Recently, the news of the death of giant panda " Baoxin " has attracted much attention, and how to take care of giant pandas has become a hot topic among netizens. How high are the standards to become a giant panda keeper? In Liyang, Chang...
Recently, the news of the death of giant panda " Baoxin " has attracted much attention, and how to take care of giant pandas has become a hot topic among netizens. How high are the standards to become a giant panda keeper? In Liyang, Changzhou, Nanshan Zhuhai Panda Museum has been recruiting giant panda breeders every year for the past few years. It has received hundreds of resumes, but the acceptance rate is 0, which makes the management very worried. On March 23, the person in charge of the Nanshan Bamboo Sea Scenic Area told a reporter from Modern Express that giant panda keepers are not what many netizens think, and they only need to feed and play with the giant pandas. This profession has high requirements for professionalism, temperament, observation, etc., and there are also many detailed requirements during the breeding process, including weighing the panda's feces, placing bamboos scattered and upright, and what to do if the giant panda is in a bad mood...
It is understood that as early as 2011, Liyang Nanshan Bamboo Sea Scenic Area introduced two giant pandas from the Ya'an Base in Sichuan, and a team of 5 people took care of them. Soon after, the scenic spot began to openly recruit giant panda breeders in order to reserve talents. Wang Jianling, deputy general manager of Nanshan Bamboo Sea Scenic Area, said that at the beginning of this year, one of the originally stable five-person breeding team resigned, so announcements were made on major online recruitment platforms to further expand the scope of auditions for panda breeders. The reporter noticed that this recruitment information became popular on the Internet.
Giant pandas look cute and naive, but they are actually a kind of ferocious beast. It is relatively difficult to serve" and the recruitment requirements require a major in animal husbandry, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, or a graduate from a related agricultural school. In addition, you must have absolute patience and sense of responsibility, as well as " be caring, like animals, and preferably have experience in raising animals ".
How to become a qualified giant panda breeder? Ma Hongjun, director of the Nanshan Zhuhai Panda Museum, gave a detailed introduction. In terms of hygiene, the pens, sports fields, pools and surrounding environment must be thoroughly cleaned every day. The animal houses must be kept in good sanitary condition throughout the day. Feces, mucus, etc. excreted by the animals must be cleaned at any time. Floor stains and urine should be washed away with clean water and the ground should be kept dry. The pens must be disinfected and flushed no less than twice a week, and the sports fields must be disinfected no less than once a week.
In terms of feeding, in the eyes of outsiders, giant pandas only need to be fed bamboo. In fact, giant pandas’ food is a combination of fruits, bamboo shoots, bamboo, etc., and the amount of each food must be rationed according to the specific situation. There are fixed feeding times for breakfast, lunch, dinner and night snacks every day, and the amount of feeding each time also has precise requirements. For example, feed concentrated feed 4 times a day and bamboo more than 6 times a day. The feeding method of concentrated feed is not to throw the whole piece directly into the pen. It should be cut into small pieces and fed separately. Bamboos should be properly dispersed and upright when placed, and are not allowed to be placed in one place. " If one hundred kilograms of bamboo are put in, the panda may only eat 80 kilograms. This will bring changes to the feeding plan. We must find ways to balance the introduction of other types of food to ensure the panda's daily intake. "
In addition, the giant panda's spirit, feces, urine, food collection status and remaining amount must be observed every day. The diet, mental state, and weight must be registered every day, and even the feces must be weighed and registered.
But the above is not difficult. Qualified giant panda breeders must make corresponding countermeasures based on the subtle changes in the giant panda. For example, if the panda seems to be in a bad mood, the breeder must determine what is the cause and whether it requires medical treatment; when the female bear's food intake decreases, the breeder must determine whether it is caused by entering estrus or other states. The biggest difficulty in raising giant pandas is safety, which is to ensure that there are no problems with the giant pandas. "Wang Jianling said.
Perhaps due to the high threshold, although hundreds of resumes were received over the past few years, not many actually met the requirements, and in the end no one successfully entered the talent pool of panda breeders.
