Chapter 87 The Eagle and the Fish
Previously, Xiang Yang and others guessed correctly that this tiger-headed sea eagle was indeed a fledgling that had just learned how to prey.
Although the newly independent tiger-headed sea eagle has learned the skills of predation, the skills are extremely unfamiliar. This tiger-headed sea eagle went to snatch food from humpback whales after several consecutive predation failures and starved to death. The whale snatched the prey, and was killed by the prey in the sea. After a life-and-death struggle, it didn't eat a bite of food, but it consumed a lot of calories, and its wings were injured.
Xiang Yang had a chicken in his left hand, and waved to the tiger-headed sea eagle with a smile in his right hand.
When the tiger-headed sea eagle saw the hen in Xiang Yang's hand, it was ready to move. It took a few steps towards Xiang Yang, and then stood where it was, looking at Xiang Yang with its head tilted.
Xiang Yang chuckled, tore it hard, tore off a wing from the chicken, and threw it towards the tiger-headed sea eagle.
Chirp! The tiger-headed sea eagle immediately ran over with its legs like an ostrich, stepped on the chicken wing with a big paw and fixed it, pointed its eagle beak like a blade at the chicken wing, and tore off a large piece of chicken wing with a peck. piece of meat.
The tiger-headed sea eagle tore off the meat from the chicken wings and swallowed the meat without chewing it. Then it pulled its paws and turned the chicken wings over and continued to peck a second time.
After taking a few bites, the whole chicken wing was left with only bones, and the tiger-headed sea eagle looked at Xiang Yang again, to be precise, at the hen in Xiang Yang's hand.
But Xiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He had read a paper about eagles before. The paper said that eagles are extremely lonely creatures. If they are captured by humans, they will not eat or drink until Died of thirst and starvation, Xiang Yang was worried that this tiger-headed sea eagle would not eat the food he provided.
After seeing the tiger-headed sea eagle pecking at a chicken wing, Xiang Yang's worries disappeared.
Xiang Yang threw the whole chicken at the tiger-headed sea eagle, and the tiger-headed sea eagle immediately screamed and ran towards the hen that fell on the deck.
The net is collected? Where's the fish? After throwing the whole chicken out, Xiang Yang rubbed the oil on his hands, and said to He Mingde.
He Mingde was standing next to Xiang Yang, looking at the tiger-headed sea eagle eating. Seeing that Xiang Yang suddenly threw the whole chicken out and looked at him, He Mingde was stunned for a moment, and then he realized it, sighed and said: Get up. The net is gone, no fish.
No fish? Xiang Yang's voice raised seven or eight degrees at once, The net has been dragged for so long and there is not a single fish?
Xiang Yang immediately looked at Zhou Wang, What's going on? Xiang Yang had seen the route of the fishing boat last night. Although there were not many fish, there were still schools of various fish. There was not a single fish in the net. It may be that Zhou Wang, who is in charge of the fishing nets, has a problem.
Zhou Wang said: It's not that there are none, but the quantity is extremely small, and it's very worthless. It's almost the same as falling into the empty net.
Oh. Xiang Yang nodded, which was within Xiang Yang's expectation, What kind of sea fish are they?
Chen Qingsheng said: Mainly squid, and a few eels, the total may be less than a hundred catties.
Is it so miserable? Xiang Yang's mouth twitched, such a catch must have lost even the gas money.
He Mingde patted Xiang Yang's shoulder and smiled: It's like this at sea, how can we return with a full load? We are lucky enough to encounter fish tides when we go out to sea this time. You don't know the team I was in before. The fleet often goes out with freshwater vegetables and returns with empty fishing boats.
Xiang Yang nodded his head to express his understanding, and asked randomly: Don't eels have the habit of living in groups? How come only a few were caught?
Eel is a migratory fish that looks like a long snake, but has some basic characteristics of fish in appearance. Although the market price is not very expensive, it is listed among the economic fish in our country because of its large quantity. It is a very edible Valuable sea fish.
He Mingde shrugged his shoulders, How would I know that?
Xiang Yang nodded, Yes, yes.
Should we continue trawling or head south at full speed? He Mingde asked.
Xiang Yang thought for a while before saying: We went to the south to look for Sino-Ocean's overseas gas stations. Anyway, we don't know where the Sino-Ocean overseas gas stations are. Rather than looking for them all over the world like headless chickens, we might as well wait for them to come. Find us and keep trawling.
Yes, Captain. Xu Fang immediately took the order, stubbed out the cigarette butt and ran towards the operating room.
Seeing this, Zhou Wang immediately said, Captain, shall I cast the net now?
Xiang Yang shook his head, Wait a minute, there are two humpback whales making trouble in this sea area, and any fish must be scared away. Let's sail forward for a certain distance before casting the net.
Okay, Captain. Zhou Wang actually meant the same thing, The two humpback whales are really cute. When our fishing boat sails, they follow us far behind and don't disturb our fishing. Once our boat stops They swam over right away.
It would be great if this sea eagle followed us like this in the future. Fang Youqun pointed to the sea eagle and said.
Xiang Yang followed Fang Youqun's finger and looked at Haidiao, smiled and said nothing.
The sea eagle has eaten half of the whole chicken. Did the sea eagle eat the rest of the chicken? It just swallowed the chicken skin, and then tore the chicken off the chicken rack bit by bit and piled it on the deck beside it. .
Xiang Yang watched curiously, not knowing what the tiger-headed sea eagle was trying to do with the chicken.
As far as Xiang Yang knows, the tiger-headed sea eagle does have the habit of tearing up food, but it is a habit that the female tiger-headed sea eagle only has when it is breastfeeding its young.
Not long after the young eagle is born, the parent bird will tear up the food bit by bit and put it in the eagle's nest for the young eagle to peck. As the young eagle grows up, the parent bird will tear the food from the prey. The bigger the piece of meat, until the young eagle grows feathers, the parent bird will throw the whole prey caught in the eagle's nest and let the chick peck it by itself, and no longer have the habit of tearing the food off the skeleton.
The fishing boat set sail, and the deck shook for a while. The sea eagle, which was tearing up food, was startled by the sudden movement. The right wing flapped, and a pair of sharp claws scratched the deck.
Woo!
Seeing the fishing boat set sail, the two whales in the sea stopped playing in the water consciously, and swam towards the rear of the fishing boat, wagging their tails.
Chirp! The sea eagle on the deck screamed immediately after seeing it, picked up a piece of chicken that had been torn from the chicken rack, ran to the stern like an ostrich, and threw the piece of chicken into the sea.
The two humpback whales swam slowly and glanced at the deck, but did not gobble up the piece of chicken.
When the sea eagle saw it, it stamped its paws anxiously on the poop deck, screaming Jiu Jiu Jiu.
Uh, this guy is using chicken to thank the humpback whale for saving him? Xiang Yang looked at the scene in front of him and asked uncertainly.
Fang Youqun immediately denied it and said: Brother Yang, you are wrong, you were the one who saved it, and if it wants to thank you, it is also thanks to you!