Forest Ranger, starting from Picking Up a Lynx Girl-Chapter 299 - : Baby, You Have a Mom

Chapter 299 -299: Baby, You Have a Mom

Chen Ying and Ding Wen drove straight to the Protection Station that had called.

It took more than 40 kilometers and an hour to arrive.

The main road was fine, but Ding Wen got carsick on the mountain road about ten kilometers later.

After getting out, he clung to the tree at the entrance of the Protection Station, nearly throwing up his bile.

Chen Ying had no energy to deal with him. He asked someone to keep an eye on Ding Wen while he rushed to the injured Baby Bear with the transfer cage on the trailer.

The bear seemed to be only three or four months old, even smaller than Little Yueya.

Its shoulder, back, and right hind limb had been severely bitten by a beast, the wounds were serious, causing the entire Little Bear to fall into a coma due to blood loss and hypothermia.

Chen Ying assessed the injuries, replenished the fluids first, then quickly treated the seriously infected wounds.

During the treatment, a Forest Patrol Officer from the Protection Station recounted how the Baby Bear was discovered.

“A villager saw the Baby Bear in the field and was afraid the Mama Bear was nearby, so they didn’t dare approach. They went home instead. After lunch and waited another hour, they went to check again and found the Baby Bear had not left or moved from its spot, suggesting something must have been wrong.”

Because it was quite a distance away and the Baby Bear was hiding in the crops, the villager didn’t realize it was injured right away.

When they got close and saw the Baby Bear unable to move due to its injuries, they rushed to call the village.

The Village Chief and others went to check on the Baby Bear and informed the Protection Station to send someone for rescue.

“We brought it back, and the Veterinarian provided initial treatment, but its injuries are too severe. We couldn’t handle it and had to report it up.”

Chen Ying nodded, with no complaint about the villagers’ delay in reporting.

It was a bear, after all. Fear was only natural. The villagers had promptly reported the incident as soon as they noticed something amiss, and there were no issues with the entire response process.

“The Baby Bear must be sent for surgery as soon as possible. I’ll take it away now and the paperwork will be handled by someone,” he said.

“No problem. We’ve already registered it here, and the online process is almost complete. Dr. Chen, you go ahead and take care of it. If there’s anything else we need to do to help, we won’t hesitate,” the Protection Station worker responded.

The Protection Station staff helped, and after replenishing its fluids, the Baby Bear was placed into the transfer cage and secured in the vehicle.

Ding Wen had just recovered a bit but had to set out again, nearly collapsing.

But he just took a deep breath, grabbed some orange peel to hold to his nose, stimulating his spirit with the scent.

“Can you make it? Do you want to rest here, and I’ll come pick you up tomorrow?” Chen Ying offered.

“A man can’t say he can’t. Let’s go. You get used to it after throwing up.”

Sure enough, the second journey was much easier than the first.

Upon returning to the Bear Garden, Ding Wen looked unsteady on his feet but managed not to vomit.

The Little Bear Cub was quickly taken into the operating room for emergency surgery, and this time Chen Ying also scrubbed in.

The Little Bear Cub’s injuries were so severe that it was uncertain if it could be saved. One more person meant one more hope.

After sitting outside for a while to catch his breath, Ding Wen also changed into surgery clothes and entered the operating room.

The Bear Garden Veterinarian was already exhausted from performing surgery on the young female bear, and the Little Bear Cub’s surgery was no small task. He helped as much as he could.

The surgery on the Little Bear Cub lasted nearly four hours before it ended, after which, it was placed next to the young female bear.

The Bear Garden Medical Area was not large. Most of the space was given to the activity area and rehabilitation area, and the observation room could only accommodate up to four Black Bears at a time.

Currently, the young female bear and the Little Bear Cub were the only ones that had surgery, and to save manpower, they had to be placed together.

Chen Ying had originally planned to return after the young female bear’s surgery, but the condition of the Little Bear Cub made it hard for him to leave. He decided to stay a little longer until its condition stabilized.

“Brother Ying, I’ve heard that Chamu Bridge has rescued a breastfeeding Mama Bear with injuries, but they searched the area for a long time and couldn’t find any Baby Bears. Could the missing Baby Bear be the one you rescued?” Ding Wen asked.

Chamu Bridge Protection Station was part of a different conservation area, over thirty kilometers from the village where the Little Bear Cub was found.

But over the mountains, the straight-line distance was less than five kilometers.

The question was, how did the Little Bear Cub manage to escape and end up in a village five kilometers from its mother?

To ascertain if the two bears were mother and cub, Chen Ying contacted the Bear Garden Medical Team to see if they could arrange for a gene test.

The next morning at ten o’clock, bad news arrived; the Black Bear Mama Bear from the other station had not survived the rescue, dying from excessive blood loss and organ failure.

The workers at the Protection Station expanded their search area and identified an unusual combat site.

Nearby, they found a bear den.

In addition to the injured Mama Bear and the Baby Bear Cub that seemed to have escaped, they also discovered the body of another Baby Bear, with only half of it remaining.

Seeing the photos sent over, Chen Ying felt heavy-hearted, while Ding Wen was deeply affected.

He was a Veterinarian, but not involved in rescue work.

He had only heard of such incidents online, and it was his first time witnessing one.

The man in his thirties, red-eyed and ragged, hid in the bathroom to cry.

The condition of the Little Bear Cub was not good, weak as if it might stop breathing at any second.

The young female bear, still clad in surgical attire, awakened and was taken aback when it saw the Little Bear Cub in the adjacent enclosure.

At that moment, it thought it had given birth to a Baby Bear in its sleep!

But wasn’t this Baby Bear Cub a bit too big?

Seeing the young female bear fully awake from the surveillance, Chen Ying hurried over to check on her.

Upon entering the observation room, he saw her staring blankly at the Little Bear Cub in the next cage, and, feeling worried, he patted her head.

“What are you looking at?”

“Owr, is that… my child?”

Chen Ying hesitated for a moment before replying with a complex tone, “You couldn’t have given birth to a bear that big. I brought it back from the wild, and its mother is missing.”

“Owr, it doesn’t have a mother anymore?”

The young female bear looked shockingly at Chen Ying and then at the little cub, struggling a bit.

“Don’t move, your wound has just been stitched, and you need to wait another two days before you can be active.”

After the surgery yesterday, the young female bear’s awakening process went very smoothly, but due to pain and anxiety, she had been given a sedative to help her get a good sleep.

Not even bringing the little cub in during the night had woken her up.

Now, seeing the little cub, the young female bear’s maternal instinct was once again ignited, and she couldn’t help but want to look after the cub.

The Bear Garden Medical Team, after some discussion, decided to boldly try an experiment; they smeared the urine of the little cub and the young female bear on each other to minimize their mutual rejection.

They moved the little cub’s sickbed next to the young female bear, allowing her to watch over the cub from a close distance.

The young female bear sniffed the little cub, wanting to reach out a paw to embrace it, but was gently stopped by Chen Ying.

“Not yet, its condition is unstable and it needs to be monitored by equipment. But you can watch it and touch it.”

The young female bear, listening to the advice, lay on her side on the sickbed, pawing at the special little sickbed of the little cub, her gaze tender and firm, constantly watching over it.

Perhaps it was the young female bear’s maternal presence that spurred the little cub’s will to live; its heartbeat suddenly strengthened, and even though its eyes couldn’t open yet, it whimpered, turning its head in search of its mother.

The young female bear gently owred, and her paw reached over from the rail of the sickbed, gently grabbing the cub’s left forelimb.

The little cub’s chin rested on the back of the female bear’s paw, whimpering twice, sounding particularly aggrieved, seeking a mother’s kisses, hugs, and licks.

The Bear Garden Medical Team members ran over to watch; they had never seen such an affectionate bond form between a strange mother bear and a cub before.

Giant panda surrogate mothers of cubs were at least lactating mothers, yet the young female bear had never even given birth. How could it exhibit such intense maternal instincts?

If they could clearly understand this question, they might very well have another paper on their hands.

After watching over the two bears for two days, Chen Ying was ready to head back up the mountain.

The little cub’s condition was still not great, but now it was simply a case of doing all that one could and leaving the rest to fate.

Chen Ying surreptitiously gave the little cub a lifesaving drug; whether it could survive now depended on whether it had the will to live.

Ding Wen hesitated for a while between staying and going up the mountain, ultimately choosing to accompany Chen Ying.

He was curious about what was so appealing about Chen Ying’s job that he wouldn’t even consider making extra money elsewhere.

When Ding Wen saw the five bear cubs floundering in the forest, he owred and wanted to rush over to cuddle the bear babies.

This scared the five little cubs so much they scrambled up a tree, clutching the trunk in terror as they watched him; Sax even peed from fright.

Seeing the five cubs in panic, Chen Ying couldn’t contain his anger, rushing over to hold down Ding Wen and gave him a good thumping.

It was probably for the best that he had acted first; otherwise, the two mother bears hiding in the overhead corner, eating and sleeping, would probably have ended up tearing a human to pieces.

Seeing Chen Ying’s return, Black Bear Sister was the first to come over and inquire about the condition of the young female bear.

They truly were close friends, no pretense.

“She’s okay, just that she probably won’t be able to have cubs this year. We’ll see about next year.”

Black Bear Sister howled a few times, expressing that it was no big deal if she couldn’t have cubs; she could play with her two cubs.

Chen Ying hesitated for a moment, deciding not to tell Black Bear Sister about rescuing the little cub.

On the other side, Mendun’er’s eyes rolled around for a while. Seeing Black Bear Sister slowly walk away, it nudged Chen Ying, signaling for a scratch.

“What do you want?”

When Mendun’er was supposed to be smart, it acted dumb. When it wasn’t supposed to be cunning, it could have eight hundred tricks up its sleeve.

“Tell me, what is it you want?”

“Woof woof, I want to go out and find something to eat. I’m tired of these same kinds of bamboo every day.”

“What about your cub? They’re still nursing.”

“Can’t you help feed them? Just help for a few days, I’ll come back once I’ve had my fill.”

Actually, giant pandas in the wild often go out foraging, and sometimes when food is scarce, the mother may leave for a day or two, which is quite normal.

But Mendun’er simply wasn’t starving; it was purely tired of looking after the cubs and wanted to take it easy.

Chen Ying didn’t rush to agree, planning to ask Little Sen about the dietary and health conditions of the three cubs before making a decision.

Dinner was a bit more lavish that evening, allowing Ding Wen to feast to his heart’s content, indicating that he had no big plans for the winter and could completely stay behind to help Little Sen.

“Are you just helping out? You just crave panda!”

Chen Ying categorically refused him.

The rescue station already had enough people, and Chen Ying did not want the little cubs to have too much human contact, which could lead to bad habits.

For this reason, when Great Bai and Jiaojiao took Leo and the little cubs away, he had readily agreed.

In fact, he had already considered that after this winter, in the spring of next year, Mendun’er would have to leave with the three children, regardless of whether it was inclined to or not.

The rescue station could be a temporary shelter from the storm, but it couldn’t become their home. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

Giant pandas have survived in the wild for millions of years. They were born in the wild, grew up in the wild, and ultimately, they should return to the wild.