Recently, the news that Yaya, a giant panda in the United States, is going to return has touched the hearts of many people, and its video has also appeared on the big screen in Times Square in New York.
Yaya, however, is a silent victim, displayed like a Nazi concentration camp prisoner.
So, what exactly did Yaya go through?
In 2003, the female giant panda "Yaya" and the male giant panda "Lele" arrived at the Memphis Zoo in the United States to start their travel career in the United States.
In 2013, after the 10-year lease of the two pandas ended, Memphis Zoo signed an agreement with the China Zoo Association to extend the lease for another 10 years.
On December 21, 2022, Memphis Zoo announced that it will return the giant pandas "Yaya" and "Lele" to China in the United States, ending the 20-year lease period.
However, near the return date, we learned of Lele's death last month, and now we have exposed Yaya's current situation. Through the autopsy examination of "Lele", it was preliminarily determined that he died of heart disease, and further pathological testing was required for accuracy or not.
What is even more distressing is that the health of the "Yaya" who went with her is very bad, not only is it skinny, but also has skin diseases on its body, and it is completely different from the flesh, round and tidy, and cute appearance we usually see.
Although it is assessed as currently stable and not life-threatening, it is certain that it must be treated immediately.
When the lease period is about to expire, the endangered animal giant panda dies and falls ill, and it seems that some Americans do not treat our national treasure as a treasure. There is even reason to suspect that the death of "Lele" and the illness of "Yaya" were caused by abuse or inadequate care by the management.
What is really confusing is that the "heart of steel" of Americans treating giant pandas is a world away from the previously reported treatment of Flaco's "glass heart".
The owl, Flaco, was offered food and drink in Central Park when he was less than one year old in 2010 until he escaped from the damaged fence in February and settled near the park.
At this moment, this owl, which has been pampered since childhood, has not worried about food and clothing, but has affected the "animal protection desire" of the American people. Therefore, on the streets and near parks in New York, there are always a group of people standing on the side of the road, holding mobile phones, cameras, telescopes and other "long guns and short cannons", staring at the treetops stunned, always paying attention to its movements.
Some people worry that it has not learned to prey, so some people follow feeding. Some people were worried about its safety, so the park quickly tried their best to pick it up, and some people even called not to visit the park in order to facilitate arrest.
It wasn't until they saw it go from failure to success in hunting that they let go of their hanging hearts.
Later, Flaco hangs out, hunts, rests, fights with local eagle falcons, takes nests with squirrels, confronts crows, quarrels with blue birds... Its every move is paid attention to throughout the process. Even its feces are carefully collected and studied to assess its health.
Now, seeing the owl living a happy and free life, the people have launched an online petition to return it to freedom, and now there are about 1,500 signatures, and the park has also said that it will not be arrested for the time being.
If there were no previous introductions to Lele and Yaya, it is estimated that we see the attitude of Americans towards Flaco after that, and we will definitely think that zoos in the United States care about animals and people love animals.
However, the idea is very full, the reality is very skinny, after all, you can't understand or guess the double standard of the Americans.