Christina and her colleagues helped sort out the contract, and Zhang Hao will donate $1 million to Oregon State University's forestry and wildlife science program. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This money is donated, in fact, it has nothing to do with Zhang Hao, this is a donation, not a sponsorship;

But donations, basically donations, but this money can't be spent blindly, to be used for some wildlife research, this is all listed in the contract.

Zhang Hao was in pain, but he couldn't help it, and he would definitely donate more money in the future, because it was tax-deductible. Rather than being taken away by the IRS, it is better to buy a good name and some conveniences.

Another half a million dollars were used for feline research, mainly for rewilding training of felines, such as cheetahs and tigers.

Zhang Hao looks like a boy who scatters money, but there is really no way; if you don't donate money, you can't do it, if you don't donate money, you have to pay taxes!

With the help of a private accountant, and the help of Christina and her colleagues, Zhang Hao knew that she still had to pay some taxes, but it dropped from an astronomical amount to an acceptable level.

Of course, this money was donated, and Zhang Hao also got some benefits, for example, Oregon State University and Zhang Hao now have a more in-depth cooperation, and there are some tacit understandings.

For example, although some information about rewilding training will not be handed over to Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao can ask to see some results and so on. Naturally, since he is the gold master, he can also participate in some wild training if he is bored, although in the eyes of those zoologists, Zhang Hao is just a fan of the fun, and he doesn't know how to do it at all.

But if you don't support it, how can you continue to get these donations? Therefore, in the case of harmlessness, let these funders feel that these donations are worth it, this thing must be possible!

Zhang Hao also thinks that it is worth it, it hurts when he donates, but fortunately, he heard the sound when the money was spent; if it was taken directly to pay taxes, it would not only hurt the flesh, but there would be no sound!

Reasonable tax avoidance, this is reasonable tax avoidance, there is nothing to complain about.

Xixi is the happiest, because there are naturally some benefits when signing the contract; the little girl happily lies on the glass, looking at the lazy tiger and calling it happy.

Although Xixi has been to the zoo many times, I don't feel bored every time, and I feel quite fresh and interesting when I see those cute little animals.

Zhang Hao, accompanied by a staff member of the institute, was watching the tiger and listening to some explanations.

However, when looking at these tigers, Zhang Hao kept frowning, and he suddenly asked, "Is this a Bengal tiger or a Sumatran tiger?"

Miller, who accompanied the briefing, replied, "It's a Bengal tiger." ”

Zhang Hao thought for a moment before asking, "Do you have some rewilding training for it, a very rudimentary kind?" It seems to be a little aggressive, but it doesn't have the ability to survive in the wild. ”

Miller smiled and replied, "Yes, we want to put it back into the wild, so we've been keeping an eye out for some rewilding training on it." But you know it's a systematic project, and from the moment it's born, we feed it by hand and train it in some of its hunting skills. It's not like some zoo tigers, which don't like to eat live prey, they don't like blood, but it's different, it hunts small animals and eats them. ”

Zhang Hao nodded, it is true that some tigers raised in many zoos are really just 'imaginary', those tigers look majestic, but they even struggle to kill a chicken, let alone eat those bloody food.

And although the tiger I see now doesn't dare to say how good it is to survive in the wild, at least it maintains some wildness, and at least it will pounce on it and hunt it when it sees some small prey.

Miller went on to explain, "There are very few tigers in the wild these days, and they have less and less room to survive, and it is even difficult to ensure the continuation of the race. We must work hard, and we do not want to see the tragedy of the Caspian tiger and the Javan tiger repeated. Therefore, we need to let some captive-bred tigers learn to give birth and raise their young in the wild, so as to ensure that the population can continue after being released into the wild. ”

This is normal because many wild animals are now on the verge of extinction, especially since some wild animals have very little space to live in, and even those wild animals are related by blood in some habitats. So once some wild animals are stocked, it can really improve the reproduction of those animals.

Zhang Hao asked again, "Don't you just need to let them learn to hunt or raise their young? Rewilding training is quite a systematic project, and this is not urgent." Can you tell me about your rewilding efforts? ”

Miller explains, more specialized but not very in-depth, "Generally we need to have the ability to evade predators, no matter what kind of animal they are, they will have predators. But if they also need to have the ability to obtain and process food, they need to learn the ability to get along with similar animals, the ability to build nests, the ability to survive in complex environments, and they also need to learn to 'locate' and 'navigate'. ”

Zhang Hao nodded and said, "Be specific." ”

Miller went on to explain, "The ability to hunt and handle food seems to be fundamental, and they need to fill their stomachs. But you know, they're basically raised in captivity, so they're never really hungry. In the wild, they don't have such an opportunity, they need to find food and water on their own. And they don't know which animals they can hunt, and they don't understand which animals they can fight with that could cause serious injuries or even become food for other predators. ”

Finding food is the most basic ability, but it is also the most difficult, and in the domesticated environment, these beasts are basically not likely to go hungry, and they will not be attacked by other animals.

Nesting, positioning, and so on, are all for the sake of continuing the offspring, because many wild animals need to migrate, need to learn to adapt to new environments, etc., which is also quite complicated. This is not a simple matter of putting an animal into the wild and letting it explore it on its own, because these beasts do not have such an opportunity to learn in captivity, and they have lost the ability to survive in the wild.

Xixi was looking at the tiger with a shout, while Zhang Hao was patiently listening to some of Miller's explanations.

Miller never mentioned the results of their rewilding, and finally spoke under Zhang Hao's vigorous questioning, a little low and frustrated, "We have trained two tigers in the wild, but neither of them lasted for a year. One starved to death, and the other was killed by other animals. ”

Zhang Hao was stunned for a moment and did not speak.

Miller smiled wryly and spoke, "There are times when I wonder if our research is necessary, and we know that once we train them in the wild, we will largely send them to their deaths. Although we have a lot of rewilding training programs and we have gained confidence, they don't grow up in nature after all. And you know, we're around them when we're in wilding, and we're going to help them when there's danger. But in the wild, there are no such conditions, so we can only find their corpses in the end. ”

It sounds cruel, but this is the reality, and sometimes wilding training is really equivalent to death, because no amount of good wilding training can compare to actually growing up in a cruel natural environment, and no matter how good animal trainers and zoologists are, they are not as good as the parents of those wild animals.

It's just that the rewilding training should be insisted on in the end, and of course it should be insisted on, because once the rewilding is successful, the benefits will be too many. Under artificial breeding, zoos can have many comfortable animals, and their numbers are constantly expanding, while in the wild, the number of real wild animals is constantly decreasing.

Artificial cultivation is difficult, but wilding training is even harder!

"If you continue to work hard and be serious about rewilding, I am sure that you will succeed, which is why I am willing to donate a sum of money to you. We all know that we need to see them in the wild and see these real beasts. Instead of the guys in the zoo, they're not really beasts. ”

Regardless of whether it is really supportive or falsely polite, Zhang Hao still encourages Miller and them anyway, and he does think so, because Zhang Hao feels that some animals in the zoo have actually lost their instincts as beasts, and they are not complete beasts.

After chatting happily, I took a look at Miller's research objects, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were donated, just a little visit to the zoo, and it was really depressing.

Xixi was very happy, lying in her grandmother's arms and muttering, the little girl said that the tiger in the zoo is different from the tiger in the cartoon, the tiger is not a tiger, not a Tigger......

How smart Xixi is, seeing the tiger immediately thinks of "Kung Fu Panda" and "Winnie the Pooh", and the adults are stunned, and they still need Xixi to figure out who Jiaohu and Dancing are.

In short, I was very happy, because I saw the cute tiger, because I felt that the money was worth it, at least it was more cost-effective than paying taxes directly, which was about the same.

However, Zhang Hao seems to have some thoughts, and seems to be a little preoccupied, not because of the donation, but because he has learned a little about some rewilding training and artificial cultivation, and he feels that some of the current research is not very satisfactory, and he feels that he may be able to do better.

It's just that if you really want to do more things, let alone make money or not, just whether he is authoritative enough and whether anyone wants to believe him is a big problem.

Again, if you meddle in these things yourself, you won't have time to be idle, then you have to be busy all day, and that can be regarded as 'the end of a good day'!