It turned out to be a deer!
Snowy held her breath and stared at the brown sika deer in surprise. The netizens in the live broadcast room all exclaimed that Snowy was really lucky to meet a sika deer as soon as she entered the park.
"What a beautiful deer!"
"I have seen deer in Nara. Snowy, can you try to touch it?"
"Yes, yes, the deer in Nara are so docile, and they can be fed with Senbei!"
This should be a female deer that had just reached adulthood. Although it seemed to be staring at Snowy and Zhang Zian, its eyes were located on both sides of its head, which allowed it to almost have a panoramic view of a 270-degree range, so it could prevent attacks from natural enemies.
Its back was covered with irregular spots, like plum blossom petals falling on its body, and its two big diamond-shaped ears turned from time to time, listening to the movements around it.
Snowy excitedly gave Zhang Zian a thumbs up, meaning: Great, I didn't see it, how did you find it?
The brown doe almost perfectly blended into the background color of the brown trunk and the dead branches and leaves on the ground. Snowy clearly turned the camera 360 degrees, but did not find a sika deer hiding there at all.
In fact, Zhang Zian was not the first to find it. He saw Xinghai run there, then tilt its head and stare at the trunk, as if there was something there. When he looked carefully, he saw a pair of round and full of vitality.
This was also the first time Zhang Zian saw a deer outside the zoo, and it felt completely different from being in the zoo. The animals in the zoo, because of long-term captivity in a narrow space, often lost their spirituality in their eyes and movements, and also lost their vigilance towards humans.
A few more tourists walked over on foot and saw the two standing on the forest path, feeling a little strange. Zhang Zian gestured to them in turn, asking them to pay attention to the sika deer. Everyone tacitly shut up, took out the camera equipment they brought with them, and began to take pictures.
Was this deer infected with prion proteins?
No one knew, but at least it was not sick at the moment, and both its movements and eyes were very smart.
It noticed that these people were not malicious to it, so it bowed its head and began to eat leaves and grass, and then continued to watch them while chewing.
In addition, it seemed to smell something else, like the smell of a cat, but there was no trace of a cat, which made it very confused.
Snowy's heart itched when she saw the bullet screen in the live broadcast room. She had some snacks in her backpack, and she wanted to take them out and feed them to the deer. At least they were better than leaves. It would be even better if she could touch them.
Zhang Zian saw the food she took out and quickly waved to her, motioning for her to take the food back, because feeding wild animals was prohibited in San Francisco – not only in San Francisco, but in most states in the United States. This was, of course, a good thing for wild animals, so that they would not be too dependent on humans. Moreover, ordinary people did not know the habits of wild animals, so they often fed them blindly. Some naughty children even fed things that could not be eaten to animals. Even Nara's deer were often fed to health problems.
Snowy regretfully put the food back into the bag.
Tick tock.
Water droplets fell on Zhang Zian's head and shoulders.
It wasn't raining, but the air was so humid that water droplets formed on the leaves and dripped down.
The forest was exceptionally quiet. Everyone wanted to see more of this beautiful creature.
Suddenly, the ears of Fina, Old Time Tea, and Famous twitched, and they turned their heads to look into the woods.
The four limbs of the sika deer were like springs, bouncing up without any warning, running and leaping in the forest to escape.
Just when everyone wondered who scared it, a coyote came out of the woods and chased after the sika deer, making a strange gurgling sound in its throat.
A coyote and a deer were very fast, and the woods were dense. Before the people present could react, the two animals had disappeared into the woods one after the other, and no one had captured the coyote with the camera.
"Ah!" Snowy didn't know the coyote and whispered, "That's … a wolf?"
"Coyote, a small wolf that only lives in North America," Zhang Zian corrected.
"Then … will the coyote eat the deer?" She anxiously stamped her feet. After all, this was a world that looked at people's faces. The beautiful sika deer was more popular than the coyote that looked dusty.
Old Time Tea and Famous turned to look at him, meaning to ask if he should chase after the deer and save it.
He shook his head slightly. This was a national park, where natural selection and survival of the fittest existed. Whether it was coyotes or deer, they were part of the ecological chain. As humans, it was better not to interfere, especially when it was impossible to determine whether the coyote and deer were infected. It was better to let them control their own destiny.
"The deer is very alert and flexible. I don't think the coyote will be able to catch up with it," he comforted.
Snowy was somewhat relieved, but then looked around nervously. "There won't be other coyotes, will there?"
"I'm not sure. Let's not be too far away from that group of people."
The group of people coming from behind had surpassed the two of them, and Zhang Zian motioned for Snowy to keep up.
Coyotes, like most other canines, are also social animals, but they are used to fighting alone when hunting. It may be because the area they live in overlaps with that of humans, and the objective environment does not allow them to fight on a large scale like wolves.
Because of this small incident, the originally dull garden tour was filled with a sense of excitement and mystery.
Along the way, Snowy looked around with wide eyes, looking for traces of the sika deer or coyotes, but did not look too carefully at the park itself.
The park was very quiet, and there were often chirping birds in the dense canopy, but they could not see where the birds were.
Walking on the slippery wooden plank road, breathing the sweet air that could not exist in modern cities, and taking a deep breath, it was like a cool stream that went straight to the internal organs.
The leaves covered the sky, and many of the trees that had not seen the sun for many years were covered in green moss. From time to time, some small animals would step on the dead branches and withered leaves and quickly leap over, but when they looked over, they would disappear. In addition, with the dragon branches baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, if one were to stroll alone in this park at night, one might be quite frightened by these sounds.
Snowy was a little glad that she came with an acquaintance, otherwise she would be a little scared. When the coyote appeared just now, she might have been scared and turned around and ran away.
They later saw squirrels holding nuts on the branches, and hedgehogs in tree holes, but the sika deer and coyote never appeared again.
At the end of the hiking route, they drank a cup of coffee in a nearby coffee shop to warm their bodies, and then picked some small gifts for their domestic friends and the audience in the live broadcast room in the gift shop, and then set foot on the road back.
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