Those Years I Operated A Zoo Chapter 12

Chapter 12 – Interview (1)

The city reporters called Duan Jiaze before they came and when they were reaching, they called again. Duan Jiaze hurriedly went to the gate to pick them up. With one glance, there were five to six people.

Two of the city reporters were holding the cameras, two were online media reporters, and people from the streets and communities came too.

The reporter that represented the street was a different reporter that Duan Jiaze knew. He was in charge of promoting and giving directions for these reporters. Everyone shook hands and exchanged some conventional greetings.

The female reporter who contacted Duan Jiaze was called Chen Wei. She looked to be around twenty-seven years old. “Director Duan, let's go to your office first and talk.”

“Okay, please come this way.” Duan Jiaze brought them in and went to the office building.

Chen Wei was a little surprised. On the way here, the community staff told her about the internal situation of the former Cape Zoo. She thought that the Lingyou Zoo opened on the original foundation would not be too good.

However, now that she took a glance, except for the office building, which was somewhat lacking behind, the appearance of the cages was very aesthetically pleasing, and the facilities were very complete. Some animals could be seen from the outdoor exhibition area, and the state was particularly good.

Duan Jiaze answered some simple questions in his office. Such as his own personal experience and why did he choose to open a zoo. Duan Jiaze was long prepared, he came out with how he was fond of small animals, hopes to contribute to animal protection and animal education and so on.

He certainly will not say that his luck was too bad and was bound to a trash system.

Chen Wei and he communicated about the interview plans and also sent someone to film a scene of him in the office. Afterward, they went out and talked. After all, most of the important scenes were for the animals.

When they got downstairs, one of the reported exclaimed: "Hey, why is there a label here, aquarium?"

They didn't pay attention when they came in. They thought it was a landscape decoration. And now that they were reminded, they also found that it wrote three words “Aquarium” and they all couldn't help but grew elated.

Duan Jiaze said with embarra.s.sment: “We are not very large. The previous Cape Zoo did not have facilities for raising fish. I prefer fish and I have kept some for a while. This sign is an ambition. We will build an aquarium in the future. "

“That's a good ambition,” Chen Wei said,: “The fishes inside are very beautiful.”

They didn't know much about fishes. When they saw different kinds of big and small fishes mixed together, they didn't detect anything wrong.

Duan Jiaze pointed his finger on the side of the gla.s.s jar. “Yeah, very interesting.”

As soon as he finished saying, the fishes all swam from the other side, rushing madly against the gla.s.s at his finger. They were floated in the water as if they wanted to touch his finger.

When Duan Jiaze has released his fingers, they each left with their heads and tails swaying.

“Wow…” So many colorful fishes rushing in the same direction, it was really pretty and everyone breathed out.

“Wait, can you do it again? We will take this scene down.” Chen Wei said: “How do you do this?”

Duan Jiaze said: “Maybe I fed them too often.”

He waited of Chen Wei to start the camera and he did it again for her to use it for materials.

Chen Wei was pleasantly surprised. Duan Jiaze said in an interview that he inherited the closing zoo because he liked animals. If she wants this to be reflected in the news, the scene of Duan Jiaze being close to the animals would be the best.

—And it's not the kind of ordinary scene of feeding an animal casually. This was more lively and convincing.

Duan Jiaze took them to the indoor exhibition area where Xiao Su, Liu Bin and Xu Chenggong had long been stationed to do some work.

When Chen Wei came in, she saw that the interior decoration was even better than that of the Donghai Zoo. She could not distinguish between them, but there was more mechanized equipment and they were better designed.

So several reporters took down scenes of the environment and asked Liu Bin to demonstrate various devices. They also requested Duan Jiaze to do it too.

Chen Wei asked Duan Jiaze how much money had he spent and Duan Jiaze couldn't say that he only had thousands of dollars at his hand at the point of time, so he vaguely said that he had spent all his savings.

Chen Wei then asked questions about all the equipment and she sighed with emotions. Duan Jiaze was really willing to buy so many expensive equipment using all his savings, yet he lived in a simple building. This was truly powered by love.

Combined with the spirituality of the animals, this zoo had its own characteristics.

There was already an idea in her head and that will be the focus of the news.

Compared with Chen Wei who paid more attention to Duan Jiaze's entrepreneurship and love of animals. The focus of those online journalists was different. They were a new media center. They give contributions to the Donghai Daily App and Wechat Public Number, they focus on traffic and attract readers with interesting content.

So they can't wait to ask Duan Jiaze to take them to see those famous birds on the local network.

Duan Jiaze took them to the bird shed, where they could see the exhibition hall as if it were a jungle. Birds lay on branches, and peac.o.c.ks could be seen looming among the trees.

“Can we go in and interact and shoot with them?” The reporter asked.

“Yes, I've prepared a disposable raincoat. Put it on so as not to have bird droppings.” Duan Jiaze issued a disposable raincoat to each of them.

“By the way, it looks like a red bird was leading in the picture, seemed like it was not here?” Someone asked.

“Oh, it's in another cage.” Duan Jiaze knew that the reporters were coming, so naturally, he let Luya go to his office and stay there. He might need his cooperation later. Now he went to open the door of the cage house. As soon as he raised his hand, Luya flew out and landed on Duan Jiaze's arm and combed its own feathers.

When they came in, the camera was never turned off. They naturally recorded the scene. The two media reporters also took photographs frequently, trying to capture the best moment.

“Director Duan, what kind of bird is this? Its size is bigger and the colors are brighter. I don't think I've seen it before." Chen Wei asked, and she felt that the bird was overbearing, or rather more fierce, not so easy to get close, maybe it was a carnivorous bird.

Duan Jiaze had told Teacher Zhao that this was a golden crow, but he was afraid of telling this to Chen Wei. He was afraid that the reporter would make serious textual research.

Duan Jiaze said, “Actually, I picked it up. I don't know exactly what bird it is. I asked the experts of the Forestry Bureau, but they were not good at judging. They had different opinions. In fact, I suspect that it was smuggled. It's not from Asia at all. It may not be a variant. You see how beautiful the color is…”

Duan Jiaze was laughing and Chen Wei got little dizzy from listening, and she repeated just one sentence: “Oh, you rescue the injured bird, really loving, then it should be very dependent on you?”

“…yes.” Duan Jiaze held on Luya and buried his face on him for intimacy.

Luya: "……"

Duan Jiaze noticed the terrifying expression Daojun was giving him, he hurriedly lifted his head and patted his feathers. Otherwise, the audience might see a bird speaking and bursting into fury at Duan Jiaze.

Although Chen Wei asked about Luya, the focus of everyone was on the two peac.o.c.ks.

Xiao Su said this one sentence: “They love opening their feathers very much.”

She fed the birds more often and had long figured out that two male peac.o.c.ks in the zoo like to open their tails. Not just the from the last time they opened their tails in front of their children but they also often like to abruptly open their feathers.

Chen Wei was very interested. “Really? However, it seems that the two male peac.o.c.ks have not been seen yet.”

Xiao Su mumbled, “Really love to open their tails, I don't know the reasons but maybe they have a unique taste.”

Everyone: "……"

Duan Jiaze rapidly sweated, Xiao Su seemed to have read too much about it, this was just a normal animal's behavior.

However, he was aware of this reason, the peac.o.c.ks may not just open their tails for mating but also as a threat. Recently, the nearby sparrows always came to steal the food and the peac.o.c.ks frequently exploded.

"Really, is that such a rule? If only we can film the process, that will be good." Chen Wei was not concerned about the real reason, she just needed to know that the peac.o.c.ks love to open their tails and it will be good to take this scene down.

"This…see how there is a possibility……" Duan Jiaze's eyes were looking at Luya as he stammered.

The reporters glanced at one another, revealing an antic.i.p.ating expression. Yes, who knows, maybe they would be so lucky to film it down.

End of Chapter 12

Translated at rrrrhexiatranslations