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(Video courtesy of Xining Wildlife Park, Central Broadcasting Network reporter Teng Meng, editing and production)
On July 7, the reporter learned from xining wildlife park that a rabbit in Xining Wildlife Park was one year old and 2 months old, which was the first time that China had successfully achieved artificial breeding of rabbits and filled the domestic gap.
As an ancient cat, rabbit fox has a history of 6.5 million years, its own immune system is not sound, and it has a high fatality rate for toxoplasmosis, which is not harmful to general cats, and for rabbit pups. Rabbit breeding has plagued the world for decades, and has never been successfully bred to survive in China, and the breeding of "Fox Lady" has successfully filled the domestic gap.
Happy first birthday to "Lady Fox"! (Courtesy of Xining Wildlife Park)
At present, the "Lady of the Fox" weighs 3.4kg, and the daily keepers will feed her fresh lamb or beef regularly, and her physical condition is in good condition. As the princess rabbit of Xining Wildlife Park, it has long been concerned by many netizens and fans, and in the future, this rabbit will participate in artificial breeding and protection education related work to play its ecological protection significance.
Qi Xinzhang, deputy director of Xining Wildlife Park, said: "The breeding and survival of rabbits has laid the foundation for the breeding of small cats in the park, and Xining Wildlife Park will fully summarize the experience and lessons of rabbit breeding, strive to achieve more achievements in rabbit breeding, and make breakthroughs in the artificial breeding of other small cats such as desert cats." ”
The new Internet celebrity animal "Lady Of the Fox" (Courtesy of Xining Wildlife Park)
It is reported that rabbits are only exhibited in Xining Wildlife Park in China, and are one of the star animals of Xining Wildlife Park, and its Weibo super topic #狲爷 has reached 130 million times; the cumulative playback of related content on the short video platform has reached hundreds of millions of times, which is a new Internet celebrity animal in recent years.
In addition, Xining Wildlife Park is the only zoo in China to raise and display rabbits, with 5 highland subspecies rabbits, which is the only 5 captive pure breed highland subspecies rabbits in the world. They are:
Fox Simiao: Male, cub rescued in 2015, father of Lady Fox.
Shangxiang: Female, cub rescued in 2019, mother of Lady Fox.
Xiao man: Female, rescued cub in 2014, is the oldest rabbit in the park.
Little Sister: Female, a cub rescued in 2015, the twin sister of Fox Simiao, and the aunt of Lady Fox.
Lady Fox: Female, artificially bred rabbit in 2021, the only artificially bred rabbit in China.
Meng Mengda "Lady of the Fox" (Courtesy of Xining Wildlife Park)