Endemic ?

July 11

I’m a little bit tired bit today. But we still have to go on the bus and sleep lol…
At the morning, we visited the endemic specimen research institute

For me, this is really a well organized museum. Because the demo of plants and animals specimens are real. That just prepared by collecting the dead bodies of the organisms, that can be preserved after special treatment.

In Taiwan, the public awareness of environmental protection is high. Many locals in here are involving in the animal field research. Even more, they already have more advanced data base and network for the environmental studies.

However, human still cannot bring every things back to the earth. Just seeing the bones of Taiwan Black Bears, this make me think deep about the previous hunting practices of the endangered animals due to the demand of the people…

After that, we went to the Wildlife Animal Rescue Center. It hosted many disabled or injured animals here. There is one of the large bird cannot release back to the nature because of one wing broken…It’s sad to here that.

By the way, there is a cute owl stored at the entrance of the center. This owl was previously kept as pet but disposed by the owner for no reason.. That means, think more before you want to keep a pet, be a responsible pet owner.

Then this is first time that I came to close to bats. Because we usually see bats in sky or caves only. They’re the only mammals can fly, and mysterious !

At night, we have the lectures about Tea culture and production. I personally don’t like tea very much. But I consumed a lot of tea in this lecture ;P