"I refuse to show animals, but I can't refuse animals to perform. ”
This year, human beings have come out to have fun, and animal "Internet celebrities" have also appeared on the stage, becoming alternative "conspicuous bags".
The giant panda, a traditional animal star, is still "full of talents" this year.
Chengdu's "top stream" and "Hehua" stand out among their peers by virtue of their triangular stature and outstanding beauty, and become "the world's most recognized giant panda"; Beijing's "Menglan" has an uninhibited soul, and when other pandas indulge in dried bamboo shoots, it climbs trees, digs tunnels, sit-ups, and practices Xi one-word horses, and "escapes" in the "prison escape" incident two years ago and becomes famous, and is known as the "Third Prince of Xizhimen."
No prize quiz - "Look at the back to know the giant panda": Guess who is Hehua?
Many emerging influencers have also made strong appearances.
The "Cao Gang" monkeys of Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo have entered people's field of vision in one fell swoop with their ability to "float on water";
The stray monkey "floating" picture was circulated on the Internet
The capybara, alias "Kapibala", has become synonymous with "emotional stability" with the mental state of "being trampled on by other animals without being shocked", and as the new favorite of IP in the animal world, "capybara" has been played 1.64 billion times on a short video platform.
Don't look at the animal kingdom "competing for beauty", looking at the excitement, in fact, the story behind it is more worth savoring.
Hakimi, is cuteness enough?
At the beginning of the year, various media forwarded "the old horse is gone", and people asked "who is the old horse?" until I saw the obituary of the Hongshan Forest Zoo, and I met the Malay bear who grew up with a generation of post-80s Nanjing children;
故宫小猫？此乃“带膘侍卫”
Of course, it is not only these animal Internet celebrities "in the system" who debuted, but many wild Internet celebrities also got out of the circle by chance. Like what:
The monkeys of Mount Emei can be described as "notorious" in the Internet celebrity circle. From grabbing snacks, drinks, and fruits, to scratching people, lifting skirts, and riding heads...... Over the years, it can be described as a "bad record". So this year, when I saw the "separation of humans and monkeys" policy in the scenic spot and the "hard stubble" of humans and monkeys "beating each other", people only felt relieved: "Emeishan monkeys, your good days are coming to an end!"
The monkey of Mount Emei
In Qinghai, a wild wolf in Hoh Xili also successfully entered the "Internet celebrity circle". As a result of being fed by passing tourists and drivers all the time, his body gradually gained weight, and it became "rounded" with the naked eye. The comparison of the before and after photos of the two wolves makes people sigh: after getting fat, even the wolves are "kind and kind".
Some animals are so hot that humans have to rub their traffic.
For example, the "baby frog seller" who walks the streets and alleys pitifully sells little frog balloon toys; human beings who have evolved for thousands of years suddenly "return to their ancestors" and shout "My life is also my life"; in Shanghai Disneyland, Lena Belle's popularity has not diminished in the two years since her debut, and "Chuan Sha Daji" has been on the hot search repeatedly.
"Mo" is a dialect from the Liangguang region, which means "monkey"
Not only that, after the release of "Chinese Strange Tan", the "little pig demon" with "Langlang Mountain" in their hearts is everywhere; creative young people have set their sights on eating leftover mango cores and created a new species of high-value, fluffy "mango dogs"; since the "workplace jellyfish" hatched in the office, many migrant workers have followed suit, focusing on slow response, small and transparent, brainless but toxic......
Four steps to raise a mango pet :(1) Peel the mango and eat the mango pulp, (2) Wash the mango with water and remove the remaining pulp with a toothbrush, (3) Dry the mango core with a hair dryer, (4) Dry it in a ventilated place for a few days.
It seems that as long as the shell of an animal is put on, people can let themselves go more, and it doesn't matter whether it's true or not. Just like this year's popular "Hakimi", which is obviously a Japanese transliteration of "honey water", but with its brainwashing melody and cute tone, it quickly became synonymous with kittens and refers to all cute animals in general.
In the final analysis, behind the fire of some animal Internet celebrities, there is mostly the projection of human feelings.
Animals are getting closer to people
Not only are there many "animals" on the Internet, but there are also more and more animals around people.
Many animals have directly "entered the house" and have the status of "pets" and even "family" in tens of millions of human families. Data shows that from 2010 to 2020, the number of pets in China soared from 59 million to 189 million. According to the statistics of the "2023 China Pet Industry Development Report", the number of pets in the mainland will increase to nearly 200 million this year.
Urban stray animals are also on the rise. According to industry estimates, tens of millions of stray animals have been produced in mainland China due to abandonment of pets and disorderly breeding, in addition to common cats and dogs, there are also pythons, Brazilian turtles, crocodiles, alligator gars and other exotic pets.
Wild animals are entering the city one after another, and many of them are nationally protected animals. For example, in Guangzhou's "choir of birds," there are red-eared bulbuls and white-headed bulbuls as the "lead singers," and Far Eastern and dark green embroidery-eyed birds as "backing singers"; raccoon dogs in Shanghai hide in the vents of residential buildings or abandoned sewers and pick up roast chicken bones on the ground after the barbecue stalls close their stalls; squirrels and weasels may hide among the bushes in parks where dogs are walked, wild boars appear on the streets from time to time, and monkeys will "visit people's homes" from time to time.
Raccoon dog is a national second-class protected animal that is wild in the residential area of Shanghai, China
With more and more "animal" neighbors in the city, it is not uncommon to be bumped into by humans a few times. For example, in May this year, the timid Huang Lu skillfully ran through a courtyard in Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou; in November, an ocelot broke into a residential community in Beijing; and the people of Shanghai have long been familiar with raccoon dogs, and according to the "raccoon dog mouth census" at the end of this year, more than 200 neighborhoods may have hidden "a hill of raccoon dogs."
In November this year, the leopard cat was found in the community of Guanbeili, Fangshan City (Source: Beijing Daily)
Wild animals are also growing freely where people can't see them.
In the Daxing'an Mountains, more than 30 new species of birds have appeared on surveillance, and the traces of wild Siberian tigers have reappeared after more than 50 years; on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, snow leopards that used to be unable to see high-altitude "social fear" snow leopards for several days have become easy to "encounter" and have repeatedly appeared on the big screen in theaters; and in the Yangtze River basin, the number of finless porpoises has increased for the first time......
Image of the Siberian tiger
With the improvement of the ecological environment, the distance between people and animals is also getting closer.
Animals friends, good work
In fact, it is not so much that the animals have entered people's vision and life, but that the animals have returned to the place where they belong.
Millions of years ago, there were no cities on the earth, and when our ancestors ran through the mountains and woodlands with stones and sticks, the animals were enjoying themselves. Until the past century, industrialization and urbanization have continuously expanded the living space of human beings, and animals have either left or retreated to the "second line".
On the commuter train, people rub shoulders with each other, and there are still three points of anger. Nowadays, in the crowded and limited urban space, animals are constantly "stationed", and conflicts between humans and animals are constantly occurring.
In October this year, a dog injury incident in Chongzhou, Chengdu, attracted national attention. Since then, all localities have strictly controlled dog leashes, or issued proposals, or set up patrol teams, and high-intensity law enforcement has also appeared at the same time as the controversy of "culling stray dogs", and people who have pets and those who do not have pets have completely different attitudes towards urban animals.
Not to mention the fact that pet ownership has become a common phenomenon, and even without pets, humans cannot drive wild animals away from cities. The coexistence of humans and animals is an inevitable result.
"Cohabiting" with animals has never been a simple matter of "fairy tale princesses singing and singing". Stray cats scream in estrus, and animals attack people frequently in summer, carrying viruses, bacteria and parasites...... At the same time, urban high-voltage lines, plastic bags, highways, poisons from rodents and ants, and human feeding can also put animals in danger.
When people live together, they must be bound by law and morality. When humans live with animals, they also have to obey the laws of nature. For example, keeping a distance and not interfering with each other is the survival wisdom given by nature.
Life will always find its way. Cuter looks, routes to avoid crowds, and new recipes with kitchen waste...... Even though cities were originally designed for humans, animals are trying to "urbanize".
In Guizhou, macaques go into the city to visit the park
Naturally, humans have to keep up. A perfect and unified pet breeding system, strict urban animal management, and the scientific concept of treating animals correctly are all things that people can do and do.
In many developed countries and regions, people will prevent raccoons from entering their homes to steal things, and drive carefully with wild deer, thus giving birth to corresponding legal and commercial insurance to deal with them. Nowadays, Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities have also successively improved and introduced relevant regulations.
This is a land where humans and animals live together, and people have to work hard, and animals are adapting.
Animal friends, you have worked hard.
Source: CCTV
Editor: Yang Liya
Editor-in-charge: Niu Dong