I have a wildlife zoo-Chapter 401: Tiger Exhibit Special Exhibition

Dongdong’s mother looked at the booklet and said, "It’s not just about food, you know! With parent birds, they can also teach the fledglings how to socialize, communicate with their own kind, avoid natural enemies and dangers, and how to hunt—these are things humans can’t teach them.

Even if we save them and manage to keep them alive, they won’t survive once released into the wild, quickly getting weeded out by nature. I’ve never thought about these issues before."

She tucked the small booklet into her purse.

Beneath the bird rescue page in the booklet, the zoo rescue center’s contact number was also printed.

It was like a beautifully designed leaflet, not only for collection and appreciation but also practical, offering guidance to citizens when they encounter such situations.

After leaving the bird area, the conversation unknowingly migrated back to the topic of poop!

Dongdong’s father’s eyes widened, "Wow, the information behind each exhibit is different?"

Yingying’s father said cheerfully, "Yeah, there’s a lot of content in its restrooms, some describe how the zoo deals with so much animal feces every day—Linhai Zoo’s poop is now used for composting.

Why cow manure drops in a gooey heap on the ground, like the shape of ice cream, has to do with the microbes in the cow’s stomach. There are also exhibits that explain the vital role of animal feces in spreading seeds.

Birds need to maintain a light build for flying, so their digestion and pooping processes are very fast; they can poop while flying.

There’s information about animals eating poop—many herbivorous animals’ feces are quite nutritious, not fully digested the first time, so eating it a second time is just right! Koalas, when they are young, need to be fed poop by their mothers to establish their intestinal flora so they can digest the toxic eucalyptus leaves.

Then, some animals eat their young’s poop to prevent predators from tracking them by the smell."

Nowadays, humans can also use fecal transplant techniques to treat many diseases!

That panda exhibit was really interesting; it specifically introduced panda poo, and there was a clear little box nailed behind the toilet, containing a panda feces specimen for people to admire.

It said pandas’ poop looks somewhat like pointy avocados, green when they eat bamboo leaves, yellow when consuming bamboo stems because pandas peel off the hard outer layer, and earth-colored when they eat bamboo shoots..."

"Eh, eh, eh, eh!" Liu Xueqing couldn’t bear to listen anymore, and slapped Yingying’s father repeatedly, caught between laughter and tears, "Can’t you talk about something nice, why do you remember so much about poop!"

Yingying’s father seemed unbothered, "It’s just science knowledge, what’s there to avoid? All this is quite interesting content..."

Dongdong’s father looked somewhat longing, "Hey, it would be great to check out each exhibit when we can!"

Dongdong’s mother laughed, "It’s nothing really, I think it’s great how they’ve paid attention to details! Even going to the restroom, you can learn scientific knowledge, it’s quite a shift from my impression, truly an outstanding zoo."

...

The tiger exhibit!

After all, it’s the Year of the Tiger, and the zoo’s tiger exhibit was bustling with activity.

In front of the moat, many tourists were taking photos!

Ice Cake was in the toy area, biting on a small tire, dragging it around on the snowy ground, amusing himself, occasionally pouncing and flicking his tail, rolling around in the snow and looking very happy.

"Ice Cake is so cute!"

"That pattern is too pretty."

"He’s grown so fast, seems like he’s gotten bigger since the last time we came."

"Where’s Jiaojiao? Where is Jiaojiao?"

Jiaojiao was then lying on her side on a perching shelf on the side of the small hill in the exhibit area, not very active, lazily resting.

All four limbs stretched forward, her massive paws resting on the edge of a rock, her eyes half-closed, she glanced outside.

She yawned, under the sunlight, a faint white sheen enveloped her golden, beautiful fur, and a light mist emerged from her nose and mouth, quickly dispersing with the wind.

Jiaojiao stuck out her long red tongue, licked her nose, blinked, and rested her chin on her sturdy forearms.

Her front paws naturally hung down, and she flicked them upwards.

Just as a person stretches lazily, the arms extend forward, palms push outward, and each finger stretches and flexes to its fullest.

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The ears also wiggle, and the eyes squint inward, forming a curved slit.

The formidable tiger, making such a pose, looks adorable and silly, exuding an irresistible charm of contrast.

It is clearly in a very relaxed state of rest.

Unfortunately, lying on the perch, it still has its back to the visitors, unseen by anyone.

Tigers aren’t always "open for business," regardless of whether it’s a holiday or not.

The glass curtain wall of the tiger exhibit offers a view of the most beautiful pond scene, but sadly, both tigers are not nearby right now.

However, the tiger exhibit is still bustling with activity; in the center of the exhibit, a child sits beaming atop the tiger statue, striking various poses, while parents click away with their cameras at the side.

After several months of being ridden and touched by visitors every day, the statue’s head has now become a bit shiny.

Liu Xueqing and her family arrived at the tiger exhibit and, not seeing the tigers, naturally gathered around the animal keeper.

Meng Shi was currently pointing to the display boards, sharing some interesting stories from the process of rearing tigers!

During the holiday season, the exhibit also featured special display boards with dozens of photos showing Ice Cake’s rapid changes since arriving at Linhai Zoo.

"When Ice Cake was little, we fed it milk and helped it urinate. Newborn tiger cubs don’t know how to pee on their own! In the wild, the mother licks her cub’s bottom to stimulate urination, but we had to use a cloth dipped in warm water and gently wipe it.

I joined the staff later, and when I met Ice Cake, it was already this big, but Ice Cake didn’t like me that much back then... Haha, it always tried to bite me. Don’t think just because a tiger is small it doesn’t hurt; look at these bite marks on my shoe.

"At night, it would cry for milk, wailing non-stop. A little tiger’s cry sounds like ’wah-ah-ah,’ all soft and whiny, very amusing."

Liu Xueqing, holding Yingying’s hand, listens to the explanation and looks at the photos with great interest!

You can see that Ice Cake started as a very weak and tiny cub, its eyes covered with a misty haze, looking hazy, easily cradled in Fang Ye’s arms.

Feeding Ice Cake milk, it sucked on the nipple "gulping" greedily.

As it got older, it toddled around, often falling to the ground after a few steps.

Leaving the nursery to venture outdoors, its body trembled, snorting with a puffing nose!

It could run around happily, chewing on Lan Li’s sneakers, meeting Jiaojiao, moving to a new exhibit...

The fear during its first vaccination, the excitement of seeing snow for the first time...

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Many heartwarming and loving photos!

When visitors got to see Ice Cake in the exhibit, it was already over two months old.

If you weren’t following the live streams, you really wouldn’t have seen what it looked like when it was small.

Listening to Meng Shi explain the photos, it was as if they witnessed the little tiger growing up!

"It was really cute when it was little! But it’s also very cute now!"

"In the blink of an eye, it has grown so much!"

"Aside from careful nurturing, there’s also the risk of being bitten. Animal keepers really have to be very loving."

"It’s not easy to raise it so healthy from such a young age. I hope it continues to grow up healthy!"

Hearing this, the parents all deeply resonated.