Since the beginning of summer,
Europe has been devastated by wave after wave of heat,
There are all kinds of interesting scenes in many places,
The crowds were dumplings under the beach...
Queue up at the fountain to fetch water.....
Finns, who have always been serious about social fear, have to go to the supermarket to blow air conditioning overnight....
The continuous heat wave, not only the human melon eating masses can not stand up, the animals are not normal.....
Recently, the andean flamingo, a rare bird of the Wwt Slimbridge Wetland Wildlife Sanctuary in Gloucestershire, England,
Just because the high heat wave continues to invade, finally something happened.....
According to reports, earlier this month, several Andean flamingos in the Skinny Bridge wetlands were reported to have been kept in high temperatures.
In the park is very active, they are constantly walking around,
The park staff suddenly noticed something strange.
Soon after, one by one, the flamingos, poof, lay a bunch of eggs out!!
Soon someone reported the incident, and the zoo staff was immediately overjoyed....
Someone specifically went to count it, and 6 birds opened their beards and laid 9 eggs in total....
The reserve's head, Mark Roberts, was overjoyed and quickly tweeted on social media:
"A wonderful and moving surprise!"
It's not without reason that people are so excited.
Because of this group of flamingos..... I haven't laid an egg in 15 years!
The last time a bird laid eggs, it went back to the distant year of 2003.....
The Andean flamingo, also known as the Andean flamingo, is a water bird native to the Andes Mountains of the Americas.
It is found mainly in the Andes regions of Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, hence the name Andean flamingos.
They usually inhabit shoals near rivers and lakes and are a very famous wading bird.
Usually dozens to hundreds of them live together, with a lifespan of up to 50 years....
About their laying eggs, it is also a past that has made the staff of the reserve feel bad....
These flamingos are the longest-lived animals in the reserve.
In the 1960s, this group of adult Andean flamingos was taken to the Skinny Bridge Wetland.
They settled here and multiplied...
Slender Bridge Wetland Reserve is one of the most environmental wetland reserves in the world, suitable for many species of water birds to inhabit.
Therefore, all 6 major populations of flamingos have also been introduced here....
In the beginning, this new batch of Andean flamingos should eat and drink, give birth to a baby, everything is normal....
However, after a few years, into the 70s and 80s,
I don't know whether it is because the weather in the UK is too cold or the time is too long to commit "homesickness",
In short, the andean flamingos began to be less interested in the baby,
Not only can you not raise a few babies every year, but even the eggs are getting lower and less....
This makes the staff of the skinny bridge wetland look in the eyes and be anxious in the heart,
They thought of a lot of ways, but never got better....
In the 90s, these Andean flamingos simply "gave up",
Curiously, not only the Andean flamingos of the Skinny Bridge Wetland "boycotted",
Compatriots in other parts of the world are not much better,
In the 20 years from the 1970s to the 1990s, the population of the Andean flamingo showed a downward trend.
In just a few decades, the Andean flamingo has become the rarest species of flamingos, (there are currently about 38,000 to 39,000 extant species in the world).
Although Andean flamingos have a long lifespan, their reproductive ability still declines with age.
The result of the refusal to be born is that
The female Andean flamingos of the Skinny Bridge Wetland are gradually consumed into "elderly mothers"...
If you want to live later, I'm afraid it will be more difficult....
However, the despair of the Slender Bridge Wetland staff is still to come,
With the birth of the last Andean flamingo in 1999,
This group of Andean flamingos is completely "Dink",
The next ten years, not to mention the baby, there are few eggs ....
In the next nearly 20 years, the staff of the Skinny Bridge Wetland changed stubble after stubble,
These Andean flamingos are still the same group of the 60s,
However, from 1999, when he lived a completely "Dink" life,
Everyone has begun to get used to them only eating and not having babies....
5 years have passed,
10 years have passed,
15 years on....
…..
The staff of the Skinny Bridge Wetland has almost already identified,
These "old birds" will stick to "Dink" to death (except for an egg laying once in 2003).
Don't want to, won't have another baby....
However, what everyone never expected was that
This summer, a new wave of record-breaking heat swept across Europe again,
The continued heat seems to have made the Wetland Andean Flamingos feel a noticeable change as well....
According to zoologists, today's hot and humid climates are very rare,
The Andean flamingos of skinny bridge wetlands suddenly have a familiar feeling of coming from their homeland in the Andes mountains of South America.
Everyone seems to have returned to the Andes Mountains, which have inhabited for generations, and the comfort of the years has come,
The heat + humidity made the Andean flamingos extremely happy, and finally had the urge to have a baby....
To give birth to a baby, sir egg...
Beginning in August, 6 flamingos are ready to move,
Finally poof~~
9 bird eggs were laid in one go....
This scene, which has been extinct for 15 years,
How can you not let the Slender Bridge Wetland staff who have been desperate for many years run to tell each other?!
Although 9 precious bird eggs were laid after many years, the staff identified that
Due to the degradation of the breeding capacity of these high-collar flamingos,
Almost all of these 9 bird eggs cannot hatch birds....
However, this still can't stop the excitement of the staff,
All of this still means a lot to you:
Since you have the urge to have babies, you can't let them stop...
It doesn't matter if the little flamingos can't hatch, let's let's find them as adoptive parents first!
After regaining the joy of being a parent, you may be able to hatch a bird later!
When all was said and done, the staff of Skinny Bridge Wetland replaced 9 bird eggs with the eggs of the Chilean flamingo, a close relative of the Andean flamingo.
Today, these elderly Andean flamingos have hatched their adopted sons.
I am single-mindedly regaining the feeling of having a baby with a baby....
The staff believed that the other Andean flamingos living in groups,
Stimulated by these adoptive parents with babies,
There are always some who can give up "Dink" and return to the ranks of having babies and raising babies....
A terrible heat wave that swept across Europe,
But let the Andean flamingos living in Britain suddenly start laying eggs after 15 years of "Dink",
It is also one of the few things worth cheering in this difficult summer....
ref：
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/uk-heat-wave-triggers-rare-flamingos-lay-eggs-first-time-15-years-180969986/
https://www.wwt.org.uk/news/all-news/2018/08/wwt-news/heatwave-makes-flamingos-broody-for-first-time-in-15-years/
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Little Abhab:
Too many slot points... For a moment I didn't know where to start
Si Li Gongzi: Next there will be a new sentence: "I'm going to lay eggs hot!" ”
Refuse to be disturbed by ky: Can't I have a bird so hot, give birth to a few birds for them to feel it too
Qi Mei___: Flamingo: Aaaah saw the heat wave brother I died, I ovulate on the spot!!!
g2ace
: Flamingos are hot silly ...
Building a modern Xiaotong Village: So, why? People are doing well in South Africa, not in Northern Europe. The climate is not suitable for not having children, and it is necessary to let people have children. After the child is born, he also changes the child of others??
christinez 2018: Old bird lays eggs... What does it have to do with temperature?
Laughter_Red Meow Blue Wang Delusional Legend: Uh... A bit sadistic, whether it is a haunting hometown or a baby is a lie
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