"Hey, why do you think the red-crowned crane puts up with staying in such a stinky place and doesn't fly away?"
"I don't know..."
Visitors walked by Fang Ye, conversing with confusion.
Although the riverbanks were only surrounded by a fence a little over a meter high, the Oriental storks couldn't fly out. The reason was simple: their wings had been clipped.
In fact, the wings of the zoo's large bird species, including geese, pelicans, storks, cranes, ducks... and even flamingos, were almost all clipped.
When it comes to Waterfowl Lake, what many people envision first is a flock of brightly colored flamingos standing in the water. In fact, flamingos can fly!
Wing clipping generally involves removing the tips of one wing so that the lengths of the two wings are not uniform, causing imbalance and, naturally, the inability to fly.