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I have a wildlife zoo-Chapter 372: Dragon Essence Tiger Ferocity Pill
Fang Ye and Jiaojiao played with Ice Cake for a while before they left the activity area.
They reached the indoor area and greeted the visitors, "How is everyone enjoying themselves? Are you happy to see the snowy scenery?"
"Of course, we are happy!"
"The zoo director is our god forever!"
"Director, I want to have a snowball fight with the tigers too!"
"Ahem, that’s not okay." Fang Ye chatted with the visitors, asking for their impressions of the snowy landscape, and it seemed that everyone liked it a lot.
He took the opportunity to educate them, "Compared to natural environments, artificial environments are more uniform and rigid, which is not conducive to the animals’ physical and mental health. Therefore, based on the animals’ natural characteristics, we regularly create new forms of enrichment for them.
Carnivores are bolder than herbivores, maintaining an interest and courage to explore new stimuli that appear in their environment. If they become numb, silent, or even fearful, there could be some issues with their mental health."
Tong Yiya asked curiously, "The tiger just now stood up and scratched against the tree for a while. Was it sharpening its claws? It looked like a cat scratching a scratching post."
Fang Ye laughed, "That does serve to sharpen its claws, but it’s more importantly a way of marking territory. Tigers mark their territory with visual signals like scratch marks and scents by digging the ground with their claws, rolling on the grass, and rubbing against tree trunks, especially around the edges of their territory."
"Eh, do tigers bury their poop like cats do after they go?"
"That’s an interesting question. Small felines have the habit of burying their feces to avoid predators from tracking them and to prevent territorial disputes.
Tigers don’t bury their feces because they are apex predators who fear no other animals, so they boldly leave it out as a scent marker. Sometimes they might kick back with their hind legs, not to bury it, but as part of the marking process.
However, it’s different for tiger cubs. Leopards or other tigers might see them as potential competition. It’s dangerous for them to be discovered in the den when the tigress is out hunting, so they try to urinate in water to dilute the scent as much as possible. When the tigress takes them to drink water by the stream, they take the opportunity to urinate in the stream."
"Wow, is that instinctual for baby tigers?"
"Nature is so fascinating!"
The visitors were astonished and asked several more questions, to which Fang Ye responded one by one.
After a while, when he was about to leave, Taozi excitedly rushed up, "Director, director, don’t go! Take a photo with me! I’m your hardcore fan!"
Tong Yiya said, "Director, I want to take a photo too!"
Fang Ye, seeing the attire of the few beautiful girls, knew they were there for the "Shining Sunny Sky" check-in task, and smiled, "Then let’s take a photo together."
Taozi ran back excitedly and approached the man with the camera who had been earnestly answering questions earlier, "Hey, uncle, could you help us take a photo with the director?"
The camera man was taken aback for a moment and said, "Sure, no problem."
Seeing several charming and exquisitely dressed young girls smiling sweetly, clinging to Fang Ye’s side—with Taozi even boldly hugging his arm—her heart was full of tears.
The sky was a brilliant blue, with paper cranes outside the window...
Why is there such a big gap between people? I was here first.
After the photo was taken, Taozi got her phone back and asked Fang Ye, "Director, can I add you on WeChat?"
"Oh my, I forgot my phone at home, let’s not. If you like our zoo, feel free to visit more often."
"Alright~" Taozi replied, a bit disappointed.
After the others had left, Lizhi quietly asked, "Hey, Taozi, didn’t you not know the director before? How did you become a hardcore fan so quick?"
Taozi declared confidently, "Just now, in the moment!"
Her eyes sparkling with hearts, she said, "The director is so handsome and kind-hearted, he can even pet tigers, and his knowledge is so extensive. I finally understand what love at first sight feels like! Ah, I really want to have monkeys with the director!"
Tong Yiya couldn’t help but say, "Don’t even think about it, with the director’s attitude, he definitely has a girlfriend..."
Fang Ye came out of the tiger exhibit, shaking his head, "Girls these days are really passionate!"
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He took out his phone and sent a message in the staff group, "I was just cornered by several girls who insisted on taking a photo with me. I don’t understand what’s so good about taking a photo with me. Can’t they take more photos of the animals? Is Jiaojiao not pretty or is Ice Cake not cute? Eh, sometimes I think, life would be so much easier if my parents hadn’t made me this handsome."
Meng Shi: "Awesome!"
Lin Ying: "I’ve never seen anyone so shameless!"
He Yifei: "The supervisor may be handsome, but he’s still got a little ways to go compared to me."
Lü Ye: "I can relate. Being good-looking really has its troubles. Back in college, more than thirty girls confessed to me. They were all beautiful, gentle, and well-educated. I didn’t know which one to choose, so I had to draw lots to decide."
He Yifei: "My God, when it comes to being shameless, you’re still the champion!"
At that moment, Lan Li sent him a voice message.
The soft voice said: "Supervisor, there are lots of young ladies visiting the zoo today, and they’re all wearing beautiful dresses."
Could it be a confrontation?
Fang Ye hurriedly explained: "I’m innocent! When a girl asked me for my WeChat, I even rejected her."
"Do you like the long dresses in the traditional style? If you like them, I can buy one and wear it for you to see."
Fang Ye instantly swallowed his saliva, about to type that he liked it, then had a stroke of inspiration and changed it to "I like whatever you wear."
He felt his emotional intelligence was sky-high at that moment.
Lan Li: "Hehe."
…
Arriving at the wolf exhibit!
The animal keepers had hidden pieces of meat in different places in the snow for enrichment, and the wolves had to rely on their sense of smell to find the meat.
The snowfall itself was an exciting novelty for the wolf pack. Hiding meat in the snow made them even more active. They scattered throughout the exhibit, searching relentlessly, and turned the whole place upside down.
Although most of the hidden meat had been found, some wolves were still persistently searching, sniffing continuously in the snow, occasionally scratching with their paws.
Fang Ye walked into the wolf exhibit and observed the status of the pack.
He saw a black wolf with its head down, nose against the snow, trudging forward and sniffing around. He called out: "Charcoal, come here!"
Charcoal, hearing Fang Ye’s call, flicked its ears and lifted its head to look his way, then happily trotted over with its tongue lolling out.
"Where’s Mizzle?" Fang Ye asked, and then saw a wolf lying lazily on some grass further away.
It was just as well that Mizzle wasn’t there. Fang Ye squatted down and patted Charcoal’s wolf head, then took out a golden, finger-sized spheroid from the system space. It looked like a pill and whispered to Charcoal: "A good thing, eat it quickly."
This was also one of the prizes from the last draw.
[Dragon Essence Tiger Ferocity Pill]: For use by male mammals only, enhances the animal’s foundation and slightly increases the pregnancy chance of the females they mate with, no side effects.
Note: Limited to one pill per year, humans can also eat it, though the effect is slightly weaker.
This pill might have a somewhat lewd name, but it was actually one of the most valuable props.
For animals like the giant panda, which are extremely difficult to breed in captivity, the zoo has to do a lot of work behind the scenes just to slightly increase their breeding success rate.
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Previously, the zoo’s conditions weren’t right, and money was tight, so with insufficiently nutritious food, Charcoal and Mizzle hadn’t shown any inclination to have children for years.
Starting in December, during the wolves’ mating season, feeding one to Charcoal, he hoped it would mate with Mizzle and produce a litter of young wolf cubs.
Charcoal didn’t know what it was, but it smelled good, so it chewed and gulped it down quickly. Its crimson tongue licked its lips, looking eagerly at Fang Ye, hoping for another one.
Fang Ye couldn’t help but laugh and patted its head: "This isn’t meat! You can’t eat too much. Overdoing the supplements isn’t good, you know? Hurry up and get cozy with Mizzle."