Super Zoo

Chapter 512 Hyenas and Wolves

Ancient philosophers believed that there are three major pursuits in life: achievement, words, and virtue.

Suming had a touch in almost all three. Achievement is about career, and with several companies and the zoo, he could very well claim a small career, especially impressive considering his age; definitely, a successful man. As for virtue, he could count numerous honors on his fingers, the highest being a national delegate, nearly akin to a deity with a halo shining behind his head, and engaging in animal conservation was inherently a virtuous deed;

Previously, the only thing lacking was "words", but now a group of experts had taken care of that, writing a book to summarize the lessons learned from this rewilding operation.

About the book, Suming would often clasp his wrists and sigh with regret later!

He was too naive, far too kind, and much too generous!

Books come with royalties, roughly about 8% of the book's price. The experts were the compilers, but Suming and the zoo were the source of the book's content. Initially, the experts proposed to split the royalties with the zoo, but Suming thought, how much could a book possibly earn? So, with feigned generosity, he made a favor easily bestowed, declining any royalties and declaring that all proceeds would go to animal conservation... Much, much later. He deeply regretted that decision. Even if the royalties for textbooks were low, the volume was high, and with his feigned generosity, he'd missed out on a large sum of money...

But that was a story for another time.

After the zoo's rewilding, the enclosures were finally just about sufficient.

With minimal refurbishment and at little cost, the animals brought back from Iraq all got their new homes.

These creatures had lived purely refugee-like existences in Iraq, starving one moment and barely fed the next... Ah, no, actually never satiated, constantly hungry and thirsty. Even the animals at Baghdad National Zoo and the big-toothed hippo later sent from a hotel were ravenous, reportedly fed just once a day.

To these animals, Yangchuan City Zoo was quite literally heaven!

Fed multiple times a day, with ample food, specialized nutritional plans, doctors for when they were sick, and no fear of being snatched by soldiers to become barbecue, they lived comfortably, and never in their lives had they imagined such days would come.

Animals have emotions too, with their own joys and sorrows, and these creatures weren't as scheming as humans, they wouldn't conceal their feelings; internal emotions were readily displayed.

When Miss Red Fox was around, though she had a bit of a temper, she was never this petty, was she?

In his younger days in the wilderness, even the Wolf King ate carrion when starving. But those days were as distant as the eastward flowing river, never to return. Living a pampered life now, he couldn't stand those rustic hyenas next door, ruining the environment so terribly. Did they not allow anyone... oh no, allow wolves to live anymore?

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So, each day, the group of wolves started a new routine, baring their teeth and scaring the hyenas under the leadership of the Wolf King.

The hyenas had just arrived and didn't have the numbers. Plus, they were inherently emboldened by group fights and dared not confront the wolf pack. Yet they couldn't bear to throw away the rotten meat, fearing the days of uncertainty and hunger might return. So they huddled cautiously in their cage, guarding their leftovers.

As the stench of putrefaction intensified, passing tourists hurriedly covered their noses and fled. Flies buzzed around, forming small clouds inside and outside the cage. The manager in charge, Mr. Peng, couldn't bear it any longer and personally entered the hyenas' cage to clean up the rotting meat piled up like a small hill.

Watching Mr. Peng, in his rubber boots and mask, shovel away their 'treasure,' the hyenas were so heartbroken. They whimpered as they lay on the ground with pathetic eyes, nearly in tears.

The grey wolves were unhappy, and the bear family was also quite irate lately!

Their trio originally lived in the spacious Xiongshan, equipped with a rockery, a pond, and a small forest. From a human perspective, it was as if a family of three inhabited a detached house with a large yard and a swimming pool.

But now, new members had joined the household: two Malayan bears.

The Malayan bear is the smallest of the bear species, barely reaching a meter tall and weighing around a hundred pounds, with black fur and a large tan snout.

Teddy bear toys are designed after the Malayan bear, which shows that although it bears the name of a bear, the Malayan bear is not at all ferocious but rather adorable and goofy.

The two Malayan bears came from Baghdad National Zoo, one weighing over forty pounds and the other barely thirty. Thin and tiny, when they arrived, they were so famished they were all skin and bones, without any 'bear-like' features at all.