Fang Ye was immersed in the design, and the mobile phone suddenly "ding-dong".

After taking a look, someone added their friends on WeChat and used a white-eyed gibbon as an avatar.

Note: His name is Fan Peng, a gibbon researcher.

Fang Ye added a friend: "Hello Teacher Fan! ”

"Hello Director Fang! Well, it might be complicated to say......"

"It's okay, you speak slowly."

Explained on the opposite side for half a day!

Fan Peng is doing gibbon research, and they mainly study Tianxing gibbons.

The white-browed gibbon was originally thought to be of two kinds, the western white-browed gibbon and the eastern white-browed gibbon, while the Tianxing gibbon is a white-browed gibbon endemic to China, and used to be often mixed with the eastern white-browed gibbon.

A few years ago, ICUN classified the white-browed gibbon into another species, and this is the work done by Fan Peng.

Fang Ye was in awe: "Disrespectful, disrespectful!" Hey, if you're looking for me, it's the Skywalker gibbon in our zoo? ”

Fan Peng said: "Yes, although the Skywalker gibbon also has the iconic white eyebrows, it is not as thick as the Eastern white-eyed gibbon.

Male Skykor gibbons do not have a white beard on their chins that match their eyebrow color, and female Skykor gibbons do not have as thick eye circles as those of Eastern white-browed gibbons. ”

Keep talking.

Gibbons live in forests, and people in the forests cultivate mountains and forests on a small scale to grow food or cash crops for their livelihoods, although the forest seems to have not changed, but for gibbons, which rely on tall trees to move, the gaps between the trees are like cliffs for them.

The woods, which cannot be reached on both arms, are an island out of reach for gibbons.

People can always find a way to reclaim the mountains and forests, from living to living better, and the simple gibbon is still stuck in the stage of remembering which tree bears the fruit just right.

Out of evasion, they had to migrate again and again as people expanded.

After several years of investigation and research, they found that the number of Tianxing gibbons is very small, only about 40 families, and the population in the wild does not exceed 150 individuals.

Forests are fragmented, habitats are fragmented, and the reproduction of the Skywalker gibbons becomes a problem.

Near a family of gibbons, a female gibbon was found who appeared to be the cousin of the male ape of the family.

There were no single male gibbons nearby, so Fan Peng and the others helped her find potential mates further afield.

When I did my research before, I remember that an old ape couple came with two sons, and after some searching, they found that one had already started a family, and the other was still single.

Two single gibbons are so far apart, how can they be allowed to get together?

The way to change places for them under anesthesia does not work, the Skywalker gibbons usually stay in the trees, it is difficult to find and track, and they are very fast in the trees, let alone anesthetized.

Even if you can shoot, you will fall from a tree several meters high, and what if you fall to your death.

If the anesthesia is successful, the gibbon is a very territorial animal, and if a nearby family suddenly discovers that a strange gibbon has intruded into their territory, it is very likely to clash and fight, and the anesthetized gibbon is slow to move and is killed.

Anyway, anesthesia is very risky.

So Fan Peng and they thought of a plan to save the country with a curve, the gibbons are inconvenient to move, but their singing is convenient to move.

After years of research, it has been found that gibbons are not meaningless singing, and different melodies may have different lyrics meanings.

If you record the song of a single gibbon courting and play it, can you attract them to move in the direction from which the song comes from?

Of course, there are also scientific and ethical risks associated with such operations!

In general, populations in the wild should only be observed, and no human influence should be carried out, otherwise their habits may be changed and unforeseen consequences may occur.

But now the Tianxing gibbons are very endangered, there are more than 150 left, if you wait and don't do something, the two single gibbons are too far apart, separated by many family territories, and may not meet together in their lifetime.

So after thinking about it, Fan Peng and the others decided to influence it.

A single love song doesn't have to start with another male ape, it is very difficult to track a gibbon in the dense rainforest, the gibbon flies to another tree after two swings in the tree, and the person on the ground has to climb the hill and go down the ditch, the branch holds the arm of the man, and the rattan trips the foot.

It's much easier to find a single gibbon in the zoo as an alternative and record a courtship love song.

Anyway, it's all a song of courtship.

I had been to the Flying Ape Zoo a few times before when I was studying the Tianxing gibbons, and I remembered that they had two male apes in their babies, and I wondered if they had reached the age of courtship, but when I inquired, the two male apes were transferred to the Linhai Zoo.

That's how things came about.

At this moment, there was a "ding" sound, and the system prompt sounded: "Rare animal clues have appeared!" ”

[Animal: Skywalk gibbon

Location: Gaoligong Mountain, Yunnan Province

Protection time: 10 years (during the protection period, the animal will not be in danger of life)

Note: The rate of forest disappearing is 30 hectares per minute, how fast do I need to walk to catch up with your back?

Reward: World Zoo Association Membership Certificate! 】

When Fang Ye saw the reward, he was shocked: "Huh! ”

There is also a zoo association in China, and Fang Ye first inquired with the director of the Blue River Zoo and asked if he wanted to add it.

It doesn't matter if you know that you don't join, and the purchase and transfer of animals will not be affected by whether you join the association or not.

Every year, a meeting is held to exchange information about the breeding of animals and the cases of enrichment that have been done well.

Of course, there is no use for eggs, and a good zoo is more of a separate communication, and a rotten zoo will still not improve.

Anyway, it's a more official association, and everyone meets together to speak.

However, the zoos in China have basically joined, and Fang Ye lost interest after learning about the situation, why join in this excitement.

But the World Association of Zoos is different! Only the best zoos in the world can join.

There are only a few hundred members of so many large and small zoos in the world, and even fewer are members of the World Zoo Association in China.

Originally, zoos did not have so many restrictions on the purchase of imported animals, but now if you want to buy some rare animals from zoos in other countries in the world, such as silverback gorillas, koalas, and Komodo dragons, you must at least be a member of the association to be eligible to buy them, and you can buy them if you want to.

The main purpose is to protect some endangered wild animals from entering the zoo through smuggling channels, and the animals bought are also at a sufficient level to be able to feed well.

Of course, qualification is one thing, and whether you can buy it is another.