Fang Ye was immersed in the design when the phone suddenly "dingdong".

I took a look. Someone added his friend on WeChat and used a white-browed gibbon as his avatar.

The name of the note is Fan Peng, a researcher of gibbon.

Fang Ye added a friend: "Hello, Teacher Fan!"

"Hello, President Fang! It's like this, it may be more complicated to say..."

"It's okay, you speak slowly."

The other side explained it for a long time!

Fan Peng is doing research on gibbons, and their main research is on gibbons.

The white-browed gibbon originally thought that there are two types, the western white-browed gibbon and the eastern white-browed gibbon, while the Tianxing gibbon is a unique white-browed gibbon in China, and it used to be mixed with the eastern white-browed gibbon.

In the past few years, ICUN added another species of white-browed gibbon. This is the work done by Fan Peng and the others.

Fang Ye raised his respect in awe: "Disrespect and disrespect! Hey, if you look for me, the one in our zoo is the Skywalk Gibbon?"

Fan Peng said: "Yes, although the Tianxing Gibbon also has the iconic white eyebrows, it is not as heavy as the Eastern White-eyebrow Gibbon.

The male celestial gibbon does not have a white beard that matches the eyebrow color on the chin, and the female celestial gibbon does not have as dense white eye circles as the eastern white-browed gibbon. "

Keep talking.

The gibbons live in the forest. The people in the forest reclaimed the forest on a small scale to grow food or cash crops for their livelihood. Although the forest does not seem to have changed, for the gibbon, an animal that relies on tall trees for activities, the gap between the forests is formed by planting. , For them, it is like a cliff.

The woods that cannot be reached by arms are isolated islands beyond sight for the gibbons.

People can always find a way to reclaim the mountains and forests, from living in order to live better, and the simple gibbon still stays at the stage of remembering which tree bears just mature fruit.

Out of avoidance, they had to migrate with the expansion of people again and again.

After several years of investigation and research, they found that the number of gibbons in the sky is very small, there are only about 40 families, and the number of wild populations does not exceed 150.

The forest is divided, the habitat is fragmented, and the reproduction of the Skywalking Gibbon becomes a problem.

A female gibbon was found near a gibbon family, which seemed to be the cousin of the male ape in this family.

There were no single male gibbon nearby, Fan Peng and the others helped her find potential mates farther away.

During the previous investigation, I remembered that an old ape couple had two sons. They went to search for it and found that one had already formed a family and the other was still single.

Two single gibbons are so far apart, how can they make them together?

Anesthetized the way to change places for them is unworkable. The Tianxing Gibbon usually stays in the tree, it is difficult to find and track, and it is very fast on the tree, let alone anesthetized.

Even if you can shoot, fall from a few meters high tree, what if you fall to death.

If successfully anesthetized, the gibbon is a very territorial animal. If a nearby family suddenly finds an unfamiliar gibbon broke into its own territory, it is likely to fight and fight. The anesthetized gibbon moves slowly and is killed. .

Anyway, the risk of anesthesia is great.

So Fan Peng and the others thought of a curve to save the country. The gibbons are not easy to move, but their singing is easy to move.

After years of research, it has been discovered that the singing of the gibbon is not meaningless. Different melody may have different meanings of the lyrics.

If single gibbon courtship singing is recorded and played back, can it attract them to move in the direction from which the song came?

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

Under normal circumstances, only observations should be made on wild populations, and no artificial influences should be made, otherwise it may change their habits and produce unpredictable consequences.

But now the Tianxing gibbons are very endangered, and there are more than 150 left. If you wait and don't do anything, the two single gibbons are too far apart, and there are so many family territories that they may not be able to meet together in a lifetime.

So Fan Peng and the others decided to influence it after careful consideration.

A single love song doesn’t have to start with another male ape. It’s very difficult to track a gibbon in the dense rainforest. The gibbon swung on a tree twice and then flew to another tree, but the people on the ground You have to go over the hills and down the ditches, the branches hold people's arms, and the vines stumble people's feet.

Find a single gibbon as an alternative in the zoo and record the love song of courtship, which is much easier to operate.

It's all courtship singing anyway.

I have been to the Flying Ape Zoo several times when I was studying the Tianxing Gibbon. I remembered that there were two young male apes. I wondered if they had reached the age of courtship. When I asked, both male apes were transferred to Linhai Zoo.

This is the ins and outs of the matter.

At this moment, with a "ding" sound, the system prompt sounded: "The clues to rare animals have appeared!"

Animal: Skyline Gibbon

Location: Gaoligong Mountain, Yunnan

Protection time: Within ten years of protection, there will be no life crisis in UU reading www.uukanshu.com animals

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

Reward: Membership certificate of the World Zoo Association! 】

Fang Ye was shocked when he saw the reward: "Oh!"

There is also a zoo association in China. Fang Ye first inquired with the director of the Blue River Zoo and asked if it should be added.

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

Every year, there will be a meeting in the past to share with each other about the breeding situation of animals and the cases of doing better enrichment.

Of course, there is no use for eggs. An excellent zoo is more of a separate communication, and a bad zoo will still not improve.

Anyway, it is a more official association, and everyone has a meeting and speaks.

However, most domestic zoos have joined, and Fang Ye lost interest when he learned of the situation, so why join in the fun.

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

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

The original zoo did not have so many restrictions on the purchase of imported animals, but now I want to buy some rare animals with zoos in other countries in the world, such as silverback gorillas, koalas, and Komodo dragons, at least if they are members of the association. Eligibility for purchase is not something you can buy if you want to.

The main purpose is to protect some endangered wild animals from entering the zoo through smuggling channels, and the animals can be raised at a sufficient level.

Of course, qualifications are on the one hand, and whether they can be bought is another.