Most of the "Internet celebrities" in the human world rely on their beautiful appearance and outstanding talents to attract people's attention, and popularity often only requires a camera and a microphone. The "net reds" in the animal kingdom are different, they not only have a beautiful and cute appearance, but also be cute and talented, which can bring freshness to the audience and may stand out. When we give crazy likes to those "net red" animals off the screen, we don't know that behind them are often hidden unexpected pain and bitterness of humans.
The videos you see are often not the truth
Oak the Loris is a veritable "Internet celebrity", and the video of the dinner group has won it hundreds of millions of views and countless likes, and overnight it has become the "first cute pet" that people want to breed. Its big watery eyes and cute appearance have attracted the screams of countless girl fans.
Oak the Loris (Network Diagram)
Oak's real name is also called the bee monkey, it was born in the tropical and subtropical rainforest, in the video it is reluctant to let go of the rice ball, but in fact, it has never really liked the rice ball, its favorites are berries, insects and honey. Soon after its birth, it was forcibly taken away from its mother by poachers and sent to the glamorous pet shops of the metropolis. Before reaching the new owner, Oak also undergoes a cruel "transformation", the poachers will pull out their poisonous teeth, this process has no anesthetic, Oak is in pain worse than death, and it can only rely on soft rice balls to feed its stomach if it loses its teeth.
Lorises tickle
This video of Oak being tickled attracted more attention and likes. But few people know that Oak has never enjoyed this process, and all he feels is extreme fear! As the only poisonous primate, it stretches its arms in a daze, not to welcome intimate physical contact, but to release the toxins in its glands at the elbows to attack the other party [1]!
Lorises like Oak are National Protected Animals in China and are vulnerable species of the IUCN. They have never been pets, unamed, and humans cannot provide them with a suitable living environment, and even zoos say that lorises are difficult to keep. Therefore, buying lorises to go home and raise them is equivalent to giving them a death sentence. Coincidentally, there are many "non-mainstream" pet videos on the Internet that are very popular recently, looking eccentric macaques, small squirrels with big eyes, Australian honey wombats, lemurs have attracted countless people to pursue, not to mention that raising these wild animals itself is dangerous and difficult to feed, a large part of them are protected animals, breeding and selling will violate the law.
Knowing this, off-screen, are you still willing to reprint and share these videos?
The cruelty behind the flamboyance
Seawater tank (network diagram)
The seawater tank has become the new favorite of fish lovers over the years, a small fish tank, pinning all the aspirations of people living in inland cities for the sea, sunshine, sand, waves, cacti, everything can be contained in a square meter of seawater tank.
Yellow-tipped spinytail Dolly (network diagram)
Yellow high-finned thorntail Dolly is the darling of the seawater tank, it also has a nice name called "golden inverted triangle", these beautiful tropical ornamental fish have become the big stars in the circle of friends, but when they appear, they will surely attract countless likes, but Dolly is not happy about it.
Carcasses of tropical fish (network map)
Not long ago, someone picked up a bag of smelly tropical fish in a garbage can on the coast of Hawaii, opened it, and saw that there were 610 squeezed together tropical fish carcasses, the vast majority of which were Dolly's friends and family. Compared to these yellow-tipped spinytails, Dolly was lucky because it was once so close to death.
In Hawaii and the Philippines, some people dive into the depths of the ocean to catch these beautiful fish, and the methods of fishing are shocking.
Many tropical fish live in deeper waters, and if they are brought to the surface quickly, their body tissues will overextend or break due to rapid changes in water pressure. The moment many tropical fish are caught ashore, their eyes will even protrude sharply and burst. To avoid this, fishermen puncture their swim bladders with long needles.
Harvesting tropical fish (network map)
The main function of the swim bladder is to adjust the specific gravity of the fish body by changing the volume of gas within it, helping the fish to float or dive. By piercing the maw, the fisherman prevents the tropical fish from exploding due to a sudden and drastic change in air pressure, allowing the fish to be quickly brought out of the deep sea. However, the swim bladder is an extremely important organ of fish, and once destroyed, it will also lose its function, and the wild fish that are caught will face a high mortality rate, and many of them will die in transit.
The swim bladder is an important organ used to regulate the balance of the fish body (network diagram)
However, this is not the most excessive, many fishermen will use cyanide to make these beautiful fish unconscious, to prevent them from struggling, more beneficial to catch, in the United States, up to 90% of imported marine fish are illegally cyanide caught.
Photo by Jurgen freund, Nature Picture Library, Corbis, Come
On the Philippine island of Palawan, a fisherman is squeezing cyanide into the crevices of a coral reef, and despite the illegality, they will take the risk.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United Nations, 70 to 90 percent of the 12.5 million tropical fish imported by the United States each year are illegally cyanide[2].
But these chemicals often cause extremely bad effects on the ecology of the water, especially most of these tropical ornamental fish live near coral reefs, cyanide per poison a tropical fish needs to damage up to a square meter or so of coral, this invasion will not only affect the normal growth and development of corals, more likely to directly lead to the death of corals, once the coral dies in a large area, it is likely to lead to the collapse of the marine ecological environment and food chain, causing irreversible and terrible consequences to the entire ocean.
Dolly was fortunate not to die of a swim bladder puncture or poisoned by a chemical. The fisherman cut off part of its dorsal fin to avoid those sharp punctures through the plastic bag. When sent to the seawater tank, Dolly was already exhausted, although it passed by death, the breeder's technology will be a greater test for the tropical fish that are locked in the seawater tank like it, many breeders are not familiar with the living habits of tropical fish, often because of improper breeding, resulting in the death of these tropical fish that have just escaped the death line again.
Nowadays, many tropical ornamental fish such as dolly's yellow high-finned thorntails and clownfish have been artificially bred. However, many lovers of seawater tanks pursue novelty, and their demand for special species of tropical ornamental fish has undoubtedly exacerbated the overfishing of tropical ornamental fish, resulting in many tropical fish dying in the process of fishing or transportation, and destroying the local marine environment.
So, if you see the colorful seawater tank in the circle of friends, will you still like it?
"Wild Internet celebrities" can not escape the fate of posing
Many people like to click on the photographic pictures of wild animals on the Internet, those tense photos not only restore the wild nature of animals, but also have a sense of artistic beauty, these photos look very enjoyable, but few people really try to shoot, because everyone knows that photographing wild animals is a hard job. Many wildlife photographers, in order to capture the "wild influencers" who inhabit the natural environment, often need to endure the harsh wild environment for months to capture the freeze-frame moment, but if I tell you, the following "wild influencers" are fake, will you feel that you have been hit by 10,000 critical hits? The photos were taken at a wildlife photography site in Minnesota, USA.
What do you see (network diagram)
Painstaking photography work (network map)
You may be looking at fake photos (network diagram)
Even this famous wolf-bear battle is also posed, the deer is put up by the photographer, the wolf and the bear are all staged under the command of professional trainers, the scene is very sufficient, the acting skills are superb, and many well-known websites and magazines have been deceived.
The zoo has a lot of wild animals, specially for photographers, the original intention of taking these photos was to call on people to protect wild animals, love wild animals, but the photographers' approach has led to the restriction of the freedom of these poor wild animals, but also have to cooperate with humans, pose in various shapes, whether they like it or not, they will become a tool for businessmen and photographers to make a profit.
Compared to these "wild animals" that are not free, other photos are more cruel and terrifying.
Cute little guy (network map)
This little guy, everyone may not be unfamiliar, it has been reprinted countless times on Weibo, called rain frog, mainly living in Central and South America, the breeding season will gather together, sing loudly,
When they saw these pictures, many people said: "The little rain frog is so cute that it will actually play umbrellas to hide from the rain!" ”
This group of rain frog pictures look really warm, romantic, but the story behind it is bloody and terrifying, through the careful identification of netizens and other photographers, the back of the picture is not rain, but with water sprayed with a watering can, the legs of the small rain frog have obvious blood stains, it is stuck to the leaves, and the lotus leaves in its hands are also glued. You know, the rain frog likes a humid environment, why should it hide from the rain.
Not only that, but many photographers like to use their lenses to capture the beautiful butterflies flying, but this moment often requires hundreds of shutter presses to get the best picture. As a result, some photographers take some extreme measures to achieve their goals: they throw insects into the refrigerator, or into gas cylinders with ethyl acetate or ether, without killing the subject, reduce their ability to move.
In the face of such cruel "posing", are you still willing to pay attention to these photographic works?
The "Internet celebrities" in the animal kingdom have entered everyone's field of vision through the camera lens, but many of them are not out of their original intentions, and many are even forced to appear under the camera. In order to get close to these "Internet celebrities", more netizens invaded their habitats, disturbed their lives and breeding, and even illegally purchased these vulnerable wild animals from poachers at high prices.
"There is no killing without buying and selling", the phrase is not far from our lives. Sometimes, our inadvertent actions can also cause great harm to these wild animals, in addition to refusing to buy, I hope that we can also refuse to forward videos related to illegal breeding of rare wild animals, refuse to like the posing pictures, refuse to take photos with these protected animals in tourist areas, and avoid disturbing the wildlife nature reserve. These insignificant actions can determine the life and death of wild animals. It is the responsibility of each and every one of us to return their freedom and living space.
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exegesis:
[1] Yu Liangge, Chen Minjie, Yang Shijian, Shi Lei. Research and conservation of nycticebus monkeys[j]. Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Natural Science Edition),2013,(04):67-70.]
[2] National Geographic Magazine, originally titled "Cyanide Fishing Is Rampant, Ornamental Fish Urgently Need to Be Saved"
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