[Explanation] The movement of Yunnan's northward elephant group continues to arouse attention. After leaving Kunming Jinning and entering Yuxi Yimen on June 5, the elephant group has stayed in Yimen for about a week.

Recently, the reporter learned in Nanshan Village, Shijie Township, Yimen County, Yuxi City, where elephants are active. Currently, elephants sleep in the woods on the mountain during the day and go down the mountain to move and forage at night. trace.

　　[Explanation] Regarding the reason why the elephants stay here, Shen Qingzhong, a senior engineer from the Management and Protection Bureau of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Yunnan, analyzed that it may be because it is a river valley area with hotter weather and abundant food. There are plantains and corn eaten by elephants. Waiting for food, so the elephant group is reluctant to leave.

　　[Explanation] The reporter learned from the Yimen site headquarters of the Asian elephant population safety precautions for the northward movement of Yunnan, Yunnan is currently trying to use favorable conditions such as rainfall and cooling, through a combination of scientific, appropriate feeding guidance, and a combination of deblocking methods. Help the northward Asian elephants gradually return to suitable habitats.

　　[Concurrent] Shen Qingzhong, Senior Engineer, Management and Protection Bureau of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, Yunnan

　　(Elephant group) If you don’t provide what you don’t eat, if you don’t provide it, it will also go to the common people’s home to find food. Our purpose of providing (food) to it is not to change its habits, but Because it meets its demand for food, it reduces conflicts with the common people.

　　[Explanation] For the little elephant that is more than ten kilometers away from the elephant group, Shen Qingzhong believes that the alone elephant is not a true outlier, but may be like adolescence, the rebellious period has arrived.

　　[Concurrent] Shen Qingzhong, Senior Engineer, Management and Protection Bureau of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, Yunnan

　　From our observations in Xishuangbanna for so many years, the little male elephants in the elephant herd usually fight each other when they are five or six years old, and they are more active when they are six or seven years old. Closely together with the elephant group, it sometimes leaves, ran out to play alone, and almost came back after playing for a while, and when it grows up, it will leave for a few days, and slowly after a few months, it will exist. After leaving it, it will leave. He ran back again, but it was not an outlier at this time. Its real outlier is that after it matures sexually, it has the ability to reproduce. Generally, male elephants are about 12 years old.

　　[Explanation] As for when the elephants will continue to head south, Shen Qingzhong analyzed that it is currently summer, Yuxi has hot weather and rivers, the climate and environment are similar to Xishuangbanna, and it is the season of crop growth. The elephants do not lack food. After days of observation, the elephant group is not in a hurry.

Chen Mingyong, a professor at the School of Biology and Environment of Yunnan University, also believes that the arrival of the rainy season makes the river on the way for the elephant group to go southward to rise, making it difficult for the elephant group to cross the river.

　　[Concurrent] Chen Mingyong, Professor, School of Biology and Environment, Yunnan University

　　Our preliminary judgment is that we will pass this rainy season. The entire rainy season (elephant group) may not be able to go back. Why? There is a moat, namely the Red River. The Red River may be a sad area (elephant group). You have to force it to pass. The big river, because the water in the Red River has started to rise now. After the water has risen, the baby elephant is very young. It has only been a few months, and the baby elephant has to cross the river for a few months. After the water rises, the current is very rapid and the risk may be very high Big.

　　Du Xiaoxiao reports from Yuxi, Yunnan

Editor in charge: [Li Ji]