Fang Ye said, "This kind of landscape pool is of no use to birds or other small animals.
With just a little modification of the pool, lowering the edge or creating a small slope, and adding some small protrusions for footholds inside, small animals could drink here and perhaps have a greater chance of survival."
A girl in Nanjing set up two infrared cameras next to a small puddle formed after rain in a little grove near her home.
People who had lived there for five or six years said there were hardly any wild animals around, at most some mice and snakes.
But after the cameras were installed, they captured long-tailed shrikes, azure-winged magpies, Oriental turtle doves, Asian barred owlets, and dozens of bird species coming here to drink, bathe, frolic, and court. A Siberian weasel came to hunt, and months later returned with its family. In the dead of night, there were hedgehogs foraging in the soil.