My North Sea Zoo

There is a reason why Lao Sha cannot update. The Guantouling White Snake survives the calamity published on June 30, 2020. The Guantouling Mountain fire on that day burned the python. The ostrich running wildly on the road was released in June 2020. On February 20, 2021, the news reported that the ostrich escaped at the Beihai Yima intersection... By the way, the protagonist's plug-in is a prophecy type.

There is a red fox in Guangxi. Can the author arrange it? The red fox is super cute The red fox has the most wild foxes in my country. It is widely distributed in my country, almost all over the country: Guangdong Province, Shaanxi Province, Henan Province, Jiangxi Province, Jilin Province, Anhui Province, Hebei Province, Gansu Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Shanxi Province, Jiangsu Province, Sichuan Province, Fujian Province, Hunan Province , Zhejiang Province, Guizhou Province, Liaoning Province, Shandong Province, Beijing City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Tibet Autonomous Region, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hubei Province, Heilongjiang Province, Yunnan Province, Qinghai Province. Habitat environment Red foxes can live in a variety of habitats, such as forests, grasslands, deserts, mountains, hills, plains, near villages, and even in the suburbs of cities. General records state that red foxes live in earth caves, tree holes or abandoned holes of other animals. In the north, badger holes are used or expanded. Sometimes they even share the same den with badgers. They are mostly active on hillsides and often inhabit large rock crevices or ravines. They only live in their dens during the breeding season. The red fox's den is a hole in the ground with a diameter of about 25-30 cm and often 2-3 meters deep underground. Generally on sunny slopes, where the soil is looser and there are fewer stones, making it easier to dig holes. Red foxes may use badger holes, old holes or grave holes, or dig burrows under large rocks. Red foxes often live in a cave, including one female and several males, and each fox group has a certain territory for the red fox. Generally, they stay up all day and come out at night. They crouch in caves during the day and lie down with their tails in their arms. Red foxes like to live in soil caves, tree holes or rock crevices, and sometimes occupy the nests of rabbits, badgers and other animals. In winter, there is water vapor coming out of the cave entrance, and there is obvious frost, as well as scattered footprints, urine and feces, etc. In summer, there is new soil dug out around the cave entrance, with obvious footprints on it, and a very strong fox smell. However, the residence of red foxes is often not fixed, and except for the breeding period and the period of raising young, they usually live alone. Extended information: 1. Behavior Red foxes have developed senses of hearing and smell, are cunning and agile in action. Likes to do activities alone. Hunts at night. They usually come out at night and sleep in caves during the day. Their long tails protect against moisture and keep warm. However, in remote places, they sometimes come out to look for food during the day. Although the red fox has short legs and feet, its claws are very sharp and it can run very fast. It can reach speeds of more than 50 kilometers per hour when chasing prey. It is also good at swimming and climbing trees. They mainly feed on meadow voles, mice, squirrels, rabbits, and mice. They also eat wild birds, frogs, fish, insects, etc., As well as various wild fruits and crops. Red foxes are suspicious by nature. When encountering enemies, red foxes will use a secret weapon hidden in their bodies - the anal glands to secrete "body odor" that can almost suffocate other animals. The foul smell will force the pursuer to stop. In critical situations, red foxes can also escape by running into sheep or jumping into rivers to hide. The red fox caught by the hunter also has the ability to "play dead". It can temporarily breathe weakly and seem to be dying, allowing it to be manipulated by others, but when the person is not prepared, it suddenly and quickly escapes. These cunning behaviors are the red fox's superb means of survival. The red fox has a cunning temperament, a strong memory, well-developed senses of hearing and smell, and is agile and durable. Unlike other canines, which mostly obtain food by hunting, they can think of various ways to capture prey with strategies. Red foxes often follow prey traces such as smells, calls and footprints, and then approach the prey alertly and quietly, even lying on the ground and crawling to prevent the prey from being frightened and running away. They are ready to wait for an opportunity to move, then step forward lightly at first, then speed up the pace, and finally turn into a sprint to catch the prey. Sometimes they pretend to be in pain or chase their tails to attract the attention of small animals such as burrowing rats. When they get close, they suddenly come forward to capture them. 2. Food habits Red foxes are not only predators, but also random omnivores, and even "killers". Various wild mice and hares, including voles, house mice, chinchillas, kangaroos, chipmunks, etc., Are the main food. They also eat frogs, fish, birds, bird eggs, insects, etc. They will not let go of food found in animal carcasses and garbage abandoned by humans. They also eat wild fruits or berries such as strawberries, acorns, and grapes. If the food cannot be eaten for a while, it will carefully choose a hidden place and bury it carefully. It will also go through some camouflage and eliminate all traces before leaving to avoid being discovered by other animals. When hunting, red foxes like to tease prey that can no longer escape, and often kill all the prey they can catch and never release them. This is called "killing behavior". The cause may be instinct, or it may be caused by some kind of stimulation, or a combination of both. Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Fox

Albino animals feel much cuter than before. . .

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Big civets, also known as nine-section civets, are about the same size as domestic dogs. They are widely distributed in the world and mainly inhabit hilly areas below 2,100 meters above sea level. Big civets are lonely by nature, like to travel at night, are alert by nature, have very sensitive hearing and smell, are nocturnal, agile in action, sensitive in hearing, and cunning and suspicious in nature, so they are also called fox cats. Because the big civet's fur is thick and dense, and civet scent is a valuable spice, it has been over-hunted in recent years and has become difficult to see in the wild. Coupled with its unique secrecy, the current status of the population cannot be controlled, and it is on the verge of extinction in our country.    Give him a chance

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I really got to the point of scolding tourists.

American horned eagle Handsome from the side Sand sculpture from the front 😁😁😁

I believe everyone is familiar with zoos, but have you heard of "enrichment"? If you search this word from the Internet, you will see its explanation in Baidu Encyclopedia: ❈ Enrichment, a zoo term. A general term for a series of measures taken to enrich the life of wild animals under captive conditions, meet the physiological and psychological needs of animals, and promote animals to display more natural behaviors. Life enrichment is enrichment. By constructing and changing the living environment of animals, it allows animals to show normal behaviors and provides animals with more opportunities to choose. Enrichment includes cage enrichment, behavioral enrichment and social enrichment. Carrying out the enrichment work of captive wild animals is an important means to improve the scientific management level and popular science education level of zoos, and is also the basic guarantee for the welfare of wild animals. ❈ To put it simply, zoo enrichment is to achieve the purpose of improving the quality of life of animals and ensuring the basic welfare of animals by improving the living environment of animals (such as making cages more comfortable and simulating nature) and artificially helping animals adapt to the artificial breeding environment (such as increasing the adaptive learning of animals). Enrichment creates a good living environment for animals, which can make the animal's behavior as close as possible to its natural behavior in the wild, reduce its discomfort, and maintain health. (Asia elephant mother and child at Guangzhou Chimelong Wildlife World. Chimelong is regarded as the best wildlife park in China) (In the Tiger Park of the Minnesota Zoo in the United States, a Siberian tiger is patrolling its "territory".) In fact, the very existence of zoos has deprived animals of some of their freedom and welfare. So what humans can do, in addition to banning animal performances that go against the nature of animals, is to do their best to enrich the zoo and improve the enrichment level of the zoo. What happens to animals in zoos with poor or lack of enrichment? Maybe you've seen a sluggish orangutan like the one pictured below in a cramped cage. Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall wrote in the book: "One of the saddest things to me is watching a chimpanzee locked in a cage without finding anything interesting to do; and there is nothing to stimulate their smart brains." The ubiquitous competition for survival and the ever-changing natural environment are challenges that wild animals will always face. It is these challenges that stimulate their brains and nerves, shaping their appearance and behavior. In artificial breeding, the living space of animals is greatly reduced, and there is no need to search for food, avoid natural enemies, wander around and explore, and have almost nothing to do all day long. It is often seen in old-fashioned zoos that apart from eating and sleeping, many animals are pacing back and forth like machines, shaking their heads, and even engaging in self-mutilating behaviors such as ripping their hair and pecking their feathers. Zoological research believes that this is because the small and monotonous cages cannot satisfy their instincts, and the long-term exposure to noisy environments where people are watching has caused the animals' endocrine disorders and damaged their physical and mental health, so they display various distorted "stereotyped behaviors." In other words, animals in the zoo receive too little stimulation and too much stimulation that they should not receive. Stereotyped behavior, simply put, refers to simple behaviors that have no obvious purpose, are unchanging, and are repeated at a fixed frequency without any functional effect. They can occur in people or animals. The occurrence of stereotyped behaviors in animals is similar to suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some stereotyped behaviors may also lead to serious consequences such as self-mutilation and reduced reproductive success rates. Stereotypic behavior is often discussed in animal welfare and is generally believed to be caused by the inability of animals to meet outdoor behavioral needs in a captive environment. It can be said to be one of the important explicit indicators of insufficient enrichment. When there are fewer stimuli and smaller spaces in a captive environment, stereotyped behaviors are more likely to occur. Enrichment is the main method to slow down the stereotyped behavior of animals. Cage Enrichment Cage Enrichment is mainly about simulating the wild environment in the cage, especially providing shelter. Whether a cage or exhibition area in a zoo is conducive to animal life depends to a large extent on the level of enrichment, not just the size and "luxurious" decoration. Of course, large space is a very important condition, but if an exhibition area is large but lacks enrichment, the animals may still appear to be in small cages and continue to behave in heartbreaking stereotypes. For animals, hiding place is the three major survival elements on par with food and drinking water. For a long time, zoos have only provided them with food and drink, but have neglected or been unwilling to provide them with hiding places. The animals have nowhere to hide in full view of the public every day. For example, set up a large number of habitats of different heights and shapes to expand the vertical range of arboreal animals; plant some plants or make several tree holes and ground holes to give animals a place to hide and get shade; have pools or mud pits where many non-aquatic but water-loving animals can enjoy themselves; erecting wooden piles or concrete piles in the activity field will also be a good place for herbivores to rub their horns and scratch themselves. Even the sunshine, outdoor air and natural soil that should not be "luxuries" but are often deprived in zoos can effectively improve their health if they can be returned to animals. (Old-fashioned bird and animal cages of several to dozens of square meters or two-foot-square crawler enclosures have been proven by foreign studies to be far from meeting the minimum space required by many animals to move, hide, and avoid pressure. Breaking the rigidity The old regulations and the expansion of cages based on existing conditions will help domestic zoos improve the enrichment effect) (For monkeys and parrots who like to climb, the "unsightly" cage net itself is also a kind of enrichment, increasing the number of cages. It reduces their space for movement - at least it is better than replacing all with glass windows. Unfortunately, the combination of low glass windows + high cage nets currently used in some domestic zoos for apes exhibits not only affects viewing due to glass reflection, but also cannot prevent it. Some tourists showed off their skills by throwing food into the cage from a height) Behavioral enrichment Behavioral enrichment mainly stimulates the animal's foraging and defense instincts through enrichment with food, smells, and toys. As the saying goes, "Man perishes for wealth, and birds perish for food." After all, animals do not pursue as much as humans, nor do they consciously strengthen their bodies and cultivate their sentiments. The time spent in the wild is mainly used to find and eat food. Therefore, in order to increase their activity in the zoo and allow them to exercise and use their brains as much as possible, the enrichment work must focus on food, changing the traditional life of animals in the zoo where they eat on time and open their mouths every day. One way is to hide food under rocks, among haystacks, etc. In various corners of the exhibition area, and let the animals spend time looking for it on their own. Another way is to make it more difficult for animals to get food, especially to encourage smarter animals to use their brains and find ways to solve problems. Put the food the orangutan likes into a small tube, embed it into the wall (a more advanced approach is to use solid materials such as concrete to build an artificial termite nest), and put in some twigs or sticks. The orangutan will slowly learn to use tools and take out the food in the tube bit by bit. For the national treasure pandas, in the past, a bunch of bamboos were placed on the ground for them to eat. Now, part of the bamboos are erected and "planted" in the soil for the pandas to pick by themselves. This not only improves their feeding skills, but also beautifies the exhibition area. (The Yunnan Wildlife Park built a wooden frame and a bamboo-wrapped "big rice dumpling" for the giant panda, and it took a lot of effort to eat the delicious food.) (Feed the whole animal carcass to the beasts and birds of prey or put the food in a cardboard box that needs to be torn open , allowing them to spend more time, consume more physical energy, and get greater satisfaction from the biting action) For many animals, games are also part of their instincts, especially carnivores and more intelligent and active animals such as primates, elephants, and parrots. In captive environments that are too comfortable and monotonous, toys can provide them with stimulation and satisfaction. For example, when carnivores see moving objects, they will become interested in them involuntarily (even pet cats and dogs who are well fed all day long are like this). Due to the well-developed sense of smell of carnivores, it would be better if some herbivore scent could be applied to these "toys" - for zoos, the best and cheapest material is feces. Placing the shed hair and scraped wood from another beast in another beast's home can stimulate their instinct to maintain their territory and patrol the exhibit vigilantly. In addition, cats will roll around in excitement after smelling smells that humans find pleasant, such as vanilla, mint, lemon, etc. In behavioral enrichment work, we can also allow them to conduct adaptive learning on the basis of respecting the natural habits of animals to better adapt to the new requirements in artificial breeding environments, such as physical examination, medical treatment, cage stringing, transportation, etc. (Wild elephants have to walk dozens of kilometers every day in search of food, and no matter how large the zoo is, it is difficult to meet the requirements for such a large amount of activity. As a result, elephants in the zoo often suffer from foot diseases. After training, elephants can learn to actively lift their feet out of the cage and let the keepers clean them) Social enrichment Social enrichment mainly allows social animals to maintain a certain group size. For many social animals, contact, interaction and social interaction between the same kind are also indispensable. This cannot be replaced by the care of the breeders. Flamingos need a large enough population to trigger mating and show off breeding behavior; some songbirds and herbivores feel more secure when staying in large groups of the same kind, reducing nervous stress; most primates especially need to be housed in groups like in the wild to satisfy their various emotional and social needs and learn essential survival skills. (It often happens in zoos that orangutans and monkeys give birth to cubs, but the mother cannot breastfeed or even refuses to feed them, so they have to be fed by the keepers. One of the important reasons is that they do not have the opportunity to learn how to be mothers, and in large groups This situation can be reduced) Five welfare and enrichment of animals Some animal protection enthusiasts have proposed specific content measures for zoo enrichment from the perspective of five basic welfare of animals: 1 Physiological welfare, that is, no worries about hunger and thirst △Provide fresh, clean, diverse, nutritious food and water. △ Allow animals to use their natural behavior to forage, and through enrichment, extend the time the animal forages/feeds. △ Under group housing conditions, food/water is dispersed to allow vulnerable individuals in the group to also obtain food. △ The food fed by tourists has not been quality guaranteed and tourists should be prohibited from feeding it. 2 Environmental welfare, that is, to provide animals with appropriate homes △ Meet the animals' basic environmental requirements for temperature, humidity, sunlight, ventilation, etc. △ A spacious enough area to provide a spatial basis for enrichment to ensure that animals express natural behaviors. △ Provide shelter space for animals to avoid attacks from strong individuals, rest, and take shelter from wind and rain. △ Appropriate surface padding. △ Proper distance from tourists. △ Maintain a clean sports field. △ Animals must have an outdoor playground. 3 Health and welfare, mainly to reduce animal injuries △ Ensure the good physical condition of animals △ Breeders and veterinarians should observe animals more and evaluate the health status of animals. △ Record the animal's condition and abnormalities. △ Timely and effective treatment and drug supply. △ Through venue design, enrichment, feeding and management, the possible injuries and attacks on animals should be minimized. 4 Behavioral welfare should ensure the freedom of animals to express their nature △ Enrichment △ Re-enrichment △ Continue enrichment △ Endless enrichment △ Change existing enrichment Never tire of improving enrichment, just because enrichment is so important. 5 Psychological welfare, that is, reducing the fear and anxiety of animals △ Allow animals to avoid the sight of tourists. △ The resting position of animals should be higher than the sightline of tourists. △ Animals can escape the stress of the group or the playground next door. △ According to the animal's habits, adopt a single or mixed breeding mode. I hope that in the near future, the above enrichment measures will be adopted by more and more zoos, so that the animals will not only have a simple cage to live in, but also a "home" suitable for physical and mental growth; I hope that enrichment will be understood and valued by more and more people, so that more animals can truly enjoy these five basic animal welfare. Still the same sentence: Animals, like humans, live as vigorously and enjoy freedom, which is a miracle of nature. Under the same blue sky, always treating animals with empathy and kindness is not only a kind of respect for nature, but also for humans themselves.

Thanks to the book friend for sending me Qinghai black wolfberry. Lao Sha made a cup with red dates. The taste is slightly sweet, very good👍