When Yang Qi arrived at Bear Mountain, he saw a crowd gathered outside the enclosure from a distance.
There were zookeepers in blue work uniforms, security guards wearing armbands, a few colleagues in casual clothes who looked like they were from logistics or administration, and seven or eight tourists, all craning their necks to look inside through the tempered glass wall.
Low murmurs and suppressed laughter occasionally drifted from the crowd.
"It's happening again…"
"How many days has it been now?"
"That poor male bear."
...
Yang Qi quickened his pace, made his way through the crowd, and arrived at the glass wall.
The scene inside the enclosure made him start for a moment, then he couldn't help but chuckle.
A large female black bear with a sleek, glossy coat was chasing a slightly smaller, cowering male black bear all around the enclosure.
The female chased in earnest, her paws POUNDING against the ground, a low, discontented growl rumbling in her throat.
