I have a wildlife zoo-Chapter 636 - 635 Ice Cake Slacking Off

"Since it's the child of Red Bean and Chestnut, let's call it Bianbian!"

"I think Doudou would be a better name! Take one character from each parent, since the director also likes to give animals food-related names."

"That name is a bit perfunctory, isn't it? It's not cute at all, and a red panda deserves a nicer sounding name."

Netizens started discussing vigorously.

Fang Ye said, "Actually, when it comes to naming animals, there are some considerations to keep in mind.

First off, it should be unique, so as not to repeat the names of other animals of the same kind, which is easy to understand.

Naming can be based on the mother's surname to reflect the hardships of pregnancy and rearing the young.

Physical features can also serve as references for naming, like our Red Bean and Chestnut, whose names were based on their colors. Including the special time of birth or any important event, for example, our Pallas's cat 'Yuanxiao' was found by a concerned citizen on Lantern Festival and was thus named after the day it was brought to the zoo.

The name can have a beautiful meaning, but it is more important to be catchy; simplicity is actually okay."

I better explain this to the netizens, otherwise, as happened during the naming event for Ice Cake, we'll end up with all sorts of weird proposals like 'Sky-tearing Tiger Demon' and 'Flourishing Wealth'."

While saying this, he walked out from the bamboo forest, "Let's go visit the tiger exhibit and see what Jiaojiao and the others are up to."

...

Arriving at the tiger exhibit!

Ice Cake was squatting by the bank of crescent moon pond, hunkered down, staring intently into the water.

Suddenly, it leaped off the bank, plunging into the water with force!

Splashing up a spray of white water.

Then, it swam around for a bit before resurfacing, settling in the shallows and carefully watching the surface of the water.

"What is Ice Cake up to?"

"Looks like it's searching for something!"

"Maybe its toy ball fell in?"

Fang Ye laughed, "Ice Cake is fishing right now!"

"Ah, are there fish in the pool?"

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"Tigers eat fish?"

"Oh dear, too bad we can't see the underwater scene here like we can at the hippopotamus exhibit!"

The hippopotamus exhibit has viewing points where you can see them swimming through a glass wall, and actually, for any swimming animal, exhibits could be designed this way.

Fang Ye had considered adding an underwater glass wall in the tiger exhibit, but ultimately gave up on the idea.

After all, tigers mainly stay on land. Having the pool close by and being able to see them swim is quite interesting. Making everything like the underwater glass of other exhibits would be too cliché and wouldn't highlight the unique features of the exhibit.

Fang Ye smiled slightly, "Tigers are cats, after all, of course, they like to eat fish!

It's just that normally, the pond is for them to cool off and swim. Adding fish is a recent enrichment. Let's see how Ice Cake fishes."

Ice Cake was carefully observing at the edge of the shallow water, suddenly it widened its eyes, arching its back and leaping up!

It seemed a fish had swum by its feet, startling it unexpectedly.

After falling back, it hurriedly took small steps on the bank, following the shadow moving in the pond with a laser-focused gaze, then crouched down again!

With a pounce, it jumped into the water and missed again.

Its expression slightly despondent, it swam back to the edge of the pond, shook its head, and flung off the water droplets.

Fishing is a profoundly challenging skill, for tigers as well as for people!

But Ice Cake had already mastered some techniques, like returning to the bank before fishing to properly spot the fish's position before pouncing, catching the fish by surprise.

Otherwise, swimming in the water, fish are very agile, able to sense the movement of water, and would slip away with a flick of their tails before you could get close.

By striking from the bank, it even managed to touch a fish's body once.

Ice Cake watched the fish just out of reach, feeling a sense of frustrating longing.

It's so frustrating!

I ran over to Jiaojiao, who was resting on the ground, and rubbed my head against her cheek.

"Ao wu~ Ao wu~" I began to cry out.

As I rubbed my head against her, sliding down from her cheek to her neck, my body followed and sprawled on the ground, revealing my white belly.

I waved my paws pitifully as if to say, Mama, I can't catch any fish!

"Big cat snuggles!"

"Eh, Ice Cake has grown this big and still loves to act spoiled with Jiaojiao."

"It's true, watching Ice Cake grow up, always climbing up and down on Jiaojiao when he was little!"

"Right, they've always been so close!"

Now, Ice Cake and Jiaojiao looked more like siblings in terms of size.

By next year, Ice Cake might even outgrow Jiaojiao.

Jiaojiao turned her head and licked Ice Cake's ear, as if to comfort him.

Actually, she saw everything Ice Cake did while she was resting here.

If Ice Cake were still small, she would definitely have helped him catch the fish.

But now that Ice Cake wanted to catch fish, he had to do it on his own; she wouldn't interfere, just a little encouragement was enough.

Ice Cake didn't intend to ask Jiaojiao for help, but the misses with the fish were driving him crazy.

Lying against his closest kin for a while calmed him down.

He ran back to the edge of the pond, his gaze serious, intently fishing.

This time I'm definitely going to catch you!

Seizing the moment, his paw slapped the shadow in the water fiercely, followed by a quick dive to the bottom!

After a while, his head emerged, a fish tail dangling from his mouth, ecstatic beyond measure.

While he was still overjoyed, he opened his mouth, and the fish slipped back into the water with a splash, its tail disappearing without a trace.

Ice Cake's eyes widened in alarm, Where is my fish!

After so much effort, he had finally gotten the chance to catch it, and now it had slipped away?

He swam around in the water, diving and feeling around the bottom!

After being struck for the first time, the fish's movements had significantly slowed, and it took a while to recover its strength.

Catching it again became much easier, and Ice Cake had learned his lesson, deciding to jump to shore first.

Clinging to the fish like slurping a spicy strip, he bit down on the fish's head, his mouth quivering like an electric shock, making both him and the fish's body shake nonstop.

The main problem was that the fish was too slippery to get a firm grip, and it would fall if his mouth loosened just a bit, so he had to keep shaking it backwards, making it less likely to drop.

"Big Face Cat loves to eat fish~ all smiles, all smiles, all smiles~"

"Haha, the fish is a bit too hot to handle!"

"Director Fang, speaking of feeding fish to tigers, won't they choke on fishbones?"

Fang Ye explained, "Actually, all animals eating fish run a risk of choking on fishbones!

The barbs on a tiger's tongue can help them lick off the meat instead of swallowing it whole, so they usually don't swallow fishbones.

Moreover, we provide fish with more flesh and fewer bones, and fish as an enrichment is only occasional, so it's not a frequent diet for them, minimizing the risk of choking on bones.

If they're unlucky enough to choke on a bone, then we'll just anaesthetize them and remove it."

"Oh~"

Once on shore, Ice Cake blissfully began eating the fish with its strange, addictive flavor.