Sloths, vultures, leopards, kinky bears…
These are all American animals, exhibited in the newly opened American animal exhibition area of Lingyuan Zoo. Some of them came across the ocean, and some were bred by other zoos in China.
The land on the earth is divided into six major animal geographical distribution regions, Australia, Neotropical, Oriental, etc., like China, because of its vast land, it spans two realms, Oriental and Palaearctic.
The Americas are part of the Neotropical Realm, which has the largest number of tropical rainforests and is also the geographical region with the richest species, many of which are particularly unique.
"For example, the sloth that we are familiar with, its biggest feature is its slow movement, and it may only move for a few hours." The narrator explained the living habits of the sloth to the tourists.
Qu Xin lay on the glass and exclaimed, "Wow, it really doesn't move—"
It was as if frozen, if Qu Xin hadn't accidentally turned his head slightly under everyone's greetings, Qu Xin would have thought it was just a highly simulated plush toy.
Qu Shuiyu stood behind him, smiling.
Ever since Xiaoxin worshiped Daoist Shao as his teacher, he really saw that he was getting better every day, and the gloomy atmosphere faded away. I heard from Teacher Sun that he was much more cheerful at school.
Qu Xin goes to Linshuiguan every week for classes, and besides that, he often comes to Lingyuan Zoo. For the time being, he still prefers to be friends with animals. He has mentioned more than once that he wants to study animals when he grows up.
By the way, there is another thing that Qu Shuiyu didn't expect, that is, Daoist Shao's energy in Donghai City is too great, she never expected it.
Because Shao Wuxing publicly recognized Qu Xin as a registered disciple, Qu Shuiyu didn't know why, but suddenly found that many high-level executives of cooperative enterprises and government departments with whom she dealt with all of a sudden appeared to be familiar with her. They all claim that since they are the mothers of Shao Daochang's disciples, they must make friends...
Qu Shuiyu's work went much smoother in an instant, and the leaders saw that she had this relationship, and they also relied heavily on her. Qu Shuiyu felt a little uneasy, and asked Shao Wuxing tentatively, but Shao Wuxing acted as he expected, so she didn't have to take it to heart.
Qu Shuiyu was relieved for the time being, and seeing that Linshui Temple was doing a lot of charity, she felt a lot more at ease, thinking that her son would definitely learn well there.
Looking at Qu Xin again, he is already fascinated by the sloth, staring at the sloth and watching its movements, he feels like a sloth himself.
The sloth has long, greenish hair on its head and neck because of the algae in its fur that helps it hide in the jungle.
Qu Xin looked at it for a long time, then suddenly turned to look at Qu Shuiyu, Qu Shuiyu and then the sloth, as if he had some doubts.
Qu Shuiyu asked warmly, "What's the matter, Xiaoxin?"
Qu Xin scratched his head, a little puzzled and said: "What is it thinking?"
Qu Shuiyu choked, she didn't know. Since Qu Xin became a teacher, she also knew that Qu Xin had a strong six senses, including the ability to perceive the thoughts of some animals. But she didn't understand the specific laws and principles.
When Qu Xin entered the Spiritual Confinement, he would take off the talisman that he usually wears during class and put it in the Qushui jade bag, so as not to affect his communication with animals, but this sloth made Qu Xin doubt whether he was wearing the talisman at all. up.
Or, is it because the sloth is new
Qu Shuiyu was helpless, she also wanted to be an omniscient parent, she turned to find a commentator, maybe she could explain from a scientific point of view what sloths are thinking when they are not moving, but the commentator was being surrounded by a group of tourists around.
But by coincidence, Qu Shuiyu saw Duan Jiaze, the director of Lingyuan Zoo.
The last time she came to Lingyuan with Shao Wuxing, she had a meal with the Director Duan. From Shao Wuxing's attitude, she knew that he respected Director Duan very much. Later, after discovering that Shao Wuxing's energy was so great, Qu Shuiyu didn't dare to underestimate the director of the zoo.
Duan Jiaze came to see the reception in the newly opened exhibition area. When he saw Qu Shuiyu greeting him, he didn't recognize him at first, but after seeing Qu Xin, he remembered it, and greeted her kindly, "Xiaoxin recently How's it going?"
"It's recovering very well." Qu Shuiyu said with a smile, "Thank you, Director Duan, for your concern."
Qu Xin didn't think too much about it, he was still young, Shao Wuxing wouldn't discuss complicated things with him, in his mind, the director of the zoo was the director of the zoo, and in the concept of children, the director of the zoo should be the one who knows best Animals know better than breeders and explainers.
So, Qu Xin timidly asked Duan Jiaze: "Director, do you know what the sloth is thinking when it is in a daze?"
Duan Jiaze was overwhelmed by the question. He was good at raising fish, and he was also stamped on raising birds. He really didn't understand this sloth. After the sloth came to the spirit cage, the breeder took care of it.
However, this child's words really made Duan Jiaze a little curious, yes, sloths are always immobile, what are they thinking, isn't it boring
Duan Jiaze couldn't help but used the Beast Link on the sloth, and then heard a simple and honest voice.
"These Twolegs live so fucking fast..."
Duan Jiaze: "..."
Duan Jiaze hesitated for a moment. There were no tourists running through the glass, and they all visited slowly. But for sloths, they probably move at the speed of light.
So, Duan Jiaze explained from a different angle, and said to Qu Xin: "The sloth is not stupid to live until now, it's just that its movements are slow, but its thinking is still normal, and it can react to everything it sees."
Qu Xin asked curiously, "Then are they smart? What if I show them a movie?"
Duan Jiaze didn't know either, "You can try."
Qu Xin really took out his phone, tuned up "Animal World", and played it to the sloth, which happened to be a part of a lion hunting.
The sloth's face was facing this way. After watching it for ten seconds, it slowly turned its head away, and said in its heart, "Pervert."
Duan Jiaze: "..."
The episode Qu Xin released is probably equivalent to a human bloody horror movie for sloths, such as the Chainsaw Massacre series or the like. Duan Jiaze coughed twice, "Xiaoxin, didn't you mean to show a movie?"
Qu Xin also had some logic, "I only downloaded this, and it can't understand human movies."
Now that he has completed the appraisal, it's not because he didn't wear the talisman, but because this sloth is different from foxes and donkeys. It hasn't been long since this sloth came to Lingyuan, and his intelligence hasn't developed much yet.
…
Today, not only the American animal exhibition area is open, but also the Australian animal exhibition area. Duan Jiaze simply invited Qu Xin to take a walk with him, and he can also directly see the first reaction of Qu Xin, a small tourist.
When it comes to Australian animals, kangaroos are of course indispensable. This time, Lingyuan has introduced two kinds of kangaroos.
One is the most famous red kangaroo, they are tall, a full 1.6 meters. There is also a buckler kangaroo, which is at the other extreme. They are large kangaroos, with an average height of only 50 centimeters.
The cages of the kangaroos are all equipped with an outdoor playground. It has just cleared up after the rain recently, and the kangaroos are all basking in the sun outside.
Standing outside the field, tourists can see two kangaroos with obvious contrast in size, which is very interesting. The buckler kangaroo is too small to be found by accident, and it may be regarded as a mouse or a squirrel.
There are several red kangaroos, most of them are male. Although they are herbivores, they are quite aggressive, and they are also world-renowned boxers.
Among this batch of red kangaroos, there is the strongest one, and it is very fierce. I don't know if it is a habit developed in the previous zoo, but it actually jumped to the sidelines and threw punches at the tourists outside the field to provoke it.
The tourist who was facing the kangaroo saw the big kangaroo punching him, and was stunned for a second, then heard the people around him laughing, and his friend pushed him, "This is a challenge book."
The other tourists laughed, "This kangaroo will invite you to a duel."
"I've seen kangaroos boxing with the keeper, oh, that's called a slam, a left hook, a right uppercut, a flying kick—the keeper went to the hospital."
Anyway, bragging doesn’t cost money, the tourist who was provoked by the kangaroo said loudly: “I can’t climb in, otherwise, practice with it!”
"Hahaha you are bragging!"
Duan Jiaze and Qu Shuiyu's mother and son stood aside, and Qu Xin asked, "Uncle Director, the breeder can't do it, so can you beat the kangaroo?"
Qu Xin's concept is far from the reality. Duan Jiaze is not the one who knows animals best in the zoo, nor is he the best at fighting, but it is enough to have status. Duan Jiaze thought for a while and said, "I don't need to fight. I will fight, after all, I am the head of the garden."
Qu Xin was amused and giggled.
Even Qu Shuiyu had a faint smile on his face, thinking that the headmaster is a young man after all, and his words are so playful, children like it quite a bit.
That kangaroo is also funny. Although no one can box with it, the other male kangaroos are eager to try.
But this kangaroo is very strong. The other kangaroos came up in line. It punched one by one to the side. When it faced the last one, it jumped up and kicked it with its strong hind legs, and landed firmly. .
—Although boxing is very powerful, but kicking is the kangaroo's nirvana.
This neat action won unanimous praise from the tourists. Sometimes watching videos and pictures is completely different from watching the scene. It is difficult to feel the speed and power in the video. If you punch him in the air, if it is a cartoon Distorted, with a few black lines on the side of the fist.
The dull impact sound made it clear that the force of this blow must be one or two hundred catties. This one-vs-many match made everyone a little excited.
After defeating all the other male kangaroos, the king of boxing kangaroos once again punched the humans outside. Now even though there was isolation, everyone couldn't help but dodge to the side.
Seeing its performance like this, Qu Xin even questioned the director, "Uncle director, are you really better than it?"
"My original words are not stronger than it, I mean it won't hit me." Duan Jiaze said, putting his hand on the barbed wire.
The male kangaroo took a look, and slowly stretched his head over.
Other tourists are eager to try, nothing else, especially want to feed the kangaroos. Animals are not allowed to be fed in this sanctuary, and the management is strict. They smuggle food and none of the animals eat it (maybe the feed they eat is Jiajia restaurant in the feed), and the only children's amusement park that allows feeding is limited. .
Seeing the kangaroo approaching now, some people want to try again, maybe this time it will be successful.
But the kangaroo didn't even look at them, and directly smashed its head against Duan Jiaze's palm through the barbed wire, and rubbed it several times, one of its two pricked up ears pressed against the barbed wire, and the other moved.
Seeing the scene of the brutal boxing king showing such "iron tenderness", other tourists showed curiosity, envy and other emotions. The kangaroo looked wild, and they dared not take the initiative to touch it.
Qu Xin didn't dare to get too close. The kangaroo's swift and powerful kick just now was too terrifying. He could see it especially clearly because his head was just parallel to the kangaroo's legs at his height...
…
Looking at these kangaroos, Duan Jiaze was very satisfied. From the beginning, there were more than a dozen animals in the Lingyuan Zoo, to now there are hundreds of animals in each exhibition area, and there are so many aquariums in the aquarium. It is finally a small scale.
In fact, there is another good thing recently. The penguin breeding of Lingyuan has attracted some attention in the domestic zoo industry before, but now, after a period of time, some zoos in other places have extended a friendly hand to Lingyuan.
This animal is called the Blue Bird Zoo, and emperor penguins are also raised in the park. They are very interested in Lingyuan's breeding experience and animal breeding. Not long ago, they contacted Lingyuan and hoped to send a team to exchange ideas.
Of course, Duan Jiaze is very welcome. This kind of peer exchange, in addition to the technical personnel from both sides can learn from each other, what is more important is that everyone exchange animal resources.
They are in different regions, and there is no great competition. There should be only advantages and no disadvantages. Moreover, this also symbolizes that the status of Lingyuan has been improved invisibly, and some colleagues have already recognized them very much.
Duan Jiaze also returned to his office after conducting a simple "feelings interview" with Qu Xin.
Not long after, Huang Qi came over again, "Director, there is an invitation here."
Duan Jiaze took a sip of water, but couldn't figure it out for a moment, "What invitation?"
Huang Qi said: "There is a film crew that needs to find animal actors. A few days ago, I saw someone put it on the Internet. The clip of catching swans in our garden. I hope I can borrow a batch of swans, together with Lu Ya."
This movie is an adaptation of a novel. In the original book, there are scenes that require swans, and they are the flying ones. However, whether it is a swan in a farm or a swan in a zoo, they will have their feathers clipped or their wings broken, and they cannot control those that can fly.
The director is a bit of a perfectionist. With limited funds, he didn't want to use that kind of fake and inferior special effects, and he was thinking about whether to replace it with a pigeon.
But at this time, one of their staff members saw the video of the Swan Riot on the Internet and sent it to the director.
After watching it, the director checked Lingyuan's Weibo, and felt that the swans in this place are very suitable for borrowing, and the well-trained raptor seems to be able to help guide the swans to shoot.
After all, Lingyuan has participated in several filmings, Duan Jiaze was not as excited as before this time, he thought about it for a while, and said: "Luya doesn't want to borrow, but the swan can be rented, and you can also lend them a breeder. Can command."
He is going to lend Hu Dawei or Pan Xuanfeng out, as monsters, they have an advantage in communication, and they are not afraid of revealing their secrets.
Huang Qi said with emotion: "The head of the garden is just right for Lu Yaniao, so he is not willing to lend it out."
Duan Jiaze laughed dryly.
Lend Luya out? Who can handle Lu Ya going crazy
Again, he couldn't find Houyi these days.
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A team of thirteen people from the Blue Bird Zoo, led by their deputy director, arrived at the Lingyuan Zoo in Donghai City.
The employees of Lingyuan took him from the high-speed rail station to the zoo. Duan Jiaze waited outside, and shook hands with their deputy director surnamed Wu.
Director Wu had talked with him on the phone before. The deputy director, who is in his fifties, used to be a technician and specialized in bird breeding.
Almost everyone who met Duan Jiaze for the first time inevitably praised him for being young, and this Director Wu was no exception.
The two exchanged pleasantries, and after introducing themselves, they walked into the garden. It was just after noon, and they all had dinner on the high-speed rail, so Duan Jiaze invited them to the restaurant for a cup of tea so that everyone could take a rest.
Although we only chatted for a few words, Duan Jiaze felt that, except Director Wu, there seemed to be a few people in their Jade Bird Zoo team who seemed to be prejudiced when talking to Lingyuan. Maybe it was his illusion.
Director Wu was very interested. After drinking tea, he wanted to take a look in the spirit cage and observe their animal breeding.
Duan Jiaze led them through the various exhibition halls, and then realized that his idea was really right. Several people liked to criticize when they visited.
Lingyuan's venue facilities and animal health are all fine. The only shortcoming is the enrichment.
After all, Donghai City is a small city, and the level of breeders it recruits will not be particularly high. However, the Blue Bird Zoo has been in operation for more than ten years, and it belongs to an old wild animal park in China. Their animal enrichment experts have a sense of superiority. Can be quite picky.
Because of the attitude of the other party, Duan Jiaze was not very happy, but because they were telling the truth, Duan Jiaze had no choice but to swallow it.
Fortunately, Director Wu's attitude is still very correct, and he has been praising their animals for their health. Enrichment or something, as long as the animal does not exhibit stereotyped behavior, there is nothing to blame.
In fact, everyone also knows in their hearts that the rise of Lingyuan is too sudden, and there are always a few people who are not in the right mentality. When they see the conditions and conditions here, they are even a little bit rebellious. They don't believe it. Are there any problems
There is no way, there is no competition, and they are also colleagues.
No, it did pick out some innocuous little problems.
A group of people were walking on the road, and the two sides were the first to talk about the cooperation between each other, but suddenly found a big man in disheveled clothes lying on the lawn in front of him, under the bamboo bushes.
Wearing a sweater and shorts, the big man was lying on the ground with his feet crossed, showing a little belly, basking in the sun swaggeringly.
When everyone passed by, they saw him from a distance and looked sideways.
"Hey, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Duan Jiaze showed an embarrassed smile, trotted over, and pushed the guy, "Whirlwind, where are you basking in the sun?"
This was Pan Xuanfeng, who was basking in the sun in the afternoon. He was so comfortable that he dozed off, and was woken up by Duan Jiaze. He wiped his face and said, "Director."
"Well, there may be light rain later, I'm afraid you'll get drenched in your sleep." Duan Jiaze said kindly.
"Thank you, Director." Pan Xuanfeng got up naively, "What are you doing, Director? I'll be with you."
Watching Director Duan chatting with the man they thought was a homeless man at first glance, he turned out to be acquainted, and even brought him over, and introduced him to everyone: "These are the comrades from the Jade Bird Zoo who came to communicate. .This is Xiao Pan, who is also an expert in our garden."
He praised Pan Xuanfeng quite a bit, and put on an expert hat. However, if you say that Pan Xuanfeng is an ordinary employee, everyone will probably think why he is not fired, is he a related household
In fact, it is not bragging, Pan Xuanfeng has no serious qualifications casually, but his strength is absolutely no problem, mainly because he has been a panda for hundreds of years...
Not to mention, Duan Jiaze thought that he might not only raise a panda in the future, but also asked Pan Xuanfeng to learn the knowledge of modern pandas. Xiao Pan said that there is no pressure!
Someone muttered: "What kind of expert?"
Pan Xuanfeng lazily said: "Panda."
The man immediately laughed twice, with a hint of disdain, "Do you have any pandas?"
There is no Lingyuan, but the Jade Bird Zoo has applied for a pair of pandas two years ago. He heard Pan Xuanfeng say that he is a panda expert, of course he wanted to laugh.
"..." Duan Jiaze was afraid that Pan Xuanfeng would be impulsive, so he hurriedly said, "No, I'm getting ready, I want to apply."
Those of Qingniao have subtle attitudes, and their expressions are very strange. They have evaluated in their hearts, and feel that it is definitely very difficult to apply for a panda in the current Lingyuan Zoo.
Pan Xuanfeng was the king of the mountain in the mountains, he was domineering, and he was covered by Duan Jiaze after he came to the Lingyuan. He was the one who was angry. Hearing what Duan Jiaze said, he replied, "You can't raise experts without pandas? Your names are blue birds." Zoo, do you have bluebirds?"
That person: "..."
The man was a little drunk, "This, can this mean something? The blue bird is a legendary creature, and we are called the Blue Bird Zoo because of the Blue Bird Mountain in this city!"
Pan Xuanfeng: "Anyway, there are no blue birds."
That person: "..."
Seeing that the two of them were about to pinch each other, Director Wu hurriedly smoothed things over, "I believe Lingyuan will be able to apply for it soon, hehe, raising pandas is also troublesome. Since our garden has raised pandas, everyone in the garden has been raising pandas." It’s because I don’t know how many people are going around them, I’m afraid that the service will be broken.”
Duan Jiaze really planned to raise pandas. In fact, the pandas were already here, and the only thing left was the formalities, so he followed Director Wu's topic and chatted about the panda's application.
The others at Jade Bird looked at Pan Xuanfeng secretly, thinking that this panda expert in Lingyuan was simply vulgar, and there were no experts at hand, so who would look at it just like that.
They looked at each other for the sake of pissing off Pan Xuanfeng, and when they were talking hotly in front of Director Wu and Duan Jiaze, they also pretended to start talking about panda breeding, and sighed: "Oh, pandas are really difficult to serve, and the survival rate is low. , so we can breed in China."
Pan Xuanfeng rolled his eyes at the right time, but didn't speak.
One person couldn't help but said: "This...Expert Pan? Since you are an expert, what experience do you have in raising or breeding? How long? How many cases? Let's talk about it."
Someone next to him cheered, "We, Mr. Wang, have a lot of experience. Chuanyu Zoo even invited him to sit in the town."
Duan Jiaze actually listened to it in front of him. He couldn't hold it back, smiled apologetically at Director Wu, and turned around, "We, Expert Pan, have seen more pandas than you may have seen dogs."
Everyone: "..."
What the hell, is the director crazy? Is there such a thing as a bull? Be careful it blows!
Pan Xuanfeng also spread his hands, and said generously: "Although we communicate, I won't count as a loser if I don't answer!"