Fang Ye and the others got off the plane at 9 o'clock in the morning, and it was almost 0 o'clock when they arrived at the rescue center.
Let the elephant enter the cage, hoist it several times and load it on the truck, and reinforce the transportation of the cage for the feed. The whole process took almost 4 hours.
This is the meaning of behavior training!
Started training two months in advance to familiarize the elephants with the process of entering the transport cage. Today, when they were actually transporting, they walked into the cage and actively cooperated with the breeder, which saved a lot of things.
You have to take a ferry across the Qiongzhou Strait to cross the sea. Only the driver is allowed to wait in the car. Others need to check in from the waiting hall to board the ship.
Fang Ye and they lined up to enter the passenger cabin from the passage of people. On the other side below is the passage of cars, trucks and cars slowly entered.
There is a mother in front of her, holding the child by the hand and leading him forward.
While walking, the child looked out of the railing curiously, saw a truck with elephants in it, opened his eyes in surprise, and slammed his mother's hand: "Mom! Elephant!"
"There are no elephants here, let's go let's go..."
The kid insisted: "It's really an elephant! Don't pull me, I want to see the elephant!"
Mom helpless: "Hey, I want to see the elephant take you to the zoo someday!"
The child was dragged by his mother and walked forward reluctantly, reluctantly watching the truck with the elephant enter the cabin.
Fang Ye laughed and said nothing to the breeder in the back.
Sitting on the ferry, tourists are blowing the wet sea breeze on the upper floor, enjoying the sea view outside, and taking pictures with their mobile phones!
I would never have thought that there would be another special passenger on the lower deck one deck from them.
Pingping experienced the initial panic of being hoisted by the cage, this will have calmed down a lot, and he stayed in the cage safely.
After boarding the boat, his huge head also turned around and looked curiously at the sea view outside.
Fang Ye was on the deck, looked at the sea for a while and then went back.
To be honest, there is no beauty in imagination!
The sun in the afternoon was the hottest. It shone on the undulating sea, and the golden light flickered. After a long time, it pierced people's eyes.
Soon, the ferry passed the sea.
Fang Ye, they sat in a small bun, and followed the flat truck all the way to Linhai.
Every time was renovated on the road, a bunch of melon-eating people would come and watch.
"Fuck, what is this playing, elephant?"
"Good guy, this looks much better than on TV!"
even has a flexible head, he turns on his phone on the spot, shoots a video, and prepares to transmit it to Douyin Kuaishou.
Scenes of transporting elephants are not common!
Brother Zhong feeds Ping Ping fruit fodder, Fang Ye is also resting, come to see Ping Ping's state.
jumped into the car and shouted with a smile, "Pingping!"
'S flat head turned around and looked at him!
Fang Ye took an apple and handed it over: "Come and eat an apple."
When she took the apple, she touched its nose by the way.
Brother Zhong smiled and said, "Everyone likes elephants, and few people can resist contact with them."
Fang Ye heard the breath of the story, and curiously asked: "Can you tell me?"
Brother Zhong pondered for a moment, and said: "When I was a child, I read a photo album called "My Wildlife Friends". There was a little girl Tippi in it. She had close contact with leopards, elephants, ostriches, and various wild animals. When I was young, I was shocked and felt that this is the best connection between humans and animals.
Later, I gradually realized the shallowness of this idea. Elephants are considered by the general public to be docile giants, but in the world, elephants kill and injure people every day, and there are tragic conflicts between people and elephants. "
Fang Ye nodded: "Indeed!"
People who love animals always yearn for being close and friendly with wild animals.
However, wild animals are not domestic pets. The reality is very cruel. The relationship between humans and animals is not so good.
It is a special case rather than a common case to run a lion and a tiger like him.
And it's only in the zoo. The best way to get along in the wild is not to interfere.
"Because I like elephants and study elephants, I worked as a volunteer at the elephant camp for a while. In fact, volunteers are just a project for the camp to make money. I met one who also came to volunteer at the meeting and I liked elephants very much. Girl. She also participated in a mahout training course.
The elephant in the elephant camp is called Tudou. Tudou is a very dangerous elephant. He slapped the owner of the camp with his nose. The staff included me. One time he shook the mahout and broke his leg and rested for four. In the past two months, he also stepped on and kicked two other mahouts.
Although I introduced her to the dangers of potatoes, she stopped chatting with me after the first introduction. She prefers what the camp owner said, elephants like to pet and hug.
The girl ignores the protection facilities and likes to get close to Tudou. Every time Tudou pushes her, she feels like playing with her and smiles happily.
A few times I wanted to help the potato to smash the elephant grass, and when I wanted to feed it water, the potato rudely snatched the food from her and almost dragged her down, and a few times when I asked for food, I almost used it. Hit her on the nose, and her smile will disappear at this time, revealing a puzzled expression.
When she wants to come to People love animals, animals can also feel, love people, and won't hurt people.
In fact, elephants don't need human help at all. The reason why the elephant did not harm her is simple, because she did not hinder her access to food, and she was afraid of being beaten.
According to my estimation in the elephant camp, less than 10% of people will accept the safety of elephants. In fact, a considerable proportion of captive elephants have tuberculosis, and the infection is two-way with humans. So far I haven't met a person who can touch an elephant without wanting to touch it. "
Fang Ye sighed: "Elephants are indeed very attractive animals. Such a behemoth has thicker legs than humans. Who doesn't want to touch it?"
Brother Zhong's experience is quite rich. He only came to the rescue center last year.
From the conversation, I can feel that he really likes elephants.
Fang Ye chatted with him, listened to him telling stories about contacting some elephants, and fed Ping Ping food.
The rest is ready and the car continues on the road.
finally arrived at the zoo at one o'clock in the morning.
The zoo's official account said in advance that they were going to meet the elephants. This time, some media reporters and many tourists were waiting at the entrance of the zoo. Seeing the truck coming, they suddenly felt refreshed: "Here is coming!"
The reporters took pictures with "Kakakacha". Some tourists bought flowers specially, held them in their hands, smiled, and seemed very happy to the elephant's arrival: "Welcome, welcome! Welcome to the Linhai Zoo!"
Some tourists also curiously asked: "Hey, why does it look a little red on its body? Isn't the elephant dusty?"
"...I don't know, maybe it was in the sun?"