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Chen Qiaoen, on the hot search again.
This is her first voice since marriage, but it is for a baby elephant named Molly to ask for help:
"It is very painful to see the baby elephant full of injuries, it should not be treated like this, refuse to perform animals, please do not abuse animals, please save the baby elephant Molly ..."
In the blog post that Jon Chan forwarded, it was an injured baby elephant struggling.
After that, Shu Qi, Aya, Chen Xuedong and other stars followed, and the number of readers of the topic of #Save the Little Elephant Molly climbed straight up.
Turning over the comment area, netizens are also one-sided support.
What is the "magic" of Molly's baby elephant that has attracted the attention of so many people?
The girl had learned more about Molly's story and found that she had really suffered too much.
But she was once a little princess.
Six years ago, on March 20, 2016, Molly was born at the Kunming Zoo.
When she was born, she was not called "Molly", and everyone called her a little princess.
Because asian elephants are rare in number and belong to the national first-class protected animals, and Molly is the third generation, her parents are the leaders of the Asian elephants in Kunming, and because her birth day is "International Day of Happiness".
All kinds of aura shines, so she was loved by thousands of people when she was born.
When she was 1 year old, the Kunming Zoo held a birthday party for her, and on that day, about 500 students from 7 schools and countless parents of students came to the zoo to celebrate her birthday.
She was given a special fruit cake made from carrots, apples, sugar cane, fresh grasses and other foods, topped with her favorite peeled watermelon.
Accompanied by her father Zhongbo and her mother Mo Po, there are hundreds of children singing happy birthday songs for her.
It was also at this banquet that she got her name "Molly". It was collected by the zoo from the whole society and selected from thousands of manuscripts, which means purity and beauty, and wishes her healthy growth.
At that time, the sun was shining, the herbs were fragrant, and the air was the smell of happiness.
At that time, Molly's eyes reflected innocence and innocence, flashing with hope for the future.
But no one expected that this happiness would come to an abrupt end not long.
In order to "adjust the racial bloodline", molly was forcibly weaned at the age of 1 and a half (normal baby elephants were weaned at 2 years old) and taken away from her mother (female elephants are social animals and should have been with their mothers for the rest of their lives).
He was then trained to tie anklets and drill iron cages, and finally at the age of 2, he was successfully transported to a zoo in Qinyang, Henan.
Molly's nightmare began.
Initially, enthusiastic netizens found that a small female elephant performed "talent" in short videos many times, turning hula hoops, playing harmonica, blowing balloons, "golden rooster independence", handstands, wearing hats for human children, and riding for tourists... Versatile.
Later, according to the skin color, villi and other characteristics, everyone determined that this baby elephant was the little princess of the year - Molly. By this time, she was 4 years old.
No one knows what Molly went through in the two years from the age of 2 to 4, from a carefree little princess to a tired look.
From the documentary "The Black Elephant", we may be able to get a glimpse or two.
Elephants are inherently bulky and difficult to tame as adults, and if they want to obey, it is best to grab them from the "doll" and cooperate with punishment to be more effective.
The first step is to destroy the elephant's will.
In narrow wooden cages, the elephant's head and four legs are tied separately by ropes, and then the noise is constantly played and not enough food is given.
Then it will remain hungry, frightened, unable to lie down, unable to rest.
Then they were struck with whips, axes, elephant hooks, electric shock rods, etc., every morning and evening for up to half a year.
Until it has a complete mental breakdown, learns to obey, and begins to obey.
Then, the specific performance project is trained.
The elephant hook in the hands of the elephant trainer is the most useful "torture device".
Whenever the elephant disobeys, or moves in place, the elephant hook will mercilessly hit and barb its vulnerable parts: nose, neck, behind the ears, knees...
These parts will bleed, scab, bleed again, scab again... Keep repeating.
Molly's encounter is probably nothing more.
In the exposed picture, the girl saw that Molly was tied for a long time, and the skin and flesh of her legs were turned outward.
Between the waiting performances, she was locked by a thick iron chain of only about 20cm, and the range of motion was the size of the world with a radius of 20cm.
When performing upright, she has her front legs cocked and stands on her hind legs alone. But who noticed Molly's confused eyes and trembling body?
When she stands upside down, she grabs the ground with her head, which is a cute contrast between bulkiness and dexterity, and ushers in the applause of the audience.
However, behind this "wonderful" performance, Molly is limited by a huge weight, and once she falls, she will fracture her bones and squeeze her internal organs, and then she may be greeted by death.
When painting, she uses her dexterous nose to sketch the warm scene of walking with her mother with one stroke.
Elephants have rich nerve endings in their noses, which is very painful when inserted into foreign objects, and Molly, who is trained to paint, has to endure sharp pen shafts poking into her nostrils, and when she is finished, the tools removed may even be stained with blood.
Behind a "warm" painting, Yu Molly is a cruel torture.
Molly, although afraid of doing difficult movements, is more afraid of the pain of the hook piercing into the body.
Elephants normally live around 70 years, almost as long as humans, and Molly, who is only 6 years old this year.
6-year-old Molly, there is no light in her eyes.
Even more heartbreaking is that elephants are generally intelligent and have a very good memory, and can remember what happened a long time ago.
There was a little brother in Thailand who once saved a baby elephant, and once he pretended to fall into the water, and the cute little elephant rushed over and dragged him out of the rushing river with his nose.
Although young, it also remembers its former benefactors.
So, how does Molly, who has enjoyed happiness, digest the now boundless pain in her heart?
Will she still remember the fruitcake? Will you miss your mother? Will you cry quietly in no one's place?
And the fate is tragic, and it is not only Molly.
Circuses, the joy field of mankind, the "endless hell" of animals.
Monkeys who practice standing in order to perform monkey plays and are hooped around the neck.
A black bear that is chained around the neck to learn to walk upright.
A tiger whose teeth are knocked out in order to make it uninsurprising...
Marine animals are also doomed.
The dolphins in the aquarium, top balloons, hula hoops, and greeting children, look smart and cute.
Because of the "smiling face", dolphins are often mistaken for being happy.
But these performances are not their natural behavior at all, they do not understand the meaning of each movement, it is entirely the result of day-to-day high-intensity training.
Over the years, dolphins have suffered skin and bone injuries, internal organs are oppressed, coupled with the noisy performance environment and long-term mental tension, they are very prone to various diseases.
An adult dolphin has an IQ equivalent to that of a human child between 6 and 7 years old.
The more intelligent and "human" the animal, the faster they learn things, the more painful they are, because they know how to feel and have joys and sorrows like people.
So being smart is a sin, right?
There are also whales trapped in spiked fence prisons, waiting to be distributed.
A walrus whose eyes are severely red and swollen but still performing hard.
Where there is a performance, there must be long-term oppressive training behind it, and the animals will inevitably have various problems in their physiology and psychology.
Some animals exhibit stereotypical behavior.
Stereotypical behavior in animals generally repeats meaningless actions.
Some animals consciously self-harm.
Last year, a heart-wrenching incident occurred in an oceanarium in Canada, when a killer whale named Kiska kept slamming its head and body against the wall of the pool, bent on dying.
Imprisoned for 42 years, performance tools, fertility tools, five degrees of bereavement...
This was Kiska's desperate life.
Some animals, after being tortured, will be unable to resist and retaliate against humans.
There was an elephant named Tek in Danshan, Hawaii, who went through 12 years of torture and went crazy the day before retiring, trampling his own elephant trainer and beautician to death.
Tek ended up with 86 shots in the street, leaving the world with a pair of blood-stained but sad eyes and a playful circus hat on his head.
If Tektronix had a spirit and knew that it would be liberated by just one more day, would it feel sorry?
Or for those 30 minutes of freedom on the streets, without complaint or regret?
However, after all, the creatures that can resist are a minority, and more animals can only survive under cruel treatment, waiting for death and retirement.
Or, be rescued.
Fortunately, the survival dilemma of the "little elephant Molly" has been seen by more and more people.
Calls to boycott animal performances are also beginning to be heard by more people and joined in the actual action.
Nanjing Hongshan Zoo directly canceled animal performances and paid feeding, setting an example for the whole country.
The decision cost them a lot of money.
Coupled with the impact of the epidemic in recent years, forced to close the park, the number of tourists has dropped sharply, and in 2020 alone, the Loss of the Red Mountain Zoo has reached more than 30 million, once on the verge of closure.
However, shen zhijun, the director of the park, was not moved. In the most difficult times, the zoo had no income and no salary, but he preferred to pay out of his own pocket or even suspend the performance of his employees, but would never let the animals starve.
It is also this kind of payment at any cost that has touched countless people, so when the epidemic eased, people from all over the world rushed to the rescue and "retaliated" outings, and the number of people who entered the park once exceeded 30,000 a weekend.
Look, zoos that insist on "animal-oriented" are willing to pay for even if they don't use animal performances to please the audience.
In order to improve the living environment of the animals, the Red Mountain Zoo has been in action.
It has successively built luxurious "big villas", with flowing water in front and rockeries in the back, and the grass at the foot to see the blue sky.
Try to restore the wild environment that the animals are adapting to.
The zoo can even cater to the "special needs" of children.
Manicure for elephants.
Build a school for the owl, and those who successfully "graduate" can return to nature.
Also teaches orangutans to draw...
They have their own names, are friends when they are alive, and are remembered when they leave.
Shen Zhijun, director of Hongshan Zoo, has always adhered to his own concept of running a park - animals in Hongshan have the right not to be seen.
Similarly, the Guangzhou Zoo banned circus performances as early as 2017.
But the cure requires the participation of all of us – no longer watching animals perform.
Without buying and selling, there is no harm, and only when there are fewer spectators can the animals no longer have to carry heavy labor and undergo cruel training.
At present, these actions are still only a few sparks, but the girl believes that as long as everyone pays attention, speaks up together, and works together, the trickle can eventually converge into the river and the sea!
Hopefully, in the near future, humans and animals will have cleaner and purer pleasures, while animals are free to play and run freely in their own territories, never to be abused again.
I always look forward to that day!
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Animals don't have to be forced to "open"!