It's easy to be a breeder, it's nothing more than feeding shovel.

But being a good breeder is hard, and that means you have to spend a lot of time and energy getting close to them, analyzing them, understanding them, learning to give yourself love.

While the joy of the animals growing to trust and stick to is wonderful, the heavy lifting behind the scenes is also really tiring.

But in any case, the three keepers are very grateful to the director for being willing to give them the opportunity to try and trust.

No matter how far they end up in the industry, at least their journey is warm and firm, and the director may not realize it, but it is important to them, to them for the rest of their lives, and to every animal they will come into contact with.

So –

"I'm going to steal the teacher well!" A raging fire burned in the eyes of the little money keeper.

And over there, Lu Wu had already let out a surprised exclamation: "Huh? Can this design be replaced? I also want to buy foreign design of the enrichment facilities, so amazing, the price difference is 13 times! ”

Breeders: "......"

"Remember to learn the technology of the Imperial Capital Zoo as an enrichment facility." Xiao Lu's breeder's expression was heavy, she looked at Lu Wu with a surprised face, and then looked at Pu Luo, who sighed with an expression, and repeated seriously: "This must be learned, otherwise let the head burn money, and it will be useless for Teacher Xiao Pu to make money." ”

"Because Teacher Xiaopu is completely unprincipled in front of the principal!"

Pu Luo didn't know that he was being scolded by the employees that he had no principles, because at the moment he was doing a very principled thing.

"No, you can't eat sweet anymore." Pu Luo put one hand against the big black bear that arched into his arms, and he tried to reason with the bear: "Your current weight gain data is not very impressive, now you should eat high-protein food, the director has gone to buy you walnuts, almonds, bird eggs and pigeons, you eat the vegetables first!" ”

Liangliang covered his ears and rolled on the ground, the bear didn't know what high protein Bai was, and the bear knew that the bear wanted to eat sweet and crunchy honey.

"Don't be willful, look, your younger brothers and sisters are watching you!" Pu Luo was staggered by Liang Liang rolling around in his arms, and he tried to reason with Liang Liang, but when a bear pretended not to understand and started to mess around, you could only sigh -

It makes sense and is very appropriate why human cubs are called "bear children" when they make trouble.

"There is no beehive, there is really no more, the nest of other families is so big, it has been eaten up in front of you!"

"Uh-huh-

"The new one has just been made, and there is no honey in it, so how can I go to raid the house."

"Uh-huh! Roar—"

"Okay, okay, if you have to, I'll wait for the barrel to be brought over, and you can lick and lick your hunger, but you eat the vegetables and rhizomes first."

"Whoa, whoa—"

"These are all sent by old friends in the neighborhood." Pu Luo patted the big black bear's shiny face and hair, and whispered: "They know that you just want to hibernate but they are happy, and they have sent a lot of things, and some people have brought you the monkeys that are frozen in summer, and they have been used to entertain guests during the New Year. ”

As he spoke, Pu Luo and the big black bear swallowed their saliva in unison.

As a special product of the monkey Nalu cuisine, as the Qilu people who can make the biological threshold tolerance relatively low to lower their heads to the insects, and let the local residents catch the monkey training become a special summer activity, the biggest advantage of knowing this thing is that it is delicious.

Pu Luo has also eaten fresh in the summer, the natural temptation of high-protein food is irresistible for every living thing, there is a lot of meat and no thorns in the mouth, there is no need to spit out the slag in one bite, and there is no need to peel the shell, the crispy and chewy are not lacking, and the taste is simply full marks.

And the most special thing about the monkey is that it does not have a little visceral breath, nor does it have a little fishy smell, and even at the end of eating, you can eat a faint milky fragrance, probably because it is unearthed after eating tree sap?

The only drawback of this guy is that his reproductive ability is too weak, and he doesn't know what is going on in the field, anyway, there are more people caught in Quancheng than there are cicadas.

Hey, why is it that such a delicious insect has such a poor reproductive ability?

Pu Luo's biggest regret is that he only came to the zoo when he knew that the monkeys were out of season, otherwise with the skills of the director, he would definitely make it more delicious than the snacks brought by the fishermen!

Pu Luo originally thought that he would not be able to attack the monkey until next summer—this time he has a whole zoo, so he can always catch the monkey and have a good time! Unexpectedly, there were still people who knew that the monkey was frozen and stored for food.

Well, Liang Liang shouldn't mind splitting a few of him at that time, right?

If he minds, he can turn into a weasel Da~ It turns out that the kind-hearted Liangliang doesn't mind Pu Luo coming over to eat, and after realizing that Pu Luo couldn't help but stuff a cicada into his mouth when he was feeding, he even took a step back and let the rice bowl out for Pu Luo to eat.

Just as he gave up his food to a skinny little weasel when they first met, this big black bear also gave up his delicious monkey to Pu Luo, who became one size bigger.

Pu Luo was silent, and he looked at the appearance of the big black bear.

The round black bean eyes, the face shape like a large disc, and the white V-neck on the chest.

Strange, it is clear that it looks exactly the same as every black bear, but it makes Pu Luo see a little special.

The eyes of other black bears don't seem to be as bright as Liangliang, but they are round and round, like black pearls.

The faces of other bears are not as round as those of Liang Liang, and the shape of their ears is not as cute.

This collar is also different, the shiny collar has a small barb, which is a little more chic.

He held out his hand. In the bright and conniving gaze, he touched the hard head hair of the big black bear.

"Sleep in peace, I promise, you'll have plenty of honey when you wake up next year."

It doesn't matter what the animals are called, it's just the way humans distinguish them.

It's not that animals identify as self-recognizable.

In the case of humans, there is no difference between them and them in a population.

But with the name it is different, it is a link that they recognize with each other, it is unique and there is no substitute.

Liang Liang is unique to the director, to the zoo, and to the regular visitors here.

On December 7, the black bear Liangliang burrowed into a cave under the apricot tree amid the nervous, worried eyes of zookeepers and regular visitors.

It took two days to decorate the cave, spreading thick dead leaves, piling branches at the mouth of the cave, bringing in its favorite balls, and licking the master's palm, and then burrowing into the cave.

On December 10, Liang Liang enjoyed the first hibernation of his bear's life.

This night, he slept soundly.

There are no predators hunting, no people to disturb him, and occasionally when he adjusts his sleeping position while half-asleep, he can smell the most reassuring breath for him.

A quiet and long sleep turns into bubbling energy, moistening the bright body like snow that is melting in this land.

Its body is thinning and shrinking, its fat is consumed, and its hair is withering, but its eyes are brighter than ever when it is awakened by the noise of flowers and bees.

"Whew-" Bright crawled out of the cave a little bit, sniffing the air around it, making out what was happening in the territory a little bit, and after a moment, it tilted its head a little.

How do you feel that there are so many strange smells in the zoo?

Chapter 79

In fact, when I thought about it later, Liangliang's abnormal hibernation was a reminder, but no one cared about it at the time.

The winter when Liang Liang hibernated was very cold.

Quancheng is strategically located, although it is located in the temperate continental climate influence zone, but because of the Daming Lake and many underground springs to regulate the temperature, there is rarely extreme cold in the urban area.

But this year, the heavens seemed to be like a sugar jar for food, and the continuous snowfall was scattered on the spring city.

The location of Daishan Zoo is adjacent to Mount Tai, because of the climate of Mount Tai, they are a little colder in winter than in the city center, and this snow makes Pu Luo, who spent the winter in the north for the first time, stupid.

He was quite happy when it first snowed, after all, he had never experienced snow at all.

Well, that's not true, although he lived most of his time in the sea, but occasionally when he went ashore to play, he also rolled through the snow, but at that time he was wearing his body, and the cold and heat did not penetrate the invulnerable shell and did not feel even the slightest chill.

For him at that time, snow was nothing more than slower rain, at most it was more beautiful in color, more fun to pile up, more fun to roll down the slopes, and so on.

But now it's different, the snow will be cold on the face, the hand will turn red after a while, and walking around outside, the socks will be cold and hard after a while, which is very uncomfortable.

To add, the director specially bought him a big cotton coat and a big cotton slipper, but that really challenged Mr. Xiaopu's aesthetics, so he was firmly rejected by Puluo.

The director didn't say anything at the time, he just took Pu Luo to the city center to buy a down jacket that met his aesthetics, and at the same time stuffed the big cotton jacket into his closet, telling him to wear it when it was cold.

However, it is impossible for the witty Pu Luo to bow his head to the big cotton clothes so easily, because he also has a trick - that is, a hairy body.

As one of the sacred beasts in the Northeast, the weasel that can lay its own territory among the white mountains and green waters also has their tricks to keep out the cold.

The dense fluff can effectively establish an insulation layer to keep the cold wind out, and the hairs between the paw pads can be like wool boots to insulate the ground from the cold and non-slip.

Of course, none of the above matters.

The important thing is that the weasel is a small one, which can be completely hidden in the pocket of the principal's cotton clothes, on one side is the principal's body temperature, and on the other side is the warm new cotton, not to mention how comfortable it is to hide inside!

It is so comfortable that he often sleeps in the director's pocket without paying attention until lunch.

There is a big advantage in the winter of Quancheng, that is, there are many sunny days, and their sun is not like the sun in the south, even if it comes out, it is faint and there is no temperature, as long as there is sunshine in Quancheng, it is still very warm.

After eating a full meal, Pu Luo was not in a hurry to turn into a human form, he put a coral blanket on the windowsill of the director's office, and lay there basking in the sun with a bulging belly.

These days, the keepers are very busy, because in addition to their jobs, they also have to shovel snow and prepare the roads around the zoo for skid prevention.

In fact, the snow is fine, but I am afraid that the snow will be trampled into ice, Daishan Zoo is a zoo built on the mountain, there are many steps, this foot slip is very amazing.

Although the zoo has now purchased insurance, and even if a visitor slips and falls and is injured, the zoo will always make the person who has chosen to play feel guilty and regretful when they return home.

So, sprinkling salt, shoveling ice, hanging signs, and laying carpets in places that really can't solve the non-slip problem are all extra workload.

In addition, the volunteers at the zoo are all retired uncles and aunts, and even if they dare to come to this kind of climatic conditions, the zoo will not dare to use it.

However, the cold weather did not only affect the Daishan Zoo, but also affected the entire ecological chain.

Cold winters and heavy snow make it difficult for herbivores to get food, and abundant snowfall changes the terrain from day to day, and even squirrels and voles, who are good at storage, suffer the biggest accident of the rat life – they can't find their savings.

In other forest areas, they may be lucky enough to encounter large tanks of wild boars to open the way, but Taishan is an area with frequent human activities, and timid wild boars do not dare to approach.

So they had to choose another path – to lie dormant for the time being, to survive on their food reserves, and to pray that the continuous snow would stop soon.

But they can stop, other animals can't.

Carnivores need a huge amount of energy to attack, and the extra cost of fending off the cold forces them not to hibernate, even if they have few prey, and they have to do everything they can to survive.

Of course, this also includes the desperate adventure when you can't find food.

So just before the Chinese New Year, Pu Luo and Lu Wu received two phone calls one after another.

"Director Lu, we have received news that a wolf in Mount Tai has attacked a farmer and killed three domestic pigs, considering the mood of the villagers and the situation of the wolf, we will organize people to go up the mountain to round up, your zoo is close, can you take in the captured wolf at that time?"

"Teacher Lu, the pig you fostered in our house was bitten to death by a wolf, look at this...... We really didn't expect that the wolves here used to be as honest as dogs, and the pigs were so strong, and we didn't pay attention, and now the government says that there is a loss of money, and this thing is ......."

The two looked at each other, and they didn't know which news was worse for a while, when Lu Wu answered the previous phone call, who else thought was so unlucky, it turned out that the unlucky ones were themselves!

Pu Luo didn't have time to grieve for his lost pig, and the swarming work didn't give him this opportunity.

Lu Wu went to catch the wolf, and the work scheduling of the zoo was handed over to Pu Luo, but fortunately, Pu Luo had already exercised himself these days.

He methodically drew out a quarantine area for the approaching wolves, urgently purchased the vaccines and testing reagents needed by the canines, and also grabbed Wang Qiangguo to review the wolf breeding guide while rubbing out a brand new wolf area display board, and when he was about to deal with these things, the director gave information that their large army had caught a wolf pack of six wolves.

The group was larger than expected, and the Daishan Zoo urgently set aside an area for the wolves to live in.

In the original plan, the wolves would be rescued and reared at the zoo until spring, and they would be put on GPS as part of the ecological survey of Mount Tai, but Lu Wu found that the wolves' bloodlines were contaminated with domestic dogs.