungry, and with obvious lack of physical strength, it had to give up the chase and sneak back to the mountain.
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Just as the snow leopard was about to return to its nest, a tibetan wild donkey appeared in the open wilderness, foraging for food as it walked, not paying attention to whether there was danger around.
This Tibetan wild donkey looks about 2 meters long and weighs an estimated 600 pounds. Its head is surprisingly large, its mane is short and stiff, and its ears are pointed and erect. The coat of the whole body is mainly reddish brown, the coat color is mottled, and the limbs and underside of the body are white, and the color boundary with the sides of the trunk is clear.
I don't know if I was too hungry or bold, this female snow leopard weighing less than 70 kilograms actually started the idea of more than 600 pounds of wild donkeys! Usually, the Tibetan wild donkey is very vigilant, and can detect movements 500 meters away from themselves, and once they find a harmful attack, they immediately run away. But strangely, this Tibetan wild donkey did not find the snow leopard that was slowly approaching.
Less than 10 meters away from the Tibetan wild donkey, the snow leopard jumped on the neck of the Tibetan wild donkey with lightning speed and could not cover its ears, and sealed its throat with one blow, trying to throw the Tibetan wild donkey to the ground. The Tibetan wild donkey screamed in pain, but instead of falling, it dragged the snow leopard around.
As we all know, the snow leopard relies on its 200 kg bite force, coupled with sharp canine teeth, as long as it is bitten, basically no life. But when it encountered the Tibetan wild donkey, its mouth was not large enough to completely bite the big and thick throat of the Tibetan wild donkey, so it had to bite the neck of the Tibetan wild donkey, and its limbs and entire body were suspended in mid-air.
The Tibetan wild donkey may have been scared and had no choice but to run around, trying to use inertia to throw the snow leopard to death, but it tried for a few minutes and still could not shake off the snow leopard.
They have been deadlocked for a long time. Suddenly, the Tibetan wild donkey lowered its neck, and then with a sudden effort, the snow leopard was caught off guard, and finally it was thrown down and fell to the ground, and the sand and dust splashed around.
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This Tibetan wild donkey was strong enough to be said to be a donkey, and its donkey temper came up, and even the nine cows could not pull it back. It saw the snow leopard fall to the ground, and before it could get up, it used the donkey's mouth to bite the snow leopard. The donkey's mouth is used to eat grass, the teeth are not very sharp, and if you bite the snow leopard, you are undoubtedly going to touch the stone.
This trick did not work much, and the Tibetan wild donkey used its killer skill, stepping on the abdomen of the snow leopard with narrow and high hooves and kicking the snow leopard's head. At this point, the snow leopard was kicked several times, and it was very painful, so it had to slip away with its tail between its legs.
If the female snow leopard had been injured in this hunt, she would not have died. The snow leopard's choice of tactical retreat is a wise choice. After all, single combat is different from other social animals, and if you are seriously injured, it means death.
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Nature is so cruel. This snow leopard has failed to hunt many times, starving itself, not to mention, maybe there are still cubs waiting to be fed at home, and if the little snow leopard lacks food, it may starve to death.
Xuelinggu Nature Lab/Production
References: Science popularization of animals and plants, nature exploration, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zoology of China