I have a wildlife zoo

"What is an Asian forest tortoise? I don\'t know, can some knowledgeable bro explain a bit?"

"Obviously, it\'s a kind of tortoise! (smart)"

"A land tortoise? Aren\'t all turtles found in water? There\'s a difference between water turtles and land turtles? I\'m so ignorant."

"I know about the Galapagos giant tortoise! That one is the biggest land tortoise."

"Last time I went to the zoo, I seemed to recall seeing a sulcata tortoise, it was bigger than a washbasin, moving slowly and leisurely."

A museum doctor said, "The Asian forest tortoise, also known as the Burmese Brown Mountain tortoise or six-footed tortoise, is the largest land tortoise in mainland Asia. An adult can grow over 50 cm in length, and the heaviest can weigh nearly 45 kg, chiefly found in Myanmar, Thailand, and the Malay Peninsula."

"Whoa, the big shot is incredible! I bow to the big shot!"

"With this ID, the big shot might really work at a museum, right? No wonder they know so much!"

"Half a meter in size, my goodness, can it really grow that big?"

The museum doctor said, "It\'s nothing, just doing a bit of trivial work. My knowledge of Asian forest tortoises is also just about this much; I don\'t understand much about their habits. I wouldn\'t dare to show off in front of the zoo director."

"The big shot is too humble!"

Fang Ye nodded and said, "This museum big shot is right! Speaking of Asian forest tortoises might not ring a bell for everyone, but Black Tortoise, everyone should definitely know! The Asian forest tortoise is also known by the nickname Black Tortoise! By a stroke of fortune, while I was buying vegetables the other day, I found an Asian forest tortoise, so let\'s go have a look."

The barrage on the live stream went wild!

"Black Tortoise? That cool?"

"Damn, the zoo got a new divine beast, huh? Now we have both White Tiger and Black Tortoise, when are we going to assemble all Four Divine Beasts?"

"Wow, that sounds so exciting!"

"Alpaca: What, am I not a divine beast now? Who are you looking down upon?"

"Picking up a divine beast at a vegetable market, isn\'t that a bit too slick?"

"Yeah, that day I was just out to buy some vegetables when I passed by a seafood shop. The owner had just received an Asian forest tortoise from a villager, treating it as a rather large common turtle for sale, with quite a few onlookers watching.

One of the onlookers had a sharp eye and thought the shell of the Asian forest tortoise had a mysterious aura, wanted to buy it to serve as a feng shui turtle for their house."

Fang Ye paused for a moment, then chuckled, "The only thing was the lack of knowledge, planning to keep it in an aquarium."

"What would happen if kept in an aquarium?"

"As they said, it\'s a land tortoise, so obviously, it would have drowned!"

"Hahaha!"

"Speechless, 66666!"

"I just looked it up, the Asian forest tortoise is a nationally protected species, level two. It\'s a good thing the director saved Tortoise!"

"Did the owner get scared to death after finding out?"

As the netizens chattered joyfully, they had already arrived at the administrative building!

Downstairs on the lawn, a Tortoise was basking in the sun, with the recently recruited animal keeper Mao sitting on a small stool beside it, watching over it.

"Hello, Director, Sister Lan!" Mao greeted.

Little Black lay on the grass, its back carrying a mysterious black shell, which remained profundly dark under the sunshine except for a small, smooth area in the middle reflecting light and looking quite mystical. The two pitch-black forelimbs, covered by snake-like scales, were bent in a half-moon shape on each side.

It was extending its head quite placidly and slowly, giving an impression of dullness, but upon hearing some noise, it immediately retracted its head into its shell, peeking out cautiously. Sensing a familiar presence, it gradually began to stick its head out again, slowly turning it around, its eyes landing on Fang Ye with a hint of warmth.

Netizens were immediately attracted to Little Black!

"Wow, that\'s a huge tortoise!"

"I\'ve really never seen such a big Tortoise! It\'s even bigger than my foot bath!"

"This black shell, the scales on its legs, no wonder it\'s called Black Tortoise!"

"Tortoise is so cute, too! Look at the way it stretches its legs out and bends them back, doesn\'t it look just like a young duckling sitting?"

"Damn, that\'s a unique perspective! Is it my imagination, or did it suddenly become a lot cuter?"

"It\'s getting cute! It\'s getting cute!"

"Great idea, I\'m going to draw some fan art!"

"Hey, hey, can you lsp keep it normal and not feminize everything?"

Fang Ye asked Mao, "Mao, do you have any turtle food on you?"

Mao quickly replied, "I\'ll go get some!"

And he dashed toward the office building.

"Isn\'t there watermelon? Just grab a few slices of watermelon!"

Fang Ye then squatted down beside Little Black, stroked its shell, and introduced to the camera and the netizens, "This is Little Black!"

"Why is the big tortoise named Little Black? The zookeeper\'s naming is so unique."

"I think it\'s quite good!"

Lan Li brought the camera close, very close, capturing Little Black\'s dark shell where even the fine white lines could be clearly seen.

While stroking Little Black\'s shell, Fang Ye laughed and said, "The shell may look very hard, like a rock, but what we see is just a hard keratin layer. Beneath it there are many nerves and blood vessels. For turtles, the shell is like their skin, they can feel when it is touched, and it\'s also painful if the shell gets cracked."

"Ah, is that so!"

Fang Ye started to stroke along the seams of the shell, "Look at its shell, these five pieces in the middle are called the vertebral scutes, the four pairs next to them are the costal scutes, totaling 13 pieces. Every tortoise is like this, any more or fewer would be an abnormal shell. This ring of smaller ones on the edge is called the marginal scutes, and there are 12 pairs."

"I\'ve been raising turtles for years and never noticed that! Let me go lift up my little turtle and count!"

"I thought those shells just grew at random."

After touching the shell, Fang Ye wanted to touch the turtle\'s head.

Of course, if you\'re going to pet a turtle, you got to pet its head!

Little Black had all its limbs and head lying on the ground, its belly clinging to the floor.

When Fang Ye\'s hand reached over, the head lifted slightly.

A turtle\'s expression is very simple! That is, it doesn\'t have much of an expression, and it can\'t really make many expressions.

Usually, its mouth is closed, and it looks very blunt and slow.

But as they age, their skin becomes weathered and wrinkled, and the patterns on the shell gradually smooth out. Then, when you make eye contact, it\'s like gazing at an old person who has weathered many storms, looking at you calmly, appearing wise and insightful, even without saying a word, speaking more than a thousand words.

Little Black is only 30 years old, and for an Asian forest tortoise that can live two to three hundred years or even longer, it\'s still a child, so it can\'t exude that feeling of having lived through tumultuous times, just pure simple cuteness.

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Its head lifted slightly and blinked, what are you doing?

Fang Ye\'s fingers gently scratched its wrinkled neck from below, and Little Black\'s head quickly stretched out, rising and elongating as it did so, its neck becoming vertical while its limbs involuntarily pushed up from the ground.

But its diamond-shaped head still faced forward, while one dark eye rotated, sizing up Fang Ye standing to the side.