Guide words of Dafeng Elk Reserve in Jiangsu Province

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"Welcome to Jiangsu Dafeng Elk Reserve. I am a little tour guide. Today, I will show you around the nature reserve. Please take care of me. . . . . . The Yellow Sea Beach, with its vast land, mild climate and rich forests and grasslands, is an ideal place for wild stocking of elk. The largest elk herd in the world lives here. Its shape is very strange: the horn is like a deer, the face is like a horse, the hoof is like an ox, and the tail is like a donkey, so it is also called "four unlike". In China's famous ancient novel "The List of Gods", the "four unlike" is regarded as the mount of Jiang Ziya, which adds to its mystery. Like other animals, elk are herbivorous mammals. Generally, male elk can weigh up to 200 kilograms and have horns as long as 80 centimeters, which are replaced once a year. The horn shape of elk is unique among deer-when standing, each branch of elk horn points backward, while the horns of other deer point forward. The female elk has no horns and is smaller. Elk's tail is the longest among deer. The long tail is used to drive away mosquitoes and flies to adapt to the life in the swamp environment. Elk has wide hoofs and is agile. They often stand in the water, trudge, dive and feed, even in the dead of winter. The coat color of elk is brownish red in summer and turns brownish gray after depilation in winter. The natural fertility of elk is very low. The pregnant period of the doe is longer than that of other deer, more than nine and a half months, and each fetus only gives birth to one child. Male deer has long fork horns at the age of two, and the fork horns are fully developed at the age of six.

The experience of elk is full of legend. According to scientists' research, as early as 3000 years ago, there were elk in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in China, but they gradually decreased after the Han Dynasty and then disappeared. 1865, someone found 120 elk in the southern suburbs of Beijing and wrote an article to introduce it to the world. Subsequently, dozens of elk were stolen to Europe and exhibited in zoos such as London, Paris and Berlin. /kloc-in 0/900, "Eight-Nation Alliance" invaded Beijing, and the last batch of elk suffered bad luck, some were killed, and some were loaded on westbound ships. Since then, elk have almost disappeared in China. Later, most elk living abroad died one after another. Only 18 milu deer raised by Duke Beffort in Wubang Temple Zoo, a private villa, grow well and breed rapidly. By 1967, the number of elk here has increased to more than 400, and they are exported to various countries. So far, the total number of elk in the world is estimated to have exceeded 1000. 1In August, 986, with the efforts of the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Ministry of Forestry of China, 39 elk selected from seven zoos in Britain returned to their hometown and were sent to Dafeng Elk Nature Reserve for grazing. Since then, the elk have ended their wandering overseas for more than half a century and started a new life of returning to their native land and nature. Today, these rare animals are thriving in the motherland. Here we are, please take your time to observe the rest! "