Chapter 629 (1/2)
Fang Ye was immersed in design when his mobile phone suddenly ”Ding Dong”.
After a look, someone added his friends on wechat and made a head portrait of a white browed gibbon.
His name is fan Peng, a gibbon researcher.
Fang Ye added a friend: ”Hello, teacher fan!”
”Hello, Mr. Fang! Well, it may be complicated...”
”It's all right. Take your time.”
Explained for a long time!
Fan Peng studies gibbons. They mainly study heavenly gibbons.
The white browed gibbon originally thought that there were two kinds, the west white browed gibbon and the East White browed gibbon, while the heavenly gibbon is a unique white browed gibbon in China. It used to be mixed with the East White browed gibbon.
A few years ago, icun added another species of white browed gibbon. This is what Fan Peng did.
Fang Ye was awed: ”disrespectful! Eh, if you come to me, the one in our zoo is the heavenly gibbon?”
Fan Peng said, ”yes, although the heavenly gibbon also has the iconic white eyebrows, it is not as thick as the eastern gibbon.
There is no white beard matching the eyebrow color on the chin of the male heavenly gibbon, and the white circles of the female heavenly gibbon are not as thick as those of the eastern white gibbon. ”
Go on.
Gibbons live in the forest. In order to make a living, people in the forest cultivate mountain forests on a small scale and plant food or cash crops. Although it seems that the forest has not changed, for gibbons, which rely on tall trees, the gap between the trees is like a cliff for them.
The woods that cannot be reached by both arms are an unattainable island for gibbons.
People can always find ways to reclaim mountains and forests, from living to living better, and simple Gibbons still stay at the stage of remembering which tree bears the fruit that is just ripe.
Out of avoidance, they have to migrate with people's expansion again and again.
After their investigation and research in recent years, they found that the number of heavenly Gibbons has been very small, there are only about 40 families, and the population in the wild is no more than 150.
Forests are divided, habitats are fragmented, and the reproduction of heavenly Gibbons has become a problem.
It was found that near a gibbon family, there was a female gibbon, which seemed to be the cousin of the male Gibbon of the family.
There were no single male Gibbons nearby, so they helped her find potential mates farther away.
During the previous investigation, I remembered that an old ape couple had two sons. After looking for them, I found that one had established a family and the other was still alone.
Two single gibbons are far apart. How can they get together?
The way of changing places for them by anesthesia is not feasible. Tianxing Gibbons usually stay in the tree, and it is difficult to find and track. Moreover, they are fast in the tree, not to mention anesthesia.
Even if you can shoot and fall from a tree several meters high, what if you fall dead.
If successful anesthesia, gibbons are highly territorial animals. If a nearby family suddenly finds a strange gibbon breaking into their territory, it is likely to conflict and fight. The anesthetized gibbons are slow and killed.
Anyway, the risk of anesthesia is great.
So fan Peng and his colleagues came up with a plan to save the country by curving. Gibbons are not easy to move, but their songs are easy to move.