Outside the dark clouds cover the sun and drizzle, but inside the panda pavilion is beautiful and windy, like a late spring afternoon.

In the green, brown, yellow, black and red background, the running black and white bodies are particularly conspicuous, and seeing the panda sisters, Ma Xiao happily called their names: "Diandian! Diandian! Doudou!"

There are nearly 500 giant pandas in captivity around the world, many of whom are relatives from captivity, and these 11-year-old young bears are cousins. The one with scattered white spots on the nose is the cousin Dot, and the one with round ears and round eyes is the cousin Doudou. Because of the failure of the "blind date" for two consecutive years, the two female bears were sent by the panda base to promote panda culture across the country and work to support their families, and finally settled on Ludao this year.

"Diandian, Doudou" is actually not their original name, but a new one after coming here, and the name is Ma Xiao. There was no public solicitation of names, no expert review, and the whole process of black-box operations was full of shady scenes, and according to sources, there were also bad situations of violence threatening minors.

The little girl shouted vigorously, but the two guys were busy dealing with today's lunch in front of them, but they didn't have time to deal with the fans on the Internet. Not to mention that they can't hear the shouts from this side, and even if they do, they won't associate their new name with themselves for a while.

After calling a few times but not responding, without waiting for Tang Jiayi to speak to comfort, Ma Xiao quieted down by himself. Stretching out his delicate little index finger, he wants to activate the "animal spy" to observe the two giant pandas up close.

Click your finger on the button, and a second confirmation pop-up window will immediately appear in front of you: You have purchased the RoboSpy (Panda-Cloud Zoo) service, duration: 10 minutes, current price: 300 gold goose feathers, account balance: 36400, please click the fingerprint lock to confirm the payment.

Seeing the familiar fingerprint pattern, Ma Xiao turned his head decisively, "Mom!

Tang Jiayi was originally distracted, but when she heard this, she patted her daughter's little head with a smile and complained in a low voice: "You guys can really spend, only three thousand six have been spent for me in just a few days!"

She originally had 100,000 golden goose feathers in her internal beta account, but the missing ones were consumed by the little guys around her and her sister and brother.

According to the new regulations introduced last year, live broadcast platforms are required to hold an "online audio-visual license", and it is too troublesome for zoo companies to apply for a license for the live broadcast business alone.

Like other content on the Swan platform, the 2D live stream is free and can be watched by anyone through the official website and app. However, panoramic live broadcast and "animal spy" are paid items, and if it weren't for the website's secondary confirmation function, more than 60,000 gold goose feathers would have been spent.

Hearing her complaint, Xiao Zhizhi turned her head and looked at her mother to correct her mistakes seriously: "Mom, you said you were wrong, it's 36,400, not 3,640." ”

Although she has not been to kindergarten for a day, the knowledge level of the four snacks has reached the level of the first and second grades of primary school, which really adds a lot of "happy troubles" to Tang Jiayi.

Too lazy to explain to her the recharge rule that 100 gold goose feathers are equal to 10 yuan, Ms. Tang reached out and clicked on the fingerprint area of the notebook, "Watch your live broadcast!"

The payment was successful, and the screen suddenly changed, and a condescending top-down picture appeared, "Spy Little Leopard" usually hides in the hole and waits to charge, but the standby position of "Spy Red Panda" is on a ten-meter-high tree.

The tree is only as thick as a cup, slender and straight, and the upper end is forked and propped up, and it looks a lot like the kind of tree that juvenile giant pandas often climb high and stay high for half a day. However, its body is a "flagpole", with a smooth appearance and nowhere to focus, and only the robot panda can go up and down freely with the help of the "flag rope".

The robot spy with four paws grabbed the hook ring on the "flag rope", with a body length of 60 centimeters and a round face and big eyes like a juvenile giant panda, slipped down from the "tall tree" and rushed towards the two young giant pandas with his short legs.

Sociobiologists believe that children's large eyes, round heads, short arms and short legs, which are different from adults, can stimulate the caring instinct of adults and prompt them to engage in caring and caring behaviors. Even if this is not possible, the "juvenile trait" can convey a message of vulnerability, dependence, and innocence, reducing the vigilance and resistance of adults, and reducing the likelihood of attack. The screenwriter made the killer change his past because of the child, Mickey Mouse continued to grow in reverse, and the cute culture swept the world, all of which have more or less to do with this theory.

Before humans ruled the earth, cats, giant people and even ursus people also passively applied this theory in evolutionary practice, which was too ugly and lacked love, easy to go die, and ugly cubs had a higher mortality rate, and the genes they carried were not easy to pass on. With this in mind, most of the "animal spies" here are in the shape of "curious babies", and they have indeed achieved good results.

Seeing a little giant panda slowly rushing towards him, it was not surprising at all. After being in the same room for nearly two months, they have long adapted to the presence of their little neighbors and have a good relationship. A little bit faster than the bear, picked up the bear and hugged it in his arms, Doudou's reaction was a little slower, and he could only exert his strength on the bamboo.

Their food, of course, is bamboo, but it took a lot of thought and money from the garden.

In order to enrich the food, the zoo cooperates with farms in the surrounding mountains to plant dozens of species of alpine bamboo in advance, and changes the menu every day according to the current season, nutritional recommendations, and panda flavors, so as to ensure that they will not get tired of eating easily. In addition, the staff also took the trouble to divide the fresh bamboo into more than a dozen bunches and fix them on a heavy base, and scattered them throughout the activity field, in order to simulate the distribution of food in the wild and appropriately extend the panda's feeding time, so as not to eat, sleep, get fat and autistic and endanger physical and mental health.

In addition to these regular means, they will occasionally put some small surprises in the small hole under the base, which is considered to add food to the panda.

Normally, the cave is filled with fruits and snacks such as apples, carrots, kiwis, bananas, panda nests, and occasionally something else, as it is today.

Skillfully grabbing a handful of bamboo branches, Doudou's right arm pulled hard, pulled out a pinch of bamboo branches, and brought them to his mouth to chew slowly.

The panda's eyesight is very poor, so neither it nor its cousin noticed, and there was a lid under the bamboo branch that had just been pulled. The place where it used to stay was now a small pit, but inside was a fat little beast with blue and gray shorthair, but it was a bamboo rat. To be exact, it should be the Silver Star Bamboo Rat, and its sparsely distributed shiny white hair is its business card.

Bamboo rats are not rats, they belong to the rodent family Bamboo rats, and the distance between them and rodents and hamsters is as far away as that of thumb monkeys and gorillas. However, their appearance characteristics are very similar to those of the hamster family, they like to stay in the dark and damp underground, and their staple food is also plant roots, especially the underground stems of bamboo, from which the name bamboo rat derives.

Because of long-term underground activities, the body of bamboo rats has undergone specialized evolution, with a round head and short legs like a mouse TBM, eyes as small as black beans, and ears hidden under hair, usually only coming out at night. Suddenly seeing the bright light, the bamboo rat appeared restless and let out a cry of "wow, wow, wow".

The voice alarmed the panda sisters who were busy gnawing bamboo next to them, and suddenly showed a surprised expression, and turned their heads to look at the "little monster".

Bamboo rats are much larger than house mice and hamsters, and adult Chinese bamboo rats can grow up to 40 cm and weigh up to 3 kg. The Silver Star Bamboo Rat is smaller, but this one is also 30 centimeters long and weighs 1.3 kilograms.

As a member of the carnivorous order Ursidae, pandas have well-developed teeth and strong limbs, and their digestive system also has the ability to decompose and absorb animal protein and fat, so they are obviously able to eat meat. Wild pandas will attack sheep when they are hungry, and even devour carrion, and they will not let go of bamboo rats that are also active in the bamboo forest.

But it's not easy to do this, the giant panda's eyesight is too poor, the hearing is average, bullying the domestic lamb is just that, it is not easy to eat wild bamboo rats, wild pandas catch bamboo rats mainly rely on guarding the hole and waiting for rats, and then slap to the death to fight for patience and palm power, there are really not many people who can win over rolling.

Captive giant pandas lack wildness and aggression, let alone hunting skills honed since childhood, but they are not good at dealing with bamboo rats. Many of the pandas involved in the rewilding project have suffered small losses from the smiling bamboo rats.

The same is true of the Doudou sisters, who suddenly saw live bamboo rats, and their first reaction was to be frightened. The little bit who was holding the robot bear in his arms was just a little bit back, and it was not real from a distance, but he was still able to maintain a sitting posture, but Doudou in front of him was so shocked that he rolled backwards with his racial talent, far away.

The two-hundred-pound fat man was frightened by the three-pound "big mouse" and rolled back to dodge, this scene of losing the bear was seen by the little spy in Diandian's arms, and Tang Jiayi's mother and daughter behind the screen were hooked and laughed together.

Not only the two of them, Pan Yicong next to him was also laughing, and Guo Luojun next to him was attracted by the laughter, and turned his head to look at her mobile phone screen, on which there were also two stunned pandas. Because it's an overhead camera perspective, the field of view is even better.

Noticing someone's curious look, she quickly turned her notebook and clicked "Wonderful Replay" to share this wonderful moment.

As expected, this funny scene also amused Guo Luojun. Seeing that the screen returned to live broadcast mode, he smiled and asked, "It turns out that the panda is so timid, and what kind of animal is that? It shouldn't be a mouse, right?"

Pan Yicong has recently made up a lot of animal knowledge, and said with a smile: "That's the Silver Star bamboo rat, artificially raised." ”

"Pandas don't eat bamboo, what do you do with bamboo rats in the bear's den?"

"Pandas are actually omnivores that eat bamboo, and if there are fruits and small animals, pandas will not refuse either. ”

The voice fell, and there was a new change on the screen. The two pandas were cowardly to death, and the bamboo rats that were also bred in captivity did not have the wildness and vitality of their wild counterparts, and they did not flee timidly in the face of the two behemoths, nor did they fight back, but stupidly lay down in the shallow hole, looking as docile as rabbits.

He was even more cowardly, and the robot bear next to him was still watching calmly, and Diandian and Doudou both recovered from the panic just now, and took the initiative to climb to the bamboo rat, bowing their heads and stretching out their claws to try to study it.

Guo Luojun was also funny, and his voice was quickly accompanied by a classic narration: "Look! What did we find? There's a lone bamboo rat here, we can try to catch it." Bamboo rats are rich in protein and fat, and one can provide energy for several days. Bamboo rats are not easy to catch, we have to approach slowly from both sides, ah! How are bamboo rats running?"

The two bears obviously had never practiced palm techniques, and their shots were weak and weak, but they only turned over the bamboo rat and did not cause any damage.

The bamboo rat that rolled to the ground finally remembered the escape, and the four small short legs in strong outfit made a concerted effort and quickly disappeared from the eyes of the two of them.

Seeing that the toy disappeared, the two bears were interested, twisting their fat bodies to chase after them. Unfortunately, their eyes were so bad that they soon lost their target, so they simply walked to the nearest bamboo bush and sat down, and gnawed on the bamboo beautifully.

Seeing this scene, Pan Yicong only felt very interesting, and immediately clicked the share button to share the highlights to his personal scarf. Discovering fun and beauty is also the responsibility of an internal beta user.

didn't see the expected panda eating meat, Guo Luojun was a little speechless, he always felt empty in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "Is this the end?"

Assistant Pan smiled and asked, "If it were you, would you be able to catch a mouse with your bare hands?"

Captain Guo's eyes widened: "How is that possible? The rat is so small and runs so fast, and why should I catch the mouse?"

"That's what Panda thinks, too. The bamboo rat is not slow to soak, and it will burrow into the ground, and it is normal to not be able to catch it. ”

"Then why don't you kill and throw it in, the zoo raises tigers, leopards and lions, and most of the time they are also fed with meat pieces. ”

Pan Yicong was obviously on the same page with him, and replied with sharp teeth and two questions: "If you don't eat it, won't it be wasted?" Do you know how expensive bamboo rat meat is?"

"Eh," Guo Luojun was speechless, he knew that he only knew that there was an animal like bamboo rats in the world today, so he naturally didn't know the price details.

Bamboo rats are emerging meat and hair dual-purpose breeding animals, the scale of breeding is expanding year by year, Jingjiang alone last year slaughtered millions, creating hundreds of millions of revenue. Millions of bamboo rats look a lot, but they can't compare with hundreds of millions of chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep slaughtered, and they are obviously still in the "juvenile stage".

In the final analysis, the provenance of bamboo rats comes from wild animals caught outside, and has not yet been completely domesticated into domestic animals with high yields of stress resistance. Coupled with the lag of disease resistance and veterinary theory, many farmers have seen advertisements to join in, but often suffer losses due to epidemic injuries. Moreover, after all, there is a rat in the name of the bamboo rat, which hinders the promotion of bamboo rat meat to ordinary consumers, and the market demand is sluggish, so it is naturally impossible to expand the scale.

Because of these factors, the cost and selling price of bamboo rat meat are relatively high, and the supply is not very stable.

Guo Luojun pouted, "How expensive can it be?" There are only two pandas here, and they can't eat a thousand bamboo rats a year, so how much can it cost?"

"It's really not much, it's only about 100,000. But the question is, is a panda that eats meat still a panda?"