I Have a Safari Park

Elephants are very smart animals!

It takes constant changes and challenges to keep their brains functioning, otherwise they will be bored and dazed.

Therefore, the enrichment of the elephant house is also the most complicated and the most labor-intensive.

The dunes and mud ponds in the activity field are all excavated by the staff who control the small excavators every day, so that the terrain of the site that the elephants can see every day is different from yesterday, full of freshness and fun of exploration.

This is also a unique enrichment that can only be carried out in the sandy environment.

In fact, for all animals, the same environment is very boring.

It's just that other pavilions cannot make such a wide-ranging change, and can only do some enrichment in details.

Like the red panda house, add a slide to the red panda, move the perch position or something.

Therefore, Fang Ye also plans to make some air corridors in the predator exhibition area to connect different exhibition halls, so that animals can live in different exhibition halls.

Meiling didn't seem to have much interest in hay, she stopped after taking a few bites, took huge steps, and walked away slowly!

Seeing this, Mi-ran also accompanied her for a walk.

There are many facilities in the elephant house to allow them to move, and the elephants always have something to do.

As she walked forward, when she passed a tree trunk, she seemed to have found something, and swept the roller with her nose hanging from the tree.

There are some small holes on the roller!

Being swept by Milan's nose, Gulu Gulu turned around, and an apple fell from the hole.

This kind of roller enrichment device is also relatively common in zoos. There are some in the ring-tailed lemur exhibition area, but their rollers are made of bamboo joints, and the rollers of the elephant house are relatively large.

Meiling unceremoniously rolled up the apple from the ground with her nose, stuffed it into her mouth and ate it.

Mi-ran was about to pick up the apple and eat it, but she glanced at her and said nothing.

Then I continued to sweep the roller with my nose, and a piece of apple fell.

Meiling looked over her head and snatched her nose with a curl!

Meiling is a picky eater, she likes fruit but not hay.

Of course, elephants love fruit.

Meilan also wanted to eat apples, but was snatched away by Meiling one after another, she seemed a little unhappy!

Fluttering his ears, he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say to her, and his body squeezed towards her, trying to squeeze her aside.

Mei Ling was grinning and grinning, her nose was touching Mei Lan, as if to soothe her emotions.

What's the matter, isn't it just an apple?

Mi-ran is annoyed, you are too embarrassed, is this a problem with an apple? You've been stealing me all the time!

Looking at this scene, Liu Wei was a little surprised: "What are these two elephants doing?"

Wu Jiancong guessed: "It seems to be unhappy because of the food!"

Zhu Yu said strangely: "Didn't you say they are good friends?"

Some tourists have also raised this question!

Fang Ye looked at the situation in the distance and said with a smile, "Although Meilan and Meiling are good friends, good friends can also have conflicts.

When the two elephants were eating, Meiling often took away Meilan's share of the fruit and ate it. Think about it, a friend often goes to rub your food, will you get angry after a long time?

So their relationship is pretty good, even though Meiling likes to grab fruit, Meilan still tolerates her shortcoming and usually plays with her. "

A tourist asked curiously: "Hey, director, how did you tell which of the two elephants are?"

Fang Ye explained, "Meilan's figure is a little bit fatter! Meiling is a bit thin because she's a picky eater and can't eat staple foods. Another difference is that Meiling has a pair of small incisors."

"Oh~" The tourist showed a stunned look.

But some tourists became confused again: "No, isn't Meiling a female name? How does a female elephant grow tusks, or is Meiling a male elephant?"

"I didn't even notice it had ivory!"

Fang Ye smiled and said: "This is a classic misunderstanding! In fact, not all elephants have exposed incisors, some male elephants can't see ivory, and some female elephants can see ivory, and they can grow very long, so say Ivory cannot be used as a basis for judging the sex of an elephant.

It may be that people associate ivory with power and strength. Power and strength are generally male characteristics. In addition, some people have no research, and based on their own impressions, they say that those with ivory are males, and those without ivory are females, or teeth. was sawed off, allowing the misunderstanding to spread widely. "

"So it is!"

"Damn it, so I've been wrong all the time?"

"Get up!"

The two elephants then play with the sand.

Flicking his tail and rolling his nose on the ground, he rolled up the sand.

Then he raised his nose and flicked the back of his head, and a puff of sand fell onto his back delicately.

He rolled up another tube of sand, rolled his nose down, and flicked it under his stomach, spreading a layer of sand on his stomach.

Pingping is also active here.

At this time, she walked to the edge of the mud pond, knelt on the shore, touched the water surface of the mud pond with the end of her nose, and put her nose under the water to explore.

It's like human beings touch the water with their hands before taking a bath to see if it's hot or cold!

Pingping is also feeling the muddy level of the mud pond, and at the same time, he is testing the environment under the mud pond to see if he can step down!

Don't step on the bottom, it's empty, fall into the pit and can't climb up.

This is the experience of learning from the elder elephants in the family once in the wild.

After exploring the environment under the mud pond, the elephant kicked its legs and slipped into the mud pond!

Lying in the mud pond, hunched over happily and rolled around, and his nose kept throwing muddy water.

"Hahaha, so cute!"

"Happy like a ton of kids!"

"Hey, who's not a baby yet?"

"Mama, the elephant is so happy!"

"Lovely love has no head."

Tourists can't help but smile when they see Pingping rolling and playing in the mud pond!

When you come to the zoo to see animals, don't you just want to relax your body and mind?

The scene where the elephants are having fun playing with the mud is really healing.

Liu Wei took out his mobile phone and took a few photos and a video of the elephant in the mud pit.

He and his friends were surprised: "I thought the elephant was a very mature and stable animal, but I didn't expect it to play like a child."

Gao Kaijin watched Pingping play in the mud, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: "Yeah!"

Elephants are very charming!

And for zoos, it's a great display animal.

They are basically non-stop during the day, unlike pandas, which sleep most of the time.

It's just that most zoos can't provide them with a good environment, so that elephants can't show the interesting natural behaviors of rolling in the mud and bathing.