i have a zoo

Chapter 87 The Warthog's Warts
Hearing Lu Xue's words, Qi Ming and Yijiezhi looked in the direction she pointed, and found that the mongooses were indeed not digging holes, but were playing around with their claws in the dust.

Qi Ming coughed, and broke the embarrassing silence and said calmly: "The daily life of the meerkats is very rich. Sometimes they will carry out activities such as wrestling and running, and sometimes they will sing with real and fake voices. Maybe this time it is They were halfway through digging and started playing."

Lu Xue nodded obediently. As a qualified beautiful girl, she knew that the best response at this time was to let people go down the ladder.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Qi Ming touched his nose: "Everyone can take out the phone and take a picture. The glass here is specially made, and the inside cannot be seen from the outside, so everyone can take pictures with confidence."

"Really? Then I'll take a picture." The super big ant excitedly took out his phone.

"Hey, I'm going to scroll through the photos in Moments."

"I want to record a video for my wife to see." Qin Tian pulled his hand out of the cigarette case, took out his mobile phone, opened Xiaoxin, and started recording the video.

After everyone finished taking photos and recording videos, Qi Ming began to lead everyone out in the direction of the exit.

"The next stop is the place where the warthog Pumbaa is. The smell may be a little stronger there. Everyone should be mentally prepared in advance."

Because the warthog habitat is on Simba's left, Qi Ming led Lu Xue up the stairs first, then passed Simba's habitat to the warthog habitat.

When passing by, Qi Ming looked back at Simba and found that it was still sleeping, eh!What a sleeping lion.

"Director, I think you should find some companions for Simba, so that he won't sleep every day." Lu Xue said in a positive tone.

"Haha, don't worry, we already have an introduction plan in the later stage. After all, the Lion King still needs a lion pride." Qi Ming smiled, "I will invite you to visit the next time we introduce it."

"Uh, uh, why does it have a faint smell of mud!" Before Qi Ming could finish speaking, Lu Xue suddenly covered her mouth and nose, frowning and said.

"Ah, is there?" The super big ant shook its nose trying to catch the smell.

"Xiaoxue said yes, then there must be." Yijiezhi showed a face full of fanaticism.

"---"

Seeing that everyone said they hadn't heard of it, Lu Xue tentatively lowered her hand, covered it quickly, and looked at Qi Ming with a puzzled expression.

"Sure enough, he is the UP master who cooks delicious food. This nose has a great sense of smell." After complimenting Lu Xue, Qi Ming saw everyone's confused expressions, and said again: "There is indeed a quagmire ahead, but the smell should actually be very weak here. gone."

There is a small quagmire in the warthog habitat, and the stench that Lu Xue smelt just now emanates from it.

Although the quagmire in the zoo is much cleaner than the quagmire in the wild, and it is cleaned regularly, there is still a smell.

So considering this smell, Qi Ming put the warthogs in the innermost left position, because he was afraid that the smell would spread to other habitats.

By the time they reached the railing where they could see the warthog habitat, everyone could already smell the sour smell that Lu Xue mentioned just now.

In the mire that Qi Ming mentioned, there were two warthogs more than one meter long lying in the gray and mushy mud. These two warthogs were completely covered with mud, and they became two mud pigs.

Hearing the sound of people approaching, the two mud pigs simply turned over and didn't move much.

"Ah, Peng Peng in reality is so ugly, and he looks a bit fierce~!" Lu Xue looked at the two mud pigs in the mud and said, her tone was full of disappointment.

"Haha, the image in the cartoon must be different from the reality." Qi Ming smiled.

"I think Timon in real life is cuter than in cartoons!" Lu Xue said unwillingly.

"Director, why don't they come out to move around, but just lie in the mud." The super big ant didn't care much about the appearance of the warthog.

"Warthogs like mud baths very much, which can help them remove parasites and protect them from heat, and the mud on their skin can prevent them from being bitten by mosquitoes and flies. Enjoying mud baths in water-scarce Africa is actually equivalent to human bathing. The hot springs are average, but one is to enjoy the shade and the other is to enjoy the temperature.

Many animals, especially elephants, buffaloes, rhinos, hippos, etc., also like to take mud baths. "

I don't know if I heard Qi Ming and the others talking about themselves, the two warthogs turned over and stood up suddenly. They shook their bodies, shook off the excess mud, and trotted over here with their tails upright.

"These warthogs run pretty fast." Qin Tian nodded.

"You don't know that. The African warthog can run at a speed of up to 54.4 kilometers per hour, which is almost half the speed of the African sprint champion cheetah." Yijiezhi showed off to Qin Tian.

After hearing that the animals in the next habitat were warthogs, he had already had a general look at the knowledge of warthogs on the way here.

But I don't know if the warthog's reputation is not high enough, he always feels that the content on the encyclopedia is a bit lacking.

well!These days, not only people are judged by appearance, but even animals are not valued for their ugliness!

"Are these two pigs male? Why do they both have tusks?" Lu Xue looked at the warthog and asked in confusion.

Hearing her question, Yijiezhi didn't bother to lament the difference between beauty and ugliness anymore, and replied with a feeling of recalling knowledge: "Xiaoxue, both male and female warthogs will grow tusks, uh, the male and female The difference is—"

While talking, he got stuck, after all, he just read the information for a while, and didn't remember a lot of detailed knowledge.

Seeing that Yijie’s sign suddenly got stuck, Qi Ming walked over helplessly and said, “boars and sows have four tusks, males are 4-26 centimeters long, females are 64-15 centimeters long, but boars have 26 tusks. The upper tusks are longer and more prominent, 38-65 cm, and curve sharply upwards and outwards, so you can tell the sex of a warthog by the length of their tusks."

Seeing that everyone listened seriously, he added: "In addition to looking at the tusks, you can also look at their body shape. Usually, the weight of female warthogs is 15% to 20% lighter than that of males. There may be errors in the situation, and the most accurate is to observe directly from a distance.”

"Director, is this fang a so-called wart?" Lu Xue nodded and asked half understanding.

Glancing at Lu Xue, who was curious about the appearance of a primary school student, Qi Ming smiled and pointed to the two raised spots under the warthog's eyes:
"You can see that the two things raised under the eyes on their faces are warts. These warts can help them protect their eyes when digging for food."

(End of this chapter)