"I wish you all a new year, elegant and beautiful, vigorous and vigorous, with a wide heart and a fat body, and ...... charm”
This funny animal Chinese New Year video is from Xining Wildlife Park in Qinghai.
In recent years, this zoo located in the plateau has gained widespread attention, and Qi Xinzhang, the photographer and producer of **, has gradually become well-known to netizens. **The zoo's efforts in wildlife rescue and enrichment have been praised by everyone. Learn the story behind this zoo
Qi Xinzhang, 40, is the deputy director of Xining Wildlife Park and the deputy director of the Qinghai Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Center. He also has an identity - animal science blogger.
For more than ten years, he has created a lot of interesting animal science popularization, insisting on using short**and**, so that more people can understand the wildlife of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from different perspectives, and has gained the attention of millions of fans across the country.
Snow leopards "Big Tiger" and "Lingshuang" are the "star couple" in Xining Wildlife Park, and they are also the protagonists of love in Qi Xinzhang's lens.
In the Xining Wildlife Park at that time, the "snow leopard cage" was a new attempt. Qi Xinzhang found that the snow leopards "Big Tiger" and "Ling Shuang" often had some interesting behaviors in the process of getting along, and he recorded these clips with the camera.
For example, Qi Xinzhang saw the "husband and wife" rubbing each other's necks through the iron cage through the surveillance. This act of showing the key points to the other person means to show favor in animal language
The "Big Tiger" took a step forward, and "Ling Shuang" roared, and after trying a few times, the "Big Tiger" felt that he didn't give any face, and turned around to leave. As soon as its head was twisted, "Ling Shuang" stretched out his claws and pressed the hand of "Big Tiger": Don't go
Qi Xinzhang edited the filmed material into a short ** and posted it on the online platform, but he didn't expect the love story of the snow leopard "Big Tiger" and "Lingshuang" to attract more and more attention from netizens. This made Qi Xinzhang realize that some clever ways can effectively improve people's understanding of animals, and he may be able to become the link between people and animals. So, he began to put more effort into shooting and making all kinds of interesting **.
Qi Xinzhang, who was born in Baoding, Hebei Province, has always had a soft spot for animals. In 2002, he was admitted to Qinghai University for a bachelor's degree in environmental science, and later chose to pursue a master's degree in animal nutrition and feed science. After graduation, Qi Xinzhang came to work in Xining Wildlife Park. In the process of contacting tourists, he found that many people know very little about the wild animals of the plateau, such as desert cats and lynxes.
In order to make tourists remember these plateau animals more clearly, Qi Xinzhang and his colleagues gave the animals their own names, and behind each name there are their own personality characteristics and stories.
For example, all the snow leopards rescued here have the surname "Ling". "On the one hand, 'Ling' itself has the original meaning of ice and snow, and on the other hand, it also has the meaning of crossing and stepping over. Qi Xinzhang explained, "We feel that the rescued snow leopard has encountered a hurdle in its life, and we hope that it can overcome it." The second word comes from the 24 solar terms of traditional Chinese culture, such as "Ling Shuang" is taken from frost falling, and "Ling sting" is taken from stinging.
In addition to the snow leopard, the desert cats in the garden are called "Huang Gongzi" and "Miss Huang", and the rabbits are all surnamed Tan. The name of a certain female alpine vulture is even more shocking, called "Little Dragon Girl", because its "husband" has a broken wing.
Xining Wildlife Park is also known as Qinghai Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Center, where many animals are rescued after being injured. Animals that can be released are all returned to nature after they have recovered; Those who are not suitable for release are left behind.
A large part of Qi Xinzhang's work is the "rescue and breeding" of wild animals, and he also filmed the rescue and breeding process, and made popular science ** and posted it on the online platform.
The irregular release of rescued wild animals is one of the tasks of Qi Xinzhang and his colleagues. Every time he is released, Qi Xinzhang will shoot **, or do a live broadcast of popular science at the release site.
For Qi Xinzhang and his colleagues, rescue and release are not the most difficult. The most difficult work they have ever experienced is the breeding of rabbits. To this end, Qi Xinzhang filmed and recorded the process of artificial breeding of rabbits in a year, and produced 121 episodes of short ** "serials", called "How difficult is rabbit breeding".
Qi Xinzhang said that the purpose of filming ** is to let more people know the cute creatures who left this world before they could meet the public, and it can also enhance the popularity and influence of the rabbit raccoon species.
On the online platform, netizens are looking forward to Qi Xinzhang's step-by-step update of the rabbit breeding "serial", and feel every thrilling together. Toxoplasmosis and feline plague virus threaten the breeding of rabbits, and watching the baby rabbits die of illness, Qi Xinzhang and his colleagues are particularly tormented.
I was so desperate that I had already collapsed, and I cried alone in the quilt at night with my headache, especially 'Tan Erniang' and 'Tan Sanniang'. Qi Xinzhang recalled, "They were raised by my mother herself, so when I was two to three months old, I often ran from the inner house to the outside, which was seen by many tourists and appeared in many live broadcasts." I was very unwilling to leave like this. ”
Everyone at the zoo pays a lot to protect the wildlife. Qi Xinzhang said that one of the doctors in the team sent from Beijing suffered from altitude sickness on the first day. He held an oxygen tank to his mouth and nose to relieve his altitude sickness, and then bent down to observe the rabbit cubs being rescued in the animal's ICU.
Qi Xinzhang said: "I have experienced a lot of hardships and challenges in the past year, but I am glad that the 'Raccoon Lady' has survived and become the first artificially bred rabbit in my country, filling the gap in the country." ”
In addition to the serial drama of rabbit breeding, Qi Xinzhang also used the camera to record the rescue and release of lynx, and also produced a serial, named "The Battle of Lynx Crossing the River".
A lynx wearing a satellite collar was called a "Teletubbies" by Qi Xinzhang. After its release, in order to confirm its living status, Qi Xinzhang also specially followed the scientific researchers into the mountains to find its traces.
Originally, the voice of reason in Qi Xinzhang's head told him "Don't think about it" - on such a large hillside, there are bushes more than one meter high, and it is impossible to see a lynx. But to everyone's surprise, they actually met the lynx "Teletubbies". "It remembers us, we came to see it, it knows. So I decided that this story had to be turned into a book, and I was going to keep it going forever. ”
Writing down the stories of animals is another way for Qi Xinzhang to record and disseminate information about animals, and he hopes to attract more people to participate in the conservation of animals on the plateau.
"Aoxue" is the first snow leopard artificially bred in Xining Wildlife Park, and Qi Xinzhang used the first-person way to write the story of "Aoxue" into a book of more than 40,000 words. After it was published on the Internet, it attracted many netizens to read and urge it to update.
With the continuous update of Qi Xinzhang's short ** and text stories, more and more netizens have begun to pay attention to the wildlife of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and many tourists have contributed their own strength to the public welfare publicity of animal protection. There are also more and more volunteers joining their teams to pass on more scientific knowledge.
May more animals be remembered, loved, and protected. This is what Qi Xinzhang often says. In the Xining Wildlife Park, the staff will use water hoses to make swings for red pandas and dig rocks for rock sheep to pile rockeries. The nameplate of the animal is not their simple attribute, but the character and habits of each baby, which contains full love. (CCTV News WeChat public account).