I Have a Safari Park

Fang Ye put down the food tray, saw the barrage, and touched his chin: "Someone asked if this was begging. The begging means that the animal was inactive when it was in the outdoor exhibition area, so he went to the edge of the exhibition area and waited for tourists to cast it. In this way, tourists cannot see its natural behavior, and feeding is not good for health, so it is necessary to refuse feeding.

Seeing the breeder come over with food and ask for food, this is not actually begging, it is equivalent to your mother calling you over to eat when the meal is ready.

When raccoons usually eat, they are holding food with two paws, which looks more like begging.

This behavior is more likely to stimulate the feeding heart of tourists than other animals. You can see that they are fat like this ball.

Therefore, our raccoon exhibition area uses a glass curtain wall to block the possibility of feeding as much as possible from the physical level. "

The doubts were resolved, and another netizen asked: "President, why doesn't this raccoon eat and keep rubbing it?"

"Because they love to be clean! The reason why they are called raccoons is because raccoons are used to washing their food in water before eating. Now they have to dry clean when there is no water."

"Is that so?"

Fang Ye said with a smile: "You're half right, the origin of the name raccoon is indeed like what this netizen said, because they really like to do the action of 'washing'. In English, raccoons are called raccoon, which comes from Indian language. , which means 'scratching with hands'.

However, the action of the raccoon washing is not for washing.

Their most important sensory ability is touch, especially the front paws, which are distributed in a large number of touch receptors and nerve fibers, and have high sensitivity, which can sense and measure the size, weight, material and temperature of food.

The outermost part of the paw is protected by a thin layer of cuticle, which softens and improves perception when immersed in water. They use this process to select food and remove the parts they don't need.

So you may see that what a raccoon washes is not necessarily food, but a twig or a stone and other messy things will be washed in the water, in fact, it uses this action to perceive the properties of the object. Moreover, raccoons can't distinguish between clean water and dirty water. They often wash their food in muddy water, and then the more they wash, the more dirty they become. "

Fang Ye then went to get a basin and water, and put it on the floor. Sure enough, after the raccoons found out, they all held a handful of food in both hands, formed a circle around the edge of the basin, and put it into the water to wash it!

After carefully rubbing it several times, I put it in my mouth and eat it.

Then he returned to the side of the food tray, picked up a handful of food, and ran back to the side of the basin to repeat the cleaning action.

Netizens looked at it interestingly: "Haha, this is obsessive-compulsive disorder, it's uncomfortable if you don't wash it!"

"The more you wash it, the more dirty it gets. It's the same idiot as the red panda."

Fang Ye shook his head and said: "This is wrong, raccoons just have bad eyesight, and their IQ is very high. Urbanization has brought a crisis to most animals, and only a few animals have benefited from it. Life is like a duck to water, and raccoons are one of them!

They can record the surrounding maps in their heads, can actively avoid busy intersections, choose safer routes, and have 3D navigation capabilities. In addition to ground routes, they can also use complex sewer lines to travel freely in the city .

Scientists have tested that in the face of locks, door bolts, buttons and other mechanisms, the raccoon can quickly master the opening method, even in the face of combined mechanisms, it can be opened effortlessly, and it will remember the opening of each different mechanism after three years. method. "

"Wow, so smart and cute, I really want to raise one."

"Uh, can raccoons be kept? They should be protected animals, right?"

Fang Ye pondered for a while: "This kind of raccoon is the most common raccoon, it is called the North American raccoon, you can tell from the name that they are native to North America, not a native species in my country.

Our country has participated in the "Washington Convention", non-native animals are protected according to the list of the convention, and the raccoon is not endangered - because of its strong adaptability, it is flooded in many countries and regions, and of course it is not included in the list of protection, so keep Legally, it's fine!

But it is still not recommended to keep raccoons as pets, this guy is not as cute as he looks.

Raccoons have a very bad reputation in North America. It can be said that they are hated by everyone. They will turn the trash can upside down and steal things in groups. Because of the high IQ of raccoons, even if the food is hidden, they cannot stop them. Living with them, opening a refrigerator, stealing eggs and eating something is trivial, making nests in the mezzanine of the ceiling and in the chimney, appearing in all kinds of unimaginable places, playing hide-and-seek with you and wreaking havoc.

It’s okay to be mischievous. Wild raccoons carry a high proportion of rabies virus, as well as parasites such as roundworms and ticks. Humans are likely to be infected by easy contact. Scratching pet cats and dogs at home is also likely to make cats and dogs infected with rabies. Therefore, in the United States, there is a special animal control company, which can come and grab the raccoon from the house and throw it away at any time.

In the 1970s, raccoons were only kept in some of RB's zoos, but after RB produced and broadcast an anime about raccoons "Rascal the Raccoon", the masses thought this thing was so cute, so it set off a fire. With the raccoon boom, a large number of North American raccoons were imported into RB as pets.

But with rearing, RB people quickly realized that this thing is not so easy to raise, it is agile, wild and hard to tame, and it will destroy furniture. Especially when they are in heat, they will become very violent and attack people, so a large number of raccoons are thrown into the mountains and abandoned after being raised for a period of time.

The adaptability of raccoons is very strong, and there are no natural enemies, and the subsequent large-scale breeding of raccoons has brought serious problems to RB.

Including destroying more than 80% of ancient buildings such as temples in RB, stealing food crops, crowding out the living space of native animals, entering residents' houses to eat goldfish and cultivated fruits, and even in Hokkaido, there are raccoons cruelly biting off cows. Mimi, it has brought serious losses to the local farmers, and the RB's raccoon disaster has not yet been resolved. "

Netizens thought it was quite interesting at first, but after knowing the serious consequences caused by raccoons, and looking at the cuteness of these raccoons washing food, they are not simply cute.

"Wow, is it so scary?"

"These guys are just little devils! It looks so cute and cute, and the danger is so great, it seems that you really can't raise them casually."

"I hate raccoons a little bit again."

"What's wrong with raccoons, invading the city, it's not that we humans have invaded their homes that originally belonged to them."

"RB's raccoon disaster is completely self-inflicted, breeding them for cuteness and then throwing them away."

Fang Ye watched netizens quarrel, and pondered: "Actually, the relationship between humans and animals is not a simple matter of who retreats and who advances, but is like a seesaw, whichever is bigger is not good, and a balance needs to be made in it. Find ways to live in harmony.

Okay, I'll have something else to do later, I'll stop broadcasting it today. "

"Okay, goodbye, principal!"