"Hey, why do you think this red-crowned crane can endure staying in such a smelly place and won't fly away?"

"I don't know ......"

Some tourists walked past Fang Ye and talked suspiciously.

Although the river is surrounded by a net just over a meter high, the Oriental White Stork still can't fly out, for the simple reason that its wings have been clipped.

In fact, geese, pelicans, storks, cranes, ducks, ...... Most of the zoo's large birds, including flamingos, have their wings clipped.

When it comes to waterfowl lakes, the first thing that comes to many people's minds is a large group of brightly colored flamingos standing in the water, in fact, flamingos can fly!

Wing clipping is generally to cut off the tip of one wing, so that the length of the two wings is not uniform, and the balance is lost, so it will naturally not be able to fly.

Although it is a bit pitiful for the birds, if you don't cut off the wings, you can't release these birds, and you may fly to viaducts or other places at will, and maybe a duck will be caught and stewed......

If you don't stock, you can only be trapped in a small bird cage, so the activity space is very limited, but it is not good for the bird, and cutting wings is also a way to weigh the pros and cons.

Another approach is to have a very high, covered building, like the rainforest pavilion being built at the Waterfront Zoo, so that the birds don't have their wings cut off and give them some room to fly.

But the cost of building such a pavilion is too high! Most zoos can't get it.

At most, it's like the cage where the macaw lives now, which is slightly larger than the birdcage, but it is not enjoyable to fly.

Another compromise is to not cut the tips of the wings, but only the feathers of the birds.

Flying feathers can grow again, and when the feathers grow, the birds can fly in the sky again.

Sounds good, in fact, there are also big disadvantages, the flight feathers basically have to be cut once a year, one is not able to do it at any time, and the birds will also be frightened and stressed in the process of catching a chase......

Moreover, the flight feathers of each bird grow at different rates, and some birds fly feathers grow fast and need to be cut more frequently.

Birds can't fly, they will flutter their wings and run, the speed of running is also fast, and they will swim in the water, and they will catch up and catch up one by one, and then cut off the flying feathers, which is simply the life of the breeder.

It's a kind of torture for both sides, and it's better to cut the tips of the wings once and for all!

The World Treaty of Ethics for Zoo Aquariums states: "It is forbidden to remove any part of an animal for the purpose of altering its physical appearance, except that the removal of a bird's wing is the only permissible method for educational or regulatory purposes and only when it cannot be controlled by other means." ”

There is an "original sin" in zoos restricting the freedom of animals, birds certainly do not want to have their wings cut off and want to fly to their heart's content, but they have no choice but to make sacrifices.

Therefore, zoos have a greater responsibility to do a good job in popular science education, so that the public can understand the knowledge of birds and protect wild animals.

There is nothing wrong with cutting the wings of the white stork, but it is not good if you don't provide a good environment for the teacher, and even the content of the lesson is misplaced.

Animal knowledge, the content of conservation education, and the awareness of respecting animals are not conveyed to tourists at all. The zoo's function is only entertainment, and this is regarded as a business.

However, speaking of which, a place like Pingjiang Zoo is already at a medium level, and it is more graceful to make money......

At least the territory is still relatively large, and each animal has a certain space to move.

The elk exhibit area is 500 square meters, and the brick floor is also the ground, so you can walk around it when the weather is cool.

The white stork's exhibit area has grass and trees, as well as streams, although it stinks, isn't it clean after changing it once?

In the worse zoo, a tiger is only given a 30-square-meter narrow cement cage, and it takes three or four steps to reach the end, and the two-meter metal mesh roof is full of oppression, and there is not even a wood to grind its claws, and it is almost crazy to live in it.

The tiger could only open its mouth, and in the cage with a dull gaze, staggered in circles.

I don't want to go back to the back house, because the back house is darker and the space is more cramped!

At least you can see the light outside.

The worst one is the worst one, not to mention knowledge, and most people don't even dare to think about it.

It's no different from the vegetable market, the animal cage is just a little bigger, the feces leak directly on the ground, the air is full of fishy smell, and the ticket is cheap, ten yuan a piece, go in and sneak around, see what the animals look like.

Not to mention the popular science display card, the name of the animal is simply written on the sign in front of the cage, which is good to write correctly.

What, you say this is a raccoon dog? Young man, this is obviously a raccoon, does the raccoon know?

Turtle pool, you can throw a coin or something for the turtle, the beautiful name is "money falls into the ghost's head, good luck is the head"......

It's no wonder that many people have a negative impression of zoos!

Every day they are clamoring for the abolition of zoos and the release of animals back into nature.

In fact, zoos are institutions for animal protection, animal breeding, and popular science education, and it is no exaggeration to say that they shoulder the future of the earth, and the public's attitude towards zoos should be respectful and loved.

Before Fang Ye crossed, Linhai Zoo was a little stronger than Pingjiang Zoo.

The cage of Linhai Zoo is not as large as the animal activity space of Pingjiang Zoo, there is no grass or trees in the cage, but there are few animals, and each cage keeper can clean and tidy.

If you can't afford to feed the animals, you will send them away to other places so that they don't go hungry.

Continuing inside, I saw the camel exhibit.

The outer walls were crooked, painted with mud, deliberately cracked, a bit camouflaged to the desert rock wall, and there were two large umbrellas in the middle, a log bracket, and an umbrella cover made of dead branches.

You can see some water stains on the ground, it is estimated that it was poured in the morning, but it is almost dry.

A camel cowered in the doorway of the back barn, peering out.

The blue carp looked at the camel, beckoned to it, and said with a smile: "Hello camel~"

At least it looks a little more comfortable than the environment in front!

Fang Ye looked at the exhibition area, shook his head and complained: "All the bells and whistles, what's the use of this umbrella?" Such decoration is purely for the sake of seeing. On the concrete floor, the camel won't go under the umbrella to cool off, you see it doesn't want to come out, it's better to spread some sand on the ground. ”

Cement, masonry, asphalt and other materials have low reflectivity and high absorption rate of sunlight, and the temperature is much higher than the air temperature.

So when the weather is particularly hot, you can really bake an egg on the ground......

Continuing to walk forward, I saw a feed sales point at the intersection that said "Love Feeding".

An old lady sat on a chair under the tree and ate melon seeds, and there were a few bottles of mineral water on the table in front of her, as well as carrot strips in a small paper cup. You can feed zebras here. ”

This is a major disadvantage of zoos, and many large zoos are unavoidable.

Can it be good to sell feed while preventing tourists from feeding?

Fang Ye waved his hand: "Don't, don't." ”

I was depressed, such an expensive ticket is still being fed to generate income, isn't it written on the sign of the Oriental White Stork in front of me not to feed? Could it be that this sign is also the template for the zoo science exhibition board found on the Internet......

The old lady spit out the melon seed skin in her mouth and didn't say anything more, but she looked a little disdainful.

The young man brought such a beautiful girlfriend over, and he was reluctant to buy the feed?