Chapter 151: Chapter 151: The zoo must have a sense of responsibility
"Hey, why do you think this red-crowned crane can bear to stay in such a smelly place and won't fly away?"
"have no idea..."
Some tourists walked by Fang Ye and talked suspiciously.
Although there is only a one-meter high net around the river, the Oriental White Stork still can't fly out. The reason is simple. The wings have been cut.
In fact, wild geese, pelicans, storks, cranes, ducks... the large birds in the zoo basically cut their wings, including flamingos.
When it comes to waterfowl lakes, the first thing many people can think of is a large group of brightly colored flamingos standing in the water. In fact, flamingos can fly!
Cutting wings generally involves cutting off the tip of one wing, so that the length of the two wings is not uniform, and if they lose their balance, they will naturally not be able to fly.
Although it's a bit pitiful for birds, if you don't cut off the wings, you can't restock these birds. If you fly at will, you may fly to viaducts or various places. Maybe a duck is caught and drank soup. ...
If you don't stock, you can only be trapped in a small birdcage, so the space for movement is very limited. On the contrary, it is not good for the birds. Cutting the wings is also a way to weigh the pros and cons.
Another way is to build a very tall and covered building like the rainforest pavilion under construction at Linhai Zoo, which will not only cut off the wings of birds, but also give them a certain amount of flight space.
But the cost of building such a pavilion is too high! Most zoos can't get it.
At best, it's like the cage that macaws live in now. It's slightly larger than the bird cage, but it's not enough to fly.
There is also a compromise method, which is not to cut the wing tips, but only to cut off the bird's feathers.
Flying feathers can grow again. When the flying feathers grow well, the birds can fly in the sky again.
It sounds good, but it also has big shortcomings. Flying feathers basically have to be cut once a year. One is that they can't be done at any time, and the birds will be frightened and stressed once they are caught and chased...
Moreover, the flying feathers of each bird grow at different speeds. Some birds grow fast and need to be clipped more frequently.
Birds can't fly, they will flap their wings and run. They run at the same speed. They will swim in the water. Life.
It is a torture on both sides, it is better to cut the wing tips once and for all!
The World Zoo Aquarium Ethics Treaty stipulates: "It is prohibited to remove any part of an animal for the purpose of changing the appearance of the animal's body. However, for educational or management purposes, the removal of bird wings is the only allowed method and is limited to other methods. Used when it cannot be controlled."
There is an "original sin" in zoos restricting the freedom of animals. Birds certainly don't want to have their wings cut off and want to fly as much as they want, but they have no choice but to make sacrifices.
Therefore, zoos are more responsible for popularizing science education, letting the public know about birds and protecting wild animals.
There is nothing wrong with cutting the white stork's wings, but it doesn't provide a good environment for the teacher, and even the content of the lecture is misplaced, which is not good.
Animal knowledge, the content of protection education, and the awareness of respecting animals are not passed on to tourists at all. The only function of the zoo is entertainment, which is regarded as a business.
But speaking of it, people like Pingjiang Zoo are already considered to be at an intermediate level, and they are more graceful in making money...
At least the site is relatively large, and each animal has a certain activity space.
The elk exhibition area is 500 square meters, and the brick floor is also the ground, you can walk in it when the weather is cool.
The white stork's exhibition area has grassland, trees, and streams. Although it smells a little bit stinky, wouldn't it be clean after one change?
In a worse zoo, a tiger is only given a 30-square-meter narrow concrete cage, and it is over after three or four steps. The two-meter metal mesh roof is very oppressive, and there is no wood for grinding claws. It lives in it. I'm going to be driven crazy.
The tiger could only open his mouth, and walked staggeringly in the cage with his eyes dull and dull.
Unwilling to go back to the back room, because the back room is darker and the space is narrower!
At least the light can be seen outside.
In the worst category, most people don't even talk about knowledge, or even think about it.
It's no different from a vegetable market. The animal's cage is just a little bigger, and the feces leak directly on the ground. The air is full of fishy smell. Tickets are also cheap, ten yuan per piece. Go in and sneak around to see what the animal looks like. .
Don't talk about the popular science exhibition card. The animal's name is written on the sign in front of the cage, which is not bad.
What, you said this is a raccoon dog? Boy, this is obviously a raccoon. Does the raccoon know?
Turtle Pond, you can throw a coin or something for the tortoise. It is called "money will fall to ghosts, good fortune will be the head"...
No wonder many people have a negative impression of the zoo!
Every day they are clamoring to abolish the zoo and return the animals to nature.
In fact, zoos are institutions that protect animals, breed animals, and popularize science education. It is no exaggeration to say that as they shoulder the future of the earth, the public should respect and love zoos.
Before Fang Ye crossed, Linhai Zoo was better than Pingjiang Zoo.
Linhai Zoo's cages are not as large as the Pingjiang Zoo's animal activity space. There are no grass or trees in the cages, but there are few animals. Every cage keeper can clean it neatly.
If you can't afford to feed the animals, send them to other places without letting them suffer from hunger.
Continue to walk inside and see the camel exhibition area.
The outer walls are twisted and twisted, smeared with mud, and deliberately made cracks, which are a bit disguised as a desert rock wall. There are also two large umbrellas, log brackets, and umbrella covers made of dead branches.
Some water stains can be seen on the ground. It is estimated that it was poured in the morning, but it is almost dry.
A camel huddled at the door of the rear shed, looking out.
The blue carp looked at the camel, beckoned to it, and said with a smile: "Hello camel~"
At least it looks more comfortable than the previous environment!
Fang Ye looked at the exhibition area, shook his head and uttered, "What's the use of this umbrella? This kind of decoration is purely for people to see. On the cement floor, camels won't go under the umbrella to cool off. You don't want to come out. It's better to spread some sand on the ground."
Cement, masonry, and asphalt have low reflectivity and high absorption rate to sunlight, and the temperature is much higher than that of air temperature.
So when the weather is very hot, spread an egg on the ground, it can really be cooked...
Continue to stroll forward, and at the intersection, I saw a feed selling point that said "Feeding with Love".
An old lady was sitting on a chair under a tree and eating sunflower seeds There were a few bottles of mineral water on the table in front of her, and carrot sticks in a small paper cup. Seeing them coming over, she was very angry. Said: "Young man, don't you buy feed, 10 yuan a piece? You can feed zebras here."
This is even more of a major disadvantage of zoos, and many large zoos are unavoidable.
Can the effect be good by selling feed while preventing tourists from feeding it?
Fang Ye waved his hand: "Don't don't."
I feel depressed. Such expensive tickets are still used to generate income. Doesn't the sign on the front of the Oriental White Stork say Do not vote? Could it be that this brand is also a template for the zoo popular science exhibition board found on the Internet...
The old lady spit out the skin of the melon seeds in her mouth and said nothing, but she looked a bit despised.
The young man brought such a beautiful girlfriend over, and he is reluctant to buy feed?
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