I Have a Safari Park

While Yuan Yu was waiting in line to play the Tiger game, on the other side, Wang Jinxuan was in front of the glass curtain wall, admiring the beautiful posture of Jiaojiao swimming.

Jiaojiao's huge tiger body floated and sank in the water, and its tail floated behind. When she turned her head, she could clearly see the long white beards on both sides of her nose, and the yellow fur on her head rose under the sunlight. A layer of gold.

Looking at the tourists, there was a majestic momentum in the calm, which made several tourists couldn't help but exclaimed and praised.

Through the dark green water, she could faintly see her limbs moving underwater. She suddenly slapped a piece of floating bark on the water to play, blinked her eyes to avoid the splash, and patted the bark into the water. Then, the body swam forward gracefully.

Wang Jinxuan was a little excited to share her feelings, but when she looked back, Yuan Yu was still in line.

The attention that originally focused on appreciating the tiger was distracted.

At this time, a huge popular science exhibition card hung on the wall between the two glass curtain walls, with a fierce look on it. The roaring tiger caught her attention, and she couldn't help but walk up to it and look at it.

"Tigers are the largest and most impressive big cats. They are powerful predators with extraordinary might and agility..."

There is also a small picture next to it, which is an introduction to the abilities of each part of the tiger!

When she saw the golden fur, Wang Jinxuan thought of a question she had never thought of before, and she was a little puzzled. Yes, with such a striking color, how do tigers hunt?

"In the eyes of humans, tiger's fur is golden yellow, but most mammals are red-blind and cannot see the bright red-orange colors, including tiger's main prey deer, horses, sheep, etc.

In their eyes, the golden fur is similar to the color of the trees, so tigers can lurk near their prey with the camouflage of their fur. "

"So it is!"

Wang Jinxuan suddenly realized, and suddenly thought: "So, the red fur of the red panda is actually a kind of camouflage?"

It's amazing how these creatures have evolved.

She became interested in her heart, and then wandered around the exhibition hall, watching other popular science exhibition cards.

A prominently placed sign titled "Why Protect Tigers?"

In fact, Wang Jinxuan can think of one thing. In her high school biology class, she said that producers, consumers, decomposers, have their own roles, and a complete ecosystem cannot be without any part of it.

But understanding is only there.

"Tigers live in the forest and are pure carnivores, kings at the top of the food chain.

It mainly preys on wild boars, wild deer, wild sheep and other herbivores, controls the number of these herbivores, and also maintains the vegetation of the forest.

If there are no predators like tigers in the forest, it will set off a series of chain reactions.

Herbivore lacks natural enemies to check and balance, and the number increases rapidly, and the plants in the forest are devoured on a large scale, and other animals or plants in the forest that live on these plants will also be affected.

Eventually overpopulated herbivores would be devastated by disease and starvation, and entire forest ecosystems would collapse.

Now we can see more and more news of wild boars flooding, eating crops and even harming human beings, which is actually caused by the lack of predation by tigers.

Protecting a tiger can keep the forest ecosystem in its territory healthy and balanced.

Healthy forests can purify the air, clean water, and prevent landslides and mudslides.

While unhealthy forests can cause disease in animals, unhealthy animals can also promote zoonotic diseases.

In some key ecological corridors where jaguars are frequent, locals have had lower rates of AIDS and bird flu, according to a study in South America.

These big cat predators can control disease outbreaks caused by herbivores, thereby preventing disease from spilling over to humans.

If you do a good job of protecting tigers, it will ultimately benefit not only tigers, but also forests and other animals, as well as ourselves. "

Wang Jinxuan was instantly awe-inspiring to tigers. It turns out that tigers are not only mighty and beautiful, but also play such an important role in the ecosystem. It is no exaggeration to call them the patron saint of forests.

Originally, she only liked cute things like red pandas, and had no special feelings for tigers, but now she suddenly likes tigers a little bit. The two likes are not the same, and the tiger is more admirable!

Protecting animals and protecting nature, green mountains and clear waters are invaluable assets. I have heard this many times, but I have no actual feeling.

Some people may even think that human beings evolved to become the overlords of the earth in order to be able to dominate other creatures at will?

Tigers, leopards, wolves these animals are scourges! Do not kill clean, but also coexist with them?

The earth is the territory of human beings, how can these disobedient beasts survive?

It is best to catch them all in the zoo circus, and only let them be playthings for viewing, perform a fire ring or something, and then show the majesty of human beings.

This lack of respect for nature and the conceit of human supremacy have led to many serious disasters.

The growing number of emerging viruses is largely the result of ecological destruction and wildlife trade.

As humans invade the wild, the risk of new epidemics has greatly increased.

However, up to now, there are still many people who have not realized this.

This kind of attitude is like a child waving a torch, playing with a fire in the house where he lives, watching the pillars burn and still very happy, but when the fire gets bigger, when the house collapses, he realizes that something is wrong, and he will cry and regret it again. It's too late.

Wang Jinxuan took two more steps and looked at a sign next to her, "The Status of Tigers".

"The tiger originated in central China about 2 million years ago.

Among the eight tiger subspecies, the Bali tiger, the Caspian tiger and the Javan tiger have become extinct one after another.

Only Siberian tigers, South China tigers, Indochinese tigers, Bengal tigers and Sumatran tigers survive.

A hundred years ago, there were more than 100,000 wild tigers roaming the wilderness around the world, and now there are fewer than 4,000.

There are less than 100 wild tigers in my country. (Optimistic estimate, conservatively less than 30)”

Wang Jinxuan was shocked by the shocking number, her eyes widened in disbelief: "Is there only so many tigers left?"

I just learned that the tiger is the protector of the forest, but the protector has already fallen.

"The South China tiger, the ancestor of all tiger subspecies, is also called the Chinese tiger, a tiger subspecies endemic to China.

In fact, the South China tiger is not limited to South China, it once spread throughout North China, East China and the Central Plains of China.

Due to human activities and hunting, its habitat has shrunk sharply to the southern part of China, so it was named the South China tiger. Its preciousness far exceeds that of giant pandas.

At the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were still 4,000 South China tigers in China. In just 20-30 years, there were 40 tigers, a decrease of 99%.

After 1986, people saw a live South China tiger for the last time in Anren, Hunan, and there is no definite wild South China tiger record since then. Only a few captive tigers survive in zoos.

There are fewer than fifty South China tigers kept in zoos across the country. Due to inbreeding for many generations, their vital characteristics have been severely degraded.

From the biological theory, the population of a species is less than 1,000, and the possibility of its natural reproduction is very small.

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The heavy text on the popular science exhibition card made Wang Jinxuan sigh deeply.