On August 22, 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.
It is understood that through rigorous site surveys and animal surveys, Zai Zai will have the first meeting and emotional training with polar bears of the same age, "Sisi" and "Eska".
Xi'an has also prepared a huge "Polar Bear Observatory" for them to get along with. When the time is right, they will mate in March and April in the spring of 2022.
This kind of cross-parking individual mating pair breeds superior offspring, which helps to increase the genetic diversity of the captive breeding population.
Later, the polar bear cubs will also return to Nanjing and continue to meet with citizens.
Recently, due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Nanjing, Underwater World is temporarily closed.
According to Gao Liuming, manager of the Aquarium Department of Nanjing Underwater World, 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 perception of changes in the flow of people before and after the epidemic, and there will be no emotional ups and downs.
(Reporter Yang Bo produces Sui Zhiyuan)
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]