Horse warfare
Like man, animals have their own loves and hatreds, their own wisdom, their own feelings. Speaking of tigers, it is inevitable to think of the famous sentence in Zhang Yuan's "Tiger Row": "The trees in the north mountains of the South Mountain are meditative, and the tigers go around the village in the daytime." Everyone knows that tigers are known for their ferocity of "tigers' butts cannot be touched" and "one mountain does not tolerate two tigers"; and there is also the majestic side of the deceitful fox that can only use the king of the hundred beasts to "fox fake tiger power". However, tigers are also very gentle, and I am afraid that many people know very little about this. I was fortunate enough to feel the tenderness of a tiger.
At three o'clock in the morning on May 5 this year, the Siberian tiger Shunshun gave birth to a pair of twin sister flowers, when they were born, lightning and thunder, wind and rain, nature also used its own power to congratulate the birth of the king of the hundred beasts, the sister flowers were named "thunder" and "ming".
When the two little ones were born, they not only crawled very uncoordinated, but even their eyes could not be opened, just like the swaddled babies were well-behaved and helpless, only "screaming" a few times when they were hungry, and this cry was only a gentle and loving call, not a threat from the king of the hundred beasts. After more than a week, they opened their eyes in confusion and looked at the world that was still a little strange, but they were not strangers to mother tigers, because they were already familiar with the smell of mother in the day-to-day ear sideburns. During this time, the tiger mother is very fond of the two baby bumps, in addition to breastfeeding, teasing, but also always pay attention to the safety of the little ones, as soon as there is an alarm, the little tiger is taken in the mouth to find a safer place. This is really holding in the hand for fear of touching, holding it in the mouth for fear of melting, and the gentleness of motherhood is extremely feminine. More than twenty days after birth, the tigers can only toddlers, at this time the tiger mother is more busy, in addition to breastfeeding, but also to teach the tiger to walk, play, bite the skill, when the weather is hot, but also to accompany the tiger in the pool to play in the water, the tiger mother in addition to the tiger rest can rest for a while, busy all day.
For the sake of the health of the tiger mother, and for the early independence of the tiger cubs, when the tiger cubs can eat meat alone, the management staff will endure the pain and let them live in separate cages. In the first two days after the separation, the little tigers looked like six gods and no masters, looking around for their mother's arms; but the tiger mother seemed leisurely and relaxed, as if she had finally unloaded her heavy burdens and looked very relaxed. However, on the third day, the little tigers slowly adapted to the days of not having a mother, and the tiger mother was motherly, eagerly looking for the figure of the little tiger, from time to time holding the cage net next door to look up, and there was always a small piece left when eating meat. At first, the managers thought that the tiger mother was in a bad mood and the amount of food had dropped, but after the meat she put in was reduced, she still had a small piece left, and after more than ten days of such a day, the tiger mother's mood was slightly calmer, but the meat would still be left.
After careful observation, the manager finally understood the good intentions of the tiger mother: the remaining meat turned out to be the meal she left for the little tiger cubs!
Poor parents in the world!
Written in December 2006
Revised in January 2020
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