The live broadcast drone awarded by the system is pretty good!
It belongs to the black technology category, with ultra-long battery life, ultra-clear resolution, and intelligent lens focusing, but it still requires someone to control it.
It's possible to take the macaws out for some air, but the premise is that the macaws know to come back after flying a circuit.
He Yifei has been working on behavior training for the macaws lately. The training method is simple, blow a whistle and feed the macaw a nut or fruit at the same time.
Using the whistle as a command is primarily because if the birds fly too far, they may not hear a shout, but a whistle can easily help them orient themselves.
The macaw itself is very smart!
After a period of training, it understands that blowing the whistle means there are good things to eat, so it flies over when it hears the animal keeper's whistle.
If it's reluctant to fly over, it may be due to insufficient trust, but it certainly understands after so many repetitions.
Fang Ye was thinking that now it was time to test the results!
With regular training and the macaws being fed every day, knowing who's taking care of them, they should return smoothly.
Besides, several macaws came here together as good buddies, so there's a layer of companionship concern as well.
The emotional bond is crucial to whether or not they will return after being released!
Once the tropical rainforest aviary is complete, they could introduce more macaws. If there were hundreds of beautiful macaws flying together, the sky would look like it was graced with a rainbow made of macaws or showered with a rain of macaws. The sight would certainly be stunning to visitors.
Some might ask, isn't that just an animal performance, and didn't we talk about rejecting animal performances?
This depends on the specific circumstances. Indeed, many animal performances greatly jeopardize animal welfare, such as tigers jumping through fire hoops, dolphins juggling balls, and so on. However, flying does not violate the nature of birds.
Training birds to fly in a zoo provides them the opportunity to fly freely in a larger space, which is beneficial for maintaining their flight capabilities and for their physical and mental health.
This type of behavior training is positive reinforcement training, which implies the animal keeper provides a pleasant stimulus after the animal performs the desired behavior.
Through flight demonstrations, animal keepers can introduce the benefits of this training for birds, which is also a part of conservation education.
I'm not depressed, I just want to shed some tears.
I miss the sky a little, but I can endure.
The flowers outside the cage have bloomed; how I long for those nuts.
How heartbroken I am, the walnuts know, the peanuts know, the sunflower seeds know, the animal keeper does not.
After watching for a long time, He Yifei inwardly sighed; the Director's observational skills were as sharp as ever!
Why hadn't he noticed it before?
Having graduated from taking care of a blue peafowl that liked to show off its fancy tail feathers to beautiful women before running all over the place at mealtime, only to be dragged back, to a clever and colorful macaw that knew how to politely greet people with a hello, this was a testament to the trust in his abilities.
He didn't want Fang Ye to think him too useless, only to be demoted back to the peafowl post and unable to enjoy the envious gazes from the new assistant keepers. After watching for a while, he slowly nodded and feigned calm, "Hmm, it seems it does miss the sky indeed! So..."
But as he was about to continue, he became conflicted. If it was hunger, he could satisfy it, but if it wanted to fly, should he take it outside to fly? What if it flew away and didn't come back?
Fang Ye stroked his chin: "That's why we have to take them outside for a bit of flying."
He Yifei immediately nodded earnestly in agreement, "Indeed, we should take them outside for a flight. It'll be good for their physical and mental health. They can't properly fly in this enclosure; staying inside all the time, their wings will rust."
What's there to worry about? With the Director there, even tigers and wolves obey orders, let alone parrots flying off.
Although planning to let them fly, conducting the first flight in a quiet environment with no disturbances was best. Fang Ye decided to wait until the visitors had left.
He instructed He Yifei, "For now, put on some music for them!"
A whirlwind of thoughts flew through He Yifei's mind as he seriously considered which music would be appropriate: "Xiaowen likes to listen to artistic music, maybe play 'South of the Southern Mountain,' 'Rainy Day,' 'What Kind of Love,' 'Autumn Won't Return'?"
Fang Ye turned around with a 'are you serious?' expression =_=||: "You haven't been playing these songs for them routinely, have you?"
He Yifei scratched his head, feeling a bit guilty. Wasn't Xiaowen fond of this kind of music?
Fang Ye made a vigorous wave of his hand, like Garen in the bushes delivering a fatal blow to a lost enemy champion: "Play something lively and festive! 'Good Luck Comes,' 'Happy New Year,' get those played!"