In 5 years, he insisted that he asked Wuhan for the first time to breed a successful African elephant

Year month of birth: July 1973

Admission time: July 2001

Occupation: the person in charge of the animal management of Wuhan Zoo, senior veterinarian

Get honor: Outstanding Communist Party member of the Garden and Forestry Bureau of Wuhan Garden and Forestry in 2021, advanced workers in Wuhan Public Institutions in 2021

Wang Mingquan organized African elephants to breed and successfully breed a African elephant in 2022, creating millions of dollars. Reporter Liu Bin Photo

The Yangtze River Daily Big Wuhan Client September 14 (Reporter Yang Xiaoyu Correspondent Teresa Teng) On the morning of the 14th, Wang Mingquan was given to two African elephants- "Auna" and "Ahai" to feed carrots while observing Their oral health status. The mother elephant "Ainan" and the young elephant "Shen Shen" and Wang Mingquan interacted intimately, while the public elephant "A Hai" finished eating carrots, but rolled up a grass with his nose and threw it towards him.

Wang Mingquan is feeding carrots for African elephants. Reporter Liu Bin Photo

This small elephant was the first African elephant born in Wuhan Zoo after many years of hard work to overcome the difficulty of breeding after years of hard work. Wang Mingquan smiled: "It was irritable. When I was young, my teeth were broken. It was my pulp removal surgery I did for it.

In 1997, "Aunan" and "Ahai", who were less than one year old, were introduced by Wuhan Zoo. In the second year, Wang Mingquan, who had just graduated from the Veterinary University of Huazhong Agricultural University, entered the Wuhan Zoo and was responsible for the diagnosis and diagnosis of animal diseases and prevention. The two ends became the most healed "patient" for Wang Mingquan because of love.

Wang Mingquan checked the health of elephant teeth at the Elephant Museum of Wuhan Zoo. Reporter Liu Bin Photo

Over time, the two ends are adults. After they enter the "age marriage period", everyone thinks that if they can have a baby, it is great. Since 2017, Wang Mingquan, who has become the person in charge of animal management, began to lead everyone to try to overcome the difficulty of breeding in African elephants.

"The breeding rate of the elephant itself is low, and the success rate of the elephant breeding in the circle is even lower." Wang Mingquan told reporters that on the one hand, because the number is small, hundreds of elephant group pairing is large, and the small elephants can quickly learn to choose mate selection. Mating, bringing baby and other skills, while Wuhan Zoo only has two elephants. If they are "not right", there is no possibility of reproduction; on the other hand, because the amount of activity of the circle is relatively small, the rich food richness is relatively relatively compared Low, physical function is not strong.

In order to improve the success rate of the two elephants, Wang Mingquan and colleagues carefully simulated the wild environment for them, guide them to exercise more, and research them with more comprehensive nutritional feed, including various fruits, concentrates, leaves, etc. It also makes full use of scientific monitoring methods to monitor their motion status, physical fitness, hormone levels, etc., and co -cage when the hormone level is high.

Finally, with the unremitting efforts of Wang Mingquan and his colleagues for more than 5 years, on June 16 this year, a small African elephant was successful and became the first African elephant in Wuhan and even Hubei Province. Everyone named it "Shen Shen", which means that it is endless. "It's not easy! This little elephant is the best reward for everyone's hard work these years. It is particularly cute, very relative, and every time I check it to check the body or the breeder, it will pinch our legs." Wang Mingquan said comfortably.

Due to the small number of populations, the African elephant is included in the "Red List of Endangered Species of the World Nature Protection Alliance". The success of the African Elephant in Wuhan Zoo not only created millions of economic value for the zoo, laid the foundation for the sustainable development of the zoo, but also had certain positive significance for strengthening the African elephant population.

Under the guidance of Wang Mingquan, the national first -class protection of animals, the Hong's ring penguin, incubated 2 and 21 artificial education within 3 years. He also used artificial insemination techniques to expand the red -crowned cranes of Wuhan Zoo and the American red crickets, and the mountains and pandas have also successfully reproduced.

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