"The ducks that sneaked up the mountain were found, but the third leopard was still not found."

　　Leopard Hunting in Hangzhou Civil Search and Rescue Team

　　On June 5, it has been nearly a month and a half since the escape of three quasi-adult leopards in Hangzhou Wildlife World.

　　Fei Yuezhong, executive deputy director of the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, said at a press conference on May 10 that the bureau has taken responsibility for the company’s legal representative and general manager Zhang Mouquan of Hangzhou Wildlife World who is suspected of endangering public safety. A total of 5 people took criminal coercive measures.

Two leopards have been successfully recovered before, but until now, the third leopard is still missing.

　　"The area we are searching now is really gone (referring to the leopard). The team members have indeed tried their best. If it is still on this mountain, even if there are no signs of life, with the current meticulous search At this time, we have already smelled the smell of the corpse." said Zhan Liang, the executive leader of the Fuyang Pioneer Emergency Rescue Team.

The search for leopards has fallen into a stalemate.

　　task

　　24-hour execution of mountain patrol

　　Some team members have heat stroke or stepped on snakes

　　On June 5, in a hotel next to Hangzhou Wildlife World, the reporter met members of the Fuyang Pioneer Emergency Rescue Team gathered here to prepare for work.

Captain Zhanliang said that the recent search and rescue mission headquarters temporarily did not arrange for team members to go up the mountain to search. First, the recent rain will wash away the old footprints in the previous search area, which is convenient for leaving new footprints; secondly, the flow of people may be too frequent. It will make the leopard hide and make it more difficult to find.

They will be preparing for work under the mountain recently, so that after a while, they will go up the mountain to check for clues such as new animal footprints.

　　Zhanliang told reporters that before carrying out this mission, the headquarters gave them a simple training to understand the leopard's living habits, feces, and footprint characteristics.

Their previous mountain patrol mission was a 24-hour system: on the day of the mission, they checked in at the gate of Animal World at 8 a.m., and then set off into the mountain to search. The main search content was to distinguish the animal’s footprints and feces; the search team was divided into day shifts and night shifts. There are two teams, and the night shift is from 4 pm to 11 pm.

　　The search area is the Wuchao Mountain area behind Hangzhou Wildlife World. There is Wuchao Mountain National Forest Park in this area. There are some uninhabited areas in the area, and the area is densely covered with vegetation. In addition, the recent Hangzhou weather is hot and rainy, which is quite in the forest. Hot and humid.

The search and rescue team members must wear thicker uniforms to prevent mosquitoes, snakes, lees and other animals from being bitten. “Therefore, it is common for team members to step on snakes and heatstroke.”

　　Li Xiaohua is a female member of the Fuyang Pioneer Emergency Rescue Team. As soon as she joined the civilian rescue team on May 5 this year, she encountered the special task of searching for leopards on the mountain.

Recalling the process of participating in this mission, Li Xiaohua was still very excited. She told reporters that around May 7, she saw the group sending out notices calling on the team members to sign up for the rescue mission of the escaped leopard and set off the next day. I signed up immediately. My husband was worried when I came home that night when I heard that I was going to search for leopards, but I was not afraid at all."

　　Leopard Hunting

　　The rescue team’s search and rescue number has been reduced from 25 to 8 per day

　　From May 8th, the task of searching for mountains and leopards kicked off, but no one expected that this task of searching would last so long.

　　On May 8th, a member of the Fuyang Red Cross Wolf Group Emergency Rescue Team in Hangzhou City was interviewed by the media at the scene of Hangzhou Wildlife World. The search and rescue team said that they received a 110 notice at 9 am saying that Hangzhou Wildlife World called the police to look for the escaped leopard. Arrived to the scene around 10 o'clock after the mission.

According to his introduction, about 40 search and rescue team members, divided into 8 teams, carrying anesthesia guns, immediately started search and rescue work after arriving at the scene.

After about 4 hours of carpet search, the second leopard was found. The search and rescue team surrounded it and quickly anaesthetized it and captured it.

But the third leopard has no news.

　　Hangzhou City held a press conference on May 10, stating that the city's Forestry and Water Bureau and Public Security Bureau immediately went to investigate after receiving the call on May 6.

In the middle of the night on May 7, Ma Jinghua, manager of the management department of Hangzhou Wildlife World, confessed that the escape of three leopards actually occurred on April 19.

According to media reports, the first leopard captured on April 21 was discovered by a female villager in Dongwushan Village, Shoujiang Town, Fuyang City (located 1.87 kilometers east of the Wildlife World).

When she was riding an electric motorcycle at night, she found a leopard on the side of the road.

This female villager was also reported by the media as the first villager to find a leopard.

　　The second person reported by the media to spot a leopard was Zhu Moumou, a villager in Longmenkan Village, Zhuantang Town, Xihu District. He recalled in an interview with a reporter from Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News that he was on the mountain on the afternoon of May 1st. Working in the tea garden, I felt that I was tripped by something uneven on the ground. When I looked up, “I found an animal by accident. I’m not sure what it is for a while. Let’s take a look at it like a leopard.” Zhu Mo was at that time. Scared in his heart, he walked back and fumbled for a stick in his hand to defend himself.

In the process of retreating, he changed to a thicker wooden stick. When picking up the stick, the animal that was suspected of being a leopard stood up. Zhu Mo thought it was going to attack, thinking that if he was attacked by this leopard, He definitely couldn't run away and would be killed, so he took a picture of this animal.

　　"I can't beat it. If I get killed, my family will find me and know that I didn't die for no reason. It was for this purpose that I took the picture, otherwise I wouldn't have the courage to take it." Zhu XX said.

　　The reporter was informed that at present, there are a total of 4 civilian rescue teams taking turns to perform this task. The number of search and rescue personnel in the vanguard rescue team has been reduced from 25 members per day to 8 persons and 8 dogs per day.

When the search and rescue mission was first launched, this number was higher.

　　Dilemma

　　Spend more than five digits

　　Shortage of funds is the biggest difficulty

　　Leopards are cats. They are timid and cautious by nature. They usually appear at night and hide in tall trees and bushes during their predation.

According to the poster news report, Ma Jinsheng, a professor of zoology at Qilu Normal University, said that Leopards kept in zoos are generally not hostile to the keepers and are relatively friendly, but they may cause harm to outsiders. "Especially children, if they meet, don’t know it ( What is the leopard? If you come in contact with it, you may be injured."

　　Zhanliang told reporters that according to the leopard’s habit of appearing at night, they have a greater challenge to go up the mountain to search at night. “The team going up the mountain is divided into teams of 5 people, and each of them has a division of labor. Generally, the first 2 people are responsible for opening the way, and the middle 2 The individual is responsible for observing the surroundings, and one person stays at the end.” In order to prevent omissions, the headquarters divided the search area into 10 blocks, and the 4 rescue teams alternated the areas of responsibility each time.

"The area we are searching now is really gone (referring to the leopard). The team members have indeed tried their best. If it is still on this mountain, even if there are no signs of life, with the current level of detail of the search , We have already smelled the smell of corpses." Team member Li Jinjun said, "We even found ducks from villagers' homes in the mountains, but we still couldn't find a leopard."

　　Zhanliang said that for the operation of this team, the biggest difficulty is the shortage of funds.

The reporter asked and learned that in this search operation, in addition to the time cost of each team member leaving their personal affairs at hand, the team prepared anti-snake gloves, flashlights, knee pads, elbow pads, sticks and other equipment, as well as every time the team members were transported. All of our minibuses need to provide their own fuel. The money is paid by the team. At present, the cost has reached at least five figures. "The money on the team basically comes from the team’s self-raised and donations from the community. channel."

　　Zhanliang said that the shortage of funds has caused the team members to be restrained in many areas where they can play a role. "For example, the search and rescue dogs on our team. We want to send them to training schools to learn more professional skills, but 3 per semester. The monthly training cost is 30,000 yuan, which is quite high. Another example is some professional rescue equipment, the price is also very high, our team members actually have the skills, but the lack of equipment."

　　Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Shen Xingyi

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　　The baby elephant on the north was "drunk" and left behind?

　　Villager in the place of the incident: I did eat the lees, but I didn’t get drunk.

　　The incident of 15 Asian elephants all the way northward affects people's hearts. Among them, the news that "a baby elephant drunk and fell behind after eating two hundred catties of drunk lees" is widely circulated.

On the afternoon of June 5th, Guo Xianming, director of the Institute of Science of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, told reporters that he had been dealing with Asian elephants for more than 30 years and had never seen Asian elephants drinking.

And the appetite of the baby elephant, it is impossible to eat two hundred catties at a time.

　　The reporter learned that the first village after the Asian elephant herd entered Eshan County was the Xiaozhai Group of Daweidu Village. According to previous news, a baby elephant fell on the ground after “eating distiller’s grains by accident” and then drove away. Go to the "big force".

A reporter interviewed in Eshan County and found that after the news came out, many media went to the Xiaozhai Group to verify the location of the "little elephant drunk" incident, but none of them saw the "scene of the incident."

　　On the afternoon of the 5th, Wang Zhongliang, director of the Forestry and Grass Bureau of Eshan County, told reporters that after the Asian elephant herd entered Daweidu Village, "I was there for the whole scene, and there was no such thing as a baby elephant getting drunk." He further clarified that the elephant herd During the entire stay in Eshan County, no "drunkenness" occurred.

　　According to several villagers in the Xiaozhai Group, the place where the elephant drunk was not in the village, but in Shiping County.

The staff of Shiping County's Forestry and Grass Bureau revealed that, according to previous reports, the place where the baby elephant drunk and fell behind was Dalianzhuang Village, Longwu Town, the county.

Earlier, Xinmin Evening News reporter went to Dalianzhuang Village to further verify the above news. It was learned that when the elephants passed through Shiping County, they did eat distiller’s grains at the villager Pu Hongying’s home.

　　Pu Hongying said that in the early morning of May 24, 14 elephants wandered to her house and ate 1,600 bags of corn and two sacks of distiller's grains outside the door.

Each bag of distiller’s grains is 50 kilograms, a total of 100 kilograms.

She said that these Asian elephants left after eating, but she didn't know that they were drunk.

As for the "being left behind", Pu Hongying said that there was indeed a wild elephant catching up with the elephant herd from the back mountain the next day, but this elephant did not eat the lees or the food she prepared and placed at the door.

　　"Based on my experience and analysis of dealing with Asian elephants for many years, this event is unlikely to happen." On the afternoon of the 5th, Guo Xianming, director of the Institute of Science in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, told reporters that the amount of food the elephant eats is one Dayton does not reach the level of two hundred catties.

Guo Xianming said that in mid-March last year, a similar piece of false information was widely circulated.

According to the People’s Daily Online, at that time, Yunnan’s circle of friends was swiped by a photo of “elephant stealing a peasant’s Baogu wine and drunk it in a tea garden”.

However, the above news was also officially confirmed to be untrue.

　　Some experts explained that "Asian elephants love to drink", saying that elephants are not essentially interested in wine, but in nature, the taste of wine often represents ripe fruit.

Many fruits with high sugar content are naturally fermented, and microorganisms will convert sugar into ethanol. Herbivorous animals like elephants will remember the taste of ethanol and find the fruit along the "wine taste".

For the above explanation, Guo Xianming said, "There is such a possibility."

　　Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Liu Mumu sent from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan