White tiger in Huong Giang

It is not a bridge named Bach Ho across the poetic Huong River of Hue, but these are white tigers in a giant private zoo called Huong Giang. This is also the story of preserving and breeding a rare animal.

The zoo is officially named Huong Giang Wildlife World (Xiangjiang wildlife world) in Panyu, about half an hour from the Guangzhou capital of Guangdong province, China.

In the outdoor animal world

The ticket price is quite high, up to 120 yuan (about VND 220,000), but only after going through a large round of this zoo is it worth the fare. The ticket price is higher - 145 yuan - if you want to see Huong Giang safari at night.

In order to go around Huong Giang zoo, it is impossible to use floating legs. There are two areas, one must go by car, the other bus has many cars, visitors can freely watch the animals roam or raise outdoors; and the second area visitors have to walk to see the majority of animals raised in the barn, especially the extremely rare animals such as cat bears or fire bears.

Area 1 is divided into Asia, Africa and the area of ​​wild animals. As long as the vehicle runs about a hundred meters into the Asian region, the car occupants have to make the most of cameras and camcorders: big Mongol camels, two humps, and Tibetan yak buffalo, deer and others. Indian public servants have colorful wings . comfortable in their natural surroundings are Jiangshan. Then there are the giraffes, the zebras, the elk, the chamois, the wildebeest, the galloping code and the African ostrich . living in swarms everywhere. The animals are well fed, not imprisoned, so they are healthy and lively. They didn't care about the car that carried us as if we were too familiar.

The next step is in the area of ​​evil animals. It is great to be comfortable watching the big lions, Bengal tigers and Siberian tigers with beautiful bristles and toned bodies, brave generals (not looking like the tigers at Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden or Hanoi Zoo Suddenly, the whole group cried out when they saw the white tigers, the white lions too, they were leisurely walking or lying on the shade of green trees. Of course, this wild beast was stopped with the road passing by a fence and a large and deep canal so that they could not pass, but there was absolutely no barn and cramped, stinking iron. They have small streams or lakes for their lagoons, there are caves built but look like real mountain caves.

Then there are all kinds of bears that are safe in their own areas in the sky, then Asian and African elephants with long and curved ivory sets, rhinos and white rhinos with thick armor that look like chariots. Far away are large lakes with swarms of cranes, swans, scarlet .

It took nearly 45 minutes to ride the car to watch the outdoor zoo, but the whole team felt sorry that the time was no longer needed, to get off to walk to area 2, to the 'repertoire' that the instructor gave know 'extremely attractive'.

Rare white tiger

The next destination turned out to be a conservationist . tiger. Tourists are introduced to the stages of taking care of young and beautiful white tiger babies; Some babies are raised in incubators just like babies; they are fed, fed, and given regular health checks until they have enough strength to drop into their designated area. The next destination is a tiger circus with tiger performances dancing fire rings, tigers standing on two legs, tigers climbing stairs, tigers pulling strings with the audience . but the uniqueness in the whole 'actors 'Here is White Tiger! Big white tigers reach several quintals but the movements are extremely skillful, maturing under the commanding whip of the two boys.

The group of white tigers in Xiangjiang Province reaches over 60 individuals, the largest and only white tiger herd in the world. There are more than a quarter of white tigers where Kaili is the child, the mother's white tiger was brought from Sweden to Huong Giang in 1997, when the zoo opened. Kaili has many such children because it is very fertile and, more importantly, thanks to the technique of artificial insemination that was done so successfully in Huong Giang, it was like a male white tiger raised in the United States. In 1998, Kaili set a record for birth to six cubs. Three of the children born by Kaili continue to do the work of replicating herds, and none of the tigers have to die soon after being cared for properly by newborns by a team of animal doctors and animal doctors. medical skill. In particular, in Huong Giang, there is an extremely rare Siberian snow tiger: there are only 75 individuals in the world today and mainly live in the Siberian icy region.

Thanks to that perfect artificial insemination technique, Huong Giang also has white lion, strange white kangaroo as if they were put on an artificial skin! If white lions are about the same size as ordinary lions, the majestic male with a white mane, the white kangaroo is smaller than their kind in Oceania and they look more gentle, slower, even if they are stocking between nature.

Private zoo

We are not surprised when being introduced Huong Giang is a zoo completely invested and exploited by private. Huong Giang's private bosses spent up to 1 billion yuan ($ 120 million) to turn a 133-hectare land into a paradise for more than 10,000 animals of 130 animal species, many of which were first. that has never been seen in China. Up to 80% of the animals here live mainly at night, so Huong Giang is a safari park open to guests until midnight.

Huong Giang Company was established in 1996, and in December 1997, Huong Giang Wildlife World was officially opened to visitors. It immediately became an important tourist attraction of not only Guangdong province but also China. Huong Giang's guests are a wealthy and wealthy class of Chau Giang river delta - the most dynamic and developed economic region in China. Visitors from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau also like Huong Giang and neither tourists from many countries in the world overlook this attractive destination, because it is the largest zoo in China and ranked second. in the world (only after San Diego Zoo, California State of America, about area as well as number and number of animals).

According to Mr. Ly Mac, of Chime Long Group in Guangzhou, founder of Huong Giang, up to 90% of animals here are imported from abroad, most from Africa and Thailand. Song Huong Giang is not only a zoo but also a large botanical garden with rare and diverse plants and flowers. The array of lush tropical forests thanks to protection and care makes it an ideal resort, relaxing weekend.

The boys followed the footsteps of their parents or teachers into Huong Giang not only rounded their eyes at the performances of white tigers, crocodiles, elephants, seals, but also bewildered by a choir of hundreds of brilliant parrots. color at the end of the journey to visit this zoo. A zoo like Huong Giang is also an important school for children.

White tiger is not an albino tiger (albino).The albino tiger has almost no stripes or only very thin stripes, while white tigers still have black stripes like normal tigers.The white of the tiger is due to genetic mutations;Accordingly, two common parents with recessive genes can produce white tigers.However, the parents are white tigers only produce white tigers.

White tigers are also called ice tigers only because of their color and not their habitat;however, there are many white tigers in Siberia all year round.

The wild white tiger is extremely rare.The recorded places with white tigers outside nature are China, the Korean peninsula, Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia and Sumatra and Java islands of Indonesia.

BICH GIANG