Guardians of the Snow Mountain Elves
Episode 3 Respect
Long Yongcheng, researcher of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys
Exclusive Interview | Long Yongcheng, researcher of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys
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| Person | 
Long Yongcheng
Graduated from the Department of Biology, Zhongshan University, Guangdong Province in 1982.
Over the past 20 years,
Long Yongcheng has been working tirelessly for the survival of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys.
From 1987 to 1996, for ten years,
He dedicated his most precious ten years of his academic career to the research of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys.
| Respect | 
▲Many people believe that
humanity is meant to transform the world,
to create the world, 
▲But don't forget,
this is a disrespect to nature. 
▲We humans always want to tame animals,
to specifically teach them some strange behaviors,
some behaviors that attract human attention. 
▲For example, there is a recently famous TV program,
called "Wonderful Friends". 
▲A well-known singer stands on a beluga whale,
standing as if very elegant,
while the whale swims below. 
▲But think about it,
all the activities of this whale
are for its own survival.
Its leaps, its foraging,
are all based on its own needs.
But we have to tame it. 
▲It was not born to be a tool to carry a person on the water,
that's not its function,
not what it should do. 
▲Forcing animals to do things against their will,
humans may feel that
this can bring a strong sense of accomplishment,
but I think such a sense of accomplishment
is better to have less.

▲Nature has its own laws,
nature's originality is the most reasonable.
We should not violate the laws of nature. 
▲To force them to do
what seems simple to me,
but what they are not good at,
this is a violation of the laws of nature. 
▲Ecological civilization is
our (human) society's respect for nature's originality. 
▲It's not that we clean the room spotless,
wipe the glass until it shines,
that's ecological civilization.
That's at most an appearance.
Please put down your so-called power for a moment,
and respect the power of nature.
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| Dialogue | 
Clip: In the process of protecting animals, different people use different methods. There are many ways to express love for animals through close contact. Do you think this is protection for wildlife?
Long Yongcheng: Close contact with animals, letting animals perform various programs, interacting with animals in cages in zoos. In my opinion, this can arouse the public's love for animals, it has a good side, and the publicity effect is very good, the dissemination ability is very strong. We find that the click-through rate of these videos is tens of millions of times, which is far beyond what we zoologists can achieve. It can make more people willing to contact animals, which is beneficial. However, they are too keen on close contact, which I don't quite agree with, because sometimes we humans and animals should maintain a certain distance, sometimes distance creates beauty. If you are too close, you will bring some human diseases to animals, or infect some diseases that humans did not have in the past from animals.
Clip: What are the actual natural behaviors of animals? Please give a specific example.
Long Yongcheng : Some people want to tame animals to do some strange movements, such as Li Yuchun standing on a beluga whale, standing as if very elegant, while the whale swims below. But think about it, all the activities of the whale are for its own survival, every leap, every foraging, is based on its own needs. But we humans have to tame it, it was not born to carry a person on the water, that's not its function, nor is it what it should do. But we humans just want to tame it, forcing animals to do things they don't want to do. Some people think this will bring a sense of accomplishment, I think such a sense of accomplishment is better to have less, don't always say, to change the course of rivers, to change the appearance of mountains and rivers, this violates the basic principles of ecological civilization. 
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