Chapter 608 (1/2)

Nearby tourists watched the gibbons move flexibly in the tree, but also chased them with wide eyes, and opened their mouth for a burst of exclamation.

”Oh! Oh! Oh ~ oh ~ ~”

”Oh ~ Oh!”

”Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo hoo

”Wow, look, look!”

”My God, it's like flying!”

At this moment, everyone was like a collective incarnation of gibbons. The zoo was full of joy.

The stone pillars in the middle of the island are carved with some unknown patterns, with some mottled falling off. They look like the ruins of the ruins where some primitive people once lived.

The stone pillar is not only a decoration, but also a fixed habitat.

This is also the high point of the island. It's good to sit and rest on the perch above or next to it and see the scenery. By the way, it can also become an amusement park for gibbons and play hide and seek here.

After a confrontation between the sun and the sunny day for a while, they flew in the woods and continued to chase behind in the exclamation of the tourists.

A tourist asked the keeper, ”why is the gibbon singing so loud and beautiful?”

Tang Xiaoxin and Qian Keke also came together curiously. After listening to their singing, this problem will naturally arise!

The breeder explained with a smile, ”the gibbon's throat has a laryngeal sac, also known as a sound sac. When shouting, the laryngeal sac can expand greatly, making the sound extremely loud.

They can be said to be singers in the animal world and the only mammals who can sing harmony except humans!

The forms include male ape solo, male ape and female ape duet, family member chorus and so on.

The chorus is usually led by adult male apes, followed by adult female apes with vibrato resonance and children's monotonous response. The tone is clear and high from low to high. It can be heard two kilometers away.

Gibbons are active in the family. In the early morning, gibbons will sing one after another in the woods, which can convey information to the neighbors and tell them that there are apes in the woods to prevent their homes from being invaded.

Singing can also enhance feelings, look for food in the wild, separate, or serve as a signal of mutual contact and positioning. ”

Tourists suddenly: ”Oh ~”

”Great, my ape!”

The keeper paused for a moment, and a regretful expression appeared on his face: ”the high and pleasant singing of gibbons has also brought disaster to them. Poachers can find them according to their singing.

Although poaching is not as much as before, the fragmentation of habitats and the reduction of forests make it difficult for Gibbons to find a mate, and the situation is still not optimistic.

There are now 4 genera and 20 species of gibbons in the world, and China accounts for 3 genera and 6 species, which is one of the countries with the most abundant gibbon species.

Even if China has so many kinds of gibbons, the total number of gibbons in the wild is only 1500.

In addition, the northern white cheeked gibbon and white palm gibbon, which were widely distributed in China, have not found any evidence of their survival in the wild in the field investigation for many years. Therefore, these two Gibbons may have been functionally extinct in China.

So we should also protect them, otherwise it will be difficult to hear them sing in the future. ”