i have a zoo

Chapter 64

Because Simba was sleeping, Qi Ming took a look around and went back to the cafeteria.

Anyway, it's not far from the meal time, so I just went to have a drink of mung bean soup in advance.

In the afternoon, he was going to go to the talent market in the city to hang up a job advertisement.
The number of breeders is currently the biggest factor restricting the development of zoos.
Qi Ming is going to use a multi-pronged approach to solve this problem as soon as possible.

While he was on his way to the cafeteria, Zhuge Qi in the elephant house was also reviewing his morning time while taking a break.

He came to the zoo at eight o'clock this morning,
Although during the interview, the director asked him to come here at nine o'clock today,
But after all, it was the first day of work, so Zhuge Qi decided to come over early.

At 08:30, he started to contact Lao Wang.

The reason why Zhuge Qi has Lao Wang's contact information is because when Qi Ming received an unexpected mission yesterday,
Thinking that a newcomer will come to work the next day, but he himself doesn't know if he can come back the next morning,

So he thought about it, greeted Lao Wang, and simply sent Lao Wang's contact information to Zhuge Qi.

Let him contact Lao Wang directly when he comes over the next day.

That's why Zhuge Qi has Lao Wang's contact information on hand.

After he contacted Lao Wang, Lao Wang quickly came to the door to take him into the zoo.

Since it was the first time the two met, they introduced themselves to each other on the way.

Along the way, Lao Wang didn't say anything except for the initial self-introduction, which made Zhuge Qi a little nervous.

"Since the director told you to do things with me this week first,
Let me first give you an overview of the areas we are mainly responsible for. "

As soon as he arrived at the Elephant House, Lao Wang started talking, not as silent as he was on the road just now.

Zhuge Qi nodded quickly when he heard Lao Wang's words.

"The zoo area I am currently in charge of is mainly the elephant house and the lion Simba,
Simba usually sleeps a lot, and he is only a lion, so things are much less over there.

Usually we spend much more time here than there. "

Lao Wang led Zhuge Qi to the wardrobe in the house, motioned him to put on his overalls, and then said:

"Because Doudou eats a lot, it takes us a lot longer to prepare food and clean it up.
The amount of Doudou may be a bit large, you have to be mentally prepared. "

After listening to Lao Wang's speech at the beginning, Zhuge Qi didn't care a bit,

He felt that he came from a pig farm anyway, and there are more elephants than pigs!

Putting on his clothes and a mask, Lao Wang called Zhuge Qi to pick up a shovel and a dung bucket and enter the infield where Doudou was.

Under the leadership of Lao Wang, the two of them quickly came to the place where they shoveled shit.

Doudou was standing there grazing slowly with its nose curled up. When it saw Lao Wang approaching with its agile eyes,
It dropped the hay it was eating with its long and flexible nose, and approached Old Wang.

"Hum!"

Doudou walked near Old Wang and snorted, and touched his arm lightly with his nose.

"I'll let you go outside to play right away, how did you sleep last night?

Don't waste food, I'll try some other grass in a few days, remember to be good! "

After being gently touched by Doudou, Lao Wang also stretched out his hand to touch Doudou's neck, and said softly with a smile while stroking.

Zhuge Qi who saw them interacting next to him felt a little weird,

He didn't expect that the cold-faced Old Wang, who was silent and taciturn along the way, would become so gentle after seeing Doudou.

After a simple interaction with Doudou, Lao Wang opened the door of the infield and let Doudou go out to the outfield.

After Doudou walked out, Pharaoh closed the door and motioned Zhuge Qi to bring in the tools.

"As for the food outside, I have already prepared it before going to work.

So our main task now is to deal with this cage. "

Lao Wang pointed to the feces left by Doudou in the cage and the haystack where it slept.

"Okay, Brother Wang."

Seeing that Lao Wang had recovered his previous facial paralysis, Zhuge Qi quickly agreed.

"Brother Wang, this amount is a bit big. Why are there so many plant residues? Could it be that it can't digest well?"

Looking at the elephant dung piled up in the cage, Zhuge Qi said with some doubts.

"Uh, it's not that Doudou has a digestive problem, but that all elephants are like this,
Elephants can only digest more than 40.00% of food.

All their droppings have so much grass fiber. "

Lao Wang agreed to popularize Zhuge Qi.

After the two finished talking, they began to officially shovel shit.
For an adult elephant, the frequency of excretion is generally 6-8 times a day, and the amount of each time is about ten kilograms.

That's why Zhuge Qi and Lao Wang almost finished cleaning up the feces in the elephant house's inner and outer fields before Qi Ming came.
After Qi Ming left, Zhuge Qi and Lao Wang picked up the water hose and began to wash Doudou's cage, and they didn't finish it until after eleven o'clock.

"Brother Wang, how did you handle so much work by yourself before I came here!
That's more work than I do on a pig farm. "

Zhuge sat up on the chair panting and said, he thinks Lao Wang is too good to go, one person can manage two venues.

"It's not as serious as you think. Simba was only introduced to the zoo some time ago.

Doudou, before you came, I had to spend a morning and an afternoon, and I had to work overtime if I couldn't finish. "

Lao Wang did not sit slumped like Zhuge Qi, but was preparing fruit for Doudou to eat at noon.

Zhuge Qi took advantage of the time when Pharaoh let him rest, took out his mobile phone and began to look up the relevant information of the elephant.

After all, I have to practice with Lao Wang for a week, so it is always good to know more,

After reading the information, he discovered that Doudou's feces are actually a multifunctional material.

Its feces can also be used as raw materials for papermaking.

Elephant dung contains a lot of undigested plant fibers, so people can also use it to make exquisite and delicate paper,

In some parts of Africa and Sri Lanka in Asia, people use elephant poop to make paper and give such paper to foreign guests as diplomatic gifts.

And fresh elephant dung is rich in water and has very little bacteria.

When explorers are extremely short of water in the wild and cannot find a source of water, they can get life-saving water by squeezing the poop of an elephant.

In Africa, where food is scarce, many animals use elephant dung as their restaurant,
Dung beetles and termites simply live in the body of elephant dung to eat and drink,
Black-backed jackals forage for grubs and plant seeds in elephant dung;

Butterflies also often gather on elephant dung to obtain the minerals they need;

Even the mother elephant herself often visits, because the digestion ability of the baby elephant is still weak,
Elephant mothers use the semi-digested plants in their feces as an important food for their babies.

"This thing is really good! Shall I suggest that the head of the garden try some elephant shit coffee?"

(End of this chapter)