The scenery of Hexi Corridor looks like it has no chance of "virility".
The cold wind swept through the yellow sand, and it was difficult to feel a trace of water vapor in the air. Only clusters of withered and undead shrubs crawled on the exposed surface. It is hard to imagine that this seemingly barren desert is also home to a celebrity animal with "cute" attribute, rabbit .
The first person to discover this secret is the Cat Alliance, a public welfare organization focusing on local wild cat animals in China. In July last year, the infrared camera they set up here took a picture of a female rabbit stud as fat as a chicken leg. In the picture, it often takes two cubs for a walk at the entrance of the cave, and always likes to lie at the entrance of the cave with a comfortable look on its face. The Maomeng decided to name it "Ruzhi", which was taken from the ancient Xiongnu language for the leader's wife "Yān zhī".
But this warm scene was frozen in January this year, and the infrared camera captured the last scene of the rouge coming out of the hole. After that, she never showed up again.
In January 22, the infrared camera of the cave mouth captured the last image of rouge
was not as good as in the zoo. Xia Xinyue, the head of the Northwest Rabbit Snail Project of Maomeng, introduced that the average life span of a rabbit in the wild is only three years. Their natural enemies include canine animals such as shuffle fox , red fox , as well as large raptors that appear in the sky. In the desert, human activities such as wind power, rat killing, grazing, etc. may also have some impact on them.
Where has the rouge gone? What kind of life does it live like its rabbit horns now? With these questions in mind, Honor 80 series mobile phones and Cat Alliance returned to this wilderness together.
Those who seek out the snail will not encounter
It has been 10 months since the last time I took a look at rouge.
"This time I took 14 photos." Xia Xinyue squatted on a small platform on the valley, burying her head to check the data recorded by the camera, and the buttons made rhythmic sounds, "Gerbils, there are several gerbils... they are all gerbils..."
Teammate Ma Ziyu smiled helplessly, "There is no rabbit in the cave, and the gerbils are coming up, dancing wildly at the entrance of the rabbit's cave." Yanzhi Yuzi's cave was in the small hill beside them.
"There is no more rabbit trolls..." Xinyue was a little sad. Previous research believes that the average lifespan of a rabbit in the wild is only three years . It has been about a year since the first time I saw Rouge. "It is hard to imagine what it is now."
"Chicken legs" Rouge, passionately licking hair. At this time, its cubs had left the nest, and Yanzhi was able to enjoy the leisure time after taking care of the baby
A better guess is that Yanzhi gave this territory to the already independent child and spread it to other places. The joyful gaze fell into the distance, and the vast wilderness of the Hexi Corridor was their promised land.
When he turned around and left the entrance of the rouge, Ziyu saw clusters of hard yellow objects attached to the rock wall. It was also the first time he came to a place without trees in the northwest to investigate, and was very curious about the plants here. In order to see more details about this pile of yellow dumplings, the teammate immediately took out the Honor 80 series mobile phone to shoot.
A team photographer Shaowei uses Honor 80 Pro mobile phone to carefully observe plant details
Honor 80 Pro mobile phone lens, the cover on the surface of the rock shows clearer details in the macro mode recommended by AI Vlog video master wisdom. Ziyu found that this is a kind of lichen formed by the combination of algae and fungi.
There are bright yellow lichens on the rocks, which is one of the rare bright colors in the wilderness of winter
lichen has no roots and survives in a dry environment by relying on the secreted lichen acid . And on the rocks slightly farther away from it, there are a bunch of "black balls", which is a kind of moss.This means that the accumulated water during the rainy season will flow down the hillside here and form a stream, providing extra water for the rabbit.
The mouse hole in front of Yanzhi's house is also densely covered with stars on the flat ground. If you are not careful when walking, you will sink your feet into it. This is the "canteen" of rabbit trolls. They sometimes lie in front of the rat cave door, waiting for an opportunity to ambush the prey.
Rabbit horns are not as fearless as big cats such as Snow Leopard . Walking in the exposed wilderness, they must always pay attention to concealing themselves. There are hidden gullies and caves hidden among the undulating hills in the distance. These are shelters that rabbits can use to hide from natural enemies such as birds of prey and red foxes.
With the help of the 160 million pixel ultra-clear main camera of the Honor 80 Pro mobile phone, you can clearly see the patterns eroded by water and wind on the mountain
Although the rabbit horn is petite, it also maintains the same habit as many cats. They like to walk on low ridges or raised hills with a wide view and can patrol their territory around. Large rocks bulging on steep slopes may also become "landscape toilets" for rabbits. Smelling, rubbing, and then scattering and peeing and leaving your own scent information. This is a routine operation for rabbits.
There are no roads on the wasteland, but you can vaguely see paths, which are the "beast paths" that animals love to walk the most. Walking repeatedly in this wild habitat, Xin Yue learned a skill from every ridge and every animal path under her feet: You should imagine yourself as a human-shaped rabbit.
Like humans, rabbit snails also like to walk on relatively flat ramps
"When you see a raised place on a flat ground, you will think, if it were me, would I be curious about this place? Or if there is a high ground suddenly in a very flat place, will I want to stand on the high ground and look at it?"
Many times, rabbit snails are the same as humans. They like to climb high and look far, and they also prefer the most comfortable road. "Everyone's choices will be very similar."
walked to a small mound on the edge of the investigation range. Xinyue suddenly stopped and looked down at a lush pile of feces in the small soil pit under her feet.
The test tube used to collect feces samples has not arrived yet, so Xinyue could only temporarily replace it with a sealed bag first. The 01 on the bag represents Xinyue, and 07 means that this is the seventh lump of feces she picked up in this investigation
The color is black and looks very fresh; after breaking it apart, the thick hair means its owner is either eating meat or likes to lick the hair; then look at its shape, the tips at both ends bring out the outline of the hair, and the long one is evenly divided into four sections - most likely the feces of the rabbit trolls. After taking photos and recording, Xinyue collected samples of feces and marked them on the map.
"Next time if we want to expand the scope of the investigation, we can directly install the camera nearby." Xinyue excitedly marked this position and was about to go back to report to the "big cat" teacher. Ziyu hurriedly took out his mobile phone to record their gains. On the screen, the portrait mode recommended by the Honor 80 series mobile phone AI Vlog video master wisdom will blur the background, and the happy smile will look particularly bright in the wilderness.
In order to find places where rabbits often appear, Xinyue and Ziyu tracked rabbits' feces and walked on the towering ridge line. The view here is wide, and it is very likely that the route for rabbits to patrol the territory
In these places where they feel safe and comfortable, rabbits often leave some feces as "messages" for marking and communication. These feces scattered near ridges, gullies, caves and rivers have created the fate of the Cat Alliance and the Northwest Rabbit.
021, Song Dazhao (Big Cat), the founder of the Cat Alliance, and Luo Shujin's scientific research team from Peking University came to Gansu to search for traces of small cats all the way, with a strong momentum to go out of the frontier.In this desert of Zhangye , they picked up a lot of suspicious feces. Out of rigor, the Peking University team took the feces for testing, but found that it was all DNA barcode of rabbit horns.
It is hard to imagine that the dry and barren deserts on the Hexi Corridor will also live in rabbit snails
In the past, the industry only knew that There is a rabbit snail subspecies on Mongolian , and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau , which are the two most widely distributed areas in Asia. No one expected that there was a high-quality rabbit habitat in the Hexi Corridor, located at the junction of these two north-south "families".
So Maomeng set up an infrared camera here.
Big face shooting guide
"Fox, this ear is so big... Goose-throated , look at these long legs..." Xinyue whispered to name each animal "captured" by the camera, occasionally carrying some intimate complaints. After a while, she shouted in surprise: "I have a big face!"
Then she turned sideways and asked Ziyu to see the rabbit robe she photographed, and they sighed like she was cute. When they stood up again, the two of them were covered in sand and the rabbit pendant on Xinyue's backpack was shaking gently.
The strong wind in the wilderness made the bright green infrared camera wear a layer of sandy and earth-colored "camo"
In the data collected before, the infrared camera captured many cute rabbit images. Many of their behaviors are the same as domestic cats : lengthen the body and yawn and stretch; the cat observes sneakily, sticks it on the camera curiously and sniffs, leaving a big blurred face. What impressed Xinyue the most was the one I took in August last year. At that time, the temperature displayed by the camera had reached 44 degrees. A rabbit hid in the shade of the rocks, sticking out his tongue to dissipate heat, and the dog was so angry.
However, what Xinyue and Ziyu have to do is not just to appreciate the cuteness of the rabbit through the camera, they also have an important task: individual recognition.
During the break in the car, Xinyue raised the dry food with her left hand and took a bite. She tapped the keyboard with her right hand a few times, and quickly adjusted the video speed, and cut out the clearer front face of the rabbit troll, and enlarged it. After careful observation, she came to the preliminary conclusion: "This may only be PC01. It's a bit like it, but it can't be completely confirmed. It's a little blurry at night (photographed)."
This rabbit stud that was climbing down from the pile of stones stretched itself into a long cat strip. In the distance, the wind motor was standing silently in dusk. The uncertainty in Xinyue's tone is not because of not understanding these little guys enough, but because it is really too difficult to recognize rabbit horns by .
rabbit thighs have very thick hairs, and each square centimeter has 9,000 hairs. Most of the time, even gender characteristics are hidden by the round figure. They are lively and active, and do not have the awareness of taking ID photos. When the wind blows, the angle of the rabbit's movement changes, and there is another layer of noise at night, the " scar " on the forehead and the "tear trough" at the moment will be completely blurred.
Finally, the volunteers who were tortured by individual recognition of rabbits made up such a flawless joke:
"Prince, the princess has been sent to identify rabbits for three years."
"Did you admit it wrong?"
"Are you admit it wrong."
However, individual recognition is an extremely important basic task. "How many rabbits are there in China?" - This is a question that even professionals cannot answer. According to the internationally common model, there are only about 58,000 wild rabbit squirrels in the world. How many are there in China and how many are there in the desert in front of us... The lack of basic research makes it difficult for us to answer these questions.
In order to allow infrared cameras to take clear images of rabbits, Xinyue and Ziyu debugged for a long time before each point
Only by doing a detailed "imported investigation" on rabbits in this area can we know what the density of rabbits in this area, and thus further formulate a more scientific investigation plan. The Northwest Rabbit Survey, as part of the Cat Alliance Searchlight Project, aims to play a role in casting a stone to ask for directions. accumulates data for the rabbit population here through investigation, understands their survival status, and thus protects the ecological environment of humans and nature, and develops .
Therefore, "photoizing a clear big face" has become an important and arduous task. During their field work, they spent a longer time adjusting on the "Message Board" of Rabbit.
The so-called "message board" is a "small pergola" formed by a protruding layered rocks. In the record, several different rabbits have come here to conduct "cloud communication" of smell with their companions. The "Message Board" can be said to be the most popular Tukaku social platform in this area, and it is also the key point for Maomeng to install infrared cameras.
A rabbit croaks his face affectionately on the "Message Board", leaving his own scent mark.
"Go on, rabbit troll!" Xinyue stood near the "Message Board", and her shoes played rabbit troll again. Zi Yu leaned beside the camera and observed her actions from the perspective of a rabbit's snail.
"Okay, I put my feet here. This is the height of its face, right? Then suppose I rub and smell here, and then walk forward." The outdoor boots cleverly climbed down from the "stairs" on the left in three or two steps, rubbed against the rocks and left with ease. Then, the two of them lay down in front of the camera together and evaluated in the small window for a long time. After repeated several times tirelessly, I finally got satisfactory results.
"Switch on!" The infrared camera began to stand by diligently, waiting for the next visit of the rabbit after humans left and night fell.
"Decades ago, there were so many cats"
After an afternoon of investigation, Xinyue and Ziyu drove a turn, and there was a small puddle in front of the left, surrounded by yellow reeds. The car suddenly stopped suddenly, and Zi Yu in the driver's seat shouted in a low voice: "Goose-throated algae!"
Goose-throated algae, who was drinking water, noticed the movement of the vehicle from afar, and immediately fled to the back of the ridge in groups. Three young goslings, with small horns on their heads as tender as new buds. At this moment, they stood by the road and looked at the car curiously with their big and gentle eyes. It took them a long time to run across the ridge with their slender limbs, leaving behind a series of lively silhouettes.
"Maybe there will be other animals coming here to drink water." After observing quietly for a long time, Xinyue found a big turtle on the hill above the puddle. It looked at the car for a while, spread its wings and flew away.
camels raised by herders also appeared near the small pond
This barren land in the eyes of humans is actually a paradise for many creatures to live in. Various forms of life are closely related to drought, heat, bitter cold, and other lives with ancient laws of nature, creating a field full of stories.
Rats eat grass, rabbits, foxes, and raptors eat rats. There are fewer rats and more grass, and the goose-throated antlers live to chase the grass, so they also come here. Also those who want to eat grass are camels and flocks of sheep raised by herders.
At the way to investigate, a flock of sheep suddenly appeared on the hillside. Following behind was a Mongolian herder uncle tied with a waist rope outside his down jacket.
Honor 80 Pro mobile phone's 160 million pixels freeze the moment when the black-eyed lamb on the opposite hillside jumped across a ravine
Xinyue and Ziyu invited the herdsman uncle to sit down and chat together on the hillside.After talking about sheep, village, and water sources, Xinyue asked, "Have you ever seen wild cats nearby?"
"Yes, there are so many cats, just in the area below."
Ziyu hurriedly found the photo of the rabbit trolley and confirmed that the "cat" mentioned by the herdsman uncle was the rabbit trolley. When asked "When did you see it", the answer disappointed them: "It was very much a few decades ago, but now it is less, and basically invisible."
Visiting local residents can get more first-hand information about the ecological environment. During the communication with the herdsman uncle, the team learned a lot about the local rat killing and grazing
There are fewer "old veins" in the desert, but there are more new changes. "I didn't see the windmill when I started the investigation last year, but I'll have it again this year." During the investigation by Xinyue and Ziyu, these white wind motors erected on the ridge line cast narrow shadows into the desert from time to time, indicating the future of the desert's renamed "wind farm".
"Wind power, rat killing, grazing... These measures that benefit humans are likely to be a potential threat to wild animals living in deserts." To clarify the existence and extent of the impact, the cat alliance needs enough time, sufficient investigation, and more detailed evaluation to draw a sufficiently scientific and rigorous conclusion, paving the way for the formulation of a reasonable and coordinated protection plan. In this way, we can give a responsible answer to all life living here, including humans.
There are 13 wind motors erected on the mountain not far from the investigation site. Under the 160 million pixel ultra-clear main camera effect on the Honor 80 Pro mobile phone, the thin fan tip of the wind motor is still clearly visible
In this investigation, Rouge's figure never appeared in the infrared camera. Almost a year has passed since the last time I photographed it. Here, the future of the rabbits is hidden in a vast unknown.
Unknown brings urgency and concern, but it also means more possibilities. The Northwest Rabbit Pig project has just started for a year and a half, and the "TaoMeng's "Take Leopard Home" project, which lasted for five years in Heshun, Shanxi, has achieved many gratifying results. In 2021 alone, an infrared camera captured 8 female leopards with cubs. North China Leopard The human-beast conflict brought about by predators has also been greatly alleviated through the ecological compensation plan. The locals also formed a local "Old Leopard" patrol team to personally participate in various protection work such as patrol and publicity.
At the foot of Taihang Mountain , the place where the forest and the village meet no longer have conflicting boundaries, and are replaced by a scene full of vitality. This harmony comes from the concept of the Cat Alliance: takes felines as the key species to protect the ecological balance of a region. In the future, in the desert of the Hexi Corridor, Xinyue and Ziyu will have more people participating, which may restore the rabbit population here to its due scale, allowing this unique habitat filled with tension to grow into similar balance and harmony.
This dirt road entrenched on the mountain was opened for the construction of fans. The originally dense ruts on the mountain road were recorded by the 160 million pixel ultra-clear main camera on the Honor 80 Pro mobile phone, and the details were clearly presented
On the long journey from investigation to protection, it is difficult to obtain the ultimate sense of accomplishment. For Xinyue, when every field survey information is shared through the official account of Maomeng, more people can understand the living conditions of the rabbit skull in the arid desert area in the northwest, and more people can care about the rabbit skull. This is also a thing that makes her feel very accomplished.
What moved her even more was that more and more people have moved from caring to practical actions. Volunteers with outdoor experience will go to the field to investigate with them. There are more volunteers who will withdraw from their busy work and see their eyes blurred in the group, helping to complete individual identification."When you see other people who are willing to do so much like us, you feel like you are finding a soulmate."
In the sky, Strong Moon disappeared at some point, Dongdashan The last red sun was about to burst out. The HDR video mode recommended by the Master of Honor 80 Pro mobile AI Vlog Wisdom is the moment when the wilderness wakes up with the sunrise
talks about these things, Xinyue and Ziyu's figures are set against the backdrop of huge windmills standing on the ridges, and there is a kind of innocence and passion of Don Quixote-style .
Goodbye, free blue eyes
Every kind of power walks, for the guardians walking on the thorny road of animal protection, it is a little bit of hope for the spark of hope. During this investigation, the Honor 80 Pro mobile phone has gathered a hint of warmth for the possibility of symbiosis between man and nature with imaging technology. The 160 million pixel ultra-clear main camera, high resolution and intelligent recognition AI Vlog video master functions record the excitement and enthusiasm of Xinyue and Ziyu along the way, capturing moving moments in the wilderness with its intelligent keenness and softness.
1 In the desert, it is necessary to carry hammers, wood and other pile driving tools with you, and is good at using stones to build a solid " Mani Pile ". Xinyue took a photo of Ziyu's work "The first time I came to a place without trees to investigate"
In order to witness the rabbit's activity in this habitat, Xinyue and Ziyu began a night patrol at sunset. Before getting on the car, the Honor 80 Pro recorded the figure of Ziyu who came here for the first time to do a rabbit investigation. With the help of the night view recording mode recommended by the AI Vlog video master Wisdom, his look of expectation was particularly clear.
Dusk may be the worst time of humans' day, but it is also one of the most active times of rabbits. Ziyu drove the car back and forth at low speed. Xinyue sat on the passenger seat, lowered the entire window, and half of her body poked out the window, scanning the layers of ridges back and forth. What they are looking for are two light spots reflected by the animal's eyes. The eyes of the rabbit are different from the bright green light reflected by the fox's eyes, and often shine with a water-blue gem luster. When is shrouded by a beam of light, they will have a moment of stationary retention and will soon turn around and disappear into a certain ravine.
The eyes of a little rabbit are illuminated by the flash of the infrared camera, reflecting Yingying Blue light
Night patrol usually lasts four or five hours. On the cold night in the northwest, this process requires warmth with great enthusiasm. The wind poured in through the open car window, piercing people from head to toe. My mind is melted into a noise by the monotonous landscape. At this time, when I look at the plants on the ground in the distance, I will have the hallucination of "it is moving".
This time, there was no gain in the night patrols for two consecutive nights. However, for them, because they love wilderness and nature, even if they cannot see rabbits with their own eyes, every time they can come to this desert where rabbits live freely, facing the same wind and walking the same path as them facing the same wind and walking the same path, "it is already a kind of satisfaction."
With the help of the power of imaging technology, our eyes can also pass through the lens through the obstacles of the vast time and space, and go out generously with their friends from Xinyue, Ziyu and Mao League to search for the wilderness. Walking along with them, we look forward to the moments of deep looking at life in each form. This may be the warmth of technology: it moves its residency to let people see how enthusiastic the pioneers are protecting the complex and vivid things, thus calling your and my actions.
Under the record of the 160 million pixel ultra-clear main camera equipped with Honor 80 Pro mobile phone, the team lowered their heads to look for traces of the rabbit. This wilderness where people and wild animals coexist, deserves more attention and protection. On the way back at night patrol, Xinyue recalled the encounter with the rabbit.
The first night tour saw the rabbit roam. She only saw a pair of big blue eyes in the vast dark night.Later, the closest time she was to the Rabbit was on her way back to the night tour. At that time, the investigation team drove on the road, and then the colleague on the seat shouted in anger: "Reverse the car!"
The car suddenly braked and retreated. At that time, Xinyue sat in the passenger seat like tonight. Hearing the sound, he hurriedly approached the window on the opposite side and saw a round kitten running away in the beam of light. The back quickly disappeared into the night and disappeared into the vast wasteland.
Maybe at this moment, the kitten is lying in the dark, throwing curious eyes at them.
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