Super Zoo

The peaceful big house, once occupied by two extra 'bears', suddenly had its living space encroached upon. Naturally, the family of grizzly bears was not pleased. After all, who would be, especially animals with a strong sense of territory?

The two sides did not get along well. In front of the family of three grizzly bears, the two skinny sun bears were like dwarfs standing before giants, completely defenseless. Without even the need for the grizzly bear parents to intervene, their cub could slap the pair into the wall with a single paw.

Animals are not much different from humans; the big and strong ones like to cause trouble and bully others, while the smaller ones tend to be much more docile.

The sun bears were just like that. Being small, their nature was much more docile than that of the grizzly bears, mainly eating a vegetarian diet, with the occasional small bird. Theoretically, living together with the panda would be ideal.

However, after Panda Lele got pregnant, she became extremely sensitive. Just a slight discomfort and Lele would start to throw a tantrum. Even Yingying usually didn't dare to provoke her. No one in the whole zoo dared to offend this national treasure. If the sun bears were to stay in the panda house, who knows how Lele might react, so they had to squeeze in with their close relative, the grizzly bear, for the time being.

Suming certainly couldn't stand by and watch the two little sun bears get flattened into bear mud. Before they moved in, he made it clear to the family of grizzly bears that bullying the two little ones was not allowed.

The little grizzly was sly and acted all right in front of Suming, even patting the two little sun bears on their heads with its paw as if a big brother were looking after his little siblings. The two adult grizzlies squatted behind, and the family of five appeared to be having a blast.

Yet, not many days into the peaceful life, the little grizzly started picking on the sun bears!

When Suming checked back a few days later, it was clear that the two sun bears were scared of the little grizzly. The moment they saw it, they hid behind Suming, yet there weren't any injuries on them.

After reviewing the surveillance footage, the truth dawned on Suming — the little grizzly was too naughty! Stay tuned to My Virtual Library Empire

Not long after he had left that day, the little grizzly had tried to beat them up.

Being skinny had its advantages; the two sun bears were very agile and had a special skill that the grizzlies did not possess: they could climb trees!

Most of the time in the jungle, the sun bears lived in the trees!

So whenever the little grizzly laid hands on them, the two sun bears fled, nimbly scurrying up the small grove of trees in Xiongshan. With the little grizzly clawing and roaring below to intimidate them, the sun bears refused to come down and even fell asleep in the tree, leaving the little grizzly helpless.

But the little grizzly had its own tricks.

Grizzlies primarily ate meat and had a varied diet, while the sun bears, by contrast, were primarily herbivorous.

Whenever the keeper finished distributing food, the little grizzly would eat the fruit first, and the sun bears, too scared to compete, could only look on pathetically from the tree.

Thus, over time, the two sun bears had barely gotten a few bites to eat.

"From the beginning, it was all wrong!" Suming smacked his forehead after watching the surveillance video.

It wasn't entirely the grizzlies' fault. The territorial instinct of predators was too strong, and the grizzly bear family had been living in Xiongshan for many years, not something easily changed overnight, especially since the newcomers were not their own kind, but merely the same order, the sun bears. The typically domineering little grizzly was, of course, not having it. When Panda Yingying first arrived, she had a rough time too.

Even now that the little grizzly and Panda Yingying had buried the hatchet and were getting along very well, almost as if they had sworn to be brothers, the grizzly still wouldn't tolerate sharing Xiongshan with Yingying, let alone with the sun bears.

A single mistake almost starved the two sun bears to death, but fortunately, the sun bears had plenty of 'tricks' up their sleeves. Whenever the little grizzly returned to its cage to sleep, the two little ones would quietly slide down the tree and dig around with their "behinds" in disarray under the tree.

Xiongshan's animal caretaker, Li, discovered many small holes in a grove of trees, none larger than the girth of an adult's forearm.

As it turned out, Malayan bears, like anteaters, would dig underground to find ants to eat.

Their tongues were almost as long as their bodies; if they sat in a tree at night and stuck them out, they would look like hanging ghosts. With their front paws, they would dig a small hole in the ground and then use their coarse tongues to continue excavating until finding ants and earthworms underground with their keen sense of smell.

By a twist of fate, these two critters had recently helped Xiongshan get rid of a few ant nests.

With things having come to this point, it was clear that the grizzly bears and the Malayan bears could no longer live together; the safety of the Malayan bears was a major concern, and it could also turn the young grizzly into a bully.

"You... you... you..." Suming scolded while holding the young grizzly's ear, the bear staring back with its innocent big eyes and a paw covering its face, sporting an 'I didn't do anything' expression.

"I'll scold you again next time!" Suming slapped it on the forehead.

The young grizzly bear stiffly fell backward into the pool with a splash and floated on the water, playing dead.

"So, you've even learned to float on your back..."

As for the young grizzly's act of playing dumb and refusing to admit guilt, Suming... really had no good solution. Animals weren't quite like children; scolding a child could solve over fifty percent of the problems, but scolding a bear... he might not be able to beat the young grizzly and even if the bear presented its butt for him to hit, he would likely end up hurting himself more with the slap.

So it was decided to simply relocate the two Malayan bears to a new home.

"Follow me, don't fall behind on the way."

Suming snapped his fingers, and the two Malayan bears followed him out of Xiongshan, one on each side.

On the zoo's pathways, the visitors were startled, thinking a bear had escaped.

The two Malayan bears, timid by nature, were also spooked by the crowds and hurriedly followed closely behind Suming's legs.

They soon arrived at the Malayan bears' "new home," which they would share with an anteater.

The anteater, covered with a layer of fuzz and dragging a long tail like a giant brush, looked curiously at the two unexpected guests.

The two Malayan bears surveyed the anteater, which resembled a long-furred giant banana with its body, snout, and bushy tail all shaped like a curved cylinder, making for a very peculiar appearance.

This anteater was a 'giant anteater' weighing over twenty kilograms, almost fifty pounds, roughly the same size as the Malayan bears but much slimmer. Its front claws were very sharp, easily capable of digging tunnels in the ground. The flesh of the giant anteater was edible and reportedly tasted good, leading to their dwindling numbers in the wild, so there was no talk of releasing this one.

The giant anteater and the two Malayan bears got together, sniffing each other, then, almost as if choreographed, they stuck out their tongues to feel each other.

"That's creepy!"

Suming almost got goosebumps; the trio's tongues were all long and thin, the shortest being almost over fifty centimeters, and the longest more than a meter. They licked each other, their saliva leaving them all sticky, which looked very unsettling.

It was reminiscent of the scene in "A Chinese Ghost Story," where the Old Black Mountain demon sticks out her tongue.