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Recently, a video on the Internet that "there are no peacocks but only chickens in the peacock column of Chengdu Zoo" has attracted the attention of many netizens. In the video, a tourist visiting the Chengdu Zoo found no peacocks in the peacock pen, only two chickens.
On September 4, Sichuan Observer reporters made a special trip to the Chengdu Zoo to inquire. After some searching, the reporter found the area where the video was filmed in the children's zoo area. There are chickens in this area, but there are also land birds such as peacocks and turkeys.
For why are chickens here? According to Liu Yang, a staff member of Chengdu Zoo, the place is a mixed breeding area for blue peacocks, white peacocks, turkeys and original chickens. Because these animals are all land birds, their living habits are very similar, so they are polycultured together.
Don't look at the original chicken is inconspicuous, its value can be "more expensive" than the blue peacock. Staff introduction: The original chicken is the ancestor of the domestic chicken, or a national second-level protected animal. The peacock is divided into green peacock and blue peacock, of which the green peacock is a national first-class protected animal, and the blue peacock is a rare semi-herbivorous non-protected animal and can be raised.
According to our observation, the shape of the original chicken resembles a domestic chicken, and the body size is slightly smaller than the domestic chicken, so the average tourist who comes here, if you don't look at the billboard, may not really be able to distinguish the difference between the two.
In response to the previous controversial online video, the zoo staff gave an explanation: after retrieving the surveillance of the day, it was found that there were indeed only two raw chickens in this area, but it could be seen that behind the trees in the video, there were also the shadows of white peacocks and blue peacocks. I believe that seeing this, most viewers know what this is all about. If you are also interested in the original chickens in the zoo, you may wish to visit the Chengdu Zoo!