i have a zoo

Chapter 107 Can You Hurry Up

Seeing that both Zhao Dapeng and Tao Yingying were interested in whether Sun Dasheng was a macaque, Zhao Jia could only share some knowledge he read online:

"Although Sun Dasheng is said to be a spiritual stone monkey, Mr. Wu Chengen must have had a reference template when he wrote it. Let's not mention this for now. Let's take a look at this sentence written in Journey to the West:
[The Monkey King leads a group of apes, macaques, horse monkeys, etc., and assigns monarchs, ministers and envoys.Visit Huaguo Mountain in the morning, stay in the Water Curtain Cave at night, agree with each other, don't go into the bushes of birds, don't follow beasts, and be king alone, very happy. 】

From this sentence, it can be seen that the monkeys on Huaguo Mountain at that time were divided into three categories by Mr. Wu Chengen. Among these three categories, two were Sun Wukong's direct descendants, and one was his confidants.

Why do you say that?At that time, Sun Wukong entrusted the leaders of four monkeys on the mountain called Sijianjiang, Marshal Beng and Ba, and General Ma and Liu. The four monkeys were of different breeds. Monkeys, have you noticed a problem? Apes and horse monkeys are both represented, but macaques are not represented.

[The Monkey King named the four old monkeys as strong generals, the two red-tailed horse monkeys as Marshal Ma and Liu Er, and the two backed apes as General Beng and Ba Er.All the things of setting up camp and camping, rewarding and punishing are given to the four generals to maintain. 】

Why don't macaques care?The macaque is his own confidant, and Monkey King himself should be a macaque.From the description of him, he is a macaque in all aspects such as red face and red ass.

Another one, a six-eared macaque can pretend to be Sun Dasheng, so why not a six-eared gibbon to pretend to be Sun Wukong?It doesn't look like it.

This macaque can pretend to be a macaque. From this perspective, we can see why Sun Wukong no longer has a leader among the macaques, because he himself directly controls these monkeys. "

After Zhao Jia finished speaking in one breath, he scratched his head and added embarrassingly: "Of course, these are just my own conclusions from reading on the Internet, so you can just listen and play!"

"Wow, Zhao Jia, you are so knowledgeable! You know even this." Tao Yingying gave Zhao Jia a thumbs up.

The three of them took a few random photos at the macaque habitat and left.

Walking along the tree-lined path to the end, they came to the elephant house.

"Yes, that's right, this is the location. I remember a local turtle owner was sprayed in the face by an elephant during the live broadcast yesterday." Tao Yingying said excitedly, pointing to a railing.

Hearing Tao Yingying talk about this, Zhao Jia suddenly thought of the video posted by some group friends in Friends of Animals yesterday and the encounter with the female anchor. Could it be that the anchor they were talking about was the same anchor as Tao Yingying was talking about?

However, he simply thought about it and did not directly confirm it with Tao Yingying.

"Pengpeng, take a picture for me at this position!" Tao Yingying happily compared a pair of scissors.

"Crack!"

"Come and show me!" Tao Yingying took the phone, glanced at the photo, she pouted and said, "Well, it's a bit different from Xiaoxue's photo, it would be nice if there was an elephant behind her as a background."

"That's right, why didn't you see Doudou?" Hearing Tao Yingying's words, Zhao Jia finally realized that they didn't seem to see Doudou come out for activities during the time they came here.

"Old Zhao, you mean that elephant, it seems to be over there." Zhao Dapeng shifted his attention from his girlfriend to the habitat, glanced casually and pointed in one direction.

Following the direction Zhao Dapeng pointed, Zhao Jia found Doudou there.

"Uh, it turned out to be a sand bath! I said why didn't I see it." Zhao Jia looked at Doudou who was rolling in the sand pool.

Since Qi Ming added a sand pool to the elephant house, Doudou would soak in it whenever he had nothing to do, and seemed to enjoy the stimulation of sand rubbing against his skin.

"Bobo!"

While shaking its huge body in the sand, it raised its flexible nose high and made a cheerful sound.

Even Zhao Jia and the others who watched it from a distance could feel Doudou's happy mood.

"Zhao Jia, why is the elephant so happy in the sandpit?" Tao Yingying couldn't quite understand why the elephant was so happy there.

"Don't we all like to take a shower with cold water when the weather is hot? Not only can it bring coolness to the body, but it can also wash away the dirty things on the body.

Animals such as elephants and rhinos also like this behavior, but they have one more step after the shower than we do.

Most of them live in tropical places, and they can cool off by soaking in the water for a while, but their skin will dry out easily after they come out of the water.

So they often have to spray a layer of mud on their bodies, or pour it on the ground and wipe it on, coating their bodies with a thick layer of mud, making them very dirty.

It seems ridiculous to apply a layer of sand or mud to the washed body.

But for animals such as elephants and rhinos, it is impossible not to do so, because although the skin of elephants and rhinos is very thick, it is said that ordinary pistol bullets cannot penetrate it.

But everything in the world has its good side and bad side. Between the skin folds of elephants and rhinos, there are many tender and thin places that can even be pierced with a sewing needle. These parts are theirs. Karius' heel.

The blood-sucking insects in tropical places (such as mosquitoes, biting flies, and squids, etc.) have powerful mouthparts and will bite and suck the blood of animals.

These blood-sucking insects like to bite into the skin folds of large warm-blooded animals such as elephants or rhinos, making them painful, itchy and very uncomfortable.

In order not to let these nasty bugs bother them, elephants and rhinos like to wrap themselves in a layer of mud. Only mud and mud are applied to the body to block the folds of the skin and form a protective film. In order to prevent insects from biting them, it can also play a moisturizing role. "

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Jia's mouth. He now enjoys the sense of accomplishment that knowledge brings to him, which is why he often reads Animal Encyclopedia recently.

"Uh, what you're talking about is mud. What's the matter with that peasous elephant taking a sand bath? The sand can't hang on its body to block bugs!" Zhao Dapeng spoke urgently and quickly.

"Don't worry, what I'm going to talk about next is this. In nature, although elephants use mud baths to block the bites from mosquitoes and flies.

But they ignore the possible germs and insects in the mud, and in the zoo, because there are regular mosquitoes and flies and regular baths, they don't need to use mud baths to prevent insects and moisturize. "

"So you see very few mud pools specially built for elephants in zoos. On the one hand, they are not clean, and on the other hand, they are difficult to take care of because the elephants are too big."

Just then came a sentence:
"Brother, can you get to the point quickly, I'm getting impatient."

(End of this chapter)