Super Zoo-Chapter 787 - 766 Shaving Hair and Trimming Nails?

Three little monkeys simultaneously stuck out their tiny butts at Suming. At first, Suming didn't get it—were they about to fart at me?

But then, catching sight of their bare buttocks, Suming suddenly understood.

Although the White-headed Leaf Monkey's butt isn't covered in much fur, it certainly isn't this bare; the fur on these three monkeys' butts looked like it had been shaved with a razor, revealing a swath of red, raw skin.

"Oh!"

Suming realized, those two tourists shaved the monkeys' butts?

This... is this some kind of sickness?

Why on earth would they shave the hair off a monkey's butt?

I've heard of people shaving their private parts, talking about Azure Dragons and white tigers, but shaving a monkey? That's unheard of!

Shaving is one thing, but then Yingying took Suming's hand and placed it in the slightly older White-headed Leaf Monkey's small hand to show him.

Several very dark little paws... oh, they actually had no nails—sharp nails appeared to have been trimmed away by some sharp tool.

Suming was completely dumbfounded. Shaving their butts was one thing, but clipping the monkeys' nails, too?

Did those two tourists have an obsession with cleanliness, coming here to give the monkeys a full-body clean?

For monkeys, the hair on their butts and their nails—or claws—are very important.

Monkeys often squat on tree branches, and without any hair on their butts, they would feel very uncomfortable. The butt hair not only acts as padding but also as a filter, preventing dirt from getting in, and the loss of it could easily lead to urinary system diseases.

As for claws, they are tools for climbing, foraging, eating, and scratching itches or picking off lice.

Without their sharp claws, a monkey could easily slip off a tree branch and fall, possibly to its death.

Those two, whether they were mentally disturbed or just doing it for fun, seemed like they were playing a prank, but in reality, they were causing significant harm to the monkeys, or at least creating a safety hazard.

Animals are different from humans, and sometimes what seems like a trivial act to us can be lethal for them.

For example, giving pet dogs the milk that humans drink can cause serious stomach troubles for them, possibly leading to fatal diarrhea; if you cut off a cat's whiskers, it would completely lose its sense of distance and direction, have trouble walking, and if it's a stray cat, might even starve to death due to its compromised hunting ability.

"Alright, alright, go back and heal up," said Suming, torn between laughter and tears. The monkeys wouldn't have major problems in the reserve, but those two people were just too nonsensical—they needed a good lesson.

First, he called Mr. Tian and the others waiting outside to report that everything was safe, to prevent Mr. Tian from getting agitated and actually arranging for armed police to come to the rescue, potentially causing a real tragedy.

Then, turning off the walkie-talkie, he spoke sternly to the Lure forest rangers, "Bring those two up here!"

The two young tourists walked through the throng of wild animals, trembling, until they reached the clearing.

Suming found a large rock to sit on. The crowd of animals encircled them like a court holding a trial, and the two tourists shook like leaves, standing in the middle as if they were criminals.

"What in the world were you two thinking? Shaving monkeys and clipping their nails? It's quite something that you guys could come up with this idea," Suming asked with a puzzled look on his face as he crossed his legs casually.

Want to talk about fun and excitement? There's an activity in the travel brochure that includes cleaning crocodile teeth, which is way more thrilling than bullying monkeys, right?

The male and female tourists were probably a couple, about Suming's age. The girl was so scared her legs were trembling constantly; she couldn't even stand properly and was clutching onto the boy. The boy didn't look much better, his face pale as a sheet.

"Comrade, we were wrong, we really were wrong..." The boy's voice was trembling as he took out a plastic bag from his pocket, "Monkey fur and nails are all in here..."

A Lure patrol member took the bag over and handed it to Suming. Suming opened it and saw that it did contain a lot of grayish-white hair, some keratinous materials resembling nails, as well as a small pair of nail clippers and a little razor for shaving.

"Damn!" Suming wanted to slap them across the face. What in the world were you trying to do? This was premeditated, toying with these little animals with malice in mind.

There are still significant security oversights; how could they let people bring in these 'weapons'? The security checks must be strengthened! fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

"Leader, leader..." The young guy had good judgment, as he could tell Suming was a leader with just one glance. These two tremulously uttered words actually scored him some points. Suming waved his hand: "What do you want these hairs and nails for, keepsakes? Or are you planning to cast spells, make voodoo dolls, and curse these monkeys?"

"Leader, these things were not what we wanted," the young man hurried to say.

"Not what you wanted?" Suming was slightly startled: "Explain clearly, come clean."

"Roar!"

The lions roared at the couple like bailiffs in a yamen. The leader had spoken, and the lions raised their heads and let out a fierce roar, spraying spit all over their faces.

The girl burst into tears from fright, and the boy's legs gave out, making him sit down on his butt, his face mournful as he said, "Leader, don't eat me, I'll confess everything..."

Suming cast a very satisfied look at the lions, good big cats, quite perceptive, and worthy of training.

"Eat you my ass!"

The young man, almost sobbing, stuttered out the truth. At the beginning, his speech was jumbled, probably due to fear.

But soon he realized that these ferocious animals seemed to completely obey the orders of this 'leader' before their eyes. As long as the leader didn't give the order, they were safe, to the extent that one lion lay at the leader's feet like a docile kitten, with the leader even taking off his shoes and warming his feet in the lion's long, warm mane.

The young man's courage gradually grew, and his speech became much smoother.

This couple was local university students from Yangchuan City, and as it turned out, they were actually Suming's schoolmates, only in their freshman year.

The boy's name was Bai Chen, who was lucky enough to win a spot in this tour.

Visiting the protected area was definitely something to brag about, something not just anyone could do, even with money. Before Bai Chen set off on this trip, he was quite proud for several days, telling everyone he met.

Last night, a foreign visiting professor from the university approached Bai Chen, expressing his hope for Bai Chen to locate a primate with white fur in the protected area—specifically, the White-headed Leaf Monkey—and to covertly bring back some of the monkey's fur and keratin for research purposes.

The professor mentioned that these monkeys were rare primates found only in Huaxia, and he was about to return to his country soon, wanting to take some samples back for genetic research.

Bai Chen didn't think too much at the time, only feeling that taking a bit of monkey fur and keratin wouldn't harm the monkeys. Plus, the professor offered a handsome reward: five thousand Huaxia yuan, which to a university student was nearly half a year's living expenses.

Thus, today's incident occurred. After Bai Chen and his girlfriend arrived at the protected area, they found an opportunity to leave the group and secretly clipped some hair from a few monkeys.

One could say the animals in the protected area were quite human-friendly and obedient; normally, monkeys wouldn't tolerate such mistreatment. The animals here, being more accustomed to humans, gave him the chance to succeed.

However, this scene was witnessed by a Lure person patrolling with a hyena, leading to a minor confrontation.

The Lure people had to be considerate and couldn't really do anything to the two university students. The pandas, however, didn't care; at one whistle's call, a group of fierce beasts came rushing over and detained the two unfortunate kids.