Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client October 3 news (reporter Guo Keying correspondent Chen Liyun) If you encounter a group of flamingos played by children in the mall, how can you not be cute? On the 3rd, the National Day Special Edition of the Mobile Zoo walked into the Wusheng Road Kaide Square, and Peng Shaobo, a science popularization commissioner of Wuhan Zoo, refreshed everyone's cognition of the flamingo, unveiled the secret of its coat color, and invited children to imitate the walking posture of the flamingo and came to a catwalk show.
Kids experience flamingo's catwalk show. Photo by reporter He Xiaogang
"The red flamingo, whose feathers are actually white and pink." Peng Shaobo refreshed everyone's cognition with one mouth, "Of course, not all flamingos are so red, such as one of the flamingos, the big red stork is very red." As flamingos in captivity, we maintain their redness by feeding astaxanthin. Peng Shaobo made an analogy, for example, humans eat black sesame seeds can keep their hair black, "Flamingos eat small shrimp containing astaxanthin can also keep not fading." But humans don't necessarily turn red when they eat shrimp, because people are fundamentally different from flamingos. ”
Peng Shaobo, science popularization commissioner of Wuhan Zoo, shared how flamingos turn red. Photo by reporter He Xiaogang
"What is the natural enemy of the flamingo in nature?" Wang Jiayan, a first-year primary school student, asked, "This should start with the living environment of flamingos, they live by lakes with shallow water potential, their nests are also at the water's edge, and the flamingos babies that break out of their shells in the egg have powerful fins as soon as they are born, enough to float in shallow water." Peng Shaobo explained that flamingos have a suitable living environment and many types of natural enemies, such as jackals on the ground and birds of prey in the sky are their enemies.
After playing a video of flamingos walking in groups, Peng Shaobo reminded everyone to pay attention to the details, "When flamingos walk, their knees are bent backwards, which is very different from humans. In order to let the children remember this feature, Peng Shaobo demonstrated a group of two people, and simulated the posture of the flamingo walking forward in a backward way, and came to a catwalk show. Children wearing flamingo headbands transform into flamingo teams to compete which group is the fastest to reach the finish line. "It turns out that the flamingo's knees are turned back, and I am also a flamingo." Cao Zixi, a first-grader at the Red Scarf School, and his friends were the first to reach the finish line and harvested a pink flamingo feather after the breeder had dehydrated and disinfected it.
Scramble for the "Flamingos". Photo by reporter He Xiaogang
As the most popular program for children, Li Jing, the "hand-painted sister of the square cabin", drew a black and white portrait of the flamingo, inviting the children to complete the coloring process together, they let the three little flamingos have three red colors from light to deep, and painted the blue lake surface and colorful leaves.
The children finish coloring the flamingos together. Photo by reporter He Xiaogang
So far, the mobile zoo National Day special edition activities ended, from the 1st to the 3rd, 3 activities, nearly 100 parent-child families participated in it, through the Yangtze River Daily APP live broadcast platform and the official Weibo of the Yangtze River Daily, a total of more than 100,000 netizens watched, spent a period of edutainment and good time.
【Editor: Zhang Wenhui】