I have a wildlife zoo

Linhai Zoo's Mid-Autumn Festival event announcements gradually spread!

Zhuang Xiaobai strolled through the zoo for another day, took many photos, and walked back contentedly.

The environment here was truly beautiful, each animal had a suitable habitat to showcase its unique charm, seeing them felt healing and relaxing, and it was touching.

His latest artwork was fermenting, and he already had quite a bit of inspiration, but he felt like he needed to observe these animals a bit more.

Lately, he had been planning to buy a house near the zoo in Linhai so that he could live there permanently.

When he reached the zoo entrance, he saw a notice posted on the gate, surrounded by many visitors buzzing with discussion.

"The moon is full and the flowers are in bloom, Linhai Zoo invites you to a special Mid-Autumn event?"

Zhuang Xiaobai read the content of the announcement and suddenly noticed there was also a Mid-Autumn scroll event: "Hey, that's interesting!"

Adjusting his felt hat, a smile curled up at the corner of his mouth, "Why not, join in for fun?"

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"Mama, I'm back!"

Tang Xiaoxin returned home from school, greeted her mother while putting on slippers, and saw the chubby and dopey Little Blackie running over from the living room, its flat face looking up at her, meowing, she happily said, "Little Blackie, did you miss me?"

She picked up the expressionless Little Blackie and scratched its plump belly, rubbing her face happily and incessantly against its chubby face: "Mmm~ Little Blackie is the cutest~"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Little Blackie soon regretted its actions to welcome its owner, pushing Tang Xiaoxin's face away with an emotionless paw, wriggled out from her embrace and jumped down to the floor.

Mother Tang, with an apron tied around her waist, carried a plate of fish from the kitchen to the table, calling out, "You're back, let's get ready for dinner!"

Tang Xiaoxin threw her backpack on the couch, recalling what happened at school, excitedly told her mother: "Remember, last time an Eurasian eagle-owl flew into our school? It was me who contacted Brother Fang Ye to take the owl away."

Mother Tang muttered, "What's an Eurasian eagle-owl? And then what happened?"

"Aiya, an Eurasian eagle-owl is a kind of owl, I've told you about it!" Tang Xiaoxin picked up Little Blackie again, blissfully rua-ing nonstop, "Today people from the zoo came to our school again! They even brought a banner to our school, praising our actions in rescuing wildlife."

Mother Tang was somewhat surprised, "Oh? Did you bring the award home to show me?"

As Tang Xiaoxin lay on the couch, stroking Little Blackie's tail, swinging her feet behind her buttocks, she answered speechlessly, "It's not my personal award! It was given to our school, but they specifically mentioned my name and Teacher Bai's name on it; now it's hanging next to the blackboard in our class."

"What a pity, if they really wanted to thank someone, they should've given separate banners to you, Teacher Bai, and the school," Mother Tang joked, then suddenly asked, "By the way, don't you love visiting the zoo?"

Tang Xiaoxin exclaimed, "Yeah."

She was usually the one who would chatter incessantly at home about her happy trips to the zoo, so why was her mother suddenly interested in the zoo today, bringing it up proactively?

Mother Tang wiped her hands with a cloth, took out her phone, scrolled through it, and handed it to her, "Linhai Zoo is holding an event for Mid-Autumn Festival. I was thinking, how about our family going to the zoo for the holiday?"

Tang Xiaoxin quickly hopped off the couch, "Let me see, let me see!"

Scanning the article line by line, her eyes became brighter and her mood more excited, "Wow, making mooncakes for animals is awesome! With so many activities, Mom, we must go to the Mid-autumn festival! Oh, I have to tell Keke about this right away!"

Running to the bedroom in her slippers with a "biabiabia" sound, she couldn't wait to share this exciting news with her good friend!

Mother Tang shook her head, "Ah, this child gets so excited every time she hears about the zoo!"

…

Liu Xueqing was coquettishly holding onto her elder's arm, hoping they could go to the zoo for the Mid-autumn festival, sweetly pleading, "Daddy~"

On such a family reunion day, of course, the elders couldn't be left behind at home. If they were going, everyone should go together.

Her daughter, Yingying, wrapped around Liu Xueqing's leg, imploring, "Mama, I want to go to the zoo, I want to see the little panda~"

Her husband, standing beside them, gently stroked Yingying's head, also persuading, "Dad, it's been a long time since you've been out for fun. Let's go to the zoo, watch the animals, enjoy the moonlight. We can drive there and back easily, and if we get tired, we can just come home."

The grandfather helplessly looked at the grandmother, who just smiled and said nothing.

In the end, he could only nod and agree.

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The Mid-autumn festival was drawing closer each day!

The employees at the zoo had been very busy lately, starting with the animals that were bought earlier, including the Asian black bear, sika deer, macaques, and the Yangtze alligator and saltwater crocodile, as well as the spiny bush viper, and many others that were all transported over.

Among them, the lions and ring-tailed lemurs that had arrived earlier, once the quarantine ended, would be ready for display right around the National Day.

However, the reptiles and amphibians exhibit might be a bit later.

There's a sizeable construction team working on spacious enclosures for creatures like the Chinese giant salamander and the green pit viper, while the smaller exhibit areas needed the staff to manually apply cement to the walls and install driftwood and plant moss, which wasn't as speedy, so after quarantine, it would still take some time before they could occupy their habitats.

The veterinary team needed to create records for all these animals, weigh them, and collect feces and blood for testing to check their health status. This included new animals that weren't adapting well to their new environment, and the sika deer that were agitated by the lions' roar. Fang Ye had to release his soothing skill to reduce the animals' stress and calm them.

He had to release his skill a dozen or twenty times a day and then drink spiritual water to replenish his energy.

His energy was greatly improved with this continuous practice, progressing from being exhausted and wanting to sleep after releasing the skill three times in a row, to being able to release it four times consecutively. Stay connected through empire

There was also training by Instructor Wu and Instructor Jiang for the staff of the reptiles and amphibians exhibit!

They started with classes, followed by simulations with rubber snakes and non-venomous ones, finally moving on to handling venomous snakes.

With their lives at stake, the staff did not dare to slack and studied extremely diligently.

Since the zoo might see a large number of visitors during the Mid-autumn festival, the city specially dispatched some police officers to maintain order, all familiar faces from the Guanhu Branch Station.

Some doctors from Linhai City Hospital were also sent to establish a temporary aid station, to treat cases like heatstroke, and to be ready for emergencies like sudden cardiac or cerebral events. On the day of the Mid-autumn festival, an ambulance would also be on standby on the premises.

After all, Linhai Zoo was too far from the city, and it would take about half an hour to drive to the hospital even at full speed.

The zoo was just getting started and many areas were still not perfected. Fang Ye planned to hire a permanent medical team after this busiest phase was over, yes, one for treating people.