Hello everyone, this is the first weekend of 2024 and our 21st issue of Daily News about animals.
Nowadays, in the recommendation of many tour guides in Hoh Xil, meeting and feeding Internet celebrity wolves has become a new tourism project in the local area. After more than half a year of human feeding, this wolf has grown from skinny to round and jade, from trembling to wagging his tail and flattering, from what he eats to picking and choosing...... Is it a wolf twist, or is it an evolutionary regression?
At the same time, around the Internet celebrity wolf, the discussion has never stopped for more than half a year. Some animal protection agencies have called for a ban on feeding, others feel that human feeding has saved the lives of wolves whose habitat is shrinking, and some people compare this wolf to a migrant worker, saying that it has taken off its "wolf's long shirt......
Behind this seemingly absurd story, there is a question worth thinking about: should you be a wild wolf full of wild but can't eat, or be an Internet celebrity wolf who doesn't need to be hungry but has no nature?
Text | Liu Xuan
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Look for the Internet celebrity wolf
"If I can meet the Internet celebrity wolf in the morning, then my luck will be good for the whole day. Before leaving, Zhang Xiaolong, the tour guide of Hoh Xili, thought so.
This day is December 14, 2023, and this is the last regiment he has brought this year. 2023 is also his fourth year as a tour guide and team leader, and most of the groups he usually leads are one-day tours, ranging from a few to a dozen people. They took the route of Golmud - Kunlun Mountain - Hoh Xili. But now the temperature is close to minus 20 degrees, and the sky is covered with snow, and you have to try your luck when you encounter an Internet celebrity wolf.
At the same time, the weather is cold, and it is more difficult for wolves to forage. There are also people on social platforms who call for "it's cold, feed more", worried that the Internet celebrity wolf will die of cold and starvation.
Since the name of the Internet celebrity wolf has been launched in the human world, many tourists have come here. In 2023, Zhang Xiaolong received a total of sixty or seventy tourists who came to see the Internet celebrity wolf. He strictly forbade everyone to get out of the car, and the tourists could only open the windows to take pictures in the car at most, but the feeding was completely voluntary. Since he has mastered the location of the Internet celebrity wolf, and several friends will also communicate with each other, he is now a good hand at finding the Internet celebrity wolf.
▲ A herd of Tibetan antelopes encountered by Fan Xixi. Photo / Courtesy of the interviewee
Hoh Xili Internet celebrity wolf, racial wolf, professional dog (not), age unknown (quite old), the reason for staying away from the wolves is currently in the rivers and lakes There are many versions, some people say that it is because of too old, after being defeated by the new wolf, fleeing from the wolves;
In the first half of 2023, the Internet celebrity wolf accidentally arrived near National Highway 109, and at this time, the gears of its fate began to turn.
At that time, the Internet celebrity wolf was skinny, his eyes were blank, and the characteristics revealed by his body up and down were: fragile products, touched by mistake. In the earliest video that circulated, it was a passing driver who first fed the Internet celebrity wolf, and the egg yolk pie delivered by the driver master opened the door to the new world of this wolf.
Subsequently, it went further and further on the road of egg yolk pie, from the previous hungry and full meal, to the current life of chicken and fort, passers-by couldn't help but sigh: "It's not that the wolf king can't afford it, but the egg yolk pie is more cost-effective." ”
▲ Ignore the snow cakes that are fed. Diagram / Network
Compared with half a year ago, the Internet celebrity wolf is a different look. It was in August of the previous year, on the way back from a trip to Tibet, Fan Xixi met the early Hoh Xil Internet celebrity wolf. At that time, the Internet celebrity wolf was far less fat than it is now, similar to Erha's body size, thin, with a drooping tail, and a little black in his yellow hair. But at this time, Fan Sixi found that its eyes had changed, and instead of the ferocity of a wolf, "there was a clear stupidity in its eyes".
Seeing that the car stopped, the Internet celebrity wolf circled around Fan Xixi's car, circled from left to right, and finally came to a stop at a distance of half an arm from the car, looking at everyone with pitiful eyes, as if sending a signal that they wanted to be fed.
The food fed by humans has subverted the wolf's recipes. Now, most of its three meals are ham sausages and steamed buns. As can be seen from the videos taken by many tourists or drivers, people usually take pictures with their mobile phones with one hand and knock on the glass, and the other hand reaches into the bag to take out ham sausages and buns, and shouts "look, wolf" or "here, here, eat here", the Internet celebrity wolf is no stranger to these human exclaims, calmly walks over, picks up the ham sausage, retreats to the side of the road, and feasts.
Between the wolf road and the heavenly road, the Internet celebrity wolf who chose the national road, in the days when everyone fed a bun, a chicken leg at a time, and from time to time with egg yolk pie as afternoon tea, its life was changed.
Find the Internet celebrity wolf
Zhang Xiaolong is worthy of being a good hand at finding Internet celebrity wolves.
His network on the ground has played a role as a radar. A friend who was traveling with him saw the Internet celebrity wolf in front of him and synchronized his position, and Zhang Xiaolong immediately led the two tourists of the day to "meet by chance".
At about 11 o'clock at noon on December 14 last year, passing through the Wuji Longfeng Palace, and then passing through the Kunlun Pass, the red wolf of Hoh Xili appeared. Seeing the wolf, the two tourists in the group screamed excitedly: "I really saw the Internet celebrity wolf!"
In the wind of minus 20 degrees, the Internet celebrity wolf stopped two or three meters away from the car and waited to be fed. It resembles a neighbor's big fat dog, with a round belly, and it is simply a second spring after breaking away from the wolves. Only from its drooping tail can it be vaguely discerned that it is still a wolf. The tourists on the bus broke the bread they carried with them into small pieces and fed it to it, and it ate with relish.
On the day, they stayed for about 5 minutes, and after feeding and taking pictures, they were ready to leave. But the Internet celebrity wolf is still reluctant, turning back one step at a time, as if confirming "is it really no longer giving".
▲ The appearance of the Internet celebrity wolf in August 2023. Photo / Courtesy of the interviewee
In a sense, the change of the Internet celebrity wolf also reflects the helplessness of life and the strong ability of the environment to transform species.
At first, people were more cautious about feeding it, first throwing out an egg yolk pie or snow cake, and trying to test it, because it was too hungry, it also did not refuse.
But slowly, it began to get rich, from the initial skinny to the current round and jade, it also lived more and more like a two. It confirms the saying, "There are no dogs in this world, but when there are more people who feed them, the wolf becomes a dog", and some people joked, "Look at how high the calories of egg yolk pie are".
▲ Fat as two wolves. Diagram / Network
Some attentive netizens also found that the Internet celebrity wolf has now grown garlic clove-like hair, and its small belly is also increasing day by day. This condition is generally only seen in fatter animals. In November 2023, someone took a short video, and he specially brought 3 large lamb chops to the Internet celebrity wolf.
So much so that now, this wolf has begun to be a bit picky eater, and used to eat snow cakes, but now it is also smelling. Someone summed up the food that people have been fed for more than half a year, and found that the current Internet celebrity wolf has a fixed recipe - like to eat egg yolk pie, ham sausage, hamburger, and Orleans-flavored fried chicken......
Age threshold and domestication
In the book "Wolves: Behavior, Biology and Conservation" by biologist David, it is mentioned that there is fierce and brutal competition between wolves and wolves.
And as he gets older, each male wolf is qualified to compete for the position of the first wolf in the pack, and the end of the struggle is that the strongest male wolf becomes the leader of the pack. The other male wolves either surrender or wander around and become "lone wolves".
This can't help but be reminiscent of those migrant workers who have reached the age of 35.
According to the "Research Report on the Employment of Middle-aged and Elderly Job Seekers" released by Zhaopin.com in 2022, the impairment of age value leads to a higher probability of being laid off. According to the questionnaire survey, 80.1% of middle-aged and elderly job seekers believe that the biggest difficulty in finding a job is the age limit.
Nowadays, 35 is an anxious age threshold. It seems that at the age of 35, everything will be forced to draw an unsatisfactory end. Maybe one second you are still receiving thumbs-up and aggressive encouragement from the leader in the work group, and the next second you receive a private message from personnel, "Come to the human resources side to talk".
On the Internet, there are countless news that are optimized for age. In August 2023, Red Star News reported that a public hospital in Shaanxi Province will write "no renewal of employment at the age of employment" into the official document for non-staff employees. On social platforms, some people tell that they are 35 years old, they were run by the company, they were transferred to a job, their salaries were reduced, and they were made to make mistakes, and they were denied by the leaders every day, forcing people to take the initiative to resign;
Tsingshan Capital's 2022 annual consumption report also shows that "many places regard the age of 35 as a hurdle, and some of them are hard and fast rules, and some are conventional, and they are all excluding the age of 35."
▲ Picture / "Love Home: Happy Express"
All kinds of phenomena also show that in addition to the age threshold, there are many similarities between the encounter between Internet celebrity wolves and humans.
In the book "Gun Germs and Steel", it was written that among wild mammals that can be domesticated by humans, they must meet a variety of characteristics such as rapid growth, reproduction in captivity, and gentle personality. Among them, dogs were domesticated from some wolves. The changes made by the Internet celebrity wolf in order to survive can be called an early precious picture of humans taming wild wolves and becoming dogs.
In a sense, human beings, who are caught by the pressure of life and work, are also gradually domesticated. For example, you can gradually accept the workload of 30,000 yuan with a salary of 3,000 yuan; for example, you can be busy from morning to night, and you can only fish in the bathroom for ten minutes if you want to rest; for example, in the face of various unreasonable requirements of the leader, you can only smile and cooperate, and be obedient...... As if this is the only way not to go hungry.
Some people also think of Wang Ziru, who was on the hot search because of the remarks of "I haven't read the salary slip given to me by Gree" before.
At that time, in front of the camera interview and the boss, Wang Ziru said a jaw-dropping summary, such as he said: "I once fantasized that one day, if I could have such an experience in my career, I could follow a top entrepreneur (looking at Dong Mingzhu), even if I don't do anything every day, I just watch how she holds meetings, I listen to what she says and does every day, I feel that it is a happy thing." ”
This series of remarks has sparked a huge discussion. Some people feel that this kind of flattery has reached a level that makes people feel a little uncomfortable; some people feel that Wang Ziru is unfair, and feel that as a subordinate, it is "commendable" to be able to correct his position; and some people choose to have an epiphany, "I used to scoff at it, but now I am learning Xi frame by frame."
As the saying goes, question the Internet celebrity wolf, understand the Internet celebrity wolf, and become an Internet celebrity wolf.
A new wolf is born
Before working as a tour guide, Zhang Xiaolong made a living from herding, and he used to have many opportunities to come into contact with wolves.
At one point, he saw seven or eight wild wolves, the most wolves he had ever seen. These wolves don't get close to people at all, and they run away when they see people from afar. In contrast, he has a great interest in Internet celebrity wolves, because Internet celebrity wolves not only dare to approach vehicles, but also dare to approach people to beg for food.
Now, the latest change is that the Internet celebrity wolf already has a little brother. In the video released by netizen Yang Tsai on November 15, it was shown that the Internet celebrity wolf brought up the little brother. Another wolf who does not want to go hungry has already chosen to determine the new "employment direction", and decided to take off his long shirt and beg with the Internet celebrity wolf as a teacher, after all, "it is not that hunting cannot be afforded, but begging is more cost-effective".
▲ Hoh Xil Internet celebrity wolf and its "little brother". Diagram / Network
Generally speaking, the Internet celebrity wolf will play the front, first teach everyone to be familiar with the greeting process with the driver, and the new wolf is responsible for observing and learning Xi behind. It can be seen that the new wolf is obviously slightly vigilant when eating, while the Internet celebrity wolf is already familiar with the road and swaggering on the road. The Internet celebrity wolf's model of first gaining fat and then gaining weight will be able to become a teacher in time.
Now, the wolves of Coh Xili have been divided into two factions: the old school and the egg yolk faction. Enthusiastic netizens lonely autumn chose to publish a book for the Internet celebrity wolf to record its dramatic life. The novel is called "Reborn Wolf King, Egg Yolk Pie on the Road at the Beginning". The full text of this novel is 257,000 words, and it has been reviewed by 1,543 people, and it has also received a high score of 8.7 on Tomato Reading, and 123,000 people have read the book.
In this book, Ye Yun, the incarnation of the Internet celebrity wolf, was a human in his previous life, but was accidentally collided by a mud truck and reborn into the wolf's body, and since then it has started a new life with the memory of human beings and the form of a wolf.
It seems that the Internet celebrity wolf is trying to use its own experience to try to wake up humans - wolf culture is useless, and they themselves are very disgusted. As a controversial wolf culture in the contemporary workplace, some people feel that instead of drifting in the big city, being painted by the boss in various pies, increasing various pressures, and provoking various infighting, "happiness is theirs, I have nothing", it is better to leave Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, return to their hometown, learn to Xi the Internet celebrity wolf, and highlight one that can eat a full stomach.
Wolf King: Do you know what a king is?
Internet celebrity wolf: Do you know what the king of kings is?
And the Internet celebrity wolf has been changed by the environment, which is quite similar to the changes of the times to people. However, it is also a question mark whether the changes brought about by such external forces, which are contrary to nature, can adapt to nature for a long time.
Compared with the Internet celebrity wolf, the fate of the Internet celebrity little fox with a similar story is more bumpy. Jimu News reported that in the Kanas Scenic Area of Altay, Xinjiang, there was a little fox who went down the mountain to find food, and tourists would kindly feed it after seeing it, and they were fed ham sausages and other high-oil and high-salt foods, and finally, the little fox's tail began to lose hair. Although the Burzin branch of the Altai Mountains State Forestry Administration has issued a ban on feeding wild animals, it has had little effect.
"High sugar, high salt, high fat and other components in human food can cause obesity in wild animals, affect the cardiovascular health of animals, and cause bone deformation, hair loss, organ failure, and even death," the announcement reads. ”
And on December 25 last year, this Internet celebrity fox, which has been fed by humans for a long time, came to the end of his life. The last memory it left to mankind is a hot search on Weibo-
#Internet celebrity fox died in the snow#.
(Names have been changed)
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