HBWnovel Chapter 400 Wishing to Hear of Its Flight
Chapter 400 Wishing to Hear of Its Flight
The walls inside the restroom were a gentle, warm beige. The ventilation fan was running, and the smell was quite ordinary.
The floor was very clean, clearly cleaned regularly, and opaque frosted glass let in natural light.
The clean and bright environment made people involuntarily relax.
While Dongdong was using the facilities, Dongdong's mother saw some thin pamphlets on the wall and couldn't help but pick one up to browse.
The pamphlet was a bird guide from the aviary, with pictures and names but not too detailed descriptions.
After all, it was a pamphlet available for free in the restroom. Producing a detailed guide with many pages would also incur a significant cost. It was enough to recognize the birds by their pictures.
The back of the booklet also had a page of simple science popularization: What to do if you encounter a fledgling out of its nest on the side of the road?
"Spring is the breeding season for wild birds, and finding fledglings out of the nest is a common occurrence.
During their growth, fledglings first develop wings and feathers on their head and body. Most of their feathers have to grow out before they start growing tail feathers, and by then, the nest becomes quite cramped for them! So when their tail feathers start growing, it's time for them to leave the nest.
Fledglings are not immediately capable of taking flight. They first leave the nest, hopping and fluttering to nearby branches, getting used to their wings. This process is known as 'fledging.'
During the fledging period, the parent bird continues to feed the fledgling, which doesn't stray far from the nest but stays on nearby branches, exercising its flying ability. After some time, once the fledgling has mastered flying skills, it will follow the parent birds on their travels north and south to learn more survival skills.@@@@
Sometimes, fledglings learning to fly may land in bushes due to their inexperienced flying skills, but don't worry — typically, the parent birds will still be watching over them nearby.
So, there's no rush to take the fledglings home, or to a zoo or rescue center. They might not need rescuing! Discover stories with My Virtual Library Empire
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This is a blackbird chick that was squeezed out of the nest, its feathers not fully developed, and it indeed needs help!
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These two bewildered-looking owl chicks were picked up by citizens on the side of the road and taken home, but they were actually quite healthy.
How can you tell if a fledgling needs rescuing?
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Why shouldn't you take them home and feed them yourself?
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Meanwhile, over in the men's restroom!
Since we're here, might as well use it.
The content on the outside of the door was about buttocks, while on the inside, it was about feces!
Sitting on the toilet, he started reading with great interest.
The African elephant produces a lot of feces, excreting about 10 times a day, each time passing 5-6 cylindrical pieces about 20 centimeters in diameter and height, with a single piece weighing approximately 1.5 kilograms! An elephant can expel 75-90 kilograms of feces in a single day.
Dongdong's father was shocked, "Isn't that like shitting out a person?"
Many herbivorous animals produce pellet-shaped feces!
Zebra feces amount to about 40 pellets per expulsion, 12-13 times a day, with each pellet the size of a broad bean.
Giraffe feces consist of about 80 pellets per expulsion, 10-12 times a day, spherical in shape and surprisingly small, about 3 centimeters in diameter.
The koala, also known as the tree bear, excretes about 40 pellets each time, 3-5 times a day, resembling watermelon seeds, and smells of eucalyptus.
Because the panda's digestive system retains carnivorous animal characteristics, it digests bamboo with less than 20% efficiency. The undigested bamboo joints and leaves are expelled as "green dumplings," which, far from being smelly, emit a faint fragrance of bamboo, making people willing to smell their dung.
The wombat's feces are very peculiar!
Their anus is not square, but the feces come out cube-shaped, hence the term "cube poop."
This unique shape of feces is due to a unique structure in the large intestine, which shapes the feces into a tetrahedron as it dehydrates, the drier the environment, the sharper the edges of the feces are.
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After using the restroom, everyone gathered outside!
Yingying's father asked with a chuckle, "So, how was it? Interesting toilets they have here, huh?"
Dongdong's father was still somewhat excited, exclaiming with joy, "They really did a great job! The stalls are all about educating us."
Dongdong's mother was curious, "Educate about what?"
Dongdong's father explained, "They put pictures of animal butts on the stall doors! The mandrill's butt is blue, purple, and red, very bright. Inside, there's information about animal feces! An African elephant can poop 75-90 kilograms a day. Panda feces even smell faintly of bamboo. It was really educational.
Hey, didn't your restrooms have that?"
Dongdong's mother shook her head, "Nope, but there were pamphlets!"
The third restroom was mainly for children and disabled people, focusing on functionality rather than fanciness.
She passed around the pamphlets for everyone to take a look, commenting, "There's really a whole area of knowledge here; without understanding, good intentions could turn bad!"
Dongdong's father remembered, "When I was a kid, I picked up a chick on the lawn outside our house! I put it in a box and thought it was hungry, so I caught various insects for it to eat. Thinking back, they might not have been the right kind of insects at all, because after feeding it for a while, it ended up kicking the bucket."