In the evening, the dog who had been busy all day had to walk with him in the community while collecting all kinds of information, and when he finally could rest at night, Amer slept until he was on all fours, much busier than his useless owner.

What's even more remarkable is that even though he was so busy, he still learned to pretend to be a public servant and secretly hide one or two eggs for Officer Xiao Chen to eat when collecting eggs.

Officer Xiao Chen, who had not taken a stitch from the masses since he joined the company, could not resist the temptation that day, and tearfully made a scrambled egg with these two eggs and ate half of the dog.

Although he immediately paid the fine to Mr. Xiaopu, because the scrambled eggs tasted too fragrant, he finally hooked up with the suspect under surveillance - in the way that the other party entrusted him to buy eggs.

Relying on this friendship of purchasing eggs, Officer Xiao Chen felt as if he had gained the trust of the other party, and the task progress bar could be regarded as climbing forward.

When he realized this, Officer Xiao Chen immediately gave his dog a smooth hair, which was praise and praise.

The next day, because he was full of excitement and had nowhere to vent, he brushed all the dogs at the zoo and succeeded in making the dogs bark under him because they had been troubled for several days because of moulting.

And then......

And ah............

"I don't know why, but every time I pass by the wolf house, the wolves inside howl at me, and the howl is terrifying." Officer Xiao Chen complained confused, puzzled, and a little sad during the meal.

As a dog lover, he certainly doesn't let go of the zoo's wolves, and in fact, the popular sniffing blanket at the wolf house came from his inspiration.

Now that I'm suddenly ostracized, I always feel a little sad.

"Ah, that one, they don't hate you." Pu Luo, who happened to be passing by, said casually: "They want you to comb them like a dog." ”

Officer Chen: "!? ”

Grooming, grooming the wolf?

Officer Xiao Chen began to seriously think about whether his behavior of excluding the zoo from the scope of suspicion was a bit too hasty, and ......

Could it be that this zoo has already discovered that I am at work to fish, eat and pack, help my old colleagues buy limited zoo peripherals, steal snacks made by the director for dogs, secretly pick wild vegetables and go home for tooth sacrifices, and I am actually an undercover agent?

Chapter 124

Early summer, moulting season, a season that gives most hairy creatures a headache.

Most furry fur has two layers, the inner layer is soft and moisturizing but very easy to knot, and the outer layer is hard and waterproof, and there is a certain shock-absorbing and damage-reducing coat.

When changing hair seasonally, most of them shed some fluff to achieve heat dissipation and protect the skin.

And because it's the fluff that's shedding the inner layer of hair, the moulting process is really embarrassing for the animal.

Not every furry has a primate with a comb to help them pull off the fluff that has fallen off, at this time, the furries themselves can only show their magic and kick the fur off in an ancestral way.

That's right, it's kicking, and they don't have the barbed tongue of the feline family to lick the fur off, so what can they do but kick?

- You can kick each other!

Ahem, that's what the wolves use, and during the moulting season, every fight, every fight, every flutter or rubbing a little friend in the water is actually a friendly dehairing of the other party.

In the process of dehairing, by the way, the status of this year's group is determined, Ah, the wolves are really smart.

Wait, did you miss something?

That's right, what about the Wolf King? Why didn't you whine to challenge the wolf king?

That's because the breeding season for wolves is in the winter, and the Wolf King Challenge is also in the winter, so under normal circumstances, no wolves will challenge the wolf king in the season outside of winter.

In most cases, they are not allowed to mate with the female wolves in the group, but the female wolves in the group can mate with foreign male wolves and breed.

As for normal times, as long as the wolf king works well, there is no major food, there is no injustice and partiality in the distribution of food, and the little wolves are still very obedient to the command of the wolf king.

This also led to a very strange result, when the wolves barely finished the moulting work and put on the slightly bumpy summer-limited skin, the wolf king was still dressed as a beggar.

This situation also caused most of the tourists who came to visit to be in disbelief when they knew who the wolf king was, and couldn't understand how such a bumpy and concave whine became the boss of this group, and even many people thought that the zoo was shady.

As everyone knows, beggars pretend to be the skin of the king.

The external propaganda department of Daishan Zoo immediately wrote a small essay to refute the rumors, but many of the tourists who came to visit still pointed at the wolf king.

"It's not okay to go on like this, although the wolf king is the combat center of a group, especially our wolves are still really mixed in the wild, and the wolves who have really fought and hunted, the psychological quality and combat effectiveness of the wolf king should be very good, but if he is always belittled like this, there should still be pressure, right?" The keeper said to Officer Xiao Chen.

"Teacher Xiao Chen, do you see if there is any way?"

Officer Xiao Chen: "......"

Chen Bin, who heard Teacher Xiaopu's shocking speech in the cafeteria, almost thought that his identity was exposed and that he would be shocked by the black hand, fell into deep thought.

In fact, this matter itself is a very simple matter, isn't it just a wolf moult? Wolves have been present for thousands of years, and they have evolved into the era of the two-legged beast in parallel, and they basically have no absolute physical defects, and of course moulting is also one.

In the wild, wolves have to burrow through dense forests, and leaves, branches, thorns, and birds that want to build nests with wolf feathers are all helpers for wolves to solve moulting problems.

It's just that they don't have this condition in Daishan Zoo.

If the wolves in Daishan Zoo are the kind of wolves that have been bred and raised from generation to generation in the zoo, although they are still wolves, but they are actually accustomed to cooperating with humans, then it is not impossible for the keepers to comb their hair through the cage.

But the problem is that these are real wild wolves, and their vigilance against humans is completely different from that of common zoo wolves, not to mention that the keepers feed them through cages, even if they enter with a pole attached to a comb, the pole can be bitten off by the wolves.

"Then let them comb themselves." Chen Bin took out his mobile phone and showed the keeper an artifact: "What do you think we should do this?" ”

The keeper took a closer look, and after pondering for a moment, he nodded and affirmed Officer Xiao Chen's professionalism: "This, you can have it." ”

A few days later, there was a strange phenomenon of large wolf to wolf in the wolf hall.

When every wolf shuttles through the mountains and bushes, they always have to stay in one place for a long time, and they will even walk in one place repeatedly, shaking their heads and tails, squinting, and even some wolves are walking upright, and suddenly their feet are weak and they fall to the ground.

It looked like a cat had sucked something it shouldn't have.

"What's wrong with this wolf? Suck the dog mint? Unknown tourists wondered, and some tourists suspected that Daishan Zoo had stereotyped wolf breeding when they saw this situation.

Frightened, Daishan Zoo hurriedly denied the triptych: "The wolves didn't suck strange things, and they weren't stereotyped, the zoo was in the bushes and used pig bristles to give them an itchy arch, the wolves were fresh on the one hand, and on the other hand, they were uncomfortable when they moulted, so they often rubbed there." ”

"Scratching the Itch Arch ......" A tourist with a cat at home had a flash of inspiration, took out his mobile phone and asked the breeder: "Is this it?" ”

The breeder glanced at the Taobao baby with a series of keywords written on it [arched cat scratching itching], and nodded with a smile: "That's right, this is our source of inspiration, but in practice, we also tied some loose needles on it, so the effect is better." ”

"Pine, pine needles?" Tourists are questioning, after all, who in the north has not been pricked by pine needles? Tourists think there's something wrong with grooming wolves with sharp pine needles?

But looking at the enjoyment of the wolves, it doesn't look like there is any trouble and pain, is it the failure of human skin after all?

"Why do you think that?" The keeper looked at them with some surprise: "It is true that human beings lose their hair cover and their skin is more fragile than animals, but human beings have exchanged for something very important." ”

"Aang?"

"Heat dissipation capacity." The keeper said with a smile: "Human beings all have sweat glands, which is a strong ability that most animals do not have, and we are still air-cooled and water-cooled, which alone is enough for humans to adapt to the extreme environment that many animals cannot accept, of course, provided that they drink enough water." ”

"And thanks to our cooling system, we also have an ability that no other animal has – the stamina that can be counted among the best in being hunters, and the ability to run while eating, which is certainly not healthy, of course, but we are one of the few animals that do."

After thinking about it, one visitor weakly asked, "Is it because we have hands to hold the food?" ”

"This is one of the reasons, and another point is because we can breathe through the nose and we can breathe through the mouth, don't underestimate this, this is determined by the way the soft palate and epiglottis cartilage work together in humans, we can operate in two lines, but there are many animals that can only breathe in a single line, they breathe and they eat and they eat. There are even some that can't be ventilated with the mouth while running, such as the concept of long-distance running experts in the horse is not good, if you are interested in this, you can go to our science museum, which has a lot of teaching aids, you can know a lot of trivia about animals! ”

"Hey, you also opened a new science museum?" Visitors are clearly impressed, especially parents with children, who are rarely at the zoo and want their children to receive more education.

The keeper enthusiastically introduced: "Yes, the science museum is set up at the exit of the exhibition area on the side of the rice field, and there is a multimedia interactive exhibition area......

Before he had sold all of them, he saw that the expressions of the tourists were a little strange, the hostess of the house turned her face and was obviously smiling, the children's expressions were very complicated, and the face of the man was full of embarrassment.

Under the curious gaze of the keeper, the man did not resist the urge to complain after all, and blurted out a sentence: "Why do you raise cockroaches and rats in the exhibition hall!" ”

"Ahh......h......h

"No, I understand this principle, but what I can't understand is why you raise rats and cockroaches from the south?!" Since he was a child, he has lived in a safe Lu Province, and he has never taken a step out of Lu Province to go to the XXL number of snakes, rats, insects, and ants, and the XXL man shouted in a bit of a collapse: "Are those big cat-like mice and cockroaches as big as mice real?" Didn't that thing mutate after being exposed to nuclear radiation? ”

Breeder: "...... Ahem, sir, you calm down. ”

"I can't calm down!" The XXL man's eyes were full of brokenness: "I was quite happy to see a frog, but when I turned my head, I saw a cockroach flying in a cage that was so big and so big." ”

He used his thumb and forefinger pen to draw a C shape, and then used his other hand to collide back and forth in this C word, indicating that it was this - how big.

The tourists around who had not yet gone there exclaimed in surprise.

"I was startled on the front foot, and before I could react, when I turned my head, I saw a shadow on the ceiling, and I thought it was a catway, and there was a cat on it, and if I looked closely, it was a mouse, a big mouse!"

This time, the surrounding tourists all showed aspiring horror.

Lu Province administratively belongs to East China, but its geographical location and climate are closer to North China, and as a major agricultural province, it is naturally indispensable to all kinds of pests and rats that follow crops.

Although the conditions have been good over the years, the children may not have come into contact with those amazing creatures, but the adults still have some impression of these insects in their heads.

Cockroaches the size of fingernails, rats the size of a mouse, Ma Lu with many legs, and more feet but not as disgusting as Ma Lu, as for watermelon bugs, stink farts and other things, not to mention, everyone has seen the world.

But everyone in the world of Daishan Zoo has really never seen it!

Is there really an animal that grows that big?

How did the people of the South live so old without being scared to death? It's not scientific at all.

"Hmm...... In fact, those are relatively normal and standard sizes. The keeper saw a young man approaching slowly from a distance, and finally he couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the crowd, and beckoned to the man for help: "Principal, principal, you can help explain!" ”

Lu Wu, who happened to come over, saw that Pu Luo's cheeks were slightly red, and he was a little puzzled, and when he heard the tourists' questions, he immediately cried and laughed: "The south has high temperatures, a lot of rain, fast plant growth, and plenty of food, so it is suitable for animal survival, and the small animals there will be relatively large, but the fundamental reason is that cockroaches and mice in the north and south are not the same species." ”

"The rats in the south are basically brown mice, and their natural size is larger than that of the northern house mice, so let's put it this way, if the house mouse and the brown house mouse meet in the wild, then the house mouse is basically the brown house mouse's meal."

"Hiss......" said that everyone has no concept of body type, but when it comes to the food chain, tourists have a real sense and gasp.

Lu Wu glanced at them, and suddenly smiled and said, "You have come at the right time, a new exhibition area of our zoo has just been set up, and it has not yet officially opened, do you want to come and take a look?" ”

As soon as the visitors heard that this new exhibition area was about to open, they were immediately excited, and Pu Luo, who had finished his cameo, looked at him suspiciously, "Monkey Mountain? ”

"No, let's wait for the male monkey to heal from his injury." Lu Wu quietly took his hand, and then said kindly, "Isn't the snake egg hatching?" I've been busy setting up the exhibition area for them for the past few days, and today I'm just here to see how you react. ”

Pu Luo: "......"

Pu Luo looked at the enthusiastic tourists, opened his mouth, and stopped talking.

Although he doesn't know that much about humans, based on the communication and learning during this time, humans, it seems, as if, may hate snakes more than cockroaches and rats, right?

Principal, are you really okay like this? Will these tourists complain?

Pu Luo watched the tourists...... In particular, the local strong men who had just seen the cockroaches and rats collapse were full of interest, and silently sent them sincere blessings.

Frankly, it's amazing that those snake eggs can hatch.

The spring temperature in Quancheng is low, and the local snakes generally wake up from complete hibernation from April to May, and then they will enter the peak of activity in June and begin to lay eggs on a blind note, and the concentrated hatching of young snakes will generally be around July and August in summer.

However, the nest of eggs was picked up in April, which means that two snakes may have woken up from hibernation and mated in February.

This is not at all in keeping with the characteristics of snakes, even if snakes are creatures that mate to the limit as soon as they wake up from hibernation, without eating or drinking, but Springs in February is still too cold for local snakes to be alive unless they are in the indoor heating.

But how can anyone have a big heart to the appearance of a snake in the house without discovering it, and can still give people time to complete the process of blind date mating, so Lu Wu initially guessed that this may be a snake breeding center, or a reptile pet lover's domestic snake after mating to lay eggs.