I Have a Safari Park

Fang Ye was immersed in the design when the phone suddenly made a "ding dong" sound.

After looking at it, someone added their friend on WeChat, and used a white-browed gibbon as an avatar.

Remarks is named Fan Peng, a gibbon researcher.

Fang Ye added his friend: "Hello Mr. Fan!"

"Hello, Director Fang! It's like this, it may be more complicated to say..."

"It's alright, speak slowly."

Opposite to explain for a long time!

Fan Peng is doing research on gibbons, and their main research is the sky-walking gibbons.

It was originally thought that there are two types of white-browed gibbons, the western white-browed gibbon and the east white-browed gibbon, while the Tianxing gibbon is a white-browed gibbon unique to China.

A few years ago, ICUN classified another species of white-browed gibbon. This is what Fan Peng and the others did.

Fang Ye was in awe: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Hey, if you look for me, our zoo is the Skywalking Gibbon?"

Fan Peng said: "Yes, although the Skywalking Gibbon also has the iconic white eyebrows, it is not as thick as the Eastern White-browed Gibbon.

Male skywalking gibbons do not have the white beard on the chin to match the eyebrow color, and female skywalking gibbons do not have as bushy white eye circles as those of eastern white-browed gibbons. "

Keep talking.

Gibbons live in forests. People in forests reclaim mountain forests on a small scale and grow food or cash crops for their livelihoods. Although the forest seems to be unchanged, for gibbons, animals that rely on tall trees for activities, there are gaps between the trees due to planting. , is like a cliff-like existence to them.

A forest that cannot be reached by arms is an island out of reach for gibbons.

People can always find a way to reclaim the mountains and forests, from living to living a better life, but the simple gibbons are still at the stage of remembering which tree is just ripe for fruit.

Out of evasion, they had to migrate again and again with people's expansion.

After several years of investigation and research, they found that the number of skywalking gibbons is very small, only about 40 families, and the number of wild populations does not exceed 150.

Forests are divided and habitats are fragmented, making the reproduction of the skywalking gibbons a problem.

A female gibbon was found near a family of gibbons, who appeared to be the cousin of the family's male apes.

There were no single male gibbons nearby, so Fan Peng and the others helped her find potential mates further afield.

When I was doing the investigation before, I remembered that an old ape couple had two sons. They went to look for them and found that one had formed a family and the other was single.

Two single gibbons are so far apart, how can they be brought together?

The way of anesthetizing them to change places is not feasible. Skywalking gibbons usually stay in the trees, it is difficult to find and track, and they are very fast in the trees, let alone anesthetized.

Even if it can be shot, it will fall from a tree dozens of meters high, and what if it falls and dies.

If the anesthesia is successful, the gibbon is a very territorial animal. If a nearby family suddenly finds a strange gibbon intruding into their territory, it is very likely to conflict and fight. The anesthetized gibbon moves slowly and is killed. What should I do? .

Anyway, the risk of anesthesia is great.

So Fan Peng and the others came up with a plan to save the country through a curve. The gibbons are not easy to move, but their singing is easy to move.

After years of research, it has been found that the singing of gibbons is not meaningless, and different melodies may have different lyric meanings.

If a single gibbon courtship song is recorded and played, would it attract them to move in the direction of the song?

Of course, such an operation also has risks of scientific ethics!

Under normal circumstances, the wild population should only be observed, and no human influence should be carried out, otherwise their habits may be changed and unforeseen consequences may occur.

But now the Tianxing gibbons are very endangered, and there are only more than 150 left. If you wait and do nothing, the two single gibbons are too far apart, separated by many family territories, and they may never meet together in a lifetime.

So Fan Peng and the others decided to influence it after careful consideration.

Single love songs don't have to start with preparing a male ape for Lalang. It is very difficult to track a gibbon in the dense rainforest. The gibbon swings twice on a tree and then flies to another tree. People have to climb hills and go down ditches, branches pull people's arms, and canes trip people's feet.

Find a single gibbon in the zoo as an alternative and record courtship love songs, which is much more convenient to operate.

It's a courtship song anyway.

I have been to the Flying Ape Zoo several times when I was studying the Skywalking Gibbon. I remembered that they had two little male apes. I wondered if they had reached the age of courtship. As a result, after inquiring, both male apes were transferred to the Linhai Zoo.

That's where things come in.

At this moment, a "ding" sounded, and the system prompt sounded: "The clues of rare animals have appeared!"

[Animal: Skywalking Gibbon

Location: Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan

Protection period: ten years (within the protection period, animals will not be in danger of life)

Note: The forest is disappearing at a rate of 30 hectares per minute, how fast do I have to walk to catch up with you?

Reward: World Zoo Association Membership Certificate! 】

Fang Ye was shocked when he saw the reward: "Huh!"

There is also a zoo association in China. Fang Ye first inquired with the director of the Blue River Zoo and asked if he wanted to join.

It doesn't matter if you know that you join the association or not, and the purchase of transfer animals will not be affected by whether you join the association or not.

Every year, we hold a meeting to discuss the breeding situation of animals and the cases of enrichment that have been done well.

Of course, there is no use for eggs. A good zoo is more of a separate communication, and a bad zoo will still not improve.

Anyway, it is a relatively official association, and everyone speaks at a meeting together.

However, most of the domestic zoos have joined, and Fang Ye lost interest after learning about the situation, so why join in the fun?

But the World Association of Zoos is different! Only the best zoos in the world can join.

There are so many zoos in the world, large and small, with only a few hundred members, and very few in China are members of the World Association of Zoos.

The original zoo did not have so many restrictions on the purchase of imported animals, but now I want to buy some rare animals from zoos in other countries in the world, such as silverback gorillas, koalas, Komodo dragons, at least only members of the association. Buying qualifications is not something you can buy if you want to.

The main purpose is to protect some endangered wild animals from entering the zoo through smuggling channels, and the animals can be raised well enough if they are bought.

Of course, qualification is one aspect, and whether you can buy it is another.