The park of Hongshan Zoo has a recommended tour route, which is worth punching in. The signs are clearly marked. If this is your first visit, I suggest you follow the map of the park.
The park displays more than 260 rare animals and more than 3,000 animals from all over the world, and there are more than 30 exhibition halls, large and small. I think it is necessary to punch in several exhibition halls.
China Maoshe
First of all, it is my favorite cat house in China. For those who like to roll cats, the cat house is heaven. You can see many big cats in China here.
Before entering China Cat House, it was the container exhibition hall, which displayed the CFCA protection base of China Cat League.
Documentaries about Chinese cats are being shown in circulation, and tools and diaries used by members of the Cat Alliance when working outdoors are also displayed in glass cabinets.
Further inside is the official exhibition hall of China Cat House. Instead of using many words to popularize science, most of them are interactive devices, which are more readable and easy to remember, and children and adults will stop.
Without the concrete floor and the big iron cage, the flowers and trees in the exhibition hall built on the mountain look messy. The garden tries its best to restore the living environment of the big cats and make them live comfortably. They can choose to hide and sleep, or they can squat on a stone and watch the crowds.
When I went there, I saw the leopards "Yue Yue" and "Hanhan". I don't know if the lynx didn't go to work or if they all hid to sleep, but I didn't see any. Later, the staff said that this lynx was timid and its coat color collided with the land, so it needed to be searched very carefully.
The garden also ingeniously designed the sky passage so that the big cats can walk in different areas. Visitors can also feel the fear of being looked down upon by large carnivores, and more importantly, they can also feel the rain given by God.
Some time ago, two Karakal lived in China's cat house, namely "MengMeng" and her daughter "Potato".
But in fact, they don't belong to China cats. Because their new cat planet is still being renovated, the mother and daughter temporarily live in a cat house in China.
The garden also kindly gave them a "temporary residence permit" to explain why two non-Chinese cats will live here, which is quite loving.
Recently, because of the low temperature, neither mother nor daughter appeared in the warm backcourt. In a few months, when Cat Planet is released, we will see them again.
Xiwei _ restaurant
Have you seen the adventures of Pumbaa Timon? Worst of all, you've met the lion king. The original type of Ding Man in it is thin tail _.
Thin-tailed _ is a small mammal with slender limbs and powerful claws, which can be used to dig holes for hunting and adjust its underground caves.
Their trademark action is to stand up straight and look like sentries, but they are still sleepy. Combining these characteristics, Xiao Wei _ has become a new sprouting god welcomed by tourists.
In order to let people observe closely, Hongshan Zoo specially designed a pyramid-shaped glass cover. Visitors can go through the ground floor to the core area of life and observe how they dig holes and stand guard.
Such a lovely thin tail _, you only need 500 yuan to adopt it. I will introduce the specific adoption benefits and procedures in detail later.
Daxiangwu
The original elephant hall of Hongshan Zoo is a large concrete floor, where elephants are usually bored and idle. In summer, the concrete floor is hot, but the elephant doesn't even have a shelter.
The new director, Shen Zhijun, saw this situation and started the reconstruction of the elephant hall. The reconstructed elephant hall has two sets of giant clover shading systems, and there is a water spraying system under the shading system. In hot summer, elephants can bathe under umbrellas.
At the same time, the hard cement floor has also been replaced by sand, and the sand is regularly dug loose with a small excavator for elephants to play and entertain.
Later, when the director visited Dublin Zoo, he saw other people's elephants swimming comfortably in the pool, so when he came back, he made up his mind to dig one for his own elephant, which was a favor to other people's children and our children.
Nanjing Hongshan Zoo is also the first zoo in China to start trimming the toenails of elephants. It can be said that we have done our best for animals to have a happy life.
Asia xiongwu
The Asian Bear House only opened at the end of 2020, and several bears opened the door for the first time. In the black bear area, there are two little bears, a boy named Stone and a girl named Pearl. Just after my first birthday, I came to work, and it is inevitable that I will not adapt to the new environment.
After coming to Xiong's house, stones and pearls showed different degrees of "stiff behavior". Stereotyped behavior is that animals repeatedly perform some simple actions in order to overcome environmental pressure, which is embodied in two little black bears walking back and forth in the same position or suddenly shaking their heads and turning around.
In order to help the bear overcome its stiff behavior, it is necessary to observe and record it from time to time, but the staff in the museum are very busy and can't observe it all the time, so the work is given to tourists.
Next to the glass partition of the black bear exhibition area, there is a waterproof bag with a behavior record book to help the garden record the stiff behavior of the bear.
Everyone takes notes carefully. Although some children don't understand and record everything, there is still a lot of useful information.
In addition to the exhibition hall, there are many aborigines in the park, which constitutes a small ecology in the park. Many brands have been set up in the non-animal exhibition area to promote other animals and plants living in the park.
For example, this grass lizard, we really saw its shadow in the park, and it was sunbathing by the roadside when it was found. There are many such small animals in the park, which need us to find and discover carefully.
During the Spring Festival, the park also set up a set of very festive animal blessing expression packs, playing with various homophonic stalks related to animals, which can be said to be very loving.
Hongshan zoo outside the exhibition hall
In addition to the exhibition hall we can see, Hongshan Zoo also has a closed area.
Hongshan Zoo Wildlife Conservation and Reception Center will treat about 1000 animals every year. After being rescued, non-native animals will basically spend the rest of their lives in the zoo. After being rehabilitated, protozoa will be released into the wild if they pass the evaluation.
For example, the zoo receives sixty or seventy owls every year. In order to let owls return to nature as soon as possible, the garden allows them to live together, learn from each other to hunt and prey, and reduce their dependence on humans.
To this end, we will set up an owl school to evaluate each owl, and those who meet the requirements will graduate and fly.
However, the director said that if you see an owl in the wild, don't pick it up and let it wait for its parents to save it. This is the most scientific method.
Hongshan Zoo has also made a lot of efforts to make small animals live decently and improve their quality of life. Monkeys without front teeth were fitted with big gold teeth, and big red-crowned cranes made fake beaks and joints for chickens.
It even took three years to make various plans and try various methods to send this wandering orangutan back to his family.
How to support Hongshan Zoo I believe that many friends have read articles about Hongshan Zoo recently and want to do something for Hongshan Zoo, but they can't travel at special times and can't "take revenge" in person. In fact, there are other ways to help Hongshan Zoo besides donating a ticket to the zoo in person.
Method 1: Buy products around the zoo.
At present, most shops in the park are outsourced, selling the same plush toys and animal models. However, I can understand the difficulties of the park and need to contract out these businesses for profit. I hope that the benefits of the park will get better and better in the future, and I will have the energy to do my own cultural creation in the surrounding area and build the Forbidden City cultural creation in the zoo industry.
In fact, Hongshan Zoo has begun to try to make its own peripheral products, but after visiting the whole park, I only saw two places for sale, and the things are not very complete. I suggest you go directly to their official WeChat account Hongshan Forest Zoo to place an order.
Children's favorite stickers, refrigerator magnets, all kinds of big cat refrigerator magnets, canvas bags, etc. They are all peripheral products of the original design of Hongshan Zoo, with real prices and memorable things.
In the online mall of Hongshan Zoo, you can also buy the paintings of the star orangutan "Little Black" in the park. After behavior training and orientation training, Xiaohe learned to draw on the drawing board with a brush in only two days. However, the painting we buy will be a copy of Xiaohe's works. After all, painting is just Xiao He's sideline.
Another peripheral product that I think is very distinctive is animal manure organic fertilizer.
This is to collect animal manure in the park for harmless treatment, after fermentation, sterilize and kill eggs at high temperature to produce organic green manure. The actual measurement has completely disappeared. If you grow flowers and grass at home, you can buy some to go back as fertilizer.
Mode 2: Adopt small animals.
Animals that can be adopted are: giant panda, koala, orangutan, Asian elephant, giraffe, gibbon, Sichuan golden monkey, red panda, Siberian tiger, hippo, kangaroo, hornbill, thin-tailed lemur, muntjac, roe deer and so on. Basically, animals in the park can be adopted.
At present, Hongshan Zoo is adopted by individuals, families, companies, classes or schools, and different adoption forms have different benefits. However, all adopters have the same benefit: if the adopted animal has no name, it can have priority in naming.
The amount of money needed for adoption varies from unit to unit and animal species. The minimum personal adoption requires only 500 yuan/year to adopt a small animal. I have sorted out the popular animal adoption prices, and those who are interested can find out.
Individuals and families can not only get a certificate of love in the park, but also get a love card that can be accessed indefinitely within one year, and there are two opportunities to get close contact with their favorite animals every year. If conditions permit, I want to adopt a tiger or a lynx. After all, I have little experience as a shovel officer for a big cat.
For more adoption information, please call the official telephone number of Hongshan Zoo: 025-68 150268, 025-855181kloc-0/.
I hope that with everyone's efforts, Hongshan Zoo can tide over the difficulties and bring us more loving pictures ~
Traffic tips
Public transportation: Take subway 1 line, get off at Exit 3 of Zoo Station and walk to the north gate of Zoo.
Self-driving: navigate to the north or east gate of Hongshan Zoo and stop. If there is insufficient parking space in the holiday park, you can park your car at Hongshan Automobile Life Plaza, 700 meters away from the park.
Tips for visiting the park
Admission: adult ticket 40 yuan/person, student (child) ticket 20 yuan/person, annual ticket 80 yuan/person. Children under 6 years old and people over 60 years old are free.
Opening hours: 8:30- 18:00( 16:30 stops selling tickets).
There are many uphill and downhill slopes in the park. It is recommended to wear flat shoes. Those with poor physical strength can take a scenic tour bus.