I have a wildlife zoo

Chapter 356 The Pumpkin with Holes

Sitting on the bus, Wang Haoran patted his gay good buddy, "Yang Sibo, what did you bring?"

Yang Sibo opened his backpack and displayed, "I brought drinks, as well as jelly and bread! What about you?"

Wang Haoran said, "I didn't bring anything! Anyway, we can buy food there."

Everyone quickly got excited and started discussing animals, "My favorite animal is the red panda. Did you know it always climbs trees head downwards?"

"Last time I went to see the red pandas, I saw a crow pecking at its tail. Crows are really bad!"

"There are lots of beautiful parrots in the bird exhibit that can mimic human speech. Last time, one of them pooped on my head..."

"I want to see the lions! The lion's mane looks especially nice..."

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The children excitedly chatted away!

However, as the bus traveled on, yawns gradually came, and some began to feel sleepy, as it was an hour's journey after all.

Groggily leaning against the seatback, they fell asleep.

When they were nearly at the zoo, the teacher woke everyone up, "Let's all wake up! We're almost there!

Let me emphasize again, once we're at the zoo, don't run around. Follow the group, and if you need to go to the bathroom or anything, remember to tell a teacher..."

After giving these instructions, the bus stopped outside the zoo, and the children hopped off one by one.

Fang Ye was already waiting at the entrance!

After shaking hands with the teachers, he greeted with a smile, "Hello, teachers! Welcome to Linhai Zoo for your visit."@@@@

"Director Fang, hello! Thank you for your trouble."

After exchanging pleasantries, Fang Ye introduced the visit route. With 400 students and 8 classes, they certainly had to be split into several groups. The red panda exhibit could accommodate about 50 students, which is roughly one class, while places like the bird exhibit could fit a few hundred people at a time.

One group started their visit with the red panda exhibit, while the remaining classes first went to the bird exhibit. After coming out, they split up to go to different sections.

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Wang Haoran glanced at her, admiringly saying, "Wow, you really live up to the title of study monitor, always learning wherever you go."

Zheng Yan kindly offered, "Do you want to make a record, too? I can give you some paper and a pen. The sign at the entrance of the exhibit asked if we recognized ten kinds of birds, and I want to know a few more by the time I leave."

"No, thanks." Wang Haoran hastily waved his hand.

"Wow, the peafowl is displaying its tail feathers!"

"So beautiful!"

At that moment, they faintly heard exclamations ahead, and the two rushed over quickly.

They saw a peafowl displaying its magnificent tail plumes, standing tall and proud as it faced the children, turning its head left and right, appearing very self-satisfied.

It strutted around slowly, and soon after, it closed its tail feathers together, spread its wide wings, and took flight with strong flaps!

"Wow!"

The children stepped back in awe and slight fear, as the peafowl was quite large and seemed even more expansive with its wings unfolded.

The flapping wings with their long, emerald tail feathers swayed beautifully like a fairy's gossamer skirt trailing behind, fluttering with its dance in the air.

The peafowl soared to a perch, looking calmly into the distance, while the children gaped at it with mouths open, craning their necks at the railing, completely transfixed.

"Peafowl can actually fly?"

"I've seen peafowl several times, but this is the first time I've seen one fly!"

For the children, the most important thing was to get close to, appreciate, and care for animals, experience them through all the senses, get familiar with their appearance and characteristics, and listen to their sounds. After falling in love with the animals, they would learn and care about wildlife.

Actually, at this age, they could already be doing more interesting activities, such as enhancing the animals' environment or building bird nesting boxes, with the materials provided by the zoo.

However, children are not very familiar with animals yet, especially since Linhai Zoo has only been open for a few months, and there hasn't been much opportunity to get clos to animals before.

On the food rack outside the fence ahead, there was a small yellow pumpkin with several holes carved into it. A few green parakeets with red tails were chattering around the pumpkin.

Some poked their heads into the pumpkin holes, and when they emerged, they had something in their beaks. Another bird took a peck at it, and one landed on the pumpkin, which started to wobble, prompting the parakeets to fly down again.

The children watched curiously from around, and Wang Haoran asked the animal keeper, "Brother, do parakeets eat pumpkin?"