Fang Ye couldn't help but ask, "What is the main reason why the number of gibbons has declined so quickly?" ”

"The most important thing is habitat loss and quality degradation, and grass and fruit cultivation is the main cause of habitat degradation. ”

Of course, Caoguo Fangye knows that it is a very common seasoning, usually when making braised pork or boiling mutton, some grass fruit will be put to remove the fishiness.

Fan Peng said: "Grass fruit is a shade-loving plant, in order to grow grass fruit, the common people will remove the shrubs and vines under the forest, but do not cut down the trees, because if they are cut down, the grass fruit will be killed by direct sunlight in the dry season, so they have selectively pruned some trees."

From the outside, this forest may not have changed, but in fact there are only some big trees left, and the small saplings have not had a chance to grow before they have been cleared, and the forest has no chance to renew, and when the big trees die, these forests will have very large empty windows, but the people will not plant the trees again. ”

Fang Ye understood: "This is a bit similar to the problem encountered by Asian elephants!" The forest just looks green, but it's actually an empty shell. ”

In recent years, the Asian elephant has become more and more conflicted with people because the primary forest has been cut down and replaced with a cash crop called rubber, including planting some sand kernels under the forest.

Rubber may not be as hot as it used to be, but the rubber trees that were planted in the past have not been cleared away, and the forest cannot be renewed. It's easy to break, but it's too hard to repair.

Asian elephants are such behemoths, and human conflicts, whether they are killed or trampled to death can attract some attention, gibbons usually have no quarrel with the world, life in the tree rarely intersects with people, quietly disappear, the slightest splash can not be splashed.

"In order to study the effect of grass fruit planting on the behavior of Tianxing gibbons, we selected two places with gibbons for comparative study.

We built the first monitoring station brick by brick, and we built our own shelves, dragged bamboo rafts from the mountains to make walls, and then built thatch on the walls, and hung a propaganda poster of gibbons.

Because there is a very famous plant here in Gaoligong Mountain, the big tree rhododendron, the rhododendron is generally a relatively short shrub, but the big tree rhododendron can grow up to 28 meters, only here is unique, is a very famous tree species in the world.

Some botanists and horticulturists in the world have tried their best to see the majestic appearance of the giant tree rhododendron.

One or two kilometers from our monitoring station, there is a big tree rhododendron, and many people come to watch the flowers when they are blooming, and stop to drink tea here when they see the flowers, so we hang a poster to promote the gibbons and introduce them to some gibbon knowledge. ”

When Fan Peng said this, he took a sip of rice wine, showing a somewhat nostalgic expression, but his eyes quickly became melancholy: "Unfortunately, only 4 months later, a group of gibbons we studied were beaten by someone. ”

Raised his hand and made a "bang" gun gesture: "4 shots, a gibbon family is gone." ”

Fang Ye's heart suddenly tightened, and his brows furrowed: "How dare you!" ”

Some people can't figure it out: "Why do you want to poach gibbons?" Catch to be a pet? ”

Fan Peng smiled bitterly: "Maybe there are relatives and friends at home who have epilepsy, so use gibbons to treat the disease." There is a legend about gibbons that they are fine if they shake so hard in the trees, so can they cure epilepsy? ”

Fang Ye sighed: "Eh! ”

Fan Peng added: "Of course, different local customs are different, some places use gibbon bones as medicine, and some places poaching of gibbons rarely happens, because the local people believe that hunting gibbons will lead to disaster." ”

Fang Ye nodded, religion and folk customs are very closely related to wild animals, not necessarily negative.

Some "good men and women" released snakes around the community, invasive species Brazilian turtles and scavengers were released into rivers and lakes, and a while ago I heard that crocodiles were released, and small crocodiles bought from farms were released into the lake.

Of course, I didn't know the living environment they needed, and when I caught it two days later, it was already burping, and a lot of manpower and material resources were wasted.

This kind of blind j8 release is not doing good but doing evil.

For example, the concept of Tibet, the sacred mountain and the sacred lake, and the equality of all things has played a very good role in the protection of the snow-capped mountain environment and the snow leopard, the elves of the plateau.

Fan Peng said again: "It is also possible to catch gibbons as pets, but gibbons can only be tamed by cubs.

Unlike other primates, gibbons attach great importance to their families and will fight to protect each other for the safety of their family members.

When poachers try to get the babies of gibbons, their fathers are killed first, then siblings, and finally mothers with cubs. Once the cub is targeted, the rest of the family will not be spared.

The cubs usually cling to their mothers tightly, and if the mother dies, they may fall from a height of several tens of meters and not survive.

From poaching to transport, behind a gibbon pet is the death of 239 of its kind. The chance of survival as a pet is also very low, and it may die after two years. ”

Li Xing shook his head and said: "Sometimes I see some owl cafes on social media, videos of monkeys wearing human clothes, and a bunch of people below comment and praise cuteness, obedience, envy and want to raise, etc., I really can't laugh at all." ”

Fang Ye said: "Before Yang Xiaochao and the others came to the zoo to shoot a variety show, I also communicated with the program team repeatedly, hoping not to convey wrong information to the audience. ”

These animals are cute and are very charismatic, but they are not suitable for keeping as pets. Wild animals and cute pets are two different things.

Fill the cup for both of them.

Li Xingdao: "Director Fang's sense of responsibility is still very strong, I see that some zoos specifically use this as a selling point, orangutans smoke, orangutans and people hug and take photos." ”

Fan Peng continued: "After the gunshot, we still have some hearts not giving up, fantasizing about whether the gibbon has hid elsewhere and does not dare to chirp? After staying in this place for 6 months, I never saw the gibbons again, probably because they really died. The station had to be abandoned.

Then we came to a new monitoring station, which is close to the road and logistically convenient, but unfortunately the gibbon population here is very small. At the time of the survey, there were three, one male and one female, forming a family.

The family originally had a child, but he died for some unknown reason, and then another one was born, and another one was born a few years ago, and now there are four in the family.

There was also a female lone ape, who was the cousin of the male ape of the family. ”

Fang Ye raised his eyebrows: "Oh? ”

"Well, that's the one we're going to find a partner for."