Chapter 560: Pangolin injury

In order to speed up the shooting process, the director group specially arranged a shooting group to follow Liu Wei directly to shoot outside.
The director stayed to guide Jackie Chan and Yao Ming's public welfare filming.
The shooting team is simple.
three people.
A videographer, an assistant, and a staff member.
The director went to Liu Wei and smiled: "Teacher Liu Wei, do you need anything else?"
Liu Wei: "No need, three people, one set of equipment is enough!"
"You follow Teacher Liu and follow his wishes!" the director asked.
The three nodded.
Arrive at the Beijing Zoo.
Liu Wei opened the live broadcast and followed the management staff to the pangolin feeding area.
"Brothers, take you today to see a cute animal, pangolin!" Liu Wei has entered the state.
The cameraman's lens followed him closely.
The pangolin breeder opened the door, and Liu Wei and the cameraman walked in. The breeder stood at the back, ready to handle emergencies at any time.
Hundreds of Chinese pangolins are raised in this feeding area, most of which are used for artificial breeding to continue the Chinese pangolin population, and only a few pangolins are used for exhibition to the public.
Liu Wei walked in and happened to find two mother and child pangolins who were moving on the grass.
The pangolin baby lies on the mother's tail, using its claws to firmly grasp the gap in the mother's scales.
The adult female pangolin crawls slowly, fearing that the baby will slip off the body.
"Wow! There is love!"
"so cute!"
"This is the first time I have seen a pangolin so close!"
"Pangolin, listen to this name, how domineering, but it looks so cute?"
In the lens, the pangolin seems to smell Liu Wei, and its visual degradation is very serious, basically relying on olfactory activity and predation.
The slender head turned around, and the two black-eyed beads looked back, as if to be sure of a stranger.
Liu Wei stood in the distance without worrying about it. It was used to the environment here, knowing that no one would hurt it in the zoo, and the breeder would not allow others to hurt it.
After looking at Liu Wei, it turned around and continued to crawl forward.
The pangolin baby crawled from its tail to its back.
The mother and son are walking leisurely.
Liu Wei went up.
Facing the pangolin and crouching down to shoot.
An interesting scene happened.
The pangolin baby immediately slipped off the mother's body and rolled into a ball, and then the female pangolin rolled the child in the abdomen to form a round ball.
Liu Wei laughed: "Brothers, it seems that they are not too familiar with my taste, I let them feel the danger.
In fact, pangolins are very docile animals. There are too many natural enemies in nature, and even domesticated evil dogs will hurt it, and its attack ability is not strong.
More is to rely on their defensive capabilities and hide, avoiding the hunting time of the natural enemies, quietly come out to prey at night.
And its food chain is very narrow, almost only eat termites and ants, but the amount of food is amazing, like the adult female in front of us put on armor, can eat about 300 grams of ants and termites per meal.
Because of this, it is called the guard of the forest!"
When Liu Wei was in science, he found that the pangolin mother loosened her body slightly, revealing a fleshy head, and dark eyes watching him, a ignorant and somewhat frightened look.
"Are you looking at me?" Liu Wei lowered his head and looked at it, smiling. "You can rest assured that we are here today to protect you."
Your partner living in the wild is being hurt by criminals. We need you to cooperate with the completion of the documentary. Can you be more generous and cute? "
The pangolin stared at Liu Wei for a while.
It found its defense status to be superfluous, and the stranger who was approaching suddenly did not do anything to harm it.
It slowly unfolded its body, then sniffed the curled baby with its nose.
The pangolin baby's head stretched out from the abdomen, and when Liu Wei was seen, he retracted it again, and after his mother's persuasion, it slowly unfolded its body.
The mother lifted her hind legs and stood upright with her two small paws lying flat in the air.
It is showing upright movements to its children, it needs to teach this skill to its children, because ant dens usually form an earthen castle, pangolins need to stay upright to dig out the ant dens, and then use its long tongue Go for predation.
The pangolin baby understood what the mother meant.
Try to lift both hind legs, rely on the tail to support the body, and stand upright.
It worked hard.
Finally completed the actions taught by her mother.
However, because of his young age, his physical strength was poor, and after standing for a few seconds, he leaned and fell to the ground.
Liu Wei smiled.
The little guy curled up again.
Its mother walked intimately and encouraged and cared about it.
"Brothers, are you cute?" Liu Wei smiled.
"Super forgiving!"
"I used to see pangolins in my hometown when I was a kid!"
"I work in customs, and every year I find some illegally traded pangolins, which have been stripped of phosphors, which is shocking to see!"
"It's cruel!"
"Those perverts! What are you doing to take off your clothes?"
Liu Wei said seriously: "Brothers, the wild Chinese pangolin has entered a state of functional extinction.
Functional extinction means that the species is destroyed because of its living environment, the number is very rare, so that in the natural state basically lost the ability to maintain reproduction, and even lost the ability to maintain survival.
Some experts believe that it is possible to restore the wild population of Chinese pangolin as long as protection is started.
However, in the international market, the number of illegal pangolin transactions is too scary. According to IUCN (World Conservation Union) statistics, in the past decade, millions of pangolins have been arrested for illegal transactions, the largest amount of which is the Chinese pangolin .
The Chinese pangolin is now classified as a critically endangered species by IUCN.
The main reason for this result is a bit ironic to say, precisely because of human mouth.
In nature, pangolins have many natural enemies, but when they are really in danger, they show a strong defense ability, and even large cats with excellent bite force can hardly bite through their scales.
Only humans will peel off all its scales after capturing it. Many people think that pangolin scales are a rare and precious Chinese medicinal material.
In fact, modern medicine has confirmed that the scales of pangolins are similar to human nails and hair. The medicinal effect is not so magical at all, nor the effect of passing milk and meridians. That is to say, pangolin scales are regarded as precious medicinal materials. , You might as well nibble your nails!"
"Hahaha, good!"
"A group of wisdom!"
"Are they all SB?"
"Laughing to death, some people are really stupid, no, it should be ignorant!"
Liu Wei explained: "Actually, the reason why pangolin scales are touted crazy, and under the circumstances that medical science has confirmed, the black market does not decrease but increase, it is precisely those unscrupulous merchants who use people's mentality to promote, and it is reasonable to say Evidence!"