Chapter 130

After Fang Ye released the food plate, he saw the barrage and touched his chin: "someone asked if this is a begging behavior. Begging behavior means that when the animal is inactive in the outdoor exhibition area, it comes to the edge of the exhibition area and waits for tourists to feed it. In this way, tourists can't see its natural behavior, and feeding is also harmful to health, so they should refuse to feed it.

Seeing the breeder come with food and ask for food, this is not actually a begging behavior. It's equivalent to your mother telling you to go over and eat when she has cooked a meal.

Raccoons usually eat with their two claws holding food. It really looks like begging.

This kind of behavior is easier to stimulate tourists' feeding heart than other animals. Just watch them get fat like this ball.

Therefore, our raccoon exhibition area uses a glass curtain wall barrier to block the possibility of feeding from the physical level as far as possible. "

When the doubt was solved, another netizen asked, "the head of the garden, why doesn't the raccoon eat and rub it all the time?"

"Because they love to be clean! The reason why they are called raccoons is that raccoons are used to washing their food in water before eating. Now they have to dry clean if they don't have water. "

"Is that so?"

Fang ye said with a smile, "you're half right. The reason for the name raccoon is really like what this netizen said, because they really like to do the action of 'raccoon washing'. In English, raccoon is called raccoon, which comes from Indian language and means' scratching with your hand '.

But the raccoon didn't wash it for cleaning.

Their most important sensory ability is touch, especially the forepaw. There are a large number of tactile receivers and nerve fibers. They have high sensitivity and can sense and measure the size, weight, material and temperature of food.

The outermost part of the claw is protected by a thin cuticle. When immersed in water, the cuticle becomes soft and the perception ability will be enhanced. They use this process to choose food and remove the parts they don't need.

So you may see that raccoons don't necessarily wash food. They wash everything in the water with a branch or stone. In fact, they use this action to sense the properties of objects. And raccoons can't distinguish clean water from dirty water. They often wash their food in muddy water, and then the more they wash, the more dirty they get. "

Fang ye then went to get a basin, took the basin of water and put it on the floor. Sure enough, after the raccoons found it, they held a handful of food with both hands, formed a circle around the edge of the basin, put it into the water and washed it!

After carefully scrubbing several times, it was put into the mouth and eaten.

Then he went back to the edge of the food plate, picked up a handful of food, ran back to the edge of the basin and repeated the cleaning action.

Netizens looked interesting: "ha ha, this is obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's uncomfortable not to wash!"

"The more you wash, the dirtier it gets, but it's OK. It's the same silly goods as the panda."

Fang Ye shook his head and said, "that's wrong. Raccoons just have bad eyes and high IQ. Urbanization brings crisis to most animals. Only a few animals benefit from it. Raccoons are one of them!

They can write down the surrounding maps in their heads, take the initiative to avoid busy intersections and choose safer routes. They also have 3D navigation ability. In addition to ground routes, they can also use complex sewer lines to shuttle freely in the city.

Some scientists have tested that in the face of locks, door bolts, buttons and other mechanisms, raccoons can quickly master the opening method. Even in the face of combined mechanisms, raccoons can open without effort. After three years, they will remember the opening method of each different mechanism. "

"Wow, so smart and cute, I really want to raise one."

"Well, can you keep raccoons? Should it be to protect animals? "

Fang Ye pondered: "this raccoon is the most common raccoon. Its name is North American raccoon. You can tell from its name that they are native to North America, not a native species of China.

China has participated in the Washington Convention, and non-native animals are protected according to the Convention list, while raccoons are harmless - because of their strong adaptability, they are rampant in many countries and regions, and of course they are not protected on the list, so raising them is no problem in law!

But we still don't recommend keeping raccoons as pets. This guy is not as cute as he looks.

Raccoons have a very bad reputation in North America. They can be called annoying ghosts. They turn the garbage can upside down and steal in groups. Because of their high IQ, raccoons can't stop them even if they hide their food. It's a little fun to open a refrigerator and steal eggs. They make nests in the interlayer of the ceiling and chimney and haunt in all kinds of unimaginable places, Play hide and seek with you.

Even if they make trouble, wild raccoons carry a high proportion of rabies virus, as well as parasites such as Ascaris and ticks, which are easy for humans to contact and are likely to be infected. Scratching the pet cats and dogs at home is also likely to make the cats and dogs infected with rabies. Therefore, there is a special harmful animal control company in the United States, which will come and grab the raccoons from the house and throw them away at any time.

In the 1970s, raccoons were kept only in some zoos of Rb. However, with the production and broadcasting of raccoon animation raccoon rascal by Rb, people thought it was cute, so there was a raccoon boom. A large number of North American raccoons were imported into RB as pets.

However, with the breeding, Rb people soon realized that this thing was not so easy to raise. It was sensitive, wild and difficult to tame, and would damage the furniture. Especially when in heat, they become very irritable and attack people, so a large number of raccoons were raised for a period of time and then abandoned in the mountains.

Raccoons have strong adaptability and no natural enemies. The subsequent mass breeding of raccoons brings serious problems to RB.

This includes destroying more than 80% of Rb's temples and other ancient buildings, stealing food crops, crowding out the living space of local animals, entering residents' houses to eat goldfish and cultivated fruits, and even in Hokkaido, raccoons brutally bite off cows' Mimi, which has brought serious losses to local farmers. Now RB's Raccoon disaster has not been solved. "

At first, netizens thought it was interesting to hear it, but when they knew the serious consequences caused by raccoons, they didn't simply feel cute when they looked at the sprouting state of raccoons washing food.

"Wow, is it so terrible?"

"These guys are little demons! It looks lovely. Love does so much harm. It seems that we can't raise it casually. "

"I hate raccoons again."

"What's wrong with raccoons? It's not that we humans invaded their homes."

"RB's Raccoon disaster is completely self inflicted, because cute to breed them and abandon them."

Fang Ye watched the netizens argue and pondered: "in fact, the relationship between human beings and animals is not a simple one who retreats and enters, but like a seesaw. It's not good to be big at any end. We need to make a balance and find a way to coexist harmoniously.

Well, there's something else to do later. I'll broadcast it first today. "

"OK, bye, principal!"