Chapter 219 (1/2)

Some netizens asked curiously: ”headmaster, I have a question. Since the main food of ring tailed lemurs is sour horn, you say they eat flowers, fruits and leaves. Will sour horn trees be eaten by them in the exhibition area?”

Fang Ye finished eating the sour horn, saw the barrage, stretched out his thumb and said with appreciation: ”someone asked if the sour horn tree would be eaten up. It's really flexible to ask this question. You're very suitable to be a designer of the zoo. For example, when we design the exhibition area of the zoo, we should consider all kinds of problems.

The application of vegetation in the primate exhibition area has always been a troublesome problem. The advantage is that the plants in the exhibition area can provide shade and habitat for animals. At the same time, in terms of landscape effect, various plants can make the artificial environment look more natural.

But the disadvantage is that almost all primates eat fresh buds or leaves of plants. There are large forests in the wild. You can eat here and there, and the vegetation can recover naturally.

The zoo can't provide enough space under natural conditions. Monkeys can only catch a few trees and collect them. The survival of plants becomes very difficult.

So you see, many primate exhibition areas in zoos can't see plants, that is, rockeries and bare ground. ”

”So it is! The XX zoo in my home should be good in China. I was a little puzzled when I visited it before. Some venues look very natural, but the macaque exhibition area is still very old-fashioned and backward. I think it is the reason for the lack of funds. ”

”Why are there so many trees and their food in the ring tailed lemur exhibition area?”

Fang ye said with a smile, ”this has something to do with their character. Ring tailed lemurs are relatively mild and have little damage to trees. Usually, as long as they provide good food to them, they won't pull up the trees.

Moreover, eating sour horn mainly eats mature fruit. Sour horn tree is one of the few trees that bear fruit in dry season. They can identify which fruit is mature through smell. Female foxes and monkeys especially need enough sour horn fruit to provide milk for young monkeys. ”

”What if you want to plant trees in other primate exhibition areas? There's no way. ”

”There are ways!” In order to build a new exhibition area for macaques and ring tailed lemurs, Fang ye also looked up a lot of data. ”For example, in some large ape exhibition areas, in order to ensure the survival of tall trees, an electric grid disguised as vines will be wound around the trunk.

In addition, plants that can be eaten by animals are planted in the exhibition area. They should not only be used as plants that are not beneficial to animals in the landscape. In addition, twigs with leaves are usually provided as abundant feed, and there is sufficient fresh plant supply, which can reduce the degree of destruction of plants by animals in the exhibition area.

However, it should be noted that edible plants may also cause harm to animals. For example, in autumn, when plants are approaching dormancy, the bark becomes tough, and leaf monkeys and golden monkeys may suffer obstruction or even death due to eating long and tough plant fibers. Therefore, we should pay attention to providing them with twigs. ”

Of course, there are trees in the newly-built macaque exhibition area, otherwise the landscape looks beautiful.

However, Fang Ye doesn't intend to get the power grid in the tree. Anyway, he has the ultimate killer mace, that is the system!

If the tree is damaged, let the system replant it. It only costs some green leaf coins.

Even if other zoos replant, they have to match with the power grid, otherwise the loss rate of trees is too large, and replanting trees is also very troublesome.

Netizens sighed: ”ah, I didn't expect so many doorways in the zoo.”

”I think the zoo's efforts to build an animal exhibition hall can also be introduced with a popular science exhibition board, or when the breeder usually introduces animals.”

Fang ye said: ”this suggestion is good. In fact, we are talking about some things at ordinary times.”

The ground of the island is also earthy yellow sand and some coarse rocks. The main plants around are spiny Yalong trees with green leaves, which are scattered around the road, or extend straight or obliquely, as well as some shrubs of the family Mencius, and sometimes thick baobab trees, creating a dry sparse forest and rock style of Madagascar.

When I came to the east of the island, I saw almost 20 ring tailed lemurs basking in the sun here. The scene was very spectacular!

In the blue and clear sky, there are a few white clouds floating. The bright sunshine in the morning shines on the ring tailed lemurs and coats them with a glittering white aperture.