I have a wildlife zoo

Wang Haoran looked on with envy. He was quite fond of these koi and boldly asked, "Uncle, may I feed them a bit too?"

The animal keeper smiled and said, "Sure, just scatter it a bit when you do."

He then gave Wang Haoran a small handful of feed.

After all, anyone could feed the koi without much technique, and it wasn't dangerous.

When feeding birds, if you tease them, or if they reach out for the food with their beaks and you retract your hand because you're scared, the birds might think you are teasing them. They might get angry and peck or scratch you, which can indeed be dangerous – especially with large birds like macaws.

If you're feeding the koi and they get angry because they feel they aren't getting enough, they still can't jump up and slap you on the knee with their tails.

Seeing this, other students couldn't help but say, "Uncle, I want to feed the fish too!"

"Give me some too!"

Little hands reached out, and the animal keeper instantly became the most popular person.

Soon, the feed was all given out.

He spread his hands and said, "No more, no more!"

The kids shared the last of their feed with each other!

Wang Haoran didn't just throw it all in at once – that'd be so silly.

It's like the "big knife meat" sold at the store outside of school, which you tear off in strips to make it last longer.

Throw it all in at once and the fish finish eating and swim away; feed them one pellet at a time, and you can feed them for longer.

Sitting on a stone, he saw several fish lingering nearby. With a "whoosh," he threw a pellet into the water, and a beautiful red-and-white koi snapped it up.

He fed them leisurely like this!

By the time his classmates had rested enough and the teacher called them to gather, he threw the last few pellets of feed into the water all at once.

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The Predator Gallery was the zoo's most popular exhibit, with some visitors coming specifically for the ferocious beasts.

Last time, a volunteer shared a humorous incident in the group.

A visitor had just entered the zoo and asked for directions, "Excuse me, where is the zoo?"

The volunteer was puzzled, "You're already inside the zoo, aren't you?"

"I mean the place with the lions and tigers!"

In their eyes, only the ferocious beast zone counted as the zoo; bird exhibits and red panda exhibits just didn't make the cut.

The tiger exhibit!

This was the place that the children were most looking forward to visiting in the zoo today.

Jiaojiao and Ice Cake, a big and a small tiger, were both lying by the edge of the pool.

Jiaojiao lay by the water, bowed her head, took a couple of laps of water with her tongue, then lifted her head and looked into the distance.

Ice Cake, however, was attracted to a small stick floating in the pool!

It looked fun, and with its body stretched out at the edge, it extended two paws, trying to snag it.

Reaching and reaching, its paws were a bit short and couldn't quite touch the stick.

Ice Cake was frustrated!

Its eyes fiercely fixed on the small stick, its mouth opened wide, and it cried, "Wah~ Wah~".

Come over here now! If you don't, I'll get angry! I'm really going to get angry!

A little tiger learns to growl at three months, but it's not until about a year and a half that it starts to attempt the "ao wu" roar.

Although Ice Cake wanted the little stick, it didn't dare to go into the water.

This was the deep-water area, and it only dared to play in the shallow water. The deep water was a bit dangerous for it.

Struggling to reach it with its paws for about ten seconds, it just couldn't get it, and under the flow of the water, the stick started to drift farther away.

Ice Cake felt dejected and deflated, and the word "grievance" was written all over his face as he leaned against Jiaojiao's side.

The little White Tiger's head reached under Jiaojiao's chin, resting his cheek on Jiaojiao's strong forelimbs and rubbing his head back and forth.

It was just like a child acting coquettishly with a parent, looking incredibly cute.

Mama, I want a hug, I want comfort!

Human toddlers often act spoiled with their parents, but it's rare to see a tiger cub do the same with adult tigers.

The children giggled nonstop to see Ice Cake trying hard to grasp the small twig and failing, his mouth opening and closing in frustration.

Seeing the pitiful Ice Cake snuggling into Jiaojiao's embrace, they couldn't help but find it adorable.

They wished they could hold the small tiger themselves, letting him nuzzle to his heart's content.

"Is it acting spoiled with its mommy?"

"I really love the little tiger!"

"I know, its name is Ice Cake!"

Tiger cubs are truly too cute, even their angry expressions are endearing.

Ice Cake was still a White Tiger, resembling a chocolate ice cream with a snow-white base and black stripes, making him even more lovable.

Nowadays, the black stripes on many White Tigers are faint and blurry, almost invisible.

Ice Cake was different; after a moulting, his white was as pure as snow and his black as rich as ink, displaying striking beauty.

Apart from the system-rewarded Ice Cake, all the White Tigers in the zoo were descendants of the White Tigers from India and products of inbreeding.

Because of the White Tiger's high value in attracting visitors, some zoos even deliberately breed them.

Generation after generation of inbreeding has resulted in numerous deformed specimens, with protruding teeth and ferocious faces, lacking any beauty of tigers. Moreover, they are physically weaker, of lower intelligence, and have shorter lifespans than regular tigers.

In the case of inbred White Tigers, 80% of the cubs are stillborn, and the chance of getting a beautiful and perfect White Tiger like Ice Cake is only one in thirty. Deformed ones are usually euthanized.

White Tigers can never be released into the wild, as their lack of camouflage makes survival impossible, not to mention those with increasingly poor health – they can only live in zoos.

Having one or two celebrity White Tigers to draw visitors to learn some educational knowledge is the two sides of the same coin. Enjoy more content from My Virtual Library Empire

However, mass breeding of White Tigers for profit is undeniably contrary to the conservation and educational mission of zoos.

It's the wonder of nature that very rarely produces beautiful creatures like White Tigers and White Deer, fleeting as shooting stars, their brilliance touching and moving people's soul deeply.

In contrast, deformed creations mass-produced for profit are not ugly because of the animals themselves, but because of the ugly greed of human desires.

When Fang Ye looks for a mate for Ice Cake, he plans to find a normal female Bengal Tiger; they don't need to have little White Tigers.

Jiaojiao was originally admiring the human scenery in the distance, but when she saw Ice Cake lying on her arm being coquettish, she turned her head, her amber tiger eyes gentle, giving Ice Cake a couple of licks with her large tongue as if to comfort him.

What's wrong? Tell Mama if something's bothering you.

After being comforted, Ice Cake became active again, fixated on his beloved little twig which had drifted a bit downstream by now.

He walked a few steps and stretched out his paw, but still couldn't reach it!

His paw scratched in the water, trying to stir the current and make the twig float towards him.

The twig slowly drifted downstream, utterly indifferent to Ice Cake's efforts.

So frustrating!

Ice Cake started to cry "Waah~ Waah~" in aggravation, looking at Jiaojiao with a grief-stricken expression.

Jiaojiao watched Ice Cake's actions, a look of understanding in her eyes; she walked over, tried to reach the twig with her paw, but the twig had floated a bit too far. So she simply jumped into the water.

Paddling with her limbs, she swam towards the twig, grabbed it with her mouth.

Returning to the shore, she dropped the twig down and quickly shook off the drops of water from her body.

Watching Ice Cake finally get his little twig and cling to it with joy, lying on the grass and licking his damp fur, Jiaojiao had a tender and serene look in her eyes.