I have a wildlife zoo

Chapter 461 Dun Dun Dun Dun Dun

However, he knew that Pingping did not want to shake hands with him; their relationship wasn't there yet. Pingping extended its trunk because it was asking for food.

He grabbed a piece of apple from nearby and offered it to the tip of Pingping's trunk.

Pingping pinched the apple with the tip of its trunk, retracted its trunk from between the bars, opened its mouth to place the apple inside, and then stretched its trunk out again.

After eating several pieces of apple, it seemed much happier, its eyes even squinted with joy.

"Wow, this elephant eats apples just like people eat dates!"

"These few apples seem not even enough to get stuck in its teeth; it hardly has to chew."

"It really can eat."

As Fang Ye fed it, he said, "Our zoo's main feed for elephants consists of forage, carrots, and apples, and in spring, also Chinese cabbages. With an ample supply of food, an elephant can eat about one to two hundred kilograms of food a day.

However, their digestion efficiency is quite low. They can't ruminate and only absorb about 40%, while the remaining 60% is excreted without being digested. They eat a lot and defecate a lot; the daily amount of their feces is truly astonishing."

After feeding it for a while, he brought over a bucket of water—it was the kind commonly used at home for wringing mops.

Pingping stretched its trunk into the bucket, sucking with all its might, and one could see the water level in the bucket visibly decreasing.

After it finished sucking water, it curled its trunk, brought it back to its mouth, tilted its head back with half-closed eyes, and began gulping down the water, with droplets falling continuously from the sides of its mouth to the ground.

It was like a Russian drinking vodka, gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp!

Fang Ye picked up the bucket to show the online viewers; the bucket that had been full of water just moments ago was now reduced to barely a bottom layer.

An elephant's grandeur is not only reflected in its massive size; even the most basic acts of eating and drinking are incredibly impressive.

The viewers were flabbergasted: "Damn, it drinks water too fast!"

"Did it just suck that entire bucket dry with one trunkful?"

"Mom's asking me why I'm kneeling down to watch the livestream!"@@@@

"The elephant's trunk is like a straw; it's so interesting to watch it drink."

"I always thought elephants drank water with their trunks directly into their stomach. I couldn't have been more wrong."

After importing the blue peafowl, they mixed the green peafowl—which are as rare as phoenixes—with blue peafowls that could be served as dinner and are as common as domestic chickens, contaminating the precious genetics of the green peafowl. Purebred green peafowl became increasingly scarce.

Now, the green peafowl in domestic zoos are completely wiped out, leaving only a bunch of mixed-breeds."

"That's tragic."

"It makes me so mad I could smoke."

They arrived at the tropical bird aviary.

Peafowls prefer a tropical monsoon forest environment, similar to open woodlands.

In the densely wooded area in the middle of the aviary, they didn't enjoy staying much; originally, blue peafowls liked to bask in the sun in the middle of the walkways, and they'd gotten used to the comings and goings of tourists, remaining indifferent.

Now that the green peafowls have arrived, to prevent cross-breeding, several blue peafowls have moved back out to the Peafowl Lawn.

Generally speaking, blue and green peafowls do not mate with each other, as the differences between the two species are clear and their aesthetics are not the same. With so many parrots together, they also choose mates of their own species.

In an effort to build the reputation of 'The Land of Peafowls' to increase tourism income, many parks in Yunnan imported large numbers of blue peafowls. The first time the blue peafowls flew towards the habitats of the green peafowls, they were unwelcome, got pecked fiercely, some with feathers plucked out, and some even blinded, a very pitiful situation before they fled back.

In another open area at the center of the aviary, under a huge tetrameles nudiflora and alongside rivers and ponds, several green peafowls, unaccustomed to tourist activity, stayed there, hiding behind trees at any disturbance.

Fang Ye turned his head from left to right, his eyes suddenly brightening, "There, do you see the green peafowl?"

Following his pointing, Lan Li also moved the camera over.

The netizens were instantly stunned!

A green peafowl was on the grassland, striding with long legs, body low to the ground, stepping forward in small steps, its head bobbing.

The slender green neck and the blue wings, with a tail not too long, indicating it was a female peafowl.

Stepping into a place bathed in sunshine, its green neck shone with a golden green under the brilliant sunlight.

The wings had the color of a beautiful sea, with the green pierced by a hint of deep blue, like splendid gems, and even the tail was a bright yellow, as if light was somehow flowing through it.

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It was breathtakingly beautiful!