Blue Star Survival Project: Animal Edition

The red screech owl family stayed in the laboratory for three days. The price of living and eating was that the data from head to toe was recorded all over. A camera was installed next to the bird's nest to monitor 24 hours a day without blind spots.

Every evening, Ding Yi appeared in front of the bird's nest on time, gently picked up the cubs, and put them on the weighing scale.

"Guguji!"

Sheng Cun turned his head cruelly, ignoring the eyes of the cubs begging for help. As a former scientific researcher, he understood Ding Yi's mood very well. After all, in order to obtain the experimental data that he was thinking of, the students really could do any tricks.

He even thought sourly: There are so many observation objects sent to the door, the information obtained can be published as a good article.So... for the scientific research of the motherland, what is the privacy sacrificed by me and the cubs?

I have to say that the effect of being fed by humans is quite remarkable. After eating nutrient-rich mealworms for three days, the cubs plump up visible to the naked eye, the beaks begin to lose their tender yellow color, and the body is gradually covered by fully developed feathers , the iconic ear feathers stand erect on the top of the head, gradually becoming an adult.

After recovering from the drowned state, the three young birds seemed to have grown up suddenly and became much calmer. There were almost no fights and fights. do not adapt.

He noticed that the fastest-growing long johns were often alone in the corner of the box, with their legs bent to make jumping movements, and at the same time flapping their wings desperately until they were out of breath.

When Lantern and Daimao noticed the small buds of flying feathers sprouting from their wingtips, they also started to do the same thing as Qiuku.The three chicks stand on three legs, exporting back to back, tossing the box to pieces.

The system has been silent for several days, but Shengcun also vaguely understands that the cubs have reached a very important stage, and they need to learn one of the most basic survival skills—flying.

Sheng Cun is not the only person (bird) who noticed this.

"Senior sister, have you noticed that the young bird has started to practice flapping its wings in the past two days." Ding Yi excitedly said to the girl next to him.

"It just so happens that the typhoon is almost over, how is the progress of the artificial bird's nest?"

"Don't worry, the installation has been completed, I hope this family can move in smoothly." Ding Yi glanced at Shengcun who was combing the feathers, and suddenly froze——

"Am I overthinking, why do you feel its eyes light up?" She said to herself suspiciously.

At this time, Shengcun was laughing wildly in his heart. If the red horned owl hadn't been facially paralyzed, his mouth would have grinned to the bottom of his ears.

"It's so sweet, I'm worrying about how to solve the problem of accommodation in the future, and you guys even prepared the house for me!" He felt that standing in front of him were two angels in white.

He patted the heads of the cubs excitedly, and his eyes hinted: Practice hard, don't let these researchers down!

In the evening of the same day, the typhoon finally subsided, and the golden red light appeared in the sky, which was gradually shrouded in dark gray twilight.

Ding Yi carried the birdcage and appeared beside the parking lot by stepping on the wet stagnant water.

The big tree that fell during the typhoon has been cleared away, leaving only a bare tree stump silently in place.

She put the birdcage on the tree stump, removed the black cloth covering it, and patted the railing beside the cage, "Look, this is the ruins of your old nest."

Sheng Cun lowered his head silently, and the cubs uttered a few murmurs of unknown meaning.

Ding Yi automatically interpreted the silent atmosphere as that they were immersed in melancholy and couldn't extricate themselves. She said in a soothing tone: "But don't be depressed, I have prepared a new home for you!"

Shengcun looked around and found a wooden box hanging on the trunk of a sycamore tree not far away.

The box looks like a milk carton with a small hole in it, perfectly simulating the environment of a tree hole.

He understood, it seemed that this was their new home.

"The baby bird has been placed in the nest, let's release the male bird."

The senior and the boy wearing glasses came from under the tree, carrying a ladder in their hands.

"Okay!" Ding Yi opened the door of the birdcage, and the three of them took a few steps back and hid aside to observe secretly.

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"toil toil."

Sheng Cun got out of the birdcage, circled a few times above the heads of the three people, and let out a series of long howls as farewell.

Hearing the familiar cries echo loudly, he glanced back one last time before flying off to his new nest without looking back.

The three-day tour of human society is over, but the days belonging to the scops owl will continue.

"Although I've said it several times, I still want to say that this bird is really too human!" The boy wearing glasses sighed.

No one paid attention to him, Ding Yi took out his mobile phone, and the two girls watched carefully together.

"Sister?" He stepped forward in doubt, and found that the screen was black and white, and there was a dark hole in the middle.

"How about imaging?"

"It's very clear. I tested it just now, and I can clearly see the extent of the markings on the young bird's body."

"That's good. You don't need to send someone to watch here in the future. You just need to collect videos once a day."

"So you installed an infrared camera at the entrance of the cave?" The boy was very excited.

"That's right, this is where the bulk of the project's expenses are spent." Ding Yi's tone was very complacent.

The whispers of the three were clearly heard by Sheng Cun in the bird's nest. He poked his head out to check, and found that the camera was disguised as a branch and hung upside down in the bushes.

He raised his head slightly, turned his big face to the camera, narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth, making the most classic smile of an owl.

I wonder if people who see this video will be scared?he thought mischievously.

But Sheng Cun will never know. From Ding Yi’s point of view, this is simply a fluffy red-horned owl. She posted the video to the group, and everyone agreed to print out this emoji as a mascot. So Shengcun's big face was hung on the wall of the laboratory. Every time the testing experiment started, the students would put their hands together and pray reverently, praying for the ideal result...

Ahem, it's getting far away, let us refocus our attention on the inside of the new nest.

The artificial nest box is the same as the natural tree hole. It is covered with thick wood chips, and a few small uneven wood blocks are specially added around it to make it less flat and more in line with the original environment.

Seeing Shengcun come back, the cubs' last trace of uneasiness about their new home disappeared. They surrounded Shengcun intimately, flapping the sawdust with their wings, and chirping non-stop.

Surrounded by the crowd, Shengcun suddenly had a thought: Is he a winner in life if he has a house and a child?

Before he had time to think deeply about where this sense of happiness came from, the system prompt finally sounded:

"Hey, the progress of the task is 50%. Congratulations on achieving the achievement: Overcoming natural disasters. Reward: Family happiness. Please continue to work hard!"

"What the hell is Family Happiness?" Sheng Cun asked with question marks all over his head.

"It's your current state, aren't you happy?" the system replied.

Sheng Cun was stunned, and then began to growl: "It's okay to not have this kind of spiritual reward!"

The author says:

Post a wave of references: "Preliminary Report on the Feeding Habits and Brooding Behavior of the Red Horned Owl", very interesting!