I Have a Safari Park

Fang Ye couldn't help but ask: "What is the main reason for the rapid decline in the number of gibbons?"

Fan Peng said: "The most important thing is habitat loss and quality degradation. Grass and fruit cultivation is the main reason for habitat degradation."

Of course Caoguo Fangye knows that it is a very common condiment, usually when making braised pork, or cooking mutton, you will put some grass fruit to remove the fishy smell.

Fan Peng said: "Caoguo is a shade-loving plant. In order to grow it, the common people will clear the bushes and vines under the forest, but do not cut down the trees, because if they are cut down, the grass and fruit will be damaged in the dry season. They were killed by direct sunlight, so they selectively pruned some trees.

From the outside, this forest may not have changed, but in fact, there are only some big trees left. The small saplings were cleared before they had a chance to grow, and the forest had no chance to renew. After the big trees die, these forests will appear very There are big empty windows, but the common people will not plant trees anymore. "

Fang Ye understood in seconds: "This is a bit similar to the problem encountered by Asian elephants! The forest just looks green, but it's actually an empty shell."

The conflict between Asian elephants and people has become more and more intense in recent years, because the virgin forest has been cut down and replaced with a cash crop such as rubber, including planting some amomum under the forest.

Now rubber may not be as hot as before, but the rubber trees that were planted in the past have not been cleaned up, and the forest cannot be renewed. It is easy to destroy, but too difficult to repair.

Asian elephants, such as giants, have conflicts with humans. Whether they are beaten to death or trampled to death, they can attract some attention. Gibbons are usually indifferent to the world. They rarely interact with people when they live in trees, and they disappear silently. , not even the slightest splash.

"In order to study the effect of grass and fruit planting on the behavior of gibbons, we chose two places where gibbons are distributed for a comparative study.

The first monitoring station was built by ourselves, brick by brick. We built a shelf, dragged a bamboo raft from the mountain to make a wall, then built thatch on the wall, and hung a poster of a gibbon.

Because there is a very famous plant in Gaoligong Mountain, the big tree rhododendron and the rhododendron are generally relatively short shrubs, but the big tree rhododendron can grow up to 28 meters, which is unique here only and is a very famous tree species in the world.

Some botanists and garden horticulturalists in the world have tried their best to see the heroic appearance of the big tree rhododendron.

Within one or two kilometers from our monitoring station, there is a large tree of rhododendrons. Many people come to watch the flowers when they are in bloom, and stop by us to drink tea while watching the flowers, so we put up a poster to promote the gibbons and introduce them to them. Some gibbons knowledge. "

Fan Peng said this, took a sip of rice wine and showed a somewhat nostalgic expression, but his eyes quickly became melancholy: "Unfortunately, only 4 months later, a group of gibbons we studied was beaten. "

He raised his hand and made a "bang" shooting gesture: "4 shots, a gibbon family is gone."

Fang Ye's heart suddenly tightened, and his brows were furrowed: "How dare you!"

Some can't figure it out: "Why do you want to poach gibbons? Catch them as pets?"

Fan Peng smiled bitterly: "It may be that some relatives or friends in the family have epilepsy. Let's use gibbons to treat the disease. There is a legend about gibbons, that is, they are fine when they swing so hard on the tree, so can they cure epilepsy?"

Fang Ye sighed: "Hey!"

Fan Peng added: "Of course, different places have different customs. In some places, the bones of gibbons are used as medicine, and in some places, poaching of gibbons rarely happens because the local people think that hunting gibbons will lead to disasters."

Fang Ye nodded. Religion, folk customs and wildlife are closely related, not necessarily negative.

Some "good men and women" released snakes around the community, invasive species such as tortoises and scavengers were released into rivers and lakes. A while ago, I heard that crocodiles were released, and small crocodiles bought from farms were released into lakes.

Of course, they didn't know the living environment they needed. When they were caught in two days, they were already sloppy, and a lot of manpower and material resources were wasted.

This kind of blind man is not doing good but evil.

Like Tibet, sacred mountains and lakes, the concept of equality of all things, has played a very good role in the protection of the snow mountain environment and the protection of plateau elves such as snow leopards.

Fan Peng added: "It is possible to catch gibbons as pets, but only young gibbons can be tamed.

Unlike other primates, gibbons attach great importance to family and will fight to the death for the safety of family members.

When poachers try to get gibbons offspring, the fathers are killed first, then the siblings, and finally the mother with the cubs. Once the cub is targeted, no other family member will be spared.

The cubs generally hold their mother tightly, and the mother dies, or it may fall from a height of tens of meters and cannot survive.

From poaching to transport, 239 of its kind have died behind one pet gibbon. The chances of surviving as a pet are also very low, and may die after two years. "

Li Xing shook his head and said, "Sometimes I see some videos of owl cafes and monkeys wearing human clothes on social media, and a bunch of people comment below praising cuteness, obedience, envy and want to raise, etc. I really can't laugh at all. "

Fang Yedao: "Before Yang Xiaochao and the others came to the zoo to shoot a variety show, I also communicated with the show team repeatedly, hoping not to send the wrong information to the audience."

These animals are cute and charming, but they are not suitable for keeping as pets. Wild animals and cute pets are two different things.

Fill the glasses for both of them.

Li Xingdao: "Director Fang's sense of responsibility is still very strong. I think some zoos use this as a selling point. Orangutans smoke, orangutans hug and take photos with people."

Fan Peng continued to speak: "After the gunshots, we were still a little unwilling to give up, imagining whether the gibbons hid in other places and didn't dare to call? After staying in this place for 6 months, we have never seen such a Parent gibbons, maybe they really died at gunpoint. Had to abandon this monitoring station.

Then I came to a new monitoring station. It is close to the road and the logistics are very convenient. Unfortunately, the gibbon population here is very small. There were three at the time of the investigation, one male and one female forming a family.

This family originally had a child, but it died for unknown reasons. Later, another child was born, and another child was born a few years ago. Now there are 4 children in the family.

There is also a female lone ape, a cousin of the male ape in the family. "

Fang Ye raised his brows: "Oh?"

"Well, it's the one we're looking for."