i have a zoo

Chapter 121 Chain Missions
"Parrot? What parrot? Where did it come from?"

When Qi Ming received Zhuge's call, he was a little surprised, what the hell, I didn't know that the zoo had introduced parrots.

"Ah, Director, just now at the Little Panda House, a big parrot flew over and snatched Xiaotian's apples. I thought it was a new one from our zoo." Zhuge Qi grabbed the phone and explained what happened just now. Let me tell you about the little panda house.

"Is that so? Okay, I understand. I'll contact the rescue station to see if the animal they were begging for has escaped."

"Okay, Director."

As soon as the conversation between the two parties was hung up, there was another ding sound in Qi Ming's mind:
[Sudden Mission - Mysterious Parrot: A parrot suddenly flew over from Jiajia Zoo, but this parrot is obviously not a common species in the pet market. As the director of the zoo, you must find out its origin! 】

[Mission Objective: Investigate the origin of the mysterious parrot in the zoo]

【Task time: two hours】

[Task Reward: Reward according to the progress of the task completion! 】

[Note: The parrot has a limited time in the zoo, please pay attention to the time limit for completing the task! 】

"I didn't expect to trigger a sudden mission. It seems that the origin of this parrot is not simple!"

After Qi Ming checked the emergency mission information, he didn't go out of the office to catch birds, but exited the taskbar, clicked on the homepage and used the game perspective to view the entire zoo.

"Let me see where this mysterious parrot is!"

Qi Ming zoomed in, and began to explore the vicinity of the Little Panda House.

Since the live broadcast and the article went viral, the daily number of visitors to the zoo has become much more stable than before, with [-] or [-] tourists coming to visit every day.

On weekends, the number of tourists in a single day can now exceed [-].

"It's not here, it's not here, it's flying pretty fast." Qi Ming kept stretching and adjusting the angle.

"Haha, I finally found you!"

When the camera is moved to a tree on the west side of the Bear House,

Qi Ming finally found the so-called mysterious parrot.

"Uh, this is a macaw! Why are we here at the zoo?"

Qi Ming looked at the parrot on the tree, began to match the information in his mind, and found the matching information from it.

The parrot is a bird with many gorgeous feathers and loves to sing.Their beaks are strong and powerful, and they can eat hard nuts.

Brightly colored feathers are often kept as pets.They are more appreciated and loved by people for their beautiful feathers and the ability to learn human languages.

However, according to the current law, there are only three kinds that are allowed to be raised without a certificate, namely budgies, peach-faced peony and cockatiels.Other common gray parrots, small sun parrots, and sunflower parrots are actually illegal.

Why these types?Our country has participated in the Washington Convention (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), non-native animals are protected according to the list of the convention, and native animals are protected and managed according to the "National Key Protected Wildlife List".

All local parrots start as second-class protected animals and belong to the prison-bottomed sitting and wearing birds. The three kinds of budgerigars are not found in our country and are not in the convention, so they are allowed to be raised.

Among the parrot species, macaws, as a distinctive parrot among the parrot species, are more favored by people because they have some very unique features that other parrots do not possess.
Macaws generally live in tropical rain forests. They are the largest of all parrots. The largest species can exceed one meter in length and live a long life. Wild macaws can generally live for 30-40 years, while artificially raised ones can live longer. If they are kept longer, they can even live to 60 or 80 years old if they are well raised. Send the breeder away.

The red and green macaw is one of the most beautiful in appearance among the macaw species.

It is easier to confuse it with the scarlet macaw, also known as the colorful macaw. The main difference between the two is that the junction of red and blue on the wings of the red and green macaw is green, while the crimson is yellow.

Among the parrots, the macaw has the most colorful feathers. Its feathers can be described as colorful and colorful.

Macaws are produced in the tropical regions of America and are one of the most beautifully colored parrots. There are 6 species in 17 genera.

Among the several species of macaws, the feathers of each species are so gorgeous that it can be said to firmly catch people's attention. For example, the purple-blue macaw has beautiful and bright purple-blue feathers and hooks. huge beak.

It is four feet long and has wings that can be four feet wide.Their beaks are black, with yellow bare skin behind the lower beak and around the eyes.

For example, the body of Qinglan King Kong is bright dark blue, the neck, chest and lower abdomen are blue with a little dark green, the beak is gray, the inside of the wings and tail feathers are dark blue with a little black, and the outer circle of the eyes is yellow. There is a half-moon-shaped yellow bark near the lower jaw.

Another example is the great green macaw. Most of the bird's body is yellow-green, with a small piece of red feathers on the forehead, the bare skin on the face is light red, and there are several black horizontal stripes on the bare skin on both sides of the cheeks.

When excited, the bare skin will turn pink, the chin under the beak will be dark brown, the male bird will have bright blue distribution on the back of the head, and the rear of the back and the tail coverts near the buttocks will be light blue. The main coverts are blue, the upper part of the tail is light reddish brown with a light blue tip, and the inside of the tail and flight feathers are olive yellow.

Or the red and green macaw, adults with beautiful red feathers on the head, neck, chest and sides of the mantle.

Shoulders and tertiary flight feathers green.The back, rump and top of the tail are blue.The tail is red and blue.Tail coverts light blue.The upper layer of the mandible is predominantly white or ivory, the lower mandible black.The cheeks are bare skin, covered with red and white feathers in serpentine lines.

There is also the blue-throated macaw, which has striking turquoise plumage above and bright yellow underparts, with a swath of blue at the throat contrasting with the yellow between the cheeks and underparts.It has a strong black beak and yellow eyes.

There are also chestnut-fronted macaws, the bird body is green, the forehead is dark brown near the beak, there are some blue feathers on the top of the head, the face has white bare skin, and the bare belt has horizontal dark brown thin strips of feathers. A ring of dark brown feathers around the face along the periphery of the bare hide;
The curved part of the front wing is red, the inner secondary coverts are also red, and the coverts of the main flight feathers are blue.The underside of the tail feathers is green in color, reddish brown above, with a blue tip.The inner tail and flight feathers are dark orange, the beak is black, and the iris is orange.

For example, the red-bellied macaw has an olive-colored underbelly with dark reddish-brown feathers, and the cover feathers on the neck, back, and outside of the tail are also olive-green.

The forehead and underside of the beak are blue-green, with a touch of gray on the chin, throat, and upper breast, with green piping on the outside of each feather.

The main flight feathers and coverts of the wings are blue-green, the inner coverts are yellow-green; the inner tail coverts are blue-green; the upper part of the tail is green, and the inner part is olive-yellow.

Adults have a black beak and the bare face is pale yellow with a whitish tinge.Juveniles have a waxy white beak tip.

And the one that appeared in front of Qi Ming was the red and green macaw with the most beautiful appearance.

"There is only one hour left, so we have to catch it and put it back in place." Qi Ming didn't continue to study the information. After confirming the location, he quickly went downstairs and rode a flatbed to the little panda house.

By the way, he also took a net bag for emergencies, and it took Qi Ming only 10 minutes to reach the destination through the staff passage.

When Qi Ming took the net bag and walked under the tree where the red and green macaw was, it was still pecking at the apple that Xiaotian snatched from the tree one by one.

Looking at it, Qi Ming didn't take the net bag directly, but put down the net bag and walked over it gently.

He still wants to get close to the red and green macaw through his aura first, and the net pocket is only the last resort. After all, the requirement of the mission is to find out the origin of the red and green macaw, not simply capture it.

Qi Ming walked over there softly, while exuding friendly emotions through the breeder's heart.

"qaa ai an Boroxao an uasa ae oi—"

I don't know if he heard Qi Ming's footsteps, or felt the friendly emotion conveyed by him, the red and green macaw suddenly turned his head and said a series of words to Qi Ming.

Of course, it said a lot, Qi Ming didn't understand at all. Although he could feel the emotions of animals through the breeder's heart, it was not enough for him to learn a bird language.

"HELLO, HELLO—my name is RICK, my name is RICK, RICK, RICK."

As if it could be seen from Qi Ming's face that he couldn't understand what he said, the red and green macaw suddenly said another sentence, and repeated it several times afterwards.

But this time there is no need for it to be repeated, and Qi Ming understands it. As a director of a zoo who has undergone nine years of compulsory education, he can still understand this simple English.

"OK, OK, I am a good man!" Although English is Qi Ming's weakness, he still reacted quickly and expressed his strong personality in English.

It's a pity that the red and green macaw who called himself Rick didn't agree with his character, but repeated two sentences:

"Good morning, Abram! Good morning, Abram!"

"Damn, how did I forget, most parrots just repeat imitated sounds, not what they actually want to say."

Moreover, birds do not have vocal cords. They can make sounds because the muscles in the throat and the vocal membrane guide the airflow to produce tones and make sounds. However, not all birds can learn other sounds. Only Three groups of distantly related birds were able to do it.

To put it simply, the trachea of ​​birds is like a long cylindrical tube, with many semi-ossified cartilage rings forming a scaffold. After the trachea enters the chest cavity, it is divided into two primary bronchi. At the junction of the trachea and the bronchi, the long There is the syrinx, which is the most important vocal organ in birds.

The syrinx is composed of inner and outer membranes at the end of the trachea and the beginning of the bronchi, and these membranous structures are called "syrinx".Under the airflow, the narcotic membrane will vibrate to produce sound, and the muscles on the outside of the syrinx can control the tension of the narcotic membrane through contraction and relaxation, so that different sounds can be produced.

Many parrots can say some simple words, such as "auspicious", "hello" and the like.

But in fact, their "ventriloquism" is indeed very outstanding among birds.This is a conditioned reflex, mechanical imitation.

This kind of imitation behavior is also called imitation in science.Because birds do not have a well-developed cerebral cortex, they have no thought and consciousness, and it is impossible to understand the meaning of human language.

But this refers to most birds, always a small number of cases.

Alex (1976 – 2007.9.6) is an African gray parrot and the subject and close partner of animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg for 30 years. He is famous all over the world for his extraordinary cognitive and communication skills.When it died young, major media around the world reported its death at length.

Alex has learned to use English vocabulary to identify 50 different objects, 7 colors, 5 shapes, can count to 6 and understand concepts like 0, and has mastered the concepts of the same, different, larger and smaller.

It knows how to express certainty, need and refusal, and can use phrases such as "I want to fuck" and "want to fuck."In 30 years of research, Dr Irene and Alex's story has changed scientists' understanding of bird intelligence, shattering the common perception that parrots are just meaningless parrots.

But Qi Ming didn't think that he could meet Einstein in a parrot in the zoo casually.

After using the BUG method of emotional transmission, the parrot named Rick uttered many interesting sentences, and Qi Ming deduced an interesting thing from these sentences.

This parrot named Rick is raised by a man named Abram, and this Abram is a foreigner, or a rich foreigner.

Of course, this was speculated by Qi Ming after seeing Rick’s identity. As a rare parrot species, private breeding is not allowed in China. Even if you want to raise it abroad, you still need a certain financial cost.

And this Abram's native language should not be English, but the language that Rick spoke in the first place.

Finally, Qi Ming deduced that this Abram might have been playing in the resort below the zoo, and the parrot Rick sneaked out by himself.

After thinking about it, Qi Ming submitted his idea to the system!
【Ding!Sudden Mission - Mysterious Parrot: Completed! 】

[Sudden Mission - Lonely Rick: Activated! 】

【Sudden Mission—Lonely Rick: A parrot suddenly flew over from Jiajia Zoo. You have already figured out its origin. Please help Rick find its owner as soon as possible. Good-hearted people will eventually be rewarded! 】

【Mission Objective: Help Rick find its owner】

【Task time: 24 hours】

[Task Reward: Reward according to the progress of the task completion! 】

"A series of missions! If you can't finish this one, there will be another mission!"

(End of this chapter)