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| Artificial breeding brings vitality to the green peacock population |
| ——Interview with Yang Xiaojun, researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
With an upright crest on the top of the head and gorgeous back feathers, the green peacock is the prototype of the phoenix in traditional Chinese culture.
Everyone who has been fortunate enough to see the green peacock is shocked by its elegant posture and huge tail screen
.
The beauty of the green peacock is well-known to every family, but the fact that it has long been endangered as the only native peacock in China is little known
Academy of Sciences
Reporter: How is the distribution of green peacocks in China? What is the difference with the blue peacock?
Reporter: How is the distribution of green peacocks in China? What is the difference with the blue peacock? Yang Xiaojun: Historically, green peacocks were distributed in southern China
.
According to ancient records, there were traces of their activities in Henan about 6000 years ago
Unlike the green peacock, the blue peacock is an exotic species and was sent to China as a gift during the Qing Dynasty
.
The blue peacock has a more docile temperament than the green peacock, so it was domesticated by humans more than 1,000 years ago and is a low-risk species
Reporter: What is the reason why the green peacock is endangered?
Reporter: What is the reason why the green peacock is endangered? Yang Xiaojun: The green peacock is a national first-level protected bird.
In 2006, it was “upgraded” from vulnerable to endangered—this is the opposite of the “downgrading” of giant pandas
.
In the past, people thought that the reason for the decrease in the number of green peacocks was climate change, hunting, etc.
Reporter: Why artificially breed green peacocks? How is the current progress?
Reporter: Why artificially breed green peacocks? How is the current progress? Yang Xiaojun: First of all, in case the wild population of green peacocks goes extinct, we have some reserves to keep their provenance
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Secondly, when the breeding reaches a certain number, the green peacock can be trained in the wild, and finally released into the original distribution area to achieve population growth
The most critical step in artificial breeding of green peacocks is to determine that the parents are purebreds
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We found the wings of a dead green peacock in the wild, and did a comprehensive analysis of the green peacock genome, before we had the work of artificial breeding
(Our newspaper, Kunming, October 15th, by Guangming Net reporter Cai Lin)
