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1、1(Narration)(National ) Dafeng Natural Reserves for David-deersHello, everyone! Welcome to Dafeng, the native place of the David-deers.Here we are in Dafeng Natural Reserves for David-deers, it is located in the tidal land, 53 km. southeast of Dafeng.David-deer is, called animal with 4 semblances, b
2、elonging to the deer family in the class of mammals, asit has branched antlers like a deer, a face like a horse, a body like a donkey, and hooves like a calf. It is 2 meters long, over 1 meter tall, with light brown hair which looks darker on the back and lighter on the belly, with a tail hanging do
3、wn to the hooves. It is docile in nature, feeding on vegetation. Actually, it is a kind of special local animal in China, with the wild ones being extinct in the world.It is recorded in NATURAL SCIENCE written by Zhang Hua in Western Jin Dynasty: There once livedthousands of elks in groups in Hailin
4、g, bordering the sea and linking the Yangtze River, which tallies with thearchaeological study. In Dafeng, the fossils of David-deers have been found in 12 places, thats to say, Dafengused to be one of the habitats of David-deers. Some 2000 years ago, the reproduction rate of David-deersreached the
5、acme. People used to domesticate and hunt David-deers and eat the venison just as popular as weare now raising pigs and eating pork.David-deer prefers, by nature, living in the salted marsh, feeding on grass, taking wet land as the habitatto generate its offspring.Once branches of David-deers family
6、 lived along the Yangtze River banks. But, with the expansion ofhuman habitation, the animals habitat was rapidly lessening. Herds of David-deers migrated eastward alongthe north bank of Yangtze to the sea. God blessed the species. It was in the tidal land made up of the alluvialsand and soil from Y
7、angtze and Haihe rivers that the David-deers found a refuge and settled down in the newliving place. However, good days wouldnt last long for the animal. Even in the the soft alluvial soil soonappeared human trace, people set up stoves to boil salt and encircled the reclaimed land with seawalls forf
8、arming, so the last sanctuary for the animal were gradually occupied by human beings.By the Song Dynasty, the wild David-deers had been extinct in the world, except a few domesticatedones were left and kept in the royal garden. In 1865, a French missionary, called Ervin David, rode a donkeyto the Ro
9、yal Nanhaitzi Garden in Beijing, for he was told that in the garden were kept a special kind of animal,called four semblances. By bribing the clerk of the garden, he succeeded in doing a dirty business. He handedin ten dollars through a hole in a wall, in turn, he got a skull of the deers from withi
10、n, and handing in anotherten dollars, he got 2 pieces of the deers skin. Two years later, David published an article, On the Discovery ofthe New Species, which made an instant sensation in the world of animal science. So a far-fetched exoticname was given to the animal.In 1900, allied troops of the
11、8 nations conquered Beijing and the last existing David-deers were takenabroad just as the captives in a cold rainy night. From then on, no trace of the animal was ever found in the 9.6million sq. km. of the land.Being not accustomed to the climate in the alien land, the David-deers, once hundreds o
12、f thousand innumber, were almost extinct in the world. In the early 20th century, only 18 David-deers were left, all kept inan Englishmans manor. The owner of the manor was afraid that the chaos of the war would make the speciestotally extinct like dinosaur from the earth. So he took a wise measure
13、to bring the last existing David-deers toNorth America and other European countries.In 1980s, the World Animal Fund and UN Nature & Natural Protection Union initiated to bringDavid-deers to the native place so as to restore the wild species. The Ministry of Forestry organized specialistsfrom home an
14、d abroad to make an on-site investigation from Liaoning to Guangxi and concluded that the tidalland bordering the Yellow Sea, in southeast Dafeng, would be the most ideal living place for the David-deers.In the October of 1986, Dafeng Natural Reserves for the Wild David-deers was founded. On August
15、14 of thesame year, 39 David-deers were, given gratuitously by London Zoo, transported in a special truck to thereserves.Friends, knowing the vitality and tragic history of David-deers, now you may be interested in the livingof the animals. Please, follow me to the reserves.Here above the gate are 5
16、 big characters, standing for Dafeng David-deers Park, written by Mr. FeiXiao-tong, a famous scholar and social elite. 300 meters from the gate is a round circle, 30 meters in diameter,on its center stands the statue of a 3-deers family, around which are another 4 statues of the horse, calf, donkeyand deer to give people a better understanding of the semblances between David-deers and the 4 differen
