Chapter 68 Sea Lion
Xiang Yang kind of agrees with Wu Shiwen's idea. If Fang Youqun and others know that Wu Shiwen just changed his mind and can sell mussels more expensive than pearls, they will probably be dumbfounded.
Of course, for Xiang Yang, betting on mussels is a trivial matter. Counting labor and time-consuming, it is far less cost-effective than panning for pearls.
Xiang Yang didn't huddle with the crew, but traveled to farther places to find fatter pearl oysters.
It may be that Xiang Yang swam a little far away from the deterrent range of the two humpback whales. It didn't take long for Xiang Yang to encounter a group of ferocious marine predators.
It was a group of huge but extremely flexible sea lions, they were traveling in groups and chasing schools of fish on the bottom of the sea.
Sea lions have flipper-like limbs. The limbs are very powerful and can walk on land. They usually swim in groups in the sea during the day and hunt for food. At night, they disperse alone on the beach and rest alone. They are large carnivorous mammals in the ocean.
Xiang Yang stopped and looked at the group of sea lions and did not dare to get too close. Sea lions have a high sense of territory, which makes sea lions a dangerous animal that will attack humans. They will not let anyone who tries to break in Creatures that enter their territory often attack humans.
The group of sea lions also saw Xiang Yang, and all of them bared their teeth and threatened Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang smiled and didn't care. He was still some distance away from the group of sea lions, which didn't count as intruding into the opponent's territory. Generally, sea lions would not chase out of their own territory when they also encountered large predators.
Xiang Yang had seen creatures like sea lions in the submarine park before.
The domesticated sea lions in the submarine park are very cute. They gather in a large pool and often swim in the pool with their lower body, and stand up in the pool with their upper body out of the water. Their pectoral fins are constantly doing various pleasing movements to beg tourists Feed them.
Their food is also very simple, a silver sea fish the size of a small finger, sold in the underwater world for 20 yuan a box, and there are about 20 fish in a box.
Whenever tourists feed them, they make a sound like a cow, which is very loud and sometimes even scares children.
When tourists feed the sea lions, they can also have some simple interactions with the sea lions. For example, use a small wooden clip to hold the silver fish in circles over the pond. The sea lions will follow the tourists' hand gestures in circles in circling circles for the sake of food. .
It is worth mentioning that after interacting with the sea lion, you must give it food. If a tourist teases the sea lion and throws the food to other sea lions, the sea lion who has interacted with the tourists but did not get food will be very angry. It will bulge its nostrils and let out a very angry roar. In serious cases, it will even slap the water surface with its pectoral fins and splash a pool of water to wet the tourists. At this time, the sea lion can only be comforted by small silver fish.
If there are tourists who rush to visit the sea lions as soon as the Ocean Park opens in the early morning, they must pay attention to the scattered feeding when feeding, and do not throw the food when two or more sea lions gather together, otherwise they will be hungry all night Sea lions with extremely fierce stomachs may fight because of a small silver fish. Of course, this situation is very rare. Usually, the breeders of Ocean Park will feed the sea lions before the tourists arrive.
Domesticated sea lions are good friends of human beings. On the stage, they can perform many difficult performances with animal trainers. When salvaging sunken ships, sea lions' superb diving skills can help humans detect or salvage things on the seabed.
But untamed sea lions are really dangerous.
In 2007, a sea lion even chased a human being surfing behind a high-speed yacht on the sea off the west coast of Australia. They would not only attack humans but even their own kind, especially during breeding. Occupying a specific area on the beach does not allow other male sea lions to approach, otherwise there will be a life-and-death game of life and death. When female sea lions encounter other cubs except their own, they will fiercely pick them up and throw them away.
There are not many sea lions in this group, there are more than a dozen of them, and there are two small sea lions that are only one meter long.
The two sea lion cubs may have just learned to swim very clumsily, and the sea lions were raised by female sea lions on the beach for the first four or five months of their birth, and they were taken to the sea to learn to swim after they were five months old.
Sea lions that grow to over 800 pounds will gradually develop a sense of fear of humans, and will gradually stay away from humans when they are not tamed. But when the young sea lions are playing, they are not only not afraid of Xiang Yang, but even like Xiang Yang. While swimming, when swimming, the two pectoral fins slide the sea water vigorously, with a humane smile on his face.
Xiang Yang smiled and waved his hand to greet the two little guys.
Seeing Xiang Yang's movements, the two little guys swam more happily, and speeded up to swim towards Xiang Yang.
This suddenly frightened two female sea lions.
The two female sea lions swam to the front of the two young sea lions as soon as they swung their bodies and wanted to take the two young sea lions back. The rest of the sea lions also bulged towards Xiang Yang's nostrils, doing threats to drive them away.
Xiang Yang knew that he had frightened the group of sea lions, so he retreated a little to show that he did not mean any harm.
Seeing that Xiang Yang retreated, the group of sea lions became quieter but still did not relax. The sea lions all stared at Xiang Yang, and they instinctively felt a huge threat from Xiang Yang.
The two sea lion cubs were still somewhat dissatisfied with being pulled back by the lioness, struggling violently in the sea as if they wanted to swim to Xiang Yang to play with Xiang Yang.
One of the lionesses was annoyed and slapped the pup's head with her pectoral fin.
The little sea lion became honest after being hit twice by the lioness, and when he looked at Xiang Yang with his cute little face, he was full of grievances.
Xiang Yang touched the breathing mask in embarrassment, why did he feel like a bad guy who kidnapped and sold baby sea lions?
Seeing that this group of adult sea lions did not welcome him very much, Xiang Yang felt bored for a while, and changed his direction and wanted to swim far away.
But at this moment, two huge black shadows swam towards this side from a distance and startled Xiang Yang. Xiang Yang took a closer look and saw the two humpback whales playing beside the fishing boat before he let go. Take a breath.
But then Xiang Yang became nervous again, because the two humpback whales at this moment seemed not docile at all, especially the female whale with a murderous face, as if she had encountered a killer whale and was about to kill.
After a little thought, Xiang Yang understood that the two humpback whales must have thought they were surrounded by a group of sea lions, and they rushed to support them.
Fuck!
Xiang Yang didn't have time to explain and couldn't stop him, so he hurriedly looked at the group of sea lions behind him. The group of sea lions was running away in panic, but the escaping group of sea lions was obviously divided into three echelons. At the front, two female lions were watching nervously behind the group of sea lions by a large distance. Two sea lion cubs were flapping their pectoral fins and arching their bodies, but their bodies were not moving and they were circling anxiously.
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