在今年国际长臂猿日来临之际，上海根与芽继续与上海动物园合作，开展“我给长臂猿做玩具”系列活动，希望借此机会呼吁公众对于长臂猿濒危物种的关注和保护。活动自2021年第一次举办开始至今已连续成功举办四年。10月19日，上海动物园内，“我给长臂猿做玩具”帐篷展示、长臂猿主题互动游戏、科普讲座等丰富多彩的活动共吸引到两千多名游客参与其中。
On the occasion of the International Gibbon Day 2024, Shanghai Roots & Shoots continues to cooperate with Shanghai Zoo to carry out a series of activities entitled “Toys for Gibbons”. We take this opportunity to call for public attention and protection of the endangered gibbon species. It’s the fourth year Shanghai Zoo and Shanghai Roots & Shoots held this event together since 2021. On October 19th at Shanghai Zoo, more than 2,000 visitors were attracted to take part in colorful gibbon-themed activities including enrichment toy exhibition, interactive Q&A, expert lecture and so on.
游客在参观学校团队制作的长臂猿玩具
Tourists were visiting the gibbon toys made by the school teams
9月学生代表组织起自己的团队小组，并参与了在上海动物园举办的培训，学习长臂猿和丰容知识，现场观察长臂猿。经过一个月左右的设计和制作，10月19日共有15个团队完成了18个丰容玩具的制作，近百位学生小组代表于当天在上海动物园科学教育馆前草坪上进行展示，邀请游客为自己的玩具投票、并开展有趣的互动游戏帮助游客了解长臂猿。
In September, the students formed their own team, and participated in a training to learn about enrichment of gibbons and observed them at Shanghai Zoo. They completed the design and production of enrichment toys by themselves during a month. A total of 15 teams made 18 enrichment toys for gibbons. Nearly 100 students displayed their toys on the front lawn of Shanghai Zoo Science Education Center on October 19th, inviting visitors to vote for their toys and conducting fun interactive games to help the visitors to learn about gibbons.
学校团队在介绍他们为长臂猿制作的玩具
The student was introducing the toys they made for gibbons
学校团队制作的长臂猿科普海报
The poster introducing gibbon and enrichment handmade by the school team
来自上海动物园的饲养员为各个团队的玩具打分
The keeper from Shanghai Zoo gave feedback to each team and gave out grades for each enrichment toy
通过游客投票和长臂猿饲养员的打分综合结果，最终来自上海光华剑桥国际学校的“1-sprout”团队获得一等奖，来自上海陆行中学北校“猿神启动”团队获得二等奖，来自上海市闵行区文来实验学校的“文实根与芽社团”获得三等奖。
According to the combined result of visitors' votes and scores given by the gibbon keeper, Shanghai Guanghua Cambridge International School won the first prize, Shanghai Luhang Middle School North School came the second, and Shanghai Wenlai Experimental School took the third place.
来自上海光华剑桥国际学校的“1-sprout”团队和她们设计的竹吊床
Team 1-sprout from Shanghai Guanghua Cambridge International School and the Bamboo Hammock they made for the gibbons
来自上海陆行中学北校“猿神启动”团队和他们的爬梯椰壳取食器
Team Yuanshen Qidong from Shanghai Luhang Middle School North Campus and the Rope Ladder with Feeding Apparatus
来自上海市闵行区文来实验学校的“文实根与芽社团”和她们的篮球取食器
Wenshi Roots & Shoots Group from Shanghai Wenlai Experimental School and their Food Apparatus made of recycled basketball
在“我给长臂猿做玩具”帐篷展示活动火热进行时，长臂猿互动游戏与科普讲座也在同时开展。辨别长臂猿与猴子的区别、找出长臂猿的栖息地、长臂猿知识问答、灵长类动物行为模仿挑战，游客通过参与游戏对于长臂猿的了解更进一步了。
While the “Toys for Gibbons” exhibition was in full swing, interactive games and the expert lecture on gibbons also attracted many visitors. They have learnt more about gibbons through participating in all kinds of interactive games such as identifying the differences between gibbons and monkeys, finding out gibbons’ habitat, gibbon-themed Q&A, and primate behavior mimicry challenge etc.
游客在参与长臂猿互动问答游戏
Tourists were participating in the interactive games about gibbons
科学教育馆内，来自中山大学的博士后马海港为我们回顾了邦亮保护区三代学者研究长臂猿的生活和经历，并向大家介绍他目前研究的主要课题，着重于东黑冠长臂猿鸣叫规律、语序发展等，探寻其与人类音乐、语言演化之间的联系。研究人员们希望通过自身不懈的努力让更多人认识和了解东黑冠长臂猿，加入到保护他们的行动中。
In the Science Education Center, Doctor Ma, from Sun Yat-Sen University told the stories of three generations ‘ scientists studying on Cao Vit Gibbon, how they conducted the research and what it was like doing research on the field. Dr. Ma then introduced his focus, studying the vocal structure and sequence of Cao Vit Gibbon, as well as how these findings will be related to music forms, and the origin and evolution of human language. The scientists are keep trying to reveal the secrets of gibbons to more, and thus involve more to protect the gibbons together.
马海港博士后为公众带来东黑冠长臂猿科普讲座
Doctor Ma gave a lecture on the Cao Vit gibbons
最终通过各学校团队一个月左右的精心准备和努力，此次活动圆满结束。各团队在2024年国际长臂猿日来临之际为大家和长臂猿们带来了不少令人眼前一亮的玩具，赢得在场游客以及动物园专家的声声赞叹。
With the joint efforts from every school group and their one-month-long learning and preparing , the event was brought to a successful end. The teams created a number of eye-catching toys for us and gibbons on the occasion of the International Gibbon Day 2024, which won the applause of the visitors and experts.
感谢上海动物园对于此次活动的大力支持！也感谢各个学校团队对于此次活动的积极参与，以及各位志愿者对于此次活动的协助和支持！
We sincerely thank Shanghai Zoo for supporting this event! And we deeply appreciate that all the school teams actively participated in this campaign event and all the volunteers assisted at the event too!