He was actually waiting for the golden monkey to make a decision on its own.

The Siberian leopard seemed to understand the meaning of Su Ran's words.

It also looked at the golden monkey in its arms with a look full of doting.

To the Amur leopard, this golden monkey is like its real child, although it looks different from its other two children.

But when the Siberian leopard met it in the forest, the weak and helpless golden monkey made it feel pity.

Especially at that time the female leopard was still pregnant.

There is no need to say what this means.

That's when food is desperately needed.

But she didn't choose to treat the golden monkey as food. No one can understand what the mother leopard felt at the time. Maybe the golden monkey did bring some sympathy to the Siberian leopard, and such a small one couldn't fill its stomach.

In short, the Amur leopard took it home and took good care of it.

With the birth of two little Siberian leopards, the family of three is now truly complete.

As for the golden monkey, it accidentally climbed out because of its playfulness and got lost in the forest.

If he had not been brought to Su Ran by the red and white flying squirrel, he might not be alive now.

Both sides are the best people for it.

However, compared to human society, little monkeys may still prefer the primitive forest.

Just by seeing the golden monkey looking at him with extremely pitiful eyes, Su Ran had already guessed what the little guy's final choice would be.

He reached out and touched the golden monkey's head. "It's okay. Since you want to stay here, then stay with your mother and don't run around anymore. Got it?"

Su Ran didn't care whether the golden monkey would choose him or not. He just came to the forest to look for it because he was worried about it after spending a few days with it.

Now that the little guy is safe, everything is settled.

We will meet many passers-by in life, and not all of them are necessarily human.

Su Ran controlled the drone to fly high into the sky, because as a viewer I wanted to appreciate the scenery of the forest at the last moment.

The drone flew away.

Just before Su Lan was about to leave, the female leopard suddenly came up from behind.

He hooked Su Ran's pants with his claws.

When I turned around, I saw Leopard Mom holding a big gold bar in her mouth.

Su Ran was stunned where he stood. It was more like a gold nugget than a gold bar.

It's a big trapezoidal gold nugget.

Just by taking a quick look, I estimated that the gold nugget should be around 500 grams.

A 500-gram gold nugget is worth three hundred and fifty thousand at the current minimum gold price of seven hundred!
The leopard mother placed the gold nugget in her mouth in front of Su Ran's toes, then turned around and walked gracefully into the cave.

This piece of gold was actually given to myself!
The drone was still in the sky capturing the beautiful scenery, and the audience in the live broadcast room did not see what had just happened.

Su Ran was dazed, but he quickly picked up the gold nuggets on the ground. They felt heavy in his hand, so he put them into his backpack and started walking down the mountain.

During this period, he was a little absent-minded, and the audience also noticed Su Ran's strange mood.

Someone asked him if he felt bad because he would not be able to see the little golden monkey in the future.

What else could he say?
I can only agree with it reluctantly.

You can't say that Leopard Mom just gave you a big gold brick, right?
It's not good to let too many people know about this.

It might even bring some unnecessary trouble to Leopard Mom.

But Su Ran was already full of doubts. Where did this leopard find the gold nuggets in the mountains? The sound of gurgling water in the distance interrupted his thoughts. Su Ran was also tired and wanted to wash his face and take a rest by the river.

As soon as I walked out of the bushes, I saw a long-legged Oppa on the opposite side of the river bank.

It was a bird, and more than one.

Its legs are very long and thin. From a distance they look like two chopsticks. Its mouth is black and pointed.

The whole look has a very special kind of skinny beauty.

This is actually a group of sandpipers nesting nearby.

This group of "wetland elves" sometimes spread their wings and fly high, sometimes float on the river surface, and sometimes stop quietly...

With the backdrop of water plants on the river beach, the flock of birds' postures appear very graceful.

Several birds were resting in the shallow water on the beach. Some were closing their eyes and enjoying a rare moment of leisure, some were spreading their wings and taking off from time to time, and some were swimming playfully on the water.

Su Ran first noticed a curlew standing on the back of a male to court him.

There is also a golden rooster standing on one leg, with its reflection in the water.

The audience was looking at this in amazement. Su Ran said cheerfully at this moment: "Don't you know what this is?"

"Yes, anchor, how did you know that? You are so smart."

"Anchor, are you the worm in our stomach?"

Su Ran found it funny. It wasn’t because he was smart, but because few people knew about the back-talking snipe.

"You may not know its scientific name, but you will definitely know the idiom I'm telling you, which is 'the snipe and the clam fighting'."

"But the snipe here is not the reverse-billed sandpiper, but the woodcock, which belongs to the family Pipetiformes in the order Charadriiformes."

"But woodcock are harder to spot than curlews because their numbers are so low now."

Although it is impossible to see the real snipe in the idiom, it is also quite nice to see the reverse-billed snipe.

Their long, scimitar-like beaks look like wading birds with their beaks growing backwards, hence the name reverse-billed sandpiper.

This strange mouth is the most recognizable one. It is often inserted into the water or mud and sweeps back and forth to find food.

The top of their head is black from the forehead to the back of the neck, with black spots on the wing tips, wings and shoulders. The rest of their body feathers are white. They have a slender body and agile posture.

"Don't underestimate them. More than 20 years ago, the crossbill was listed on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species. We are lucky to see it now!"

Su Ran was extremely happy. He didn't expect that this trip up the mountain would be so fruitful.

Not only was I given gold, but I was also able to photograph such a rare Crossbilled Sandpiper.

Some of the curlews are summer migrants and some are winter migrants.

They migrate to their breeding grounds in the north in early April to early May in spring and leave their breeding grounds in September to October in autumn.

They often gather in groups before migration and migrate in small groups.

As a wading bird, it has very high requirements for the environment of its resting place, so it is also called the "wetland elf". In the past, it rarely stopped in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and usually flew past.

The reason why this group of curlews chose to rest on the river beach near the forest has a lot to do with the improving ecology here.

Su Ran took several sets of photos with his camera. Any one of these photos would be the work that wild animal photography enthusiasts dream of.

Su Ran posted a part of it online, and the rest will be used as the cover of a future documentary.

Originally, he planned to leave right after the filming so as not to disturb the little guys from resting.

Unexpectedly, before I had taken two steps, I saw a curlew fighting with a river clam.

To be more precise, it was the mouth of the sandpiper that was tightly clamped by the clam. (End of this chapter)