Elephants are very intelligent animals!

It takes constant change and challenge to get their brains working, or they'll get bored.

Therefore, the enrichment of the elephant hall is also the most complicated and energy-consuming.

The sand dunes and mud ponds in the activity field are dug by the staff with small excavators, so that the terrain of the site that the elephants can see every day is different from yesterday, full of freshness and fun of exploration.

This is also a unique enrichment that can only be carried out in a sandy environment.

In fact, for all animals, the same environment is boring.

It's just that other pavilions can't change on such a large scale, so they can only do some details to enrich themselves.

For example, the Red Panda Pavilion adds a slide to the Red Panda and moves the perch position or something.

Therefore, Fang Ye also plans to make some air corridors in the predator exhibition area to connect different exhibition halls, so that the animals can change their accommodation in another exhibition hall.

Meiling didn't seem to have much interest in hay, so she stopped after a few bites, took a huge step, and walked away slowly!

Seeing this, Meilan also walked with her.

There are plenty of facilities in the elephant house to keep them moving, and the elephants always have something to do.

As she walked forward, she seemed to have noticed something when she passed by a tree trunk, and swept it with the roller hanging from the tree with her nose.

There are some small holes in the roller!

Swept by Meilan's nose, the bones spun around, and a piece of apple fell from the hole.

The enrichment device of this kind of roller is also relatively common in zoos, and there are some ring-tailed lemurs in the exhibit, but their rollers are made of bamboo knots, and the rollers in the elephant hall are relatively large.

Meiling unceremoniously rolls the apple up from the ground with her nose and stuffs it into her mouth to eat.

Meilan was about to pick up the apple and eat it, but she glanced at her and didn't say anything.

Then he continued to sweep the drum with his nose, and a piece of apple fell.

Meiling poked her head over, rolled her nose and snatched it away!

Meiling is a bit of a picky eater, likes to eat fruits, and doesn't like to eat hay.

Of course, elephants love fruits.

Meilan also wanted to eat apples, but was snatched away by Meiling one after another, and seemed a little unhappy!

Flapping his ears, he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say to her, and his body squeezed at her, trying to push her to the side.

Meiling was grinning and grinning, and her nose was soothing to and from Meilan, as if to soothe her emotions.

What's there, isn't it just a piece of apple!

Meilan huffed, are you embarrassed, is this a problem with a piece of apple! You've been robbing me!

Liu Wei looked at this scene and said with some surprise: "What are these two elephants doing?" ”

Wu Jiancong guessed: "It seems to be because of the food is unhappy!" ”

Zhu Yu said strangely: "Didn't you say that they are good friends?" ”

Some tourists also raised this question!

Fang Ye looked at the situation in the distance and said with a smile: "Although Meilan and Meiling are good friends, good friends can also have conflicts.

When the two elephants were eating, Meiling often took Meilan's share of fruit and ate it, everyone thinks, there is a friend who often goes to rub your food, will you also be angry after a long time?

So the relationship between the two is very good, even if Meiling likes to grab fruits to eat, Meilan still tolerates her shortcomings and usually plays with her. ”

A tourist asked curiously, "Hey, director, how did you tell which of the two elephants is?" ”

Fang Ye explained: "Meilan's figure is a little fatter! Meiling is a picky eater and doesn't eat staple foods well, so she is a little thin. Another difference is that Meiling has a pair of small incisors. ”

"Oh oh~" the tourist showed a sudden look.

But some tourists were puzzled again: "No, isn't Meiling a female name?" How does a female elephant grow tusks, or is Meiling a male elephant? ”

"I didn't even notice it had ivory!"

Fang Ye smiled: "This is a classic misunderstanding!" In fact, not all elephants have exposed incisors, some males can't see ivory, and some females can see tusks, and they can grow very long, so it is not possible to use tusks as a basis for judging the sex of elephants.

It may be that people associate ivory with mighty and strong, and mighty and strong are generally the characteristics of males, and some people have not researched, and they say that those with ivory are all males and those without ivory are females, or the teeth have been sawn off, so that this misunderstanding is widely spread. ”

"I see!"

"Damn, I was wrong all along?"

"Posture up!"

The two elephants then played with the sand.

Flick your tail and suck your nose on the ground to suck the sand in.

Then he raised his nose and flung it to the back of his head, and a puff of sand delicately sprinkled onto his back.

I sucked another tube of sand, rolled my nose down, and sprayed it on the bottom of my stomach, and sprayed sand on my stomach.

Pingping's side is also active.

At this time she walked to the edge of the mud pond, knelt on the shore, touched the end of her nose against the surface of the mud pond, and put her nose under the water to grope for a while.

It's like a human being touches the water with their hands before taking a bath to see if it's hot or cold!

Ping Ping is also feeling the mud level of the mud pond, and at the same time testing the environment under the mud pool to see if he can get his feet!

Don't step on it, it's empty, fall into the pit and can't climb up.

This is all about learning from the older elephants in the wild.

After groping for the environment below the mud pond, the whole elephant kicked its legs directly and slipped into the mud pond!

Lying in the mud pond, he happily arched his body and rolled around, and his nose kept shaking the muddy water.

"Hahaha, so cute!"

"Happy like a ton of kids!"

"Eh, who's not a baby?"

"Mama, the elephant is so happy!"

"But cute love has no head."

Tourists can't help but smile when they look at Pingping in the mud pond, rolling and playing!

Isn't it just to relax your body and mind when you come to the zoo to see the animals?

The scene of elephants playing happily in the mud is indeed very healing.

Liu Wei took out his mobile phone, took a few photos of the elephants in the mud pit, and took a video.

He was amazed by his friends: "I originally thought that elephants were very mature and stable animals, but I didn't expect them to play like a child." ”

Gao Kaijin watched Pingping playing with mud, and couldn't close his mouth with joy: "Yes!" ”

Elephants are fascinating!

And for the zoo, it's a great display of animals.

They are mostly active during the day, unlike pandas, which spend most of their time sleeping.

It's just that most zoos can't provide them with a good environment for elephants to show off their interesting natural behaviors such as rolling in mud puddles and bathing.