I Have a Safari Park

"The thorn armor of porcupines is invincible. No animal can cure it. It stands to reason that there should be a lot of them. It is very common, but do you think porcupines are a very rare animal?"

"The last invincible has stopped thinking!"

"If nothing else, they will throw stones from a distance, and Homo sapiens with big sticks and these tools are not what they can handle!"

Fang Ye smiled and said, "Although the porcupine's thorns are very powerful, they are not without flaws!

Their spines are rearward, and these spines are very effective against regular predators, because most predators approach their prey from the rear, and then attack, as long as the hair is erected, the predator will not be able to. Recruited.

But some predators are very smart! Foxes, for example, will swivel around the porcupine and then strike from the front. There are also wolves that hunt in groups, surround you, and you can't take care of your butt but your head.

Moreover, the thorns fall off after use, and it will take a while to grow back. If you encounter a difficult opponent and the thorns are used up, the porcupine loses its defense during this period and becomes very vulnerable, and anyone can attack.

Another one, they are very troublesome to reproduce. They only come into heat during autumn and winter a year, and the pregnancy period is very long, about 90-110 days, they are born once a year, usually two or three per litter, and there are still up to 50 days after giving birth. lactation period.

Porcupines have just become mothers and are still nursing their children. Both rodents and rabbits can be grandparents. "

"I see!"

"The male porcupine said that there are so many thorns in the target, and it is very hard to just mate, and you are thinking about flooding?"

"What you said makes sense!"

Fang Ye said: "When mating, female porcupines will lay down their thorns."

While talking, he greeted the breeder and threw some corn kernels into the field.

Swish! Swish!

Two handfuls of corn kernels were thrown in, and the porcupine lying on the ground basking in the sun immediately stood up. The cautious porcupine was still hesitating in place, and the more lively one had already sprinted towards the corn kernels.

Although the porcupine is small, it still runs very fast!

It's like the sweeping robot has long legs, and its calf keeps tumbling. It dashes to the front of the activity field and eats corn kernels.

In order to occupy the food, the porcupine with a big temper also erected the thorns on his back, and his body suddenly swelled a lot, a bit like a peacock opening its screen.

The tail swayed and made a crisp "click" sound, making a threatening gesture, and rammed back towards the companion.

The intimidated porcupine took a look, and walked away to another place, not intending to fight.

Netizens just heard Fang Ye's introduction to the porcupine intimidation method, and when they heard it, they suddenly exclaimed.

An old man with gray hair and a child, who seemed to be a pair of grandfathers and grandchildren, came to the zoo together, stopped at the porcupine exhibition area, and watched with relish the porcupine eating corn.

The grandson asked curiously, "Grandpa, have you seen this?"

The old man remembered: "Porcupine, there used to be this thing on the mountain! The land would be barren, the grain yield would not be high, and there would be wild boars and scarecrows.

Once my eldest brother and I went to the mountains to plant sweet potatoes. When we saw the slag of the sweet potatoes stretched all the way to the bushes, we suspected that something was hiding. We were more daring and didn’t think much about it. We split the bushes with a machete, revealing a soil Bag.

A thorn-covered thing stuck its head out and startled me, it turned out to be a porcupine! Then retracted back into the bag. I set up a firewood pile outside, and wanted to smoke it out with smoke, and I fanned the smoke inside with my clothes while burning it.

But after burning for a while, my elder brother came over and asked me what I was doing, and scolded me in the face, saying if you wanted to burn the mountain. The two quickly put out the fire, and when the fire was out, the two porcupines ran out of the hole and disappeared into the grass behind. "

The grandson said seriously: "Grandpa, don't hurt wild animals!"

"Haha, it's all in the past."

Netizens also heard the story told by grandfather and joked: "Set fire to the mountain and sit in jail!"

"A wisp of smoke on the mountain, the police station down the mountain!"

When the grandfather and grandson left, Fang Ye said: "The grandfather said just now that there were porcupines on the mountain when I was a child, and this is what our local exhibition area especially wants to show to tourists, so that everyone can get to know the local animals.

Celebrity animals like giant pandas, elephants, tigers, etc., of course, everyone is willing to pay attention. Many people come to the zoo specifically for them, but they actually know very little about the local animals.

Most zoos don't give much care to local animals either.

Yellow-breasted bunting, eagle owl, white-headed bulbul, wild boar, porcupine, otter, dragonfly, frog, these animals are all beautiful and charming animals. If you take it to the extreme, even just showing these native animals in the zoo is very interesting. What do you think?

Except for birds and small insects, most people rarely see native animals. Maybe just heard of their existence from the mouths of the elders.

Introduce some of these local animals to the public, understand that they have been with themselves for thousands of years, and have the idea of ​​'there are such animals nearby', 'so beautiful', our local exhibition area purpose is achieved.

In the future, the exhibition area of ​​native animals may gradually expand, and some animals taken in by rescue centers that cannot return to nature after being injured will also be displayed here. "

Netizens praised: "I think it's great! If the citizens have seen these animals in the zoo, they will not hurt them easily when they see them again, and they will pay more attention to the environment around them and not litter in the wild."

"I really envy Linhai people for having such a zoo! I have lived in my hometown for more than 30 years since I was a child, and I never knew what animals were around me."

"I feel that this can be promoted in zoos across the country. The local exhibition area of ​​each local zoo is composed of local animals. It is unique! It can best create its own characteristics, and the citizens will definitely like it."

"This is very difficult! Most zoos are thinking about how to make money and introduce star animals. These ordinary animals are not interested in displaying them. Linhai Zoo can be said to be a wonderful flower."

"I like animals, and I applied to be a breeder for a while, but it is very different from what I imagined. My daily task is to solicit customers, sell products, and let tourists feed them. After working for a while, I have no interest in resigning. The breeders are thinking about how to enrich the animals every day and make their lives more interesting. The red fox breeders hide their food in various places and do fake actions. It’s a world of difference.”