Tibetan antelope, Hoh Xil wizard
Dozens of antelopes across the 10-meter-wide highway for nearly an hour. I did not expect, the annual migration of thousands of miles during lambing, in the face of the most harsh environment unafraid of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Tibetan Antelope mother in the face of mankind to build a road so when the fear and weakness. They face even more formidable in the future of the railway Shiyou off?
Year after year, female Tibetan antelopes in the Hoh Xil mysterious depths of focus, after lambing, but also led the newly-born lamb to travel long distances back to their hometown. Early in August, flocks of ewes and lambs gathered in the west side of the Qinghai-Tibet highway. To observe the Tibetan antelope populations and migration routes along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway wild animals examined, the Suonandajie Nature Protection Station volunteers will observe a shortened time from 7 days to 3 days time.
August 13, I accompanied a routine survey volunteers. Away from the source of the Yangtze River in the north qumar he is not far away, I just found a group of 60 Tibetan Antelope sheep are in fear close to highways, we are far from parking observation. Whenever the cars roaring past on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway when a flock of sheep near the road to escape a quick U-turn until the car gone away again after close to highways, cars come and go ... ...
And from numerous times, busy Qinghai-Tibet Highway was finally a temporary calm. The ewes climbed a bold two-meter-high embankment, standing on the roadside looked around, followed by a flock of sheep behind somehow, suddenly turned around and bolted scared. Nazhi the edge of the road is not timid ewes, firmly stood. The power of examples is endless, and the sheep will soon close the pace of living, they are both U-turn toward roads, there are more sheep station to the roadbed.
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Tibetan antelope is the fastest animal, can be 80 kilometers an hour run down the plateau. I think they confirmed that there was no danger, it will crossed the road the fastest speed. Tibetan antelope did not expect to face as the face of a cliff road on the wire, a pot of hot charcoal fire, like the African wildebeest migration on the way the face of a crocodile infested river embankment on the sheep a few minutes not a full ride on the road.
Our hearts are all mentioned it, and kept silent urging, road is now very safe, fast, fast, faster than, but also non-stop prayer, do not come car, do not come to cars.
Or Nazhi bold but brave ewes first set foot on a black asphalt road surface, but moves slowly and carefully, every step of the test, 10-meter-wide road away for too long.
The first sheep finally passed, when the foot left the road, immediately on the resumption of the nature of the Tibetan antelope, to run down at an alarming rate subgrade, bolted to a safe zone away from the road. Then follow the example of a Tibetan antelope, also a jog trot step onto the road, during which a lot of timid antelopes are subject to various factors, startled, from time to time and from roadbed running back, even to the middle of the road, but also running back, but the see most of the Tibetan antelope are firmly forward, back to the sheep they are immediately returned, the road chaos.
Finally, the majority of the Tibetan antelope crossed the road. The remaining few small Tibetan antelope is not even the courage to embark on the roadbed did not, looking at the road the other side of the sheep, despair ran towards the opposite direction.
Their mother did not forget them. Sheep walk the road, there are three ewes of a sudden he turned back, crossed the road and difficult to escape the kids to go to recover.
Three ewes will soon catch up with their own children, and again near the road with a lamb, of which two ewes successfully led their children to cross the road, catch up with the sheep. Finally a Lamb stood on the roadbed, how dare set foot on the black pavement, left to ewes back and forth on the road to guide and encourage.
At this point, a car came speeding from a distance, I dropped the camera, standing on the road non-stop to the car waving, hoping it would stop, but the cars roaring past or from my side towards the road Tibetan antelope mother rushed.
Ewe looking at oncoming cars, stubbornly stood side roads, cars do not slow down, at the last moment before ewes drop their children in despair, rushed down embankment, with shock and sadness bolted away ... ...
Nazhi lamb, then shock in the run to the other side, a few dared to cross the road with a small partner slowly disappeared in the distant horizon ... ...
Looking at the wave of the lamb lonely silhouette, I seem to hear a few cries of the children did not your mother. Lose the protection of sheep, there is no mother's milk, they can safely do tonight?
We stand in place for a long time, hoping ewes across the road again, to find its children, but the sheep are too far away.
Perhaps, only the mother's fear of Tibetan antelope on the highway, has let the spirit of the verge of collapse.
Dozens of antelopes across the 10-meter-wide highway for nearly an hour. I did not expect, the annual migration of thousands of miles during lambing, in the face of the worst natural unafraid of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Tibetan Antelope mother in the face of mankind to build a road so when the fear and weakness. They face even more formidable in the future of the railway Shiyou off? (Yang Xin Zhou Hao)
Author: simbaleo
