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In order to speed up the filming process, the director team specially arranged a filming team to follow Liu Wei directly to the outdoor shooting.

The director stayed to direct the filming of Jackie Chan and Yao Ming's public welfare films.

The filming crew was simple.

three people.

A cameraman, an assistant, and a staff member.

The chief director walked up to Liu Wei and smiled: "Teacher Liu Wei, do you need anything else?"

Liu Wei: “No need, one set of equipment is enough for three people!”

"Follow Teacher Liu and follow his wishes!" the director instructed.

The three nodded.

Arrive at Beijing Zoo.

Liu Wei turned on the live broadcast and followed the management staff to the pangolin breeding area.

"Brothers, I will take you to see a cute animal today, the pangolin!" Liu Wei was already in the zone.

The cameraman's lens follows him closely.

The pangolin keeper opened the door, and Liu Wei and the cameraman walked in. The keeper stood behind, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

A total of hundreds of Chinese pangolins are raised in this breeding area, most of which are used for artificial breeding to continue the Chinese pangolin population. Only a few pangolins are displayed to external audiences.

Liu Wei walked in and happened to find a pangolin mother and son moving on the grass.

The baby pangolin lies on its mother's tail, holding its claws firmly in the gaps between its mother's scales.

Adult female pangolins climb very slowly for fear that their babies will slip off their bodies.

"Wow! There's still love!"

"so cute!"

“This is the first time I’ve seen a pangolin so close!”

"Pangolin, listen to this name. It sounds so domineering, but why does it look so cute?"

In the lens,

The pangolin seems to have smelled Liu Wei's scent. Its vision is severely degraded and it basically relies on its sense of smell for activities and hunting.

The slender head turned around and his two black eyes looked back, as if he was sure he was a stranger.

Liu Wei stood far away and did not worry it. It was already accustomed to the environment here and knew that no one would hurt it in the zoo, and the keepers would not allow others to hurt it.

After it glanced at Liu Wei twice, it turned back and continued crawling forward.

The baby pangolin crawled from its tail to its back.

Mother and son were taking a leisurely walk.

Liu Wei walked up.

Face the pangolin and squat down to take pictures.

An interesting scene happened.

The baby pangolin immediately slipped off the mother's body and rolled up into a ball. The female pangolin then rolled the baby up in her belly, forming a round ball.

Liu Wei smiled and said: "Brothers, it seems that they are not familiar with my smell yet, I made them feel the danger.

In fact, pangolins are very docile animals. There are too many natural enemies in nature. Even domestic vicious dogs can hurt it. Its attack ability is not strong.

They rely more on their own defense capabilities and hiding to avoid the hunting time of natural enemies, and quietly come out to hunt at night.

Moreover, its food chain is very narrow. It almost only eats termites and ants, but its food intake is amazing. The adult female in front of us can eat about 300 grams of ants and termites in each meal.

That’s why it’s called the guardian of the forest!”

When Liu Wei was doing science popularization, he found that the pangolin mother loosened her body slightly, revealing her flesh-colored head, and looked at him with black eyes, looking ignorant and a little scared.

"Are you looking at me?" Liu Wei lowered his head and looked at it, smiling, "Don't worry, we are here to protect you today.

Your friends living in the wild are being harmed by criminals. We need your cooperation to complete the filming of the documentary. Can you be more generous and cute? "

The pangolin stared at Liu Wei for a while.

It found that its defenses were superfluous, and that the suddenly approaching stranger had done nothing to harm it.

It slowly unfolded its body, and then sniffed the still curled baby with its nose.

The baby pangolin's head stretched out from its abdomen, then retracted when it saw Liu Wei. After the mother's persuasion, it slowly unfolded its body.

The mother raised her hind legs, stood upright, and held her two little paws flat in the air.

It is showing its children the upright movement. It needs to teach this skill to its children, because the ant nest usually forms a mud fortress, and the pangolin needs to maintain an upright posture to dig out the ant nest, and then use its long tongue To hunt.

The baby pangolin understood what its mother meant.

Try to lift the two hind legs, rely on the tail to support the body, and stand upright.

It works hard.

Finally it completed the action taught by its mother.

However, due to his young age and poor physical strength, he stood for a few seconds, then his body turned sideways and fell to the ground again.

Liu Wei smiled.

The little guy's body curled up again.

Its mother walked over to her, encouraged and cared for her.

"Brothers, are you cute?" Liu Wei smiled.

“Super generous!”

“I used to see pangolins in my hometown when I was a kid!”

"I work at the customs, and every year I find some illegally traded pangolins that have been stripped of their phosphorus flakes. It's shocking to see!"

"How cruel!"

"Those are the perverts! What are you doing taking off other people's clothes?"

Liu Wei said seriously: "Brothers, the wild Chinese pangolin has entered a state of functional extinction.

Functional extinction means that the species' living environment has been destroyed and its population is so rare that it has basically lost the ability to maintain reproduction or even survive in its natural state.

Some experts believe that it is possible to restore the wild population of Chinese pangolins as long as conservation efforts are initiated.

However, in the international market, the number of illegally traded pangolins is too scary. According to statistics from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IU), in the past ten years, one million pangolins have been hunted for illegal trade, with the largest amount being the Chinese pangolin. .

The Chinese pangolin is now classified as a critically endangered species by the IU.

The main reason for this result, which is ironic to say, is precisely because of the human mouth.

In nature, although the pangolin has many natural enemies, when it faces real danger, its defense capabilities are very strong. Even large cats with excellent bite power can hardly bite through its scales.

Only humans will peel off all its scales after catching it. Many people think that the pangolin's scales are precious Chinese medicinal materials.

In fact, it is not the case. Modern medicine has confirmed that the chemical composition of pangolin scales is similar to that of human nails and hair. The medicinal effect is not that magical at all, and it does not have the effect of dredging the breasts and meridians. In other words, pangolin scales are regarded as valuable medicinal materials. You might as well be chewing your own nails!"

"Hahaha, good fight!"

"A group of wise men!"

"Are they all SB?"

"I'm laughing so hard. Some people are really stupid. No, they should be ignorant!"

Liu Wei explained: "In fact, the reason why pangolin scales are so wildly touted, and even though medical science has confirmed it, that the black market is increasing instead of decreasing, is because those unscrupulous businessmen take advantage of people's mentality to promote it, and what they say is reasonable. Evidence!"