I Have a Safari Park

"Hey, why do you think this red-crowned crane can endure such a smelly place and won't fly away?"

"do not know……"

A tourist walked past Fang Ye, chatting in confusion.

Although there was only a one-meter-high net around the river, the Oriental White Stork still couldn't fly out because of the simple reason that its wings were clipped.

In fact, geese, pelicans, storks, cranes, ducks... The large birds in the zoo basically cut their wings, including flamingos.

When it comes to waterfowl lake, the first thing that many people can think of is a large group of brightly colored flamingos standing in the water. In fact, flamingos can fly!

Wing clipping is generally to cut off the tip of one wing, so that the length of the two wings is not uniform, loses balance, and naturally cannot fly.

Although it's a bit pitiful for birds, if you don't cut off their wings, you can't keep these birds free. They may fly to viaducts or various places if they fly at will. Maybe a duck is caught and stewed and drank. ...

If you don't stock it, you can only be trapped in a small bird cage, so the space for movement is very limited, but it is not good for the bird. Clipping the wings is also a way of weighing the pros and cons.

Another way is to have a very high roofed building like the rainforest pavilion under construction at the Linhai Zoo, so as not to cut off the birds' wings, but also to give them some space to fly.

But the cost of building such a pavilion is too high! Most zoos can't do it.

At most, it is like the cage where the macaw lives now, which is slightly larger than the bird cage, but it is not enough to fly.

There is also a compromise method, which is not to cut the wing tips, but only the flight feathers of the birds.

The flying feathers can grow again, and when the flying feathers grow well, the birds can fly in the sky again.

It sounds good, but in fact it also has great shortcomings. The flying feathers basically need to be cut once a year, one is that they cannot be done at any time, and the other is that the birds will be frightened and stressed once in the process of catching and chasing...

And each bird's flight feathers grow out at different speeds, some birds grow fast and need to be cut more frequently.

If the bird can't fly, it will flutter its wings and run. The speed of running is also fast, and it will swim in the water. Every one of them has to catch up and catch it, and then cut off the flying feathers. Life.

It is a kind of torture for both sides, it is better to cut the wing tips once and for all!

The World Zoo Aquarium Ethics Treaty states: "Removal of any part of an animal for the purpose of altering the physical appearance of an animal is prohibited, except that for educational or administrative purposes, the removal of wings from birds is the only permitted method and is limited to the use of Used when other methods cannot be controlled."

There is an "original sin" in zoos restricting the freedom of animals. Birds are definitely not willing to have their wings cut off and want to fly freely, but they have no choice and have to make sacrifices.

Therefore, zoos have a greater responsibility to do a good job in popular science education, let the public understand the knowledge of birds, and protect wild animals.

There is nothing wrong with clipping the wings of a white stork, but it is not good if the teacher does not provide a good environment and even misplaces the content of the lecture.

Animal knowledge, the content of conservation education, and the awareness of respecting animals are not passed on to tourists at all. The function of the zoo is only entertainment, and it is regarded as a business.

But speaking of it, people like Pingjiang Zoo are already at a medium level, and they are more graceful when they make money...

At least the site is relatively large, and each animal has a certain space for movement.

The elk exhibition area is 500 square meters, and the brick floor is also the ground. You can walk in it when the weather is cool.

The exhibition area of ​​white storks has grass and trees, as well as streams. Although it smells a bit, it will be clean if you change it once.

The worst zoo, a tiger is only given a small cement cage of 30 square meters, and it will end after three or four steps. The two-meter metal mesh ceiling is very oppressive, and there is not even a wood to sharpen its claws. Just going crazy.

The tiger could only open its mouth, and staggered and staggered around in circles in the cage with dull eyes.

I don't want to go back to the back room, because the back room is darker and the space is narrower!

At least you can see the light outside.

Most of the worst people don't even dare to think about it.

It is no different from the vegetable market. The cages of the animals are only slightly larger, the feces leak directly on the ground, the air is full of fishy smell, and the tickets are also cheap, ten dollars a piece, go in and walk around to see what the animals are like. .

Not to mention the popular science exhibition card, the name of the animal is simply written on the sign in front of the cage, and it is not bad to write it correctly.

What, you say this is a raccoon dog? Boy, this is obviously a raccoon, does the raccoon know?

Turtle Pond, you can throw a coin for the turtle or something.

No wonder many people have a negative impression of zoos!

Every day they clamor to abolish zoos and put animals back into nature.

In fact, zoos are institutions for animal protection, animal breeding, and popular science education. It is no exaggeration to say that they shoulder the future of mankind. The public's attitude towards zoos should be respectful and loving.

Before Fang Ye crossed, Linhai Zoo was a little stronger than Pingjiang Zoo.

The cages of Linhai Zoo are not as large as the animal activity space of Pingjiang Zoo. There are no grass or trees in the cages, but there are few animals. The keepers of each cage can clean and tidy.

If the food is full, the animals can't afford to feed the animals, so they send the animals to other places, so that they don't suffer from starvation.

Continue to go inside and see the camel exhibition area.

The upper edge of the outer wall is crooked, smeared with mud, and deliberately made a little crack, a little bit like a camouflage desert rock wall, and there are two large umbrellas in the middle, a log stand, and an umbrella cover made of dead branches.

Some water spots can be seen on the ground, it is estimated that it was watered in the morning, but it is almost dry.

A camel huddled in the doorway of the back house, peering out.

The blue carp looked at the camel, waved to it, and said with a smile, "Hello, camel~"

At least it looks a little more comfortable than the previous environment!

Fang Ye looked at the exhibition area, shook his head and complained: "What's the use of this umbrella? This kind of decoration is purely for people to see. On the concrete floor, the camel won't go under the umbrella to enjoy the shade, and it doesn't want to come out even if you see it. Might as well put some sand on the ground."

Materials such as cement, masonry, and asphalt have low reflectivity to sunlight, high absorptivity, and the temperature is much higher than the air temperature.

So when the weather is particularly hot, laying an egg on the ground can really bake it...

Continuing to walk forward, at the intersection, I saw a feed selling point with the words "Love Feeding" written on it.

An old lady was sitting on a chair under the tree nibbling on melon seeds. There were several bottles of mineral water on the table in front of her, and carrot sticks in small paper cups. Seeing them coming over, she said angrily, "Young man, buy No feed, 10 yuan a piece? You can feed zebras here.”

This is a major drawback of zoos, and many large zoos are unavoidable.

Is it effective to prevent tourists from feeding it while selling feed?

Fang Ye waved his hand: "No, no."

Depressed in my heart, such expensive tickets are still being fed to generate income. Isn't the sign on the front of the Oriental White Stork saying not to feed? Could it be that this brand is also a template for a zoo science exhibition card that I found online...

The old lady spat out the skin of the melon seeds in her mouth and said nothing, but she looked a little contemptuous.

The young man brought such a beautiful girlfriend here, and he was reluctant to buy the feed?