Chapter 461

Pingping ate an apple and was as happy as a three ton child!

He stretched out his long nose again and looked at Fang Ye.

Fangye also looked at Pingping, looked carefully into her eyes and saw a trace of expectation.

Having contacted so many animals, his understanding of animals has evolved into an intuition similar to the sixth sense.

Animals are happy or angry, timid, gentle or naughty. They can have a general feeling after a while.

I felt that my ordinary character was not bad. I smiled and touched her nose.

After waiting for a while, he didn't receive the apple. Disappointed, he took his nose back and walked away slowly.

A long iron chain was tied to the front ankle and swayed on the ground with walking.

We're going to get down to business!

There is a famous question, how many steps does it take to put an elephant in the refrigerator?

The answer is three steps. The first step is to open the refrigerator, the second step is to install the elephant, and the third step is to close the refrigerator door.

Of course, this is humor.

But it takes a few steps to transport elephants, which is a serious problem.

The average weight is 2700 kg, nearly 3 tons. It's not easy to transport it to the zoo.

The first step is to customize a special transport cage according to the elephant's height and body shape.

The flat transfer cage is 4.5m long, 2.4m wide and 3M high. Each railing is as thick as the thigh of an adult male. The cage alone weighs two tons.

The cage is covered with dense barbed wire to prevent the elephant's flexible trunk from sticking out and causing injury or injury.

Therefore, elephant transportation needs to be communicated and discussed in advance. The most basic cage can not be changed in ten days and a half months.

The second step is to train elephants to enter the transport cage and adapt to the transport cage in advance.

This work started two months ago!

The breeder sprinkles the feed on the road leading to the transport cage, and most of the feed is placed in the transport cage. He guides Pingping into the transport cage and is familiar with the cage. He is doing such training every day to deepen his memory, so that he can load and start smoothly today.

Now you can go in and out of the transport cage at will. You are very used to the cage.

"Flat!"

The breeder shouted outside, calling her to the outfield where she usually does transport cage training.

After two months of training, Pingping went straight to the transfer cage.

I didn't see any feed in the cage, but when I saw the breeder who was preparing for loading outside, he raised his nose and waved twice like a human hand, as if to say, "what's the matter with calling me here? What about the food? "

Turn around and look at the breeder on the other side!

Looking at the lively situation outside in a daze, then he walked into the cage.

There are more than 20 people outside the meeting, including Fang ye, Lao Yang, breeders and construction workers. It is said that the employees' families who want to transport elephants to watch the excitement are also parked in a huge lifting truck and truck.

The keeper "brother Zhong" shouted, "Ping Ping, good, stand still, ha, I'll give you an apple!"

Brother Zhong also wants to follow her all the way. As a familiar breeder, he calms her mood on the way.

Another time, the breeder took out a piece of fruit from a bucket of fruit as a reward to attract Pingping to move forward.

The flat nose protrudes from the feeding gap, rolls up the apples and eats them one by one.

At the same time, brother Zhong put a stick into the iron cage, hooked the iron chain on her feet, and then tied it on the post circle by circle.

The function of the foot chain is to fix the elephant's feet on the cage and limit the range of activities!

In order to avoid the elephant moving too much on the road, affecting the balance of the body and causing rollover.

If it is an elephant who has been trained in behavior for a long time, the keeper can take the initiative to put the elephant's feet on the cross bar and fix the elephant's feet through the target stick. Of course, he can also take the opportunity to bolt the chain.

The rescue center used a stupid way to attract elephants to stand forward with food. Brother Zhong took the opportunity to tie the chain.

But Pingping seems to notice something. It feels different today from usual!

He didn't cooperate very much. He turned his head and looked at them, took his feet back, and let the chain retract again.

Brother Zhong shouted, "ah, be obedient! Don't move your feet! "

Pingping was scolded and put his feet back.

In fact, there is a backup plan. If you can't tie it, you won't tie it. Anyway, they haven't overturned an elephant before.

Ten years earlier, elephants were transported. The transport cage was not so advanced. There were only a few railings. There was no barbed wire. Is it different from transportation.

But it's a little rough.

Fang Ye communicated with little flying elephant, the elephant keeper he knew in the "zoo dry goods group". He said that his master's way of transporting elephants decades ago was more wild.

There will not be such an advanced crane as now. Elephants can be loaded into transfer cages, hoisted, and then transported on trucks.

Directly, people accompany the elephant on the freight train and let the elephant get on and off the train by himself.

At that time, the train was still slow. It took two days and two nights to arrive. It was a great test for people's spirit to accompany elephants to eat, drink and Lazar on the road, and comfort elephants not to move. They couldn't sleep well.

Of course, it's impossible now. It's too dangerous.

In case the elephant is uncomfortable, it can't hide if it gets angry, throws its nose, or kicks it.

When you eat apples one by one, the chain is soon tied.

At the same time, two strong iron pillars were installed in the back.

When everything was ready, the onlookers spread out, the crane installed the hook and began to lift!

The hook of the truck carries the steel wires at the four corners of the transfer cage and pulls the transfer cage to rise slowly from the ground. Four or five people hold the rope at one corner to keep the cage stable, do not shake in the air and control the direction. Several people observe the situation around the cage, coordinate and command, and keep shouting.

"Ah, this way, this way!"

"Be careful, be careful!"

"You can fall, fall, be careful!"

The scene is very lively!

I walked in a small step and looked a little scared!

However, with the limitation of the cage and the foot chain, I can't make much movement.

His nose stretched out from the gap and looked down, as if he wanted to find out where the ground went!

Because there were still some trees on the side, the crane couldn't transport them in place at one time. After adjusting the position three times, the elephant in the transfer cage was transported to the truck with its butt facing forward and its head facing back.

This is also a safety consideration to avoid the elephant's head hitting the railing when there is a sudden brake on the road.

After loading on the truck, Pingping kept shaking his head up and down inside, his ears kept flapping, and his nose tried to dip down. Obviously, he was also nervous. He was scared by being hung in the air just now.

Then he began to fix the cage and load the car with feed, mangoes, apples and all kinds of fruits for people to eat on the road.

When brother Zhong was dressing the car, he began to cut up apples on the roadside and give Pingping a meal to calm her mood.

The truck master put his arm on the window and waited to drive. He looked deeply ahead. He was very expert!

Not all truck drivers have a chance to transport elephants.

The next step is to cross the sea by ferry and drive all the way to the zoo.

When the feed is loaded, the truck starts slowly.

Other staff members greeted in the back: "have a nice trip!"

"Goodbye!"

"Good bye! Happy new zoo! "