i have a zoo

Chapter 115 Dawn
Hearing the tourists' comments, Qi Ming touched Doudou's flexible nose and praised: "Doudou, you cooperated well today, let Lao Wang give you extra meals tonight!"

Lao Wang lowered his head and seriously filed Doudou's right front forefoot. Hearing Qi Ming's words, he continued earnestly:
"Director, the standard of food we give Doudou has always been the highest standard, and it has a standard amount of food every day. Adding meals will not be good for its scientific diet progress."

"Um, well, I'll listen to you." Qi Ming replied with some embarrassment.

In order to relieve the awkward atmosphere, he walked to the railing of tourists and said loudly:

"For example, some overseas behavior training for elephants uses sharp elephant hooks, tools that can easily cause damage to elephants, to force elephants to obey.

This kind of training based on fear is also very dangerous. Maybe the elephant will run away at any time, and it is not good for animal welfare. Now it is advocated that it should not be used as much as possible.

The method used by our zoo is positive reinforcement training to gain the trust of elephants and make them willing to cooperate with us.

Of course, the purpose of our behavioral training for elephants is not only to give them a pedicure, but also to conduct some scientific research, such as body sampling, skin care, and treating their wounds, etc. In short, it is to make elephants healthier.

Of course, it does not mean that hooks or negative reinforcement training must not be used, after all, the speed of positive training is relatively slow.

The improved elephant hooks made of plastic or wood that are basically used in zoos now have no sharp blades and will not cause harm to elephants, but they are still a disgusting stimulus.

But sometimes in order to allow the elephants to cooperate with the work as soon as possible, sometimes we have to use this method.

There was a baby elephant in a zoo before and wanted another female elephant to breastfeed it, but the mother elephant was not happy, and the feeding feedback training could not be trained, because the training time was too long, and the baby elephant had to wait until the training was finished. Probably starving to death.

The zoo was so forced that it had no choice but to threaten the mother elephant with an elephant hook and force the mother elephant to breastfeed. "

Tourists think about it, this is indeed a difficult problem!

"It feels a bit like educating children! Sometimes I try to persuade you with good words, but I just don't listen, and I have to beat them to be honest."

Someone said deeply: "Don't talk about it, as soon as I do homework for my children, my blood pressure will go up! I can't wait to kill myself."

"Hey, if you don't beat the child, you're disobedient, and you'll regret it after beating!"

Then he asked the question curiously: "Director, is it dangerous to pedicure the elephant's feet?"

"How often do you trim an elephant's feet?"

Qi Ming said with a smile: "Of course there is danger. The slash between the railings is to prevent the elephant's trunk from sticking out, and the pedicure is performed by two people together. One keeper will do the pedicure, and the other keeper will observe and appease the food." Elephant emotions.

Generally, the elephant's feet are brushed two or three times a week. This kind of overhaul may be done every other month to polish off the excess toenails to ensure that the elephant's feet are on the ground when walking.

By the way, Xiaozhu, show everyone that piece of hyperplasia! "

When Xiaozhu went to fetch the extra growth, Qi Ming asked Doudou to change his foot, and used a brush to brush the soles of Doudou's feet: "Everyone can observe the soles of its feet!"

In order to see more clearly, tourists squatted down and took pictures while watching.

Some people didn't even think it was dirty, and just lay down on the ground. Looking from the bottom up, they were very thirsty for knowledge.

Doudou was eating apples inside, and was puzzled by the behavior of tourists.

What are these people doing?Are my feet so pretty?Yan Ganghui also squatted down!
It was found that the soles of the elephant's feet were not flat as imagined, but pitted, like thick and rough tires.

The top is uneven, with wide or narrow gaps of irregular shape, and the gaps are dark, making it difficult to see clearly.

Qi Ming said: "The excess on the top is the hyperplasia of the elephant. In layman's terms, it is the skin of the foot! A healthy elephant's foot should be amber, not cracked, and elastic."

Xiao Zhu is back at this time!
Take a crooked thing that is longer than a palm, brown and rough like cartilage, and covered with a mixture of grass and feces.

Showed to the tourists: "This is the growth that we took from the sole of Doudou's foot when we gave Doudou a pedicure last time."

Tourists gathered around, looked at this, and frowned!
"Wow, it's so dirty!"

"Ah, it's kind of disgusting!"

"What's on it, shit?"

Xiao Zhu said: "That's right, when elephants walk around, they will inevitably step on feces, which may get embedded in the gaps between the toenails or the growths on the soles of the feet, so we brush the feet of the elephants every day to avoid bacteria on the soles of the feet." breed.

By the way, we will also check whether there are small stones embedded, whether there are thorns or something, to ensure the health of the elephant's feet. "

Someone asked curiously, "Don't you feel sick when you pedicure elephants?"

Xiao Zhu grinned innocently: "We are breeders, why should we dislike elephants?"

Lao Wang even had a cool look: "If there is no elephant smell on your hands, you will feel that something is missing when you sleep at night."

Zhao Dapeng gave a thumbs up in admiration: "Awesome!"

The smell of an elephant, to him, smells almost like cow dung that has been placed for a year and a half!

Although it is less irritating than cow dung, it is still delicious.

What a powerful state it is to get used to falling asleep with the smell of an elephant.

Qi Ming said with a smile: "In fact, elephant dung is very clean! There are no bacteria in it. Mr. Pei once squeezed water from fresh elephant dung to drink. If you can't find a water source when walking in the hot wilderness, Elephant dung might save your life."

Tao Yingying's face wrinkled, showing embarrassment: "rua! Why do I feel like vomiting."

Zhao Jia's body trembled: "I hope I will never encounter such a scene!"

While explaining to the tourists, Qi Ming took a small knife and scraped on the soles of Doudou's feet to cut off the hyperplasia.

Doudou seemed to feel something, and retracted her feet sensitively.

Qi Ming lost a soothing skill, touched Doudou's leg, and smiled softly: "Good boy, it's okay~"

After working for a long time, I finally repaired Doudou's front two feet, and then flushed it with a water pipe to wash down the debris and dust. The remaining two feet have to wait for the next day to clean up.

Sure enough, after careful repairs, it looks much prettier than before!

Under the light, the top of the foot is an attractive amber color, and the toes are full and healthy.

Needless to say, the tourists applauded enthusiastically with "chi chi chi chi"!

Qi Ming smiled and praised: "Okay, not bad, Doudou is the best performer, very cooperative."

Doudou also looked very happy, and took a few steps forward to try on the newly repaired feet.

Comfortable!

"Give you some rewards!"

Lao Wang took out a few pieces of apples and carrots from the bucket and threw them on the ground. Qi Ming gave a "tsk" and said, "Be generous! Give him the rest!"

What a windfall, just now it was all piece by piece, now there will be a lot more.

Doudou rolled his nose happily and began to eat.

After feeding Doudou, Qi Ming loudly announced that today's pedicure is over.

Some tourists took a lot of photos and left satisfied. If you have any questions, stay and ask the breeder.

When some tourists learned that the remaining two feet of the elephant would be repaired the next day, they quickly took pictures of Doudou's feet and prepared to go back to publicize.

Looking at the cheering tourists outside, the fan-like ears of Doudou, who had just had her feet trimmed, flapped back and forth happily.

Suddenly he lowered his head and sucked up the water in the isolated water channel in front of the habitat with his nose, then raised his long nose and sprayed the water towards the tourists with a "poof" shaking. There are numerous white water splashes.

"what!!!"

"The elephant sprayed water!"

The tourists who were sprayed by the elephant suddenly exclaimed, and some people screamed excitedly!

Zhao Jia wiped the water off his face, and said helplessly, "Eh, I was drenched by an elephant again!"

Zhao Dapeng said: "This is quite fun!"

Looking at the excited tourists who were sprayed with water, Zhao Jia can only lament that being sprayed by an alpaca is a completely different experience from being sprayed by an elephant.

There are even tourists around, wanting to experience the feeling of being drenched by an elephant!

But Doudou shook his nose, as if waving goodbye to everyone, and quickly walked away, and it was still rushing back to eat!

After the large number of tourists beside the railing dispersed, Qi Ming smiled and said to Lao Wang and Zhuge Qi: "You two have worked hard today, let's continue tomorrow afternoon."

After affirming the work done by Lao Wang and Zhuge Qi, Qi Ming also went outside. He was anxious to see whether the retention rate of tourists in the elephant house had improved after the pedicure session.

Walking to the bench outside the elephant house and sitting down, Qi Ming entered the task system of the game with ease:

【当前各栖息地游客留存度（停留一小时）：火烈鸟栖息地（35/100）、羊驼栖息地（34/100）、细尾獴栖息地（21/100）、大象馆（78/100）！】

"Haha, it seems that there should be no suspense in completing the task tomorrow!" Qi Ming happily gave himself a high-five.

After confirming that the task can be completed tomorrow, Qi Ming let go of his worries and went back to the office to rest.He sat in the office until evening.

"There is no problem with the main line, and the next step is to design the red panda house."

After speaking, he entered the game's construction system and began to design the little panda house.

Some arrow bamboos can be planted on the winding walkway outside the exhibition hall, with red-purple rhododendrons and blue vinca flowers among them, and a stream around the walkway creates a habitat atmosphere.

The exterior wall uses natural bamboo as the building material, which is in line with the theme of the Red Panda Pavilion, and can also make tourists more immersed in it.

On the viewing side, the glass curtain wall is bent at a small angle and divided into three sides, providing visitors with different viewing angles.

The canopy protects visitors from the sun and rain while reducing reflections from the glass curtain wall.

Although the exhibition area is small, it does not mean that it is simple. The so-called dojo is built in the shell of a snail, and a small venue can also be designed in many ways to make it rich and exciting.

Red pandas usually live in large tree holes or stone holes and rock crevices. Design a stone cave for it first.

The middle is slightly raised, creating a very gentle mound about 40 cm above the ground.

Get a few big blue-gray stones and pile them up on the mound.A few big stones that are thicker and thicker like potatoes are half-buried, and the middle is empty, and flat and long like eggplants are placed on the outside, covered with the top, and a smaller stone is placed to cover the entrance of the hole.

The gap left at the end is about the same width as the head of the red panda.

In this way, a bunker-like stone cave is ready.

Little pandas can get in and watch what's going on outside.

Just like a machine gunner in a bunker, scouting out through the square firing holes.

However, the direction of the hole is facing the glass curtain wall, so...

The height of the "blockhouse" is raised through the mound, and the distance of several meters is added, so that tourists don't have to squat or lie down, as long as they look down a little, they can see the cute look of the red panda peeping blankly - if it is in the words inside.

The function of the bunker is not only to let the red panda hide inside, but also to provide a hiding place.

The flat stone at the top can also let it lie on it and bask lazily in the sun.

One of the hobbies of red pandas is to bask in the sun on sunny cliffs or on top of big trees, so the local people in Sichuan call them "Shan Men Dun'er".

Trees, are essential to display the natural behavior of red pandas!
Red pandas are good at climbing and spend more than 50.00% of their time in trees. When in danger, they can quickly climb up tall trees and move between trees to avoid enemies.

Because the main habitat of red pandas is the temperate forest at an altitude of 1500-4800 meters, with dense bamboo forests under the forest, Qi Ming chose a ginkgo biloba and a camphor tree with relatively thick branches for the collocation of trees.

Two more dead pine logs with a cavity, the cavity in the middle is an excellent hiding place, and the trunk can also be used as a perch component.

Add a little perch support to make the red panda more stable and safer when climbing the tree.

After all, the trees in the pavilion cannot be as dense as in the wild, and the thick branches are connected to each other.

Therefore, a soft ladder consisting of a rope and wooden boards is installed between the two trees. The wooden boards are slightly spaced, and the soft rope is swaying, simulating the effect of shaking branches, so that the red panda can move between different trees.

Some people may be wondering, why not grow bamboo?

Bamboo is the staple food of red pandas, and there is a large piece of bamboo in the wild, which can't be eaten at will.

Planted in the exhibition hall, only a few stalks can be caught, and the bamboo will die within a few days and become a disposable consumable.

The bamboo in the panda house is all cut and brought in from outside.

"Is there anything else?"

Qi Ming thought for a while, by the way, we should have some water!
The suitable temperature for red pandas is 10 to 25 degrees. In southern cities like Linhai, the temperature is not too low in winter, but it is very hot in summer.

Make a zigzag small ditch around the mound, and even use a few atomizers to create a foggy effect while humidifying and cooling down.

Under the sun, in the light mist, the red pandas are strolling leisurely on the tree trunks, which must be a beautiful sight.

"Hmm! It's very nice, but it's a little too big for Xiaotian, after all, it's the only one!"

(End of this chapter)