The more true the words of the breeder and the director of the panda museum seem to be, the more unbelievable the director becomes.
You said it would be fine if there were wild giant pandas sneaking in from other places, but this is the imperial capital!
You must know that because the Imperial City Zoo was built early, it is not located in a suburb, and the surrounding security measures are very strict.
How could anyone send a giant panda in.
"Come on, take me to see it." The curator closed the door and motioned to the two people to take him to see it for himself.
He really didn't believe it today that someone could bring a giant panda in.
When the three of them arrived at the zoo, the keeper took the curator to an open-air area where giant pandas usually move.
In order to facilitate the exhibition, all the pandas in the Panda Hall of the Imperial City Zoo usually have one activity venue for each panda, which is divided into indoor and outdoor areas, separated by iron doors.
In order to make it easier to see giant pandas indoors and outdoors, some giant pandas only let them stay outdoors for a period of time, while some giant pandas only let them stay indoors.
This leads to the fact that if there is really an extra giant panda in the panda house, and it is indoors and outdoors separately from the giant pandas in this activity area, then tourists and keepers will not be able to discover at the first time that there are two giant pandas in one activity area. A giant panda.
"Look, that's the one." The breeder pointed to the curator in the distance to a place surrounded by some breeders.
The curator leaned on the railing and took a look and found that there was really a huge giant panda lying there.
The panda is not only a national treasure, but also a cash cow that can bring huge economic benefits.
For example, whenever there is a major anniversary event of the signing of the China-Japan Friendship Treaty, Neon will find a way to ask China to lease pandas.
You know, in a place as big as Neon, there are already nine giant pandas so far. It can be said that the number of pandas in the zoo has exceeded many provinces in China.
But Neon still persists in trying to rent pandas from China because of its status as a cash cow.
In 1972, just after Sino-Japanese relations normalized, China sent a pair of giant pandas, Lan Lan and Kang Kang, to Neon's Ueno Zoo. Then that year, the number of visitors to Neon's zoo each year soared from four million to eight. One million, the data has doubled.
However, this is not the scariest thing. Panda Xiangxiang was born in Neon in June 2017, and the whole Neon was celebrating at that time. And because there were so many people who wanted to visit Xiangxiang, the zoo had to draw lots to decide who could go in.
Four hundred groups were drawn a day, with five people in each group. The number of groups that applied for the lottery on the first day of the zoo was 18,300, which means that everyone has only a 1 in 46 chance of successfully watching Xiangxiang.
And Xiangxiang lives up to expectations and can earn 26.7 billion yen in revenue for the zoo every year, which is equivalent to about 1.57 billion yuan in soft sister currency.
The annual rent for each giant panda is only one million U.S. dollars, which is less than 7 million yuan at the current exchange rate.
Who wouldn’t want to do more of such a sure-profit business
In order to prevent some crazy people from actually stealing giant pandas, every giant panda is under very strict supervision in China. The curator of the zoo can clearly distinguish the differences between each giant panda and is very knowledgeable about all the giant pandas in his zoo.
Therefore, the curator could tell at a glance that the giant panda lying in the activity area of the panda pavilion was not from his own zoo.
There is no such panda lying on the ground in our zoo, looking taller than a human being.
"Is it sleeping now?" The curator found the panda lying motionless on the ground, so he turned to ask the keeper next to him.
"To be precise, he was drunk." The breeder also felt that what he said was a bit nonsense, but he still said it.
"Drunk?" The curator felt that his brain was running out.
"Yes, he was drunk. When we first discovered this panda, we thought he was sleeping. But we found that the air was filled with the smell of alcohol, so we judged that he must be drunk.
Giant pandas are omnivores. Although their staple food is bamboo, they actually don’t mind eating meat and drinking wine occasionally. And several giant pandas are known for their alcoholism.
But this is the first time I have seen a giant panda get drunk after drinking.
In order to observe the giant panda further, the curator simply came to the giant panda's activity area.
Of course, you need to be fully armed, with protective gear and clean clothes on before entering.
When several keepers saw the curator coming in, they immediately made way for him to observe the giant panda.
Seeing this giant panda up close gave the curator a great shock.
It's not because this giant panda is too big, but because this giant panda looks a bit like a human.
Moreover, although the upper body of this giant panda is naked, the lower body is wearing a pair of cloth trousers, and there is something similar to a straw hat on its back, which makes the curator wonder whether this panda is disguised as a human.
Could it be that some lunatic dressed up as a panda and jumped in to get up close and personal with the panda when it was about to close
When the curator thought of the smell of alcohol on the panda, he reached out and pulled the panda's fur to see if it was real.
"Don't." The breeder on the side grabbed the curator.
Unlike what everyone thinks, keepers can play with pandas every day. Even their keepers will not tease adult giant pandas casually.
You only need to watch the relevant videos to know that the pandas being petted by breeders every day are all underage giant pandas. Once a panda reaches adulthood, even the closest keepers will always pay attention to the interaction between themselves and the panda to prevent accidents.
After all, this is a real bear with the fifth-largest bite force among carnivores, extremely fast running speed, and ability to climb trees!
Although he now makes a living by being cute, if someone really offends him by accident, people will tell you why the bear people are fearless.
Therefore, from the moment the extra panda was discovered to now, all the keepers only dared to watch the panda carefully while it was still awake due to drinking, and no one dared to mention trying it out. Try to wake him up.
After all, animals are angry when they wake up. If the curator was really able to wake up the panda, then the people in this circle might have no choice but to run away.
"I just want to see if this is a real panda." The curator expressed his doubts.
(End of chapter)