Recently, the Shanghai Zoo has been receiving good news, first of all, the Roe family added "Xinding" (poke → baby: four were born last year, and eight were born this year! The "baby race" continues... After that, there were "clams" and "stewed eggs" to report (poke → the Shanghai Zoo, the newborn babies are actually called "clams" and "stewed eggs", and there are "dark circles" when they are born). Today, the tiān deer family has added six new small deer in half a month. But the moose are basically one litter per litter, so these six baby moose are babies born by six mole mothers within half a month.
Newborn baby moose
Baby moose
None of the six deer have the same "skin color," and their mothers don't necessarily have the same "skin color" as them. This is because the moose has two genes, white and yellow, one dominant and one recessive, as to whether the baby born is dominant or recessive, it depends on luck, so when you see a yellow deer mother feeding a white fawn, don't think that she has fed the wrong baby.
In the park you can see this scene:
Yellow Mother Yellow Baby
Yellow Mom White Baby
White Mom White Baby
White Mom Yellow Baby
Note: White deer also have markings on their bodies when they are young, but the coat color is lighter, and it will slowly fade with age.
Curious netizens
Will these little moose mistake their mothers?
Green Rongjun
Rest assured, mothers of moose will recognize their children by smell and sound, and the number of deer in the wild can be as high as 150, and if they do, it will be spectacular during the breeding season.
Left to right: Mixed color family, old white family, old yellow family
Like most deer, baby deer are born hiding in the cracks in the weeds and rocks, staying alert and waiting for their mothers who are out foraging to come back to feed. They will hide here until the weeds and rocks cannot hide their bodies, and the grown moose will follow their mothers like "small pendants" to forage and run together.
Mom licks the baby
3 weeks old Children of the same age can play together
The deer have spots on their bodies, and many tourists mistake it for a sika deer. Judging from the size, the two are indeed difficult to distinguish, but there are still traces to follow. In appearance, the sika deer is darker in color, the coat color of the deer is lighter, and the white hair at the tail root is more conspicuous. Not only that, but their distribution areas are also different, the deer are native to southern Europe, and the sika deer are mainly distributed in China, Russia and other places.
White hairs on either side of the tail of the deer's hips
When in danger or frightened, they cock their tails, revealing their white butts, signaling an emergency to their companions.
The white ass of the northeast sika deer is less pronounced
Therefore, the "European version of the sika deer" can also be regarded as the noble among the deer. Natively distributed in the woods and open land along the Mediterranean coast, they can be seen in the major royal gardens in Europe hundreds of years ago, leisurely walking, eating the "afternoon grass" fed by the princes and nobles, and the temperament is explosive. Because of this, they also became the preferred hunting targets for European royalty and nobles.
Now is different from the year, please do not feed when you visit the park
Of course, the little dors born in the Shanghai Zoo do not have to worry about this, since they were born, a lifetime of food and clothing has been set, continue to maintain their innate "aristocratic temperament". At present, these six fawns have been exhibited in the deer exhibition area of the herbivores area, and everyone is welcome to come to the park to participate in the game of "The Deer Family Continues to See".
So who the hell am I?
Source: Shanghai Zoo