Cultivating empathy among visitors is one of the missions of conservation education at the zoo.

Empathy allows visitors to understand the emotions of animals, respect them more, and ultimately translate into actions to protect them.

And the most basic way to develop empathy is for the zoo to show the natural behavior of the animals, with birds flying in the sky and singing in the treetops, and red pandas climbing up and down trees.

Riding a bicycle, putting on clothes, doing a handstand, jumping a fire ring for no reason, these behaviors do not occur in nature.

Reinforcing the concept of the "individual" is a great way to develop empathy, especially for children.

After all, empathizing with a species is abstract, but empathizing with an animal is very concrete.

At this time, Fang Ye was explaining the names, personalities and interesting stories of individual animals, so that the children could gradually realize that each animal is an independent individual with its own emotional hobbies, not just an independent species.

Edutainment.

After Jin Martin finished eating the food and flew to the side, Fang Ye shouted again: "Jin Zhi? ”

Jin Zhi flew into his hand and politely nodded to the children left and right, with a gentlemanly and friendly attitude: "Hello! Hello! ”

It is not only the learning of the tongue, but also the action of cooperation, it knows the meaning of this sentence.

"Wow!"

"Hello, pretty parrot!"

The children were amazed again.

A polite and intelligent parrot doesn't need to be said to say hello by itself.

Jin Zhi stood next to Fang Ye's hand, leaned over, and said to his beautiful child, "Mua! ”

(*╯3╰)

The mouth was divided and the sound of kissing was made.

Fang Ye smiled and introduced to everyone: "This parrot's name is Jin Zhi, and he is the leader of the parrots!"

Jin Zhi is very smart, learns to speak quickly, and can memorize ancient poems. And he also has a good personality, sensible and obedient. It is polite and friendly to both people and birds, so these parrots respect it too!

Jin Zhi, will you perform an ancient poem for everyone? ”

Jin Zhi was praised by Fang Ye like this, and he was quite happy!

"Quack!"

Clear your throat and brew your state.

"The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown. ”

While reading, he shook his head and shook his head. The voice is subdued and full of emotion!

If you close your eyes, you will definitely feel that it is a personal reading, but you have a cold and your voice is a little hoarse!

The children were stunned, how could this parrot feel that he memorized poems so well, and felt like a class representative?

The Chinese teacher next to him was even more stupid!

couldn't help complaining: "Hurry up and let it go to school, don't delay the child to go to Tsinghua University!" ”

It's really a success.

"Yo?" Fang Ye was also a little surprised, "What poetry did you learn recently?" Yes, I'll reward you with a walnut. ”

I taught a song to climb the stork's tower before, and now I can even think about it at night.

Jin Zhi picked up the walnut and went to Jing Wen diligently.

The two parrots flew to a perch platform, ate walnuts together, bit their mouths, and fed each other, looking very intimate.

Now they have officially established their relationship.

Wang Haoran just read the parrot's back poem, and felt very magical, and asked curiously at this time: "Why do parrots talk?" Other birds only chirp. ”

Looking at the children's eyes full of curiosity, Fang Ye thought for a moment how he could explain it relatively simply, and then said, "This, the secret of parrot talking lies in its special physiological structure.

The vocal organ of birds is called the vocal tube, the parrot's vocal tube is more complete than that of ordinary birds, and the structure of the vocal cords of humans is also relatively similar, there is an obtuse angle that is approximately at a right angle, this angle is the key to determining the pronunciation of syllables and tones, the closer to the right angles, the stronger the sense of syllables and tones.

And the tongue of the parrot is also well developed, similar to the human tongue, so the parrot can make human sounds.

As for why they have a natural tendency to learn their tongue, one is because birds like to respond to calls similar to their own, rejecting birds with different calls, and parrots can imitate the calls of other birds, so they can better integrate into the group.

And parrots are very smart, they learn to speak is also a kind of entertainment, create a challenge for themselves, try to learn to pass the time of boredom. ”

"Oh~"

After Fang Ye answered the question, he talked about some popular science knowledge of birds, and their importance to ecology!

While protecting wildlife is a matter of course, and there is no need for any reason to kill and destroy their habitats, this argument is unconvincing.

For most people, only by making the value clear can we arouse people's awareness of protection.

"The most important ecological function of birds is to help disperse seeds, and in some tropical forests, birds can help most trees and plants to disperse seeds, and some important tree species also rely on certain birds to disperse seeds.

Birds and trees are interdependent.

Birds can also help spread pollen......

Another important role is to control insect pests, and in apple plantations in the Netherlands, researchers have found that the reduction in insect pests from birds has increased apple tree yields by more than 66 percent, or more than half......

Birds of prey can control rats in the field, a barn owl, will eat more than 11,000 rats that will consume 13 tons of crops in their lifetime, and just having a bird of prey to survive nearby, out of fear of raptors, can significantly reduce the consumption of seeds by rats and rabbits.

Now some farmers complain that there are more rabbits in the fields because there are fewer birds of prey......"

Fang Ye briefly introduced the ecological role of birds, and some details may not be particularly understood by children, but they just have an overall impression anyway.

Many naughty little boys, when they were young, liked to go up to trees to dig a bird's nest, and even take a slingshot and a stone to shoot birds.

Seeing the natural beauty of birds today, and listening to him say this, I can know that birds have very important ecological value, and maybe you can take more care of birds when you see them in the future.

After talking about the serious, some children pestered Fang Ye and begged him to teach him bird language! I also want to experience the majesty of commanding the birds.

There are also Zheng Yan in their class like Wang Haoran, who is eager to learn all kinds of strange questions, why are bird feathers so colorful and colorful, are penguins birds, and are interested in learning more about birds.

Some teachers have questions and want to talk to Fang Ye!

Just now, in order to take care of the children, he talked about it relatively shallowly.

The rest of the children went to play with the parrots.

A child ran to Kim Martin's side, looked at it carefully, turned around and pointed at it with his thumb, and boasted triumphantly to everyone: "I know it, it on my head last time!" ”

"Hahaha!" The children laughed, and a nearby teacher couldn't help but chuckle, as if he was very proud of something.

Kim Martin glanced at the child, blinked, showed a sly look, and suddenly screamed very loudly.

"Gah!"

"Eh!"

There was a sudden voice behind the child, and he was startled before he reacted, and ran several meters away with a smoke.

The crowd laughed at him again.