I Have a Safari Park

"It's almost impossible to push the government to establish laws on insecticides and herbicides, or to set up monarch butterfly reserves in the wilderness, but researchers have done some modeling and found that it may be possible to increase the food of monarch butterflies in cities. To protect the monarch butterfly.

The food of the monarch butterfly is milkweed, which is a juicy plant. People wonder if we can send a packet of milkweed to the residents of this area for much less money. Seed, ask residents to sprinkle this seed in the city's small garden, in their own backyard or in the wild, and the network of these milkweeds can reverse the fate of the monarch butterfly.

There have been failures and dramatic successes in this process, and people have found that the idea is actually true. When the milkweed seeds were sent to residents, one after another milkweed gardens appeared in the city.

Because of the existence of these flowers, some worthless wild land has become a more beautiful urban landscape, attracting more wild animals, improving the quality of residential areas, and even attracting commercial investment.

So the city may not be a place with poor biodiversity, maybe in the future, the city can be used as a habitat for the protection of key species. Although the scale of urban green space is small, there are also many organisms that are small in scale. "

Fang Ye wrote down this story in his heart: "I think this is a good example, thank you teacher."

Wang Yan added: "The number of monarch butterflies has dropped a lot in the past two years, and it has repeatedly hit new lows. This year's situation seems to be particularly bad, and it should also have something to do with the wildfires in the United States."

Fang Ye was helpless. In recent years, global warming and frequent extreme climates have a fatal impact on butterflies. Coupled with the use of pesticides and herbicides, growing milkweed in cities may be a drop in the bucket.

How many effects it has is another matter, but this kind of attempt is still very positive. It can let tourists understand a way of getting along with animals and know that symbiosis is a friendly and mutually beneficial thing.

In the future, when building an urban animal exhibition area, you can raise some monarch butterflies and create a garden landscape.

The zoo not only needs to display the star animals such as tigers and pandas, but also needs to guide tourists to pay attention to the inconspicuous animals such as insects. Their role is also very important, and it is even more difficult to count and study their population survival.

Chatted with Wang Yan about other things.

Wang Yan is not only a researcher, but also a teacher in the school.

One of the rough feelings about being engaged in conservation biology is to see the changes in the world and the threats and dangers that may arise before others.

One of the tasks to prepare for this semester is to conduct a survey to see the distribution and habits of raccoon dogs in Linhai.

When I saw the raccoon dog last night, I was not only shocked by the courage and spirit of exploration it showed, but also had a faint premonition of a conflict that might be contained in the future behind it.

Maybe in another ten or eight years, the raccoon dog will fully adapt to the city, and its habits will also change, and it may become the same existence as the raccoon in North America.

At that time, there may be some conflicts between humans and animals, such as the raccoon dog bringing parasites and germs, so doing some research in advance can also prepare for the future.

Fang Ye mentioned that because of the milk tea wild boar incident, some infrared cameras were placed around the village near Linhai City, and the data collected by these infrared cameras could be handed over to Wang Yan and the others for analysis and research.

Not only scientific research cooperation, but also money and sponsorship for Wang Yan's team.

Although he only talked for half a day, he felt that Wang Yan was worthy of being a researcher of Galaxy University, and the scientific research work was still left to professionals.

Wang Yan is happy!

The most worrying thing about doing scientific research is funding, I didn't expect Fang Ye to be so forthright, and he started talking about money not long after we met.

Before I came here, I heard from a friend who was a matchmaker. Fang Ye was a wealthy and rich second-generation. He started a zoo by himself, and he was very good. He usually asked them questions humbly. Inexperienced dude.

See you today, that's true.

Fang Ye's impression was also good, and the two talked very happily.

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The zoo has become more lively recently.

The introduced Sichuan golden monkeys and Japanese macaques were transported to the zoo and entered the stage of isolation and quarantine.

The pavilion is almost finished, and the system construction team does not have a holiday and rest, and is still working hard during the Chinese New Year!

After the quarantine is over, the exhibition will be available in about March.

The two climbing halls also introduced some new animals, such as the king cobra or something.

The new animal brought a large amount of green leaf coins into the account, which timely extended the follow-up construction of the elephant hall.

The elephant exhibition area is really large, and it is estimated that it will be completed in April, which is already super fast.

The Panther pavilion is under construction, and it was completed in April, and the jaguars are on their way.

There is already a black panther, so I didn't buy a black panther specially. The imported male is of normal color.

The area of ​​the leopard's pavilion can be smaller, mainly to provide them with some trees to climb.

In contrast, in order to save the green leaf coins, the hot spring hotel paid for a serious construction team to build it, and the speed was extremely slow. when it will officially open.

In addition to patrolling the zoo every day, Fang Ye also goes to the isolation facility to see the newly arrived Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey, to get in touch with the black panther, to visit the lion cubs at the animal hospital, and to visit a few wolf cubs in Xiaoyu's delivery room.

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isolation field.

Fang Ye chatted with the staff, asked about the animal's condition, and came to the cage of the golden snub-nosed monkey.

Two golden snub-nosed monkeys were squatting on the log in the middle of the cage, brushing each other's fur, while the other was sitting nearby, and a smaller one was walking around.

Fang Ye watched with relish!

The head and limbs of the golden snub-nosed monkey are reddish brown, and the fur on the belly is snow-white, with a little gold on the outside.

The fur on the back is golden yellow, with long strands, and the image is a bit like a member of the beggar gang in the martial arts novel, wearing several layers of tattered clothes, the clothes are torn into long strips.

However, compared to the beggar gang, the golden fur of the golden snub-nosed monkey is undoubtedly much more gorgeous!

Moreover, the members of the beggar gang are all unshaven, with long hair, looking messy, and the golden monkeys have round and chubby heads.

There are a total of 4 golden monkeys introduced this time. The most burly and majestic one in the cage is the leader Dabao, whose wife Yaya will be grooming Dabao, and the other Lili is Dabao's wife.

There is also a one-year-old little golden monkey, Xiaobao, who walks around and looks quite lively.

Golden snub-nosed monkeys are also quite rare animals, and it is a big deal to introduce 4 of them at a time.