Chapter 629

Fang Ye was immersed in design when his mobile phone suddenly "Ding Dong".

After a look, someone added his friends on wechat and made a head portrait of a white browed gibbon.

His name is fan Peng, a gibbon researcher.

Fang Ye added a friend: "Hello, teacher fan!"

"Hello, Mr. Fang! Well, it may be complicated..."

"It's all right. Take your time."

Explained for a long time!

Fan Peng studies gibbons. They mainly study heavenly gibbons.

The white browed gibbon originally thought that there were two kinds, the west white browed gibbon and the East White browed gibbon, while the heavenly gibbon is a unique white browed gibbon in China. It used to be mixed with the East White browed gibbon.

A few years ago, icun added another species of white browed gibbon. This is what Fan Peng did.

Fang Ye was awed: "disrespectful! Eh, if you come to me, the one in our zoo is the heavenly gibbon?"

Fan Peng said, "yes, although the heavenly gibbon also has the iconic white eyebrows, it is not as thick as the eastern gibbon.

There is no white beard matching the eyebrow color on the chin of the male heavenly gibbon, and the white circles of the female heavenly gibbon are not as thick as those of the eastern white gibbon. "

Go on.

Gibbons live in the forest. In order to make a living, people in the forest cultivate mountain forests on a small scale and plant food or cash crops. Although it seems that the forest has not changed, for gibbons, which rely on tall trees, the gap between the trees is like a cliff for them.

The woods that cannot be reached by both arms are an unattainable island for gibbons.

People can always find ways to reclaim mountains and forests, from living to living better, and simple Gibbons still stay at the stage of remembering which tree bears the fruit that is just ripe.

Out of avoidance, they have to migrate with people's expansion again and again.

After their investigation and research in recent years, they found that the number of heavenly Gibbons has been very small, there are only about 40 families, and the population in the wild is no more than 150.

Forests are divided, habitats are fragmented, and the reproduction of heavenly Gibbons has become a problem.

It was found that near a gibbon family, there was a female gibbon, which seemed to be the cousin of the male Gibbon of the family.

There were no single male Gibbons nearby, so they helped her find potential mates farther away.

During the previous investigation, I remembered that an old ape couple had two sons. After looking for them, I found that one had established a family and the other was still alone.

Two single gibbons are far apart. How can they get together?

The way of changing places for them by anesthesia is not feasible. Tianxing Gibbons usually stay in the tree, and it is difficult to find and track. Moreover, they are fast in the tree, not to mention anesthesia.

Even if you can shoot and fall from a tree several meters high, what if you fall dead.

If successful anesthesia, gibbons are highly territorial animals. If a nearby family suddenly finds a strange gibbon breaking into their territory, it is likely to conflict and fight. The anesthetized gibbons are slow and killed.

Anyway, the risk of anesthesia is great.

So fan Peng and his colleagues came up with a plan to save the country by curving. Gibbons are not easy to move, but their songs are easy to move.

After years of research, it is found that Gibbons' songs are not meaningless blind singing, and different melodies may have different lyrics.

If you record and play the courtship song of single gibbons, can you attract them to move in the direction of the song?

Of course, such operation also has the risk of scientific ethics!

In general, the wild populations should only be observed without human influence, otherwise their habits may be changed and unpredictable consequences may occur.

But now Tianxing gibbons are very endangered, leaving more than 150. If you wait and don't do anything, the two single gibbons are too far away, separated by many family territories, and may not be able to touch each other for a lifetime.

So after careful consideration, fan Peng decided to influence them.

Single love songs don't have to start with another male ape. It's very difficult to track Gibbons in the dense rain forest. Gibbons swing twice in the tree and fly to another tree. People on the ground have to turn over the mountain and go down the ditch. Branches pull people's arms and vines trip people's feet.

Find a single gibbon in the zoo as an alternative and record Courtship Love songs, which is much more convenient to operate.

It's all courtship songs anyway.

I went to the flying ape zoo several times before studying the heavenly gibbon. I remember that they had two little male apes and wondered if they were at the age of courtship. As a result, as soon as I asked, both male apes were transferred to Linhai zoo.

This is the whole story.

Just then, with a "Ding", the system prompt sounded: "the clue of rare animals has appeared!"

[animal: Heavenly Gibbon

Location: Gaoligong Mountain area, Yunnan

Protection time: ten years (during the protection time, animals will not have life crisis)

Note: the rate of forest disappearance is 30 hectares per minute. How fast do I need to walk to catch up with you?

Award: World Zoo Association member certificate!]

When Fang ye saw the reward, he was surprised: "ho!"

There is also a Zoo Association in China. Fang ye first inquired with the head of Lanhe zoo and asked whether to add it.

It doesn't matter whether you join or not, and the purchase and transfer of animals will not be affected by whether you join the association or not.

Every year, we hold a meeting to exchange animal breeding and Fengrong cases that have been done well.

Of course, there is no egg use. Excellent zoos are more independent communication, and rotten zoos still won't improve.

Anyway, it's a more official association. Everyone meets and speaks together.

However, domestic zoos have basically joined. Fang Ye lost interest when he learned about the situation. Why join the fun.

But the World Zoo Association is different! The best zoo in the world can join.

There are so many zoos in the world, large and small, with only hundreds of members, and few in China are members of the World Zoo Association.

The original zoos did not have so many restrictions on buying imported animals, but now they want to buy some rare animals from zoos in other countries in the world, such as silver backed gorillas, koalas and Komodo lizards. At least they have to be members of the association to be eligible to buy them. They can't buy them if they want to.

The main purpose is to protect some endangered wild animals from entering the zoo through smuggling channels, and buy animals with enough level to feed well.

Of course, qualification is on the one hand, can buy is on the other hand.