The films about moose, boars and beavers were screened at the Presidential Library cinema club

On the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, 2018, a creative meeting with the author of animal films of Russia, the founder of the project "New Zoological Museum", Candidate of Biological Sciences, Pavel Glazkov, was held at the Presidential Library cinema club. The participants of the cinema club watched and discussed three short films: about moose, boars and beavers.

"The day of biological diversity exists to think about our smaller brothers, - Pavel Glazkov said, introducing the screening of his films. - Why do not all of them live freely in the wild? Why the humpback whale swam into the Baltic on May 19? I assure you, he did that not from a good life. The red book is full of endangered species of animals. Man's technological activity makes him a bad neighbor. And meanwhile, we all live in a single ecosystem named Earth, - with the loss of at least one species of flora or fauna, a significant damage is inflicted on a person. The problem of species extinction should be approached systematically, because no species disappears by itself".

The hero of the first film is a European, or western, moose, differing in an even chestnut-brown or gray-brown coat color, has long settled the Leningrad region. The elk's horns, according to Glazkov's commentary video series, are a visualization of his gene pool, a real miracle of nature. Based on them you can not only know the age of the animal, but also to understand whether it will become an alpha male in his herd. With brutal strength of the horn, until the end of life, they retain astonishing sensitivity and are able to feel the fly on their surface. In order to build up the horns, elk eats up to 40 kilograms of plant food per day (in the winter - up to 15 kilograms) and receives the necessary calcium from it.

Almost half of the world's elk population lives in Russia. Females are able to give up to five liters of nutritious milk per day, and now farmers are starting to start elk farms.

The second film, "Wild boar or wild pig", spoke about the forest life of an animal that looks like a domesticated but predator-like habit. Neither in the forest nor in the wildlife it is better not to meet with it.

The third film revealed many secrets and extraordinary abilities of the ordinary, or river, beaver. The film's author explained why the beaver is an animal, and the beaver is the name of its fur, for which these workers block the rivers with dams, which saves them from the cold. Because of the valuable and beautiful fur, the animal was almost destroyed as a species, as a result of which the beaver enriched the list of animals of the Red Book.

Glazkov's films, combining scientific certainty and fascinating narration about the life of animals that live in the Leningrad region, always cause an active discussion with the audience in the Presidential Library cinema club.