What catches your eye is the first bay crocodile exhibition area after entering!

In the middle of the dense jungle is a narrow area about 40 meters long and 15 meters wide, and near the visitor side is a babbling stream, and behind the stream is a somewhat muddy meadow.

The crocodile exhibit doesn't need to be particularly large, the most important thing is to have a pool, sundeck and shade.

Especially for the large-tonnage bay crocodile, it can only move comfortably under the buoyancy of the water, and staying on the shore for a long time, the burden of weight on internal organs is great, and it has a great impact on health.

A few large bay crocodiles, dark-colored, either lay motionless on their stomachs on the grass and mud, or floated slowly in the water, exposing their heads and half of their bodies on the water.

The smaller ones are more than two meters long, and the largest one looks almost 5 meters long, which is longer than the average car!

Although lying on the grass with its mouth closed, it looks lazy and without any momentum, but looking at its fierce teeth exposed outside its mouth, such a huge size, once hunted, it must be extremely fierce!

Daigo's eyes widened and his mouth widened: "I'll drop a turtle!" Such a big crocodile, awesome! ”

If he saw the alligator statue around the corner before, his exclamation also had a little element of enlivening the atmosphere.

But the exclamations now are entirely sincere, not fake!

Lin Hao held on to the railing with his hand, looking at the giant crocodile on the grass opposite the stream, wearing neatly arranged scales like chain mail, and couldn't help but exclaim: ", it's so fierce!" What kind of crocodile is this? ”

The railings here are the same as the Lion Bridge, and the gaps between the railings are protected by iron nets, mainly to prevent younger children from being squeezed down and it is dangerous to fall.

There is also a striking warning sign on the railing, which is a pattern of a mother holding a child sitting on the railing, which is circled by red and marked with a slash. The meaning is obvious, don't engage in such dangerous actions.

Lily looked at a sign next to her seriously: "This is a bay crocodile!" Wow, the bay crocodile is the largest crocodile of all kinds and the largest reptile in the world! ”

Tourists clicked and took pictures, and chattered lively.

Reactions vary, some excited, some curious, and some scared!

"It's the first time I've seen such a big crocodile!"

"Everyone, all have to die! Who's the next piece of meat on the cutting board! ”

Lin Hao smiled knowingly, and when he heard it, he was an old crocodile player.

"I've seen crocodile hunting scenes in the documentary, and it's very ferocious!"

"Why are these crocodiles motionless, like a lump of wood, aren't they specimens?"

"It looks like a fake, do you want to find a rock to smash it?"

"I'll go find one on the side of the road."

Dawu heard the two tourists next to him laughing and talking, and turned his head with a frown: "Do you have a hole in your head?" I want to know if the crocodile is alive, why not just jump in and verify it for yourself? ”

Lin Hao was taken aback, and shouted in his heart, "!" ”

He was also a little angry when he heard these two people say that they were going to hit the crocodile with a stone, and he thought about whether there was a breeder nearby to tell him, but he didn't expect to start directly.

The two tourists didn't expect someone to scold them suddenly, the man with glasses was stunned, and the backpacker man was annoyed and angry: "You are sick!" ”

When the surrounding tourists heard the quarrel, they all looked away!

Seeing the tourists' eyes staring at him, Dawu straightened his chest even more, raised his voice and said solemnly: "Did you hear the fire, these two people were just going to pick up stones and smash crocodiles!" Crocodiles stay there, you have to throw a stone at it, this is not bad! ”

Lily immediately stood up in solidarity with Daigo, and said very harshly: "If you sleep motionless, I wonder if you are asleep or dead, can you also take a stone and throw it at you?" ”

"Oh!!"

"The little girl said it well!"

The old tourists have erected a correct sense of visiting, and they hate this uncivilized visiting behavior, what slapping the glass, feeding, and applauding! Other tourists also applauded along with the principle of not worrying about the excitement.

The intelligent monitoring captured the situation here, and the voice of the monitoring commissioner came out of the loudspeaker behind: "Please visit in a civilized manner, don't quarrel, the breeder will come over immediately." ”

Saying that it is right away, Ogawa, the keeper of the crocodile area, came out of the ground, and it turned out that the keeper had actually been here all along.

Two places to visit in the Crocodile Zone, one above ground and one underground!

From the ground, you can observe the crocodile lying on the lawn and floating on the water, and you can watch the crocodile swimming in the water through the glass curtain wall along the sloping slope to the underground.

The backpack man was so angry that his face turned red: "Is it cerebral palsy, crocodiles are cold-blooded animals, and they don't feel pain, can they be the same as people!" ”

Hearing the words of the backpack man, Xiao Chuan showed a somewhat speechless expression and said, "Ahem, this tourist, first of all, I have to correct it, cold-blooded animals are colloquial names, and it is inaccurate to call them so."

The term prepared is called ectothermic, which means that the animal's body temperature changes with the environment.

With the exception of birds and mammals, all other animals are ectotherms.

There is also a big misunderstanding, which is also a traditional misunderstanding, that is, cold-blooded animals mean cold-blooded and ruthless, as if they have some superpowers, they don't eat, drink, pull, don't spill, don't feel pain and don't have feelings.

Whether ectothermic animals feel pain or not, I think it hurts, but this pain may not be exactly the same as us humans, just like a centipede with hundreds of feet moving around, as a human being, you can't imagine what it feels like to have hundreds of arms and legs.

Like us, the staff of the two climbing halls basically have the experience of raising reptile pets, I raised a turtle, it was more afraid of me when it first arrived, and then gradually became familiar with me, willing to let me touch it in my hand is not afraid, but also in the living room to walk, follow me. Do you think they have emotions? ”

Tourists listened thoughtfully.

"It turns out that reptiles are not called cold-blooded animals, they are called ectotherms, and I used to think that cold-blooded animals just mean that they have no feelings."

"It's an animal that must have a sense of pain, otherwise if you're injured, you don't know how to survive."

"It's true that I also had turtles when I was a child, and turtles are very spiritual animals."

The pain and emotion of mammals are easier for them to understand, after all, the mainstream pets are cats and dogs, who has not seen a cat angry, dog grievance scene.

The structure of reptiles and humans is indeed different, and the question of whether there is pain or emotion may not only involve science, but also a little philosophical thinking in it.

The so-called sub-fish, the joy of Anzhi fish? Zifei fish, the pain of Anzhi fish?

In fact, they supported Daigo before, mainly because they were disgusted with the uncivilized behavior of throwing stones, and they really didn't think about the crocodile's feelings.

After Xiao Chuan finished reasoning, his expression became serious, and he said: "No matter what, the behavior of throwing stones at animals is absolutely forbidden in our zoo, and it is very uncivilized." ”

"It's just about playing." The man with glasses whispered a word of defense, glanced at the backpack man, and walked away.

Xiao Chuan scratched his head and picked up the walkie-talkie: "Hey, command center, these two people originally planned to throw stones but didn't do it, and were dissuaded by other tourists, but they didn't admit their mistakes, let's make a note of 2." ”