i have a zoo

Chapter 92 Bamboo Tube
Qi Ming didn't directly answer everyone's questions, but just told them: You'll know when you arrive.

Seeing that he was unwilling to answer, Lu Xue and the others had gotten used to the director's bad taste along the way, so they didn't continue to ask, but followed him with doubts.

After a short walk, they walked through a locked door under the leadership of Qi Ming and walked to the breeder's cabin behind the wolf hall.

As soon as Qi Ming opened the door, Lu Xue, who was next to him, found a middle-aged man in short sleeves in the room. He was standing in front of a table similar to a dining table and was cutting meat with a kitchen knife.

Hearing the noise, the man who cut the meat turned his head to look at the door, and said with a smile, "Director, you are here. Are these the tourists you mentioned just now who came to make facials?"

Qi Ming nodded slightly: "Yes, that's them."

After getting Qi Ming's confirmation, the meat-cutter put down his kitchen knife, and introduced himself with a smile: "Handsome guy, hello beauties, I'm Qin—the breeder of this beast zone, you can call me Lao Qin."

After Lao Qin introduced himself, Lu Xue and the others also started to introduce themselves one by one.

After the last person was introduced, Lu Xue went to Lao Qin's side and looked at the meat on the chopping board curiously and asked, "Uncle, what are you doing?"

"Oh, what are you talking about, Cherio, later we will use it for making body enhancement." Old Qin returned while cutting.

"It's going to be lunch time soon, Lao Qin is going to cut the fresh beef delivered in the morning into small pieces."

Qi Ming pointed to the chunks of fresh meat on the cutting board and said with a smile, and finally added: "If you work as a breeder in a zoo, your knife skills will definitely improve after you stay for a long time."

After everyone got to know each other, Qi Ming finally announced the reason for bringing them here.

"Today I bring you to the keeper's hut in our wolf pen, mainly to let you participate in the enrichment process of our wolf pen, and let you have a physical examination of a link in the breeding process of our zoo.

The enrichment of wolf pens has two main functions. The first one is based on the well-known research on animal behavior and natural habits, improving the living environment and conditions of captive animals, and the purpose is to increase the chance of animal behavior selection and induce the natural behavior of this species. expression, thereby improving animal welfare.

The second is to ensure that the water intake of wolves in the wolf pack can meet the standard. We all know that the wolf king is the core of the entire wolf pack.Leading the whole pack of wolves, at a critical moment, it must stand up and fight the enemy bravely.

This means that the wolf king must be strong enough, so after the wolves get food, the wolf king and wolf queen will enjoy it first, followed by the strong wolf, and then the weak wolf.

This kind of behavior is a normal process of survival of the fittest in the wild, but there is no shortage of food in zoos, so breeders need to ensure that each wolf can get enough food.

In order to narrow the eating gap between individuals, the breeders usually cut the food into small pieces in the form of enrichment and disperse them all over the field.

Since the wolf king and wolf queen are almost full when eating normally, they will not waste energy looking for small food hidden everywhere, because such behavior is too cost-effective for them.

The weak wolves who haven't eaten will carefully dig out all the hidden food in the field to fill their stomachs.

That is the act of the breeder sticking the small meat strips to stones or trees that I told you just now.

The breeder will ensure that the food intake of each wolf can meet the standard under the adjustment of various measures. "

Everyone nodded thoughtfully, and the super big ant took a step forward, frowning and wondering: "Director, why don't you let the wolf king eat first and then feed the weaker wolf? Isn't that so?" Isn't it that troublesome?"

Hearing the doubts of the super big ants, Qi Ming said with a smile: "It's not impossible to feed directly like this, but this will cause two problems. One is that it will make the wolves lose their aggressiveness and become pure captive animals. One is to increase the fighting of wolves."

"Oh, so that's the case, it seems that I took it for granted." The super big ant nodded.

"Hehe, I didn't expect that I, Lu Xue, could be a guest breeder. Today is really not in vain." Lu Xue was a little happy, "By the way, director, what should we do now?"

Hearing Lu Xue's words, Qi Ming pointed to a pile of bamboo tubes on the right side of the door of the hut and said: "You guys mainly participate in three events, let's go one by one first. Let's deal with those bamboo tubes first. "

After he finished speaking, he went to the little horse on the other side of the bamboo tube and sat down. When everyone gathered around, Qi Ming lifted a bamboo and said:
"We need to first saw the bamboo into individual bamboo tubes with a small saw, then use an electric drill to drill one or two small holes in the partitions of the bamboo tubes, and finally stuff the small meat strips that Lao Wang cut into it."

After speaking, he picked up a bamboo tube that had been made next to the Mazar, and held it up for Lu Xue and the others to see.

"The strips of meat in your bamboo tube can give off a smell through the holes punched in the partition. When the wolves smell it, they will come and try to disassemble the bamboo tube to get food. This process is to let the wolves have the fun of hunting food, and at the same time Exercise their brains."

"Wow, who came up with this, it's so creative!" Lu Xue picked up the made bamboo tube and looked at it carefully, thinking that this bamboo tube is really creative.

"Haha, this is another breeder Xiao Zhang's idea. In fact, every zoo has its own unique enrichment toys. There is no fixed method for this kind of enrichment toys. They can be combined freely, as long as they don't harm the animals. We'll be fine." Qi Ming stood up from the saddle.

After explaining the production process of the bamboo tube, Qi Ming asked the boys to enter the hut with him and took out tools such as saws and electric drills.

After the tools were ready, Qi Ming didn't let them start making directly, but asked Lu Xue and the others to stand aside, and he made a bamboo tube himself first, and let them see the process.

"The general process is like this. You can start the operation yourself now. If you don't understand, you can ask me."

Because the number of wolves is limited, the number of toys needed is not much, so Qi Ming distributed a bamboo to each of them.

The bamboos sent to Lu Xue and the others were ordinary moso bamboos. Lao Qin had already processed them in advance, cutting off the branches, leaves, heads and tails.

"Alright, little skillful hand Lu Xue is on the stage! Let me have a big fight!" Lu Xue happily picked up the tools.

Driven by Lu Xue, even the photographer Liu Ying picked up tools and sat on one of the horses to handle the bamboo while Qi Ming helped her hold the lens.

(End of this chapter)