China News Service, Nanjing, August 22 (Reporter Yang Bo) On the 22nd, the reporter learned from Nanjing Underwater World that the "treasure of the town hall" polar bear cubs will go north to Xi'an to "marry a wife".
Zai Zai is 11 years old this year. He came from a Russian zoo in 2010 and was born artificially.
He currently weighs 700 kg and stands tall and majestic with a height of 3 meters. In 2017, he was selected as the mascot of Nanjing Underwater World.
Zizai has a docile and cheerful personality, and likes to interact with the breeders daily.
In the hot summer, in addition to the daily "cold bath", the breeders will prepare a variety of fresh "jelly ice" for it, so that it can also experience the feeling of "grabbing a watermelon in an air-conditioned room".
Gao Liuming, manager of the Aquarium Department of Nanjing Underwater World, introduced that in order to improve the quality of animal life, the design of the exhibition hall of Nanjing Underwater World systematically considered the area of the exhibition hall and the water treatment system to ensure that there is sufficient distance between animals and humans. Therefore, animals basically There will be no changes in the flow of people before and after the epidemic, and there will be no emotional ups and downs.
Polar bear cubs are eating frozen watermelon.
Photo by Yang Bo
Through rigorous site surveys and animal surveys, Zai Zai will go north to Xi'an to meet with the polar bears "Sissi" and "Escar" of the same age for the first time and emotional training.
It is reported that Xi'an has prepared a large "Polar Bear Observatory" for them to get along with. When the time is right, they will mate in March and April in spring.
According to the needs of epidemic prevention and control work, Nanjing Underwater World is temporarily closed.
The animals live leisurely.
Photo by Yang Bo
The "Blind Date Plan" of the Polar Bears North of the Nanjing Underwater World is in charge of the whole process by the experts and breeders from the Aquarium Department of the Park and the Polar World Pavilion.
It is understood that this kind of cross-parking individual mating pair breeds excellent offspring, which helps to increase the genetic diversity of the captive breeding population.
The breeder feeds the penguins.
Photo by Yang Bo
It is reported that if the polar bears mate successfully this time, the born little polar bear will be named "An Ning", which means safe Nanjing.
Later, the polar bear cubs will also return to Nanjing and continue to meet with citizens.
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