Black bear bites "bear boy" Zoo security attracts attention

On the afternoon of October 18th, a 9-year-old boy Lele, in the Hebin Park Zoo in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, was bitten off his arm while turning over the fence to watch the black bear in the cage. Relatives believe that because the security measures in the zoo are too rudimentary, the bearnet's protective net is broken and the black bear is stretched out to bite people. Black bears bite "bear kids", and zoo safety issues are the focus of attention.

Black bear bites "bear boy" Zoo security attracts attention

Layered protection of protective nets and barriers

In this incident, there are two key reasons for the black bear bite: one is that the child overturns the guardrail by himself; the other is that the bear house protective net is damaged and the black bear attack is successful. barrier.

Around the Lion and Tiger Mountain where fierce beasts are concentrated, a guardrail over 5 meters high is set up, and the guardrail structure is a steel wire mesh. On the periphery of the wire mesh, there is a wooden or iron fence about 1.5 meters high. There is still a distance between the two fences, and various trees are planted in the middle. The gap between the outer and inner guard rails is very small, making it difficult for tourists to feed the animals.

Inside the steel wire mesh, there are several grids near the ground and near the top. According to the staff, in order to prevent animals from approaching the protective net, they set up a pulse power grid. As long as the animals are close, they will receive a short electric shock. In Monkey Mountain, Leopard Pool and other places, you can see a tight grid.

Basically, all zoos will install layers of protection measures outside the beast area. From the perspective of Henan Province, such as Xinyang? Negative? Shore? Enemy? Faded? ?????? Warfare ????? Naan ?. 5 meters high railing; Shangqiu City People's Park Zoo, outside the tiger house Two layers of protection, a layer of rebar, a layer of iron mesh, with a guardrail more than one meter away from the cage; Anyang Zoo, the wolf house is an iron cage, covered with fine-eye wire mesh, about 1.3 meters high from the iron cage about 1.5 meters high Railing; Luohe Zoo, there are 4 protective net facilities between animals and tourists, from outside and inside are railing, reinforced railing, iron cage, steel wire mesh; Zhoukou City Zoo, there are two protective facilities outside the animal cage, one is The big iron cage, together with a fence about 1.7 meters high; Nanyang City Zoo, the fence in front of the black bear cage is about 3 meters high.

Warning signs are essential

In addition to strengthening the technical precautions of the zoo, organizing direct contact between humans and animals, and doing the necessary reminders are also very effective for reducing the occurrence of dangers. In the eye-catching position of the cage in the beast area, the "Do not cross the guardrail" sign and the introduction of the animals are hung, which not only reminds the tourists to pay attention to safety, but also allows the tourists to know more about the animals.

Video surveillance makes supervision easier

In addition, with the advancement of digital information engineering, more and more zoos will also install monitoring systems on the itinerary of zoo construction. Through the monitoring system, you can observe the situation in various regions in real time.

RFID electronic tags intelligently manage animals

Even if the monitoring is installed in the zoo, there will always be a dead end. How to manage the animals in the park more effectively, install an electronic chip for each animal to facilitate the tracking of the rise of animals, and at the same time let them have a life-long "identity", Information management. The Changsha City Zoo will implant electronic chips for all wild animals in the ecological zoo to establish wild animal files to prevent inbreeding of animals.

The zoo has no unified management standard

In July 2004, the new version of the "Regulations on the Management of Urban Zoos" issued by the Ministry of Construction, as well as the "National Zoo Development Program" issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in July 2013, put forward requirements for strengthening the management of zoos. How to strengthen management? No specific measures? Li Cuihua, deputy secretary general of the China Zoo Association, said: At present, our Chinese zoo industry does not have a unified design specification. In recent years, we have been developing standards for the zoo industry. For example, one of the most important is the zoo design specification. The design standards of the cages belong to the zoo design specifications. There are zoos everywhere now. How does the zoo design work? It is to learn from each other. For example, there is a zoo in Beijing. Maybe Henan Zoo visited Beijing Zoo. How did you build the panda pavilion? How did your Hushan do it? Maybe you will learn. The construction level of this animal house is also improving, but so far there is no unified standard.

Experts said that the industry standards jointly completed by Beijing Zoo and relevant units, including "Zoo Management Code" and "Zoo Design Code", are in the stage of public consultation.

Expansion: Security precautions in wild zoo

Giant Panda: Humans can't run out of Giant Panda

Observation: The giant panda has a special accommodation room. When the weather is good, it will come out to bask in the sun and eat. The surrounding fence is about 2.5 meters.

Safety reminder: The panda looks docile, and the fat one should not run fast. "If you really run, people actually can't run the giant panda. In other zoos, a middle school student once turned into the giant panda's fence, and was eventually bitten by the giant panda's leg muscles, causing disability." Jiang Hao said, the giant panda With sharp claws and teeth, it is a very fierce animal, so children can watch the giant panda outside the fence, don't think about turning in and taking a picture.

Monkey Park: Grabbing bags is just looking for food, backpack low-key

Observation: There is a rockery in the monkey garden, there is a wide "river" around it, and there is a low rail outside the river. There are countless monkeys playing on the rockery, there are both small monkeys and big monkeys.

Safety reminder: Some tourists like to feed monkeys, and the things they feed are also varied. Jiang Hao said that animals have special food formulas. If the food thrown by tourists is not suitable for animals, it will harm the animals and cause their digestive functions to be disordered.

"Some monkeys will grab tourists' bags, not because they are greedy for money, just for food." Jiang Hao said that if monkeys grab bags, tourists will grab the bags when they panic, and monkeys will naturally bite tourists . Therefore, I would like to remind you that the monkey brother should try to keep the bag low-key in front of him.

Beast Zone: Do n’t hold your child outside the elevated railing

Observation: The beast area is separated and connected together. A viaduct traverses the beast area and can admire the heroic postures of tigers, lions and other beasts. It is a unique scenery.

Safety reminder: the viaduct is more than ten meters high, but the railing on the viaduct is about 1.2 meters. Unless voluntary, adults will not fall off the elevated, but parents must guard the children. There is also a warning message on the viaduct to pay attention to the gap between the railings. Never hold the child outside of the vial rails in order to make the child see more clearly.

Kangaroo District: "Boxer" also has fierce times

Observation: There is a wide space in the kangaroo area, and a circle of green plants is planted outside the small concrete fence to block visitors from entering. However, two areas were vacated on both sides of the kangaroo house, and no plants were planted. Regardless of whether this is the passage of the breeder, visitors can easily contact and take photos with the kangaroos through these two "Kangzhuang Avenues" anyway.

Safety reminder: Kangaroos are not fierce beasts, but their strong and powerful legs will let you know why it always appears in the anime as a "boxer", and there are also fierce times. Kangaroos and humans cannot communicate in language, and you will never know whether kangaroos like you or not. So, just say hello to it from afar, don't think about getting close again.

Hundred Bird Park: There is a pond in the park to prevent children from falling into the water

Observation: There are ponds around Hundred Bird Park, where many birds live. The red flamingo is very beautiful and always attracts the attention of tourists, but the flamingo is also the most vulnerable animal.

Safety reminder: The birds in the Hundred Bird Park are timid and afraid of people, which also makes flamingos vulnerable to tourists. If the flamingo can speak, it will definitely say, "I just take a picture, don't you know what is far away and not obscure?" Finally, I reminded that there are ponds in the Bird Park. Overwater incident.