Last week, a macaque monkey appeared at the University of Geology, and the monkey walked around the playground railing overlooking the plastic track.
Just half a month ago, the earth university just "mentioned" an arctic fox, and at 7 o'clock in the morning downstairs of the dormitory, someone bumped into a white fox who buried its head and ate a bun.
In recent years, magical animals have frequently haunted Wuhan.
Weasels on Jianghan Road beg for food from passers-by, pink flamingos fly from the wetlands of Caidian Shenhu, wild boars scurrying at the entrance of Huake canteen, and small foxes in Wuda Luojia enclosures themselves...
Wuhan small animal infested collection
This summer, Mr. Zhang, a resident of the first floor of a community in Dongxihu Lake, found a nest of small beasts "wearing eye masks" in front of his window, which looked a bit like a small raccoon who spoke for the crisp face.
The photo was sent to the owner group and no one knew. The residential property inquired about the Wuhan Zoo all the way from the East and West Lake Yebao Station, and finally asked the flower erosion teacher (popular science writer @ flower fall into erosion), he looked: "This is not a raccoon!" ”
The raccoon photographed by Mr. Zhang in the Dongxihu Community looks like my Siamese cat at first glance.
That's right, the "raccoon" of the "raccoon", a wild species.
If it is not unusual for the university campus to live on the back of the mountain and the water, the densely populated residential area is infested with wild species, which is really an eye-opener for the people in the city.
Why did the critters come to town? How do we get along with it?
With a series of whys, we visited the flower erosion teacher.
Raccoons that like to live in the "cracks". The raccoon on the picture is called Hehe, living in Wuhan Zoo, raised by the teacher of flower erosion, oily and slippery.
At the Wuhan Zoo, we finally saw the actual raccoon.
The raccoon resembles a raccoon and is smaller than a raccoon. Miyazaki's anime "Changeable Tanuki" tells their story.
"If I remember correctly, Wuhan is the second big city after Shanghai to have raccoons in the community."
The flower erosion teacher told me that since last year, as of this year, there are more than 150 communities in Shanghai that have seen wild raccoons.
Shanghai Raccoon distribution map, picture from Shanshui Nature Conservation Center. Wuhan also deserves such a map of the distribution of wild small animals.
The community of DongxiHu is almost the same as the community selected by the raccoons in Shanghai, and the internal and external environment is almost the same.
The community is located outside the Third Ring Road of Wuhan, adjacent to the small river, and there is a large area of woodland not far away. Within the neighborhood, lush with plants and great greenery.
There are no raccoon farms around the community, and it can be basically concluded that this group of raccoons has spread from the suburbs to the wild raccoons in the city.
At present, the only "animals entering the city" that can be seen in the Wuhan Zoo are raccoons
The figure of the raccoon once spread throughout most of China. Before the city was covered with high-rise buildings, Wuhan was the hometown of raccoons.
The flower erosion teacher said that the wild raccoon entering the city shows that the ecological environment is getting better. When the city is built at high speed, the animals disappear or leave; urbanization slows down, the greenery keeps up, and the animals come back.
People in the city regard the raccoon as an "intruder", in fact, for the raccoon, entering the city is just "returning to the hometown".
Flower Erosion Teacher, Weibo ID: Flower Eclipse. A well-known popular science writer, the director of netizens at Wuhan Zoo.
There are many lakes and wetlands in Wuhan, and all kinds of wild birds are common, and pink flamingos magically fly to the wetland of Caidian Shen lake in Wuhan.
In terms of mammals, Wuhan has been widely distributed with various rodents, ferret badgers, raccoons, badgers, pig badgers, hedgehogs, wild boars and so on.
The wild animals that Wuhan people are most familiar with are probably weasels.
At one time, there was a strange rumor: in order to kill rats, the government bought 100,000 weasels to be released in the three towns of Wuhan. In 2008, the Wuhan Morning News reporter specially investigated and found that it was purely a rumor.
However, this does not affect the fact that weasels are rat-catcher heroes, and they can live well in the city just by catching rats.
No wonder the cats in Wuhan are getting lazier.
Serious question: What are the types and numbers of wild animals in Wuhan? What is the range of activity and trajectory?
Unfortunately, there is no solution for the time being.
At present, no one in Wuhan has done research in this area, and if you want to know the answer, you must first install a certain number of infrared cameras in various communities in Wuhan.
An infrared camera Taobao price in 200-700 yuan, 8 No. 5 battery plug SD card, in the case of more animal activities, frequent trigger camera, can shoot half a month, animal activity less area, can stick to two or three months.
In Shanghai, a team of fudan university teacher Wang Fang and nearly 100 citizen volunteers set up 80 infrared trigger cameras in various communities to record the whereabouts of wild animals day and night.
They conservatively estimate that at least 3,000 of these raccoons have appeared in Shanghai since last year.
In Wuhan, only the East and West Lakes found "a family of four raccoons", but the teacher speculated that there should be community parks around, but no one paid attention to or reported it.
There is currently no dedicated team in Wuhan to study and document the new residents of these cities. The infrared camera set up near the Wuhan Zoo has captured the hedgehog. Kameyama has a record of mustela badgers.
The raccoons in the community, as well as the macaques in the playground of the ground, belong to the national second-level protected animals.
There is a "national security" at the door of the house, and there is no reason to drive away.
There are also worries: what if it scratches me?
In the face of strange small animals, humans are curious and afraid. In fact, small animals are also very alert in their hearts, such as raccoons, they never take the initiative to contact humans. As long as people do not take the initiative to provoke, they and humans can live in a community very harmoniously.
Someone asked, is there an infectious disease in raccoons? In fact, raccoons do have the risk of carrying infectious diseases, but similar to stray cats or stray dogs, do not take the initiative to touch and provoke.
Small animals are not stupid, they will actively adapt to the urban environment, such as reduced territorial awareness, smaller body size, wider feeding, weaker aggression and so on.
In addition to not taking the initiative to tease and provoke human beings, the most important thing is: don't feed!
Feeding causes aggregation. The downstairs of the house is full of wild animals waiting to be fed, and it is quite scary to think.
If you really don't want them to make a home in your neighborhood, the best thing to do is to reduce the terrain suitable for nesting.
In the case of raccoons, for example, they like to hide in narrow seams, and as long as they seal the cracks that may be used as a hiding place by the raccoons, they will naturally run away.
In addition, if you find unknown wild animals near your home, or if your daily life is disturbed by small animals, directly hit 110.
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The phenomenon of wild animals entering the city on the Internet is called "the urbanization of animals", and the flower erosion teacher said that this can also be said to be "the re-re-rewilding of the city".
The "urbanization of animals" has only just begun in Wuhan. In many countries, animals have long been integrated into urban life.
Singapore has two large otter clusters, like two gangsters, often fighting. Washington has a large number of raccoons and skunks, and raccoons will enter the house like hooligans.
In some suburbs of London and Bristol, more than 20 red foxes can be found per square kilometre, and they can be seen running freely in the park woodlands.
Teacher Hua Eroding said that a city with only people is not good. The more friendly a person is to animals in a place, the better the animals will grow and the more harmonious the relationship between man and nature will be.
For nearly a century, critters have been adapting to our urban sprawl, giving up territory that belonged to them.
Now, it's our turn to adjust to their return.