Wang Yan frowned as he watched. While filming the video, he exchanged greetings with a big brother watching the excitement: "who put the cat food? How can you feed it like this?"
The eldest brother said, "I fed it. What's the matter?"
Wang Yan was stunned. It turned out that the LORD was by my side!
Stunned: "so feed, the cat food has been eaten by raccoons, and the raccoons will be flooded."
The eldest brother said, "I don't feed cats, I just feed raccoons. I think raccoons are more lovely than cats."
He asked, "why can't I feed raccoon dogs when people can feed stray cats?"
Wang Yan explained: "feeding stray cats or raccoon dogs is bad behavior
When these young raccoons can leave their nests, they will follow their parents to learn how to survive, find food and avoid humans. After weaning, young raccoons who are not deeply involved in the world will be expelled from their homes, reduce the burden on their families, and begin to embark on a strange road and live independently in unknown areas.
In this process, most people die from hunger, disease, natural enemies, bad weather and traffic accidents. Only a few excellent people who master skills and are healthy and strong survive. This is the normal replacement of animal populations and the survival of the fittest, so as to maintain the health and strength of the population.
We observed in the community that the ratio of young raccoons to adult raccoons is basically 5:1. Basically, every newborn raccoon survived. This ratio is very abnormal.
Small raccoon dogs can survive as long as they eat cat food without learning other survival skills. In this way, they completely lose their independent survival ability and will be unable to survive in the wild environment.
Moreover, wild animals need to migrate to find new habitats, determine their territory before overwintering and breeding, and feeding points will make them lose their normal movement mode and the ability of migration and reproduction, and the overall viability of raccoon dog population will also decline seriously. "
Fang ye said: "originally, raccoon dogs are timid and shy animals. They are really cute, but after receiving feeding, they are no longer afraid of humans, and even increase their aggression and aggression. That's the case with monkeys in Emei Mountain.
Normal raccoon dogs fight and bite like this every day. If the number increases, there may be an outbreak of infectious diseases. This is the mechanism of natural regulation.
Raccoon dogs are canine animals. Theoretically, they can carry rabies virus. If the number is rampant and develops aggression against people, they may be disposed of, and they need to bear the mistakes made by people.
Although feeding is out of goodwill, it will actually harm them. "
Although someone had dissuaded him from feeding before, he had never explained the reason so clearly.
Eldest brother felt that he was offering love and was not satisfied with dissuasion. Instead, he had a rebellious psychology and didn't let me feed me!
Hearing these consequences, he was not as righteous as he was at the beginning. He couldn't see the expression on his face in the dark, but he seemed a little ashamed. He muttered in a low voice, "well, I'll pay attention in the future."
Leaving the feeding point, Fang Ye sighed: "today is really an eye opener. There are people who feed stray cats and dogs, and those who like raccoons to feed raccoons!"
In addition to infrared cameras, some cages are also arranged in the community.
Some raccoon dogs greedy for food stepped in, were caught, tied to GPS, and recorded their tracks.
Over the next period of time, I investigated and visited the communities where raccoon dogs were rampant.
It is still difficult to investigate their distribution by the way of their comprehensive investigation. So an activity was launched on the official account to invite members of the public to see the information of the raccoon dog.
When investigating with the residents, we heard various voices, and people's response to raccoon dogs was very complex.
An old lady raised her own flowers. The raccoon dug a hole and ran to the small garden and ate all the flowers. The old lady was very happy.
Some citizens live in small villas. Under the villas, raccoons have dug holes one after another to poison raccoons. Of course, this dangerous idea has been discouraged.
Some residents live at the bottom. They listen to raccoons very noisy every night. If they want to go to bed early, they often wake up, so they hate raccoons, while residents living at the top can't hear raccoons' noise, so their attitude is much milder.
Some residents have children or want to walk their dogs. They will come out for activities. They are very disgusted with raccoon dogs. They don't care about ordering takeout and playing games at home.
Some residents quarreled fiercely because of feeding.
"Don't you have a bad conscience if you want us not to feed? Wild animals are precious, and the lives of cats and dogs are not life? Do you know the life span of stray cats? Have you ever seen good stray cats get caught and abused, cut off their ears and dig out their eyes? You don't know at all! Look forward to the death of stray cats every day! I advise you to be kind, the animals are extinct, and people are not far away!"
"The concept of stray cat is stupid and bad. Why not say that there are stray lions in Africa and giant pandas in Sichuan."
"Are only people allowed to live on earth? Do stray animals deserve to live? Can stray animals be killed? We oppose feeding stray cats and dogs. We can experience it without eating."
"Say only feed the cat but not the raccoon dog. How can you ensure that every grain of cat food goes into the cat's mouth? Please take it back if you like."
"Why don't you bring your stray cat owner home for love? In addition to sprinkle some cat food every day to meet the cheap self touch, what are the benefits? Waste the community's public resources, make a mess, smell in the bushes, and the cat barks one after another at night. What Virgin Mary is installed here? Bah!"
The community with more raccoon dogs preys on stray cats, which is like a fuse. People who love cats, people who hate cats, people who love cats and hate raccoon dogs, and people who hate cats and raccoon dogs have fierce opposition from different people's views.
In Wang Yan's words, the essence of the world is diversity, biodiversity and people are also diverse. It is normal for different people to grow up in different environments and have different thinking.
Of course, some people's views still make them sigh that science popularization has a long way to go.
It's normal for people with different ideas, but what to do is of course guided by professional people.
After the investigation, it is suggested that the community property and neighborhood committee urge residents to stop all feeding behavior, no matter what it is.
Recently, the neighborhood committee was also very distressed by complaints about raccoon dogs, and did not dare to hurt raccoon dogs. After receiving suggestions, it implemented strong measures.
After stopping feeding, the effect is immediate!
After only a few days, the young raccoons no longer chase people for food, and the noise of raccoons in the community is much less at night.
During this period, raccoon dogs are still in the breeding period. Disturbing them may lead to the accidental death of their cubs. Therefore, it is planned to wait until two months after the raccoon dogs grow up and have the ability to be independent, and a large number of raccoon dogs in the community will be transferred to the wild.
In the process of this investigation, Fang ye also came up with many ideas about the construction of urban animal exhibition area.