Chapter 905: What's wrong with the pangolin
"That's actually pretty good," Atletico leaned over with a stroller.
Seeing Tang Jiayi turn his head to look over, he parked the car in front of the barbed wire fence and let the two daughters watch the tiger by themselves, and then explained in a low voice unhurriedly: "The king of the forest has become a crazy comedian, it does feel a little weird, but it's better than starving to death, being beaten to death, or cutting off his paws, and grabbing the sofa with cats and dogs, okay?"
"You must know that most of the zoos in the country are losing money, and state-run zoos can still eat subsidies, so private zoos can only find ways to open up sources and reduce expenditures, either to create security loopholes and attack incidents, or to engage in illegal operations, such as secretly selling some tiger bone wine. In fact, it is also being sold here, and it has only been reined in after the media exposure a few years ago, and this is because everyone does not dare to do too much, and the professional tiger park established by those pharmaceutical companies has done too much. ”
Tang Jiayi also stopped, let the little ones play by themselves, and then threw out her own questions: "You said that you grabbed the sofa with cats and dogs, this is a pet tiger, right?
"Yes, but it's in the United States," Atletico squinted to the side, "Americans have a special preference for large beasts such as lions and tigers, plus the vast land is thin and the meat is cheap, and there are thousands of people who raise big cats to death." ”
"Compared to the pet tigers in the United States, the living conditions here are drab and simple, but they are safe and natural, with a place to have fun, live chickens are often eaten, and there are siblings and wild crows around for company. ”
Tigers are the apex predators of Asia's specialty, but only three to four thousand of the world's more than 20,000 tigers live in Asian habitats, and the rest either live in zoos, circuses and breeding parks, or cross the ocean to North America and become pets of a few American families.
U.S. states have a certain degree of legislative autonomy, and there are many differences in animal management systems. As long as the law does not explicitly prohibit it, Americans are free to keep special pets, they buy cubs and chicks from circuses and animal smugglers, and they personally raise big tigers, lions, elephants and even bald eagles for fun. Sleeping with a tiger in his arms, having breakfast with a lion, riding a brown bear around the farm, and forcing Ge to be higher than those who keep hamsters and feed guinea pigs.
Of course, there is also a danger that increases, even if it is harmless to love each other and animals, even if you cut off your claws and blunt your teeth, the racial nature hidden in the bones of these animals and their huge size are also likely to cause accidents.
"You're comparing it badly, why don't you compare it with nature reserves?" Tang Scholar expressed disbelief, "One mountain is not as good as two tigers, large animals need a large enough hunting activity venue, how large is there here, and so many tigers are crowded!"
Atletico Madrid shrugged, "This is also a helpless thing, the transportation is convenient for the other party with many tourists, the land price is also expensive, and the land is cheap and rich in vegetation near the mountainous area, but unfortunately it is not popular." Many of the people who invested in safari are now retreating. ”
"By the way," Atletico suggested with a smile at his wife Nunu, "if you really can't see it, you can do it yourself." Make your own safari, build it into your own nature reserve, and feed the cattle and sheep. ”
Tang Jiayi blinked and looked at Atletico Madrid: "Are you serious?"
"It's more real than real gold!" the latter nodded affirmatively, "Are you tempted?" I can also help you coordinate the land for free, there are barren mountains and mountains under the name of Green Forestry, and if you like any piece of land, you can use it for nothing. ”
"Is it really free? Road infrastructure, fire prevention and theft prevention, all these green fields are covered?"
"How is this possible? Whoever benefits and who invests, of course you have to get these things yourself. ”
"Huh!" the lady spewed out a short syllable disdainfully, "Do you want to fool me into giving you free road construction and volunteer forest protection?"
The increasing scale of forest products under the name of Lvye has brought rich ecological and forest by-product benefits, but the investment in infrastructure maintenance has also increased. Road construction and power generation, water storage and drip irrigation, IoT monitoring, and personnel expenses are not a small amount, which makes other shareholders quite painful. Then I hit the idea on my wife, wanting to help her optimize the investment structure.
The latter are relatively conservative in investment and consumption, except for reasonable and moderate charitable investment, they have little interest in other spending projects, and hold large cash assets in their hands, often suffering losses due to exchange rate fluctuations. However, it is a pity that his "good intentions" were rejected without hesitation, and Mr. Tang is not a pure environmental activist, and he lacks interest in burning money to get a safari.
The scheme was debunked on the spot, and Atletico Madrid was not embarrassed, and said with a smile: "It's a little, it's not much." ”
"Just you!" was teased in public, although there were no outsiders nearby, Tang Jiayi was still a little annoyed, patted the handrail of the stroller, "In this case, your son should push it!"
Dropping this sentence, she just walked forward, and before leaving, she pulled Zhu Lingling, glared at Guo Luojun, obviously not planning to leave a helper for someone.
"Hey, you're right, I really can," Atletico smiled disapprovingly, reaching for the handrails of the two strollers and manually marshalling the convoy. These two strollers are high-end products of Bee, with a certain automatic driving ability, as long as a simple marshalling can achieve intelligent following, not to mention one drag two, even if there are a few more he is not scared at all.
The mileage of the electric stroller is not large, but fortunately, this Tiger Forest Park is also as small as Tang Jiayi said, and the group quickly turned around the entire pedestrian area and walked out from the other side. Of course, there are still many places that have not been transferred to the route selection problem, such as the cold storage with more than 200 tiger corpses and a value of 100 million or 200 million preserved in the mouth of the media, and everyone will not have the opportunity to see it.
People are gossipy, and just after getting on a large business car, everyone inevitably talked about the topic of that "treasure house".
Because of the scarcity of quantity and the strict prohibition of various countries, the price of tiger products has risen, and the combined value of skin, bones, tendons, whips, hearts and other organs is worth millions. Guarding the "golden mountain" but not being able to develop it well, the major tiger parks have been lobbying the competent authorities to relax the control, hoping that the tigers raised and bred by humans can be used commercially like the Chinese alligator.
In order to find a way for the latter, the state began to relax regulations more than ten years ago, as long as it is the "third generation of breeding" produced by licensed farms, and at the same time obtain the "license for the management and utilization of protected animals", it can be legally marketed and sold.
The authorities did not oppose the successful experience of the Chinese alligator and the giant salamander, but international organizations such as F (Nature Foundation), CS (Wildlife Conservation Society), and IFA (Fund for Animal Welfare) voted against it, arguing that reopening the tiger trade would lead to the extinction of wild tigers, especially in neighboring countries.
This concern is not unfounded, and the pangolin tragedy is a lesson from the past.
Due to the superficial understanding of "complementing form with form", traditional Chinese medicine believes that the scales of pangolins that can drill holes can pass through breastfeeding, and some men think that the flesh of pangolins that are good at burrowing can aphrodisiac. Although these two effects are more likely to be the "placebo effect", they do not affect the price and "effect" of pangolin products.
Then, the pangolins in China were eaten "critically endangered" by confinement mothers and men; pangolins in Southeast Asia were also eaten as "endangered" and banned from international imports and exports since 2000, and now even the African pangolins have been "vulnerable" like the giant panda because the number of hunting and smuggling has been greatly reduced.
Both viviparous mammals, pangolins and giant pandas have low reproductive efficiency, usually one litter a year, and their diets are extremely specialized, with the former eating termites and the latter gnawing bamboo, which has many similarities. However, the giant panda's "appearance" is more outstanding, and the body has no medicinal value, after the habitat has been effectively protected, the number began to rise slowly, and this year officially out of the "endangered" shadow, while the pangolin, which is widely distributed in Asia and Africa, has been eaten by some rabbits as an endangered animal for decades, which has to be said to be a great irony.
"Have you eaten it?" chatting and chatting, Tang Jiayi suddenly opened her mouth and asked.
Hearing this question suddenly, Atletico was a little stunned at first, and then looked at the other party with wide eyes: "Do you think I need to supplement animal hormones and placebos?"
Animal organs such as cow eggs, sheep kidneys, etc., will inevitably carry some animal hormones, and if they are processed reasonably and then eaten, they can have a certain effect on people with low hormone levels. In addition, these well-known aphrodisiac foods rely more on the "placebo effect" to work.
When people are convinced that the medicine they are taking is effective and useful, even if it is just an ordinary glass of sugar water, the body will develop in a better direction, this phenomenon is called the placebo effect, the fake drug effect. The principle of placebo has not been clearly studied, some believe that it is just an experimental error, others believe that it is related to the mechanism of happy hormone production in the body, and some studies target the immune system.
For those men who don't lift slightly, it doesn't matter what they eat, as long as they can form this psychological suggestion of "I took the miracle medicine", it will generally have some effect. Although there are hormones in cow eggs, sheep kidneys or something, but the force is too low, for some people who consider themselves successful, the effect is naturally not as good as pangolins and tiger whips.
Of course, these things are not on Atletico's list of ingredients, both because there is no need for "food supplements" for good health, and because these foods do not intersect with his eating habits. Atletico can enjoy lamb's blood soup and fat sausages without changing their faces, but they stay away from other ingredients, because they haven't eaten them since they were children, and they can't pass that psychological barrier.
Hearing him say this, Tang Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief, and said with some emotion: "Now even the sparrows and crows have become protected animals, and if this continues, sooner or later, all wild animals will have to become protected animals." I happened to see that Australians were hunting kangaroos, euthanizing koalas and stray cats, and there were millions of unrestrained people, and domestic netizens were all stunned. ”
"That's not comparable, there are only 23 million people in Australia, and most of them still live in big cities, some of which are places for animals to live. We can't do it, there are more people and less environmental pollution, and there are naturally fewer and fewer wild animals. ”
"Fortunately, the situation has bottomed out and is slowly improving," Atletico added: "The country has the money, it can return farmland to forests and expand protected areas, the ecological pressure on rural population transfer has been reduced, and there are more and more environmental pioneers like me......
"Hey! I'm really going to put gold on your face!" Tang Jiayi was happy, and turned her head to look at the son in the children's seat between the two, "Dad loves to brag, doesn't he, Tangtang?"
The latter was pulling and studying the tiger puppet in his arms, and when he heard his mother's question, he nodded and repeated without hesitation: "Dad loves to brag, and he is not ashamed!"
"Hey, that's what you said about your father," Atletico reached out and snatched the puppet from his hand, "Little Tiger confiscated it, let your mother buy you a new one!"
If some children's children encounter this situation, they will have to cry, make trouble, and roll around, but Ma Xiaotang's reaction is "oh", and then stretch out his little hand to pick up his melodica, and ignore the tiger and his father.
Atletico looked at his wife, "This kid seems to have been taught a little badly, and his temperament is too soft and cold." ”
"What do you say?" Tang Jiayi glanced at him, bowed her head and encouraged, "Son, play a tune for your mother!"
Xiao Tangtang did not refuse, lowered his head and pressed the switch, and the melodica lit up with a flashing marquee, which was a smart melodica with its own light guidance function.
Soon, the tune of the two tigers sounded in the carriage.
Then it sounded a crisp children's singing: "Down with the local tyrants, down with the local tyrants, divide the fields, divide the fields ......", but it was Zhizhi Tiantian, who was sitting in the front row, singing in a low voice.
Tang Jiayi raised her head and looked at Atletico Madrid with a smile, "What's going on? I don't remember teaching them this military song." ”
The babysitter would only teach a nursery rhyme from the textbook, which must have been taught by Atletico Madrid.
Atletico Madrid didn't deny it, and nodded calmly admitting: "That's our daughter's smart memory, and she only remembered it after listening to me sing a few times." ”
glared at him, Tang Jiayi had to complain depressedly: "You are also idle enough." ”
"Who said I'm busy, okay?" Ma Jing raised his right hand and bent his fingers one by one, "I want to visit Lao Liu's new factory, I want to visit the animation industrial park, I want to go to the Northern Research Center for research, and I have to send it to the local government, and the schedule is full these days." ”
"Hmph, what are you doing in Boss Liu's factory? Is it possible that you still want to go back to your old business?"
"That's not true, good horses don't eat back grass, it's hard to get rid of it, how can it be picked up again," Atletico smiled evilly and leaned into Tang Jiayi's ear, "What I'm going to do, you should know very well." ”