In the afternoon of October 18th, in the Riverside Park Zoo in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, Lele, a 9-year-old boy, was bitten off his arm when he turned over the fence to watch the black bear in his cage. Relatives believed that it was because the security measures in the zoo were too simple and the damage to the shackles had caused the black bear to bite out his mouth. The black bear bites the "bear child" and the safety of the zoo becomes the focus of attention.

Protection net, fence protection

In this incident, the key reason for the black bear bite was twofold. First, the child crossed the guardrail by himself; the second was the breakage of the bearhouse protection net, which allowed the black bear to successfully attack. In the zoo security, the guardrail and the protective net were the last thing to be safe. barrier.

Around the Lighu Mountain, where beasts are concentrated, a guardrail with a height of more than 5 meters is set. The guardrail structure is a wire mesh. On the outside of the wire mesh, there is a wooden or iron fence about 1.5 meters high. There is still some distance between the two fences, with all kinds of trees in the middle. The gap between the outside and the inside of the guardrail is very small, making it difficult for visitors to feed the animals.

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

Basically all zoos will have layers of protection outside the beast area. From the viewpoint of Henan Province, such as the Xinyang River Park Zoo, the cage of the beast area is a fully enclosed iron cage, and the perimeter of the iron cage is 1.5 meters high; at the Shangqiu City **** Zoo, there are two layers of protection outside the Tiger House. Threaded steel, a layer of iron mesh, guardrails more than a meter away from the cage; Anyang Zoo, wolf cages for the iron cage, wire mesh barbed wire, 1.3 meters from the iron cage 1.3 meters high railing; Luohe Zoo, animal There are 4 protective net facilities between the visitors and the visitors. From outside and inside are the railings, steel guardrails, iron cages and wire mesh; Zhoukou Zoo, there are two protective facilities outside the animal cages, one is a large iron cage, one is The guardrail is about 1.7 meters high; in Nanyang Zoo, the guardrail in front of the black bear cage is about 3 meters high.

Warning identification is essential

In addition to strengthening the technical protection of the zoo, direct contact between the organizer and the animals and the necessary reminder work are also effective in reducing the occurrence of danger. In the eye-catching position of the enclosure of the beast area, the “Do not climb over the guardrail” signs and the animal's profile will not only remind visitors to pay attention to safety, but also allow visitors to learn more about animal information.

Video surveillance makes supervision easier

In addition, with the advancement of digital information engineering, more and more zoos will also install the monitoring system in the itinerary of the construction of the track zoo. Through the monitoring system, the situation in each area can be observed in real time.

RFID tag smart management of animals

Even if the monitoring is installed in the zoo, there will always be dead spots, how to manage the animals in the park more effectively, and attach electronic chips to each animal so as to facilitate the tracking of animals and allow them to have a lifetime “identity”. Data management. The zoo in Changsha will implant electronic chips for all wild animals in the zoo and establish wildlife archives to prevent inbreeding of animals.

Zoo has no unified management standard

In July 2004, the Ministry of Construction issued a new edition of the "Administrative Regulations for City Zoos" and the "Outline for National Zoo Development" issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in July 2013. It puts forward requirements for the management of zoos. Then how should we strengthen management? No specific measures? Li Cuihua, deputy secretary-general of the China Zoo Association, said: From now on, we do not have uniform design standards for the zoo industry in China. In the past few years we have been setting standards for the zoo industry. For example, one of the most important ones is the zoo design specification. The design standards of the cages are the contents of the zoo design specifications. Now that there are zoos everywhere, how is the design of the zoos carried out? It is to learn from each other. For example, if there is a zoo in Beijing, it may be that the Henan Zoo is on the Beijing Zoo. How did your panda building be made? How did your Tiger Mountain do? Maybe it will be learnt in the process of learning from each other. The level of construction of this hut is also improving, but so far there is no uniform standard.

Experts stated that the industry standards jointly completed by the Beijing Zoo and related organizations include the "Zodiak Management Regulations" and "Zoo Design Specifications" and are in the stage of public solicitation.