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[CHINESE] Which Elk Should Die? by hesyifei, literature
Literature
[CHINESE] Which Elk Should Die?
「鹿死谁手」
1951年秋,在大提顿国家公园的森林中,一只已尽暮年的母鹿趴在地上,无奈地叹了口气。过去十六年,这只母鹿目睹着鹿群数量飞速上升,欣欣向荣,但她却知道鹿群的存亡已危在旦夕。
当她还是只小鹿时,她和其它所有鹿一样,都对两脚兽充满了崇拜之情。从小听母亲嘴里传颂的各种故事都无一不把这群有着细长四肢的两足动物当成是鹿群的救世主。
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两脚兽的其中一项伟业和一种叫「狼」的生物有关。她还记得妈妈小时候教她的「狼是一种四肢短小、面目狰狞的可怕动物,他们凶残无比、无恶不作、冷酷无情,专挑鹿群中的老弱病残猎杀。」当时心里的惴惴不安和恐惧她至今难忘。不过,她当时——以及其后的一生中——都从没真正见过一头狼,为什么呢?这得感谢两脚兽,在她奶奶那一辈时就将狼赶尽杀绝。似乎奶奶和其它鹿还一起给两脚兽办了一场盛宴,放满了我们最喜欢吃的草和树皮献给两脚兽作贡品——不过根据故事,最后没有一只两脚兽来吃,真是可惜。
比起看似遥不可及的狼的传说,两脚兽的另一项神迹她则更有切身体会。从她有记忆起,她冬天便从没挨过饿。但她知道,从前可不是这样的,她太奶奶当时便有一年冬天格外艰苦,因为雪太厚,鹿群无法走到平时冬天栖息的地方。她太奶奶勉强活了下来,但其它鹿群就没这么幸运了。那个冬天之后的春天,整片大地上都尸横遍野。口口相传的故事中有着这样的结尾:「幸存的鹿群们集结在一起,祈求两脚兽的神迹出现。两脚兽听到了我们的虔诚祷告,于是每年冬天,他们就会施展神迹,让苜蓿凭空出现在我们冬天栖息地上。从此以后,鹿群便过上了幸福快乐的生活」。
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没错,儿时的她和其它所有鹿一样都对未来充满希望,认为在两脚兽的帮助下,鹿群定能越发壮大,生生不息,成为这块地的主人,真正「从此过上幸福快乐的生活」。但这几年来,她渐渐发现了不妥。
那是1948年一个平凡的下午,她慈爱地看着自己的子女在旁边嬉戏玩耍,并想着晚上要找些什么给他们吃。渐渐的,在温暖的午后阳光下,她做起了白日梦,想象着自己子孙满堂,在这片大地上生生不息。「一只小鹿,两只小鹿…」她开始数起来自己想象出来的子孙后代。数到五十只时,她开始感觉到背脊有些发凉,开始感觉觉得不对劲。数到一百只时,她的心跳呼吸开始加快,不对劲的感觉更加大,但她却仍然想不出这种感觉的来源。数着数着,心中那点不对劲开始变成了恐惧。她两眼发黑,晕了过去。
「妈妈!妈妈!」她被身边
[CHINESE] Which Wolf Do You Feed? by hesyifei, literature
Literature
[CHINESE] Which Wolf Do You Feed?
「鬼哭狼嚎」
很多人都知道大黄石生态系统的狼曾在1920年代被赶尽杀绝,直到1995年才重新将其引入,方才让我们现在有机会目睹这一美丽而威严的野生动物。但大部分人都将1920年代狼的消逝完全怪罪于1910年代的那群猎人,和他们在现在看来完全不道德的猎杀行为上。但殊不知,事实远没有这么简单……
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1870年,黄石区域几乎已是美国本土唯一还未被探索的区域。一群狼正在黑暗中沿着Cache Creek匍匐前进。狼是这里真正的原住民,不知道祖先多少代就已在这儿定居。年复一年,日复一日,狼作为顶级掠食者在这片遥远的大陆上生生不息。
在这个安静的早上,这群狼正如往常一样在自己的领地里寻找猎物。这时,父亲的鼻子扭动了一下,他闻到了那熟悉又陌生的味道——两脚兽的味道。瞬时间,爷爷传下来的恐怖故事又一次浮现在他脑海中:当时爷爷在包围了那有着细长四肢的奇怪两足动物后,它上肢中发出的三声巨响把狼群吓得四散奔逃。没有任何东西能比那声音更加可怕了。在爷爷的余生中,他一直致力于驱逐两脚兽,保护自己家族的安全。可惜两脚兽仍越来越多,直到他临终仍未能圆梦。不过,爷爷的遗志也传承到了他孙子身上。年轻气盛的他有一个梦想,坚信自己家族技艺高超,定能是最终打败两脚兽的那个传奇狼群,流芳百世。
所以这次他决定,主动发起进攻!悄悄地,他带领着狼群靠近这几只两脚兽,并冲过去开始发动攻击,把它们吓得落荒而逃。嚎叫著,他们庆祝着又一次胜利!直至此刻,他们依然一厢情愿地抱着即使不能完全驱逐两脚兽,也至少能和他们共存的想法,却怎样也料不到他们和其它狼群的黑暗十年即将到来。
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1873年,三年春夏秋冬飞逝,黄石国家公园已以「保护自然生态」为由正式成立。
在这片「被保护」的土地上,一只孤狼艰难地在Pelican
Which Elk Should Die? by hesyifei, literature
Literature
Which Elk Should Die?
It’s autumn 1951. In the forest of the Grand Teton National Park, an aged elk was lying on the ground. It was a peaceful afternoon, but looking at the beauty around her, she couldn’t help but let out a sigh. In the past sixteen years, she had witnessed an explosion in the elk population. The elk species seemed to be thriving and growing. However, she knew that the end was near. If things continued like this, in a decade or a century, there would be no elk left on this land.
When she was just a calf, she worshiped twolegs like everyelk else. Twolegs are those creatures who walk on two legs and have long limbs. The stories she heard every night all made the twolegs looked like an omnipotent god who rescued the elks from danger and famine.
Among all those legends, one was about a creature called “wolf.” She still remembered how frightened she was when mom first told her the story. “A wolf is a ferocious creature with short legs and gray coat. They are cruel, evil, and ruthless. They
Which Wolf Do You Feed? by hesyifei, literature
Literature
Which Wolf Do You Feed?
Many people know that the gray wolves in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem were once extirpated in the 1920s. Without the reintroduction in 1995, we would never be able to see this beautiful and majestic animal here. Some think that the hunters and their unethical hunting practice during the 1910s should be fully responsible for the extirpation of wolves in the 1920s. However, the truth might not be so simple.
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It was 1870, and the Yellowstone region was almost the last unexplored region within the United States. On this vast land, a wolf pack was quietly traveling along the Cache Creek. Wolves are the real native to this land, thriving on this remote continent as apex predators for countless generations.
On this quiet morning, the wolf pack was searching for prey in its territory as usual. Suddenly, the father’s nose sniffed something. It’s familiar yet still foreign – the smell of the twolegs. He recalled the horrifying story told by his grandfather again: as his grandfather’s

