After the visitor in green left, Guan Shan turned off her headset and took out a compact walkie-talkie from her waist, "Command Center, the visitor in the green clothing just now was banging on the glass, mark him with a '2'."
The staff in the Monitoring Command Center replied, "Received. It's been noted!"
There are more visitors to the zoo now, but the more the visitors, the more the troublemakers there seem to be.
Even with proper signage and warnings, there are still those who don't follow the rules, who lack decency.
Such uncivilized behaviour from visitors, as captured by the Intelligent Monitoring System, lands them on Linhai Zoo's uncivilized blacklist.
Linhai Zoo's uncivilized blacklist has three levels!
Level 3 is for those who attempt uncivilized behaviour but are stopped in time after being spotted—those who tried to bang on the glass without succeeding, or were about to throw food but didn't manage to, and those who show a good attitude in admitting their faults, are given a Level 3 mark.
Level 2 is for those who react badly to staff admonishments and are preparing to do something even more uncivilized, they get a Level 2 mark, or for those who admit their fault with a good attitude, but then turn around and try to feed the animals again, doing so thrice will also upgrade to a Level 2.
If they come to visit again, there will be a staff member who comes over to give a one-on-one "Civilized Tour Reminder" to curb the uncivilized behavior.
When strolling through the zoo, the staff will also keep a special eye on them!
Level 1 is for those with egregious behavior, who have caused negative consequences!
Such visitors will be labeled as "unwelcome guests," depending on the severity, they may be banned from entering the zoo for at least a year, or in more serious cases, they could be permanently blacklisted and even reported to the police for law enforcement action.
Watching the visitor in green walk away, an indignant Tang Xiaoxin said, "He's so despicable. How would he feel if someone threw stones at his windows while he was sleeping?"
Clenching her fists, Qian Keke mimicked an aggressive expression and echoed, "Really itchy-handed, I'd love to give him a beating."
But that was all talk.
If it really came down to a fight, her tiny arms and legs wouldn't be enough to even match one of their fingers.
It took a while, but the red panda finally poked its head out of the cave. However, it had lost all interest in sunbathing outside, glanced around, and scampered back to the back shed.
Tang Xiaoxin and Qian Keke turned their heads, their faces full of confusion: ????
You say this raccoon as fat as a watermelon is starving? Does it not look like it's eaten too much?
Nie patiently explained, "Auntie, look how fat this raccoon is, it's because it has been fed by people. The chocolate you're holding, this kind of high-calorie, high-sugar food, if animals eat it, they can easily become obese. Being overweight can affect the animal's cardiovascular health, cause skeletal deformities, and even affect their reproductive system, making it difficult for them to breed.
In serious cases, it can even lead to death."
This wasn't just a scare tactic. High-carbohydrate foods like biscuits and bread can greatly affect the digestion of herbivores. Primates like the golden hair monkey are very sensitive to carbohydrates, and eating a piece of bread could be lethal for them.
It's just that raccoons are omnivores, they can eat and digest almost anything. Otherwise, if ordinary animals were fed so indiscriminately, they wouldn't be alive and so fat; they would have died long ago from overeating.
The older lady grumbled dissatisfied, "The chocolate I have here is all on biscuits, there's not much chocolate! I've been to many zoos, and they all allow feeding. Why is your zoo the only one that doesn't allow it?"
Nie helplessly replied, "Biscuits won't do either! What our animals eat is all based on specially customized plans according to their nutritional needs, and we have very strict standards for food. It's not okay to just feed them anything."
Seeing the older lady wanted to argue further, he pulled out his final argument, "If you don't stop now, I'm going to have to call security."
"Fine, I won't feed it! What's the need to call security."
Upon hearing about calling security, the older lady finally calmed down a bit and stuffed the chocolate back into her bag.
The watermelon-shaped raccoon begged for a bit more food, but seeing no one would feed it, the white brows above its dark eyes drooped down, looking very depressed and wronged, "Why won't anyone feed the baby, is the baby not cute?"
It put its front paws back on the ground, turned its body forlornly, then scurried away with agility that didn't quite match its corpulent frame.
Quite the nimble fatty!
It trotted over to a manhole cover, its paws scraping at the indentation around the edge of the cover, starting to turn it.
Sticking its fat butt up in the air, its body bending to the side, it used the rotational force to twist the manhole cover open, prying it up to reveal a gap.
The raccoon took a skydiver's pose, and with a "whoosh," its plump body disappeared into it, as if being swallowed by a well, leaving only its hind legs and short plump tail outside.
The manhole "chewed" a couple of times, and then the hind legs and tail were gone too!