After completing Ali's pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Kailash and the holy lake Mapan Yongcuo, he returned to Saga for a night of rest and began the soul-haunted journey through northern Tibet. Northern Tibet includes the vast land north of Tibet, the Kunlun Mountains, Coco Siri, the Ganges Mountains and the Nianqing Tanggula Mountains, with a total area of more than 600,000 square kilometers, an average altitude of more than 5,000 meters, a harsh climate, thin oxygen, and inaccessible except for mountains, lakes, meadows and wild animals. We are cycling through, after entering the no-man's land, although the sky is not very good, the mobile phone has no signal, but with the migrating and calving female Tibetan antelope herd, the heart is also very happy!
In order not to disturb the foraging activities of the Tibetan antelope, the car was parked far away on the side of the road, ready to photograph the migrating female Tibetan antelope, and the sheep were in a commotion, and the people who were burying their heads in grazing all put up their ears and looked around vigilantly. Aren't we welcome? But immediately I found out that I guessed wrong, and looked in the direction of the sheep, my God! Just behind us on the hillside about 300 meters from the side of the road on the left side of the road, there is a wolf with grinning teeth!
This wolf is skinny and bony, and the brown and yellow coat color is very suitable for the color of the surrounding environment such as dry grass and rocks, and it is extremely hidden, and if you don't look closely, or if it stays still, it is difficult for you to find it. It was early spring in northern Tibet, and the wolf was most likely a she-wolf, searching for rations for the wolves that were feeding the wolves in their nests.
It is said that the male sheep in order not to compete with the ewe to stay in the original habitat, and these fat female Tibetan antelopes must migrate hundreds of kilometers to the Zhuo Nai Lake in Coco Xili to give birth, at this moment, because of the pregnancy, only ten or twenty kilometers a day, for their own and the safety of the baby in the womb, extremely vigilant, as soon as there is wind and grass, they quickly flee.
I looked around carefully and determined that there was only one lone wolf. It is said that wolves are social animals, but why does this wolf fall alone? I remember driving into the Maoya Grassland in Litang a few years ago and also met a lone wolf. This wolf seemed extremely hungry, spitting out a bright red tongue, exposing sharp canine teeth, swallowing greedy saliva, looking at the Tibetan antelope in the distance with infinite longing, not knowing what was in his heart?
Tibetan antelope running ability is super strong, the maximum speed can reach 80 kilometers per hour, the speed of the wolf can not catch up with them at all, but because of the small lamb, the action is certainly not as fast as usual, so the hungry wolf must also be struggling with whether to desperately throw to risk a fight or save physical strength helplessly! Because there were always a few sentry ewes in the flock who were on high alert, keeping their eyes on the wolf's every move. The Tibetan antelope always maintained a safe distance, about seven or eight hundred meters away from the hungry wolves, and they slowed down again, and even a few curled up and rested leisurely.
It was so exciting! From the first sight of a large herd of Tibetan antelopes to the surprise of suddenly discovering wolves, this realistic version of the wolf falling in love with the sheep, I am afraid that only in the adventure through northern Tibet will be vividly interpreted in front of your eyes! Wolves, wolves, although we were warned in our small education that wolves are very bad animals, but in this lonely wasteland, looking at this hungry wolf with extremely sad eyes, I can't help but feel sympathy and compassion!
The hungry wolf trotted for a while, as if trying to summon up the courage to chase the hunt, but after a few tens of meters, it gave up in vain, and its expression was full of bitterness and frustration. Hunting Tibetan antelopes? I'm afraid that it takes the strength of the wolf pack to complete it, and such a long-distance long-distance attack can only be an impossible task for a hungry wolf with a skin and bones!
In the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is difficult to see male and female Tibetan antelopes together except when mating and breeding. The migration process of Tibetan antelope is very hard, the whole journey is full of dangers, there is no protection of male sheep, these ewes in addition to guarding against natural enemies such as snow leopards, bears, wolves, golden eagles along the way, but also to avoid the covetousness of poachers, so they are full of bumps along the way, each location can only stay for a short time and then leave.
Just now I was secretly secretly happy, thinking that I could see the precious footage of hungry wolves preying on Tibetan antelopes! As a result, in an instant, the beautiful blueprint designed in my heart was gone with the wind. Sympathy for tibetan antelopes? Or is it this she-wolf? You can understand all the actions that are going to happen in front of you, after all, in nature, in the animal kingdom, everything is carried out according to the law of the law of the weak and the strong, and the natural selection.
The hungry wolf hesitated, apparently abandoning its plan to prey on the Tibetan antelope. The disappointed picture we were expecting made us feel both lost and relieved - after all, the Tibetan antelope is safe! However, just when the hungry wolf had no choice but to do anything, suddenly its gaze met my lens, although it was separated by hundreds of meters, but its yellow eyes unscrupulously revealed a murderous breath, which could still make you feel a little chilled! In the face of unyielding steel monsters (off-road vehicles) and people, the hungry wolf seems to be reading people's minds, both in and out! The confrontation between man and wolf lasted about two or three minutes, and the hungry wolf finally gave up preying on us!
The Tibetan antelope have ascended to the top of the ridge, and all the actions of the wolves can be seen, but they have no nostalgia for this, and continue to speed up the north side of the mountain, although they do not know what the wolf is thinking, but the experience of countless life and death considerations tells them: the land of right and wrong must be evacuated as soon as possible!
After the depressed hungry wolf trotted a few steps, he looked back at the Tibetan antelope in the distance, and the disappointment and loneliness that could not be concealed were also sad. Maybe it will starve for a while, maybe the cubs in the wolf's den won't be able to drink milk, maybe not maybe... Because this is the poignant beauty of Tibet, this is the law of survival!
The Tibetan antelope maintained a tight formation and unswervingly went north! In the face of humans, the hungry wolf once again lost its fighting spirit, and after the hunting plan was completely abandoned, he ran towards the hillside with his tail between his legs, so he steadily used the camera to continue to follow the hungry wolf, and the wolf ran for a while and suddenly slowed down, with his ears high, his hands crept and his feet were hunched over, and his gloomy face actually burst into a smile of great joy! Well, it is estimated that what prey was found!
Moving the camera slowly searched, and sure enough, next to a rocky grass in the distance, a fat hare was found, and the yellow-brown color of the body surface made it merge with the surrounding area, if it were not for the action of the hungry wolf, it would be more difficult to find it on this yellow surface than to ascend to the sky. I saw that it was staring at its big yellow eyes, long ears, and its nose was looking around with its wings open, and its vigilance was quite high!
Looking at the hungry wolf again, the cat leaned forward and concentrated on the step by step quietly approaching the hare, because it was in the downwind, its smell hare could not smell at all, coupled with its body color concealment is also very strong, the hare squatted in a daze That silly appearance even the hungry wolf could not help but show a cunning smile, somehow, at this moment in the heart of the hungry wolf secretly cheered for the hungry wolf, hoping that it would hunt successfully?
The sneak attack of the hungry wolf seemed to be quite successful, and by the time the hare found that the disaster had fallen from the sky and was about to run, the hungry wolf had occupied a high place, blocking the best retreat for the hare, and the hare had to flee down the slope. As we all know, the hare has short front legs and long hind legs, and is good at running uphill, while the downhill due to the short forelimbs and long hind legs can not make the strength, will be planted one after another, so the tragic end of the hare can be imagined!
The hungry wolf was full of ambition this time, determined to win, the arrow generally rushed to the slope, although the slope covered everything that happened next, but it is certain that the killing has begun, the scene is cruel and bloody, the hare is doomed, and the hungry wolf is stable. The target of the hungry wolf shifts from the Tibetan antelope to the human to the hare, this is northern Tibet, this is nature, everything is possible!