I Have a Safari Park

Meiling and Meilan don't mean that it's good because they come from the same elephant camp. Elephants make friends based on their personality, which is more complicated and purer than human making friends.

It's just that the two elephants just happen to have a good relationship.

If you like it, you will often stay together, go for a walk together, eat together, and if you don't like it, you will show aggression when you get along.

Like Meiling and Meilan, they like to sleep next to each other when they sleep in the back room, while Pingping is lying on Bobo's bed. Then he raised his nose and touched the flat head back and forth, like an adult touching a child's head, expressing his friendliness.

Pingping also touched Bobo's nose, his ears fluttered, and he looked very happy, his mouth opened, and he made a low whistle.

This kind of low voice can be heard when it is close, but the tourists outside the trench cannot hear it.

Fang Ye could only judge that they were communicating through Ping Ping and Bobo's open mouths.

"The elephant who just walked past, named Pingping, is also the first elephant to come to our zoo! She and Bobo are saying hello at this moment. This gesture of touching each other's trunks is the greeting ceremony of the elephants and the expression of friendship. ."

Pingping looked at Meiling and Meilan, and stuck out his nose, like a human reaching out to greet them.

Hi! the weather is nice today?

Mei Lan glanced at Ping Ping, but there was no reaction, while Mei Ling glared at her, opened her ears, and scratched the ground with her front feet.

Don't bother us!

Pingping hurriedly rolled his nose forward and took a step back aggrievedly.

Greeting you so nicely and scaring me.

Bobo opened his mouth and let out a low voice, as if to persuade him to fight.

Everyone comes from different places, and it is fate to be able to come to Linhai Zoo! The environment here is so good, we should also cherish the current life, live in harmony and not make conflicts.

Bobo is big, old, and respectable.

Meiling was a little dissatisfied at first, but Meilan stuck out her nose, hit up with Meiling, and opened her mouth to communicate.

Hey, forget it, Senior Bobo is right!

Under Mi Lan's comfort, Mei Ling gradually calmed down.

Fang Ye watched the elephants interact while explaining the meaning of their behavior to tourists.

The tourists listened to him explaining that Bobo and Pingping had a friendly relationship, Meiling and Meilan were good friends, Meiling threatened Pingping and Bobo was trying to persuade him to fight, which was very interesting.

There is such a complex social relationship between elephants?

Then, Bobo raised his nose again, facing a net bag hanging above his head, and beat him repeatedly!

The net bag swayed like a lob. Every time I slapped, some withered and yellow things were scattered and scattered.

When Bobo slapped the net bag, Pingping and Milan and these elephants also stuck out their noses, rolled up the things and ate them.

Liu Wei guessed that it is also a kind of food enrichment!

The tourists watched the scene of the elephants feeding and exclaimed: "Wow, this trunk! It's like an arm, it's so flexible!"

"It feels like what our hands can do, this elephant's trunk can do! It's amazing!"

"The strength is also great!"

Someone asked curiously: "Chief, what is this?"

Fang Ye said with a smile: "The net bag contains some hay! Hang the net bag in the air, and the elephant needs to raise its head and stretch its trunk to get food.

The movement of looking up can exercise the muscles of the front and back, as well as the most important trunk of elephants, which is very helpful to their health.

An elephant slaps the net pocket, and other elephants can also eat. This way of feeding can also promote the unity of the elephant herd and make their relationship more harmonious. "

Liu Wei couldn't help sighing: "This enrichment is really amazing!"

Gao Kaijin looked at these feeding elephants with mixed feelings.

There are also elephants in the zoo in his home city!

The area of ​​the activity field is about 500 square meters, and they are all cement floors.

The elephant was inside, shaking his head when he saw it.

Some adults told the children that it was an elephant dancing.

Gao Kaijin wasn't very clear before, but he just felt that the environment was rather monotonous and the elephants were rather boring.

But thinking about the zoo, the conditions are definitely not as good as those in the wild, there is no way.

After visiting Haihai Zoo, listen to the explanation of the breeder and the popular science exhibition card, and understand the concepts of animal welfare, enrichment, stereotyped behavior, and natural behavior!

Knowing that the elephants at the zoo in my hometown are nothing to shake their heads, it should be stereotyped.

I saw the elephants in the Linhai Zoo, walking in the sand, digging hidden food from concrete pillars, splashing water on tourists, raising their trunks and slapping the hay in the air.

How can the environment of the zoo be made like this? Can it be so rich?

I suddenly have an unprecedented interest in elephants and want to know more about elephants.

How do they usually play, what can this long nose and big ears do, and what are the stories?

At the same time, I feel sorry for the elephants in my home zoo!

Hey, I'm not afraid of not knowing the goods, I'm afraid of comparing goods.

Fang Ye pointed to the device with the hay net bag hanging again, and said with a smile: "In our elephant pavilion, the breeder can hang hay outside the pavilion and raise it through these hoists.

When the hay in one place runs out, the hay reappears in another. Elephants will be constantly moving around the pavilion, seeking and feeding, just like in the wild.

Enough walking is important for elephants!

Elephants in captivity are generally under-exercise, which can lead to uneven wear on the foot pads and nails, causing damage to the nail bed. "

Although there is a means of pedicure and nails, this is equivalent to losing weight. One is to lose weight through exercise, and the other is to lose weight through diet tea, liposuction and other methods. It is definitely healthier to exercise to lose weight.

Of course, enough walking is also built on the sand bedding in the elephant house.

Sand or mud pits rub against the elephant's feet to have a wear effect. The smooth concrete floor is useless. If it stays for a long time, it will cause serious foot diseases of the elephant.

The specific choice of sand is also very particular. General sand is easy to cause hardening. Therefore, the sand in the activity field is all river sand bought from the system. It has good permeability and can quickly absorb water and elephant urine.

Moreover, the river sand is washed by the river, there are no sharp edges and corners, and it is round and blunt. When the elephant sleeps at night, it is more comfortable to lie on the sand.

The tourists listened to Fang Ye's explanation and opened their eyes one by one.

"Wow!"

"66666!"

Liu Wei couldn't help but said to his friend: "I saw the first floor and knew that it was a food enrichment. I thought it was the second floor. In fact, this wave of zoos is on the fifth floor!"

It can increase the elephant's interest in feeding, exercise muscles, make the elephant population harmonious, and even wear out the feet by running.

This enrichment is too awesome. If the director didn't say it, he really couldn't think of so many benefits.