My Deep-sea Fishery

"Captain, we found a whale." As soon as Xiang Yang got on the boat, he immediately heard the chattering of the crew.

Xiang Yang smiled and asked, "Where is it?" Of course he knew where the whale the crew were talking about was, but seeing the enthusiasm of the crew, he couldn't help but follow everyone's words.

"Yes, yes." Xia Pengjie looked around, suddenly pointed in a certain direction, and exclaimed loudly, "There, it's a sperm whale."

Xiang Yang rolled his eyes, he didn't need to look to know that Xia Pengjie was talking nonsense.

Xiang Yang just came back from that whale, can he not know that it is a fin whale?

Leaving aside the fact that the screaming whale was not a sperm whale at all, but a fin whale, and Xia Pengjie's hand was pointing in the wrong direction.

"My God!"

"What a big whale!"

"It's really a sperm whale!"

Then the crew members around Xiang Yang exclaimed and gasped.

Xiang Yang was taken aback, and quickly turned his head to look in that direction.

Sure enough, the next moment, Xiang Yang saw a strange big fish with a body length of nearly 20 meters and a conical shape. It looked top-heavy and had no back.

From a distance, the big fish looked like a huge tadpole, with its huge head accounting for about one-third of its body length.

"this"

Xiang Yang was shocked, it was really a sperm whale.

The sperm whale is also called the giant whale. Its head is like a huge box, which is very recognizable.

Sperm whales are widely distributed in various seas around the world, mainly in tropical and temperate waters. Chinese fishermen often encounter this big guy in the sea. Among them, the maximum body length of males is 23 meters, and the maximum body length of females is 17 meters. It is a well-deserved overlord creature in the ocean pyramid.

"Brother Yang, this whale is bigger than a humpback." Fang Youqun yelled, "Let's drive the boat over quickly."

Xiang Yang glanced at Fang Youqun, shook his head, and rejected Fang Youqun's proposal.

"Don't mess around, this is a sperm whale, not a docile humpback whale." Xiang Yang said: "Sperm whales are very violent, and they are also very aggressive. All animals, including humans, once bitten by them Don't try to escape."

"So fierce?" Fang Youqun frightened.

"En." Xiang Yang nodded, and said, "The whale call we heard earlier should be made by a solitary fin whale, and the solitary fin whale's original intention should be to call its companions with its call. , but attracted the ferocious sperm whales.”

"Fin whale?" Fang Youqun asked suspiciously: "Brother Yang, are you saying that there is a single fin whale nearby?"

"That's right." Xiang Yang nodded naturally, "I've studied the calls of various whales, and the previous call was obviously made by a fin whale."

The crew did not doubt Xiang Yang's words.

Xia Pengjie asked: "Captain, do you mean that this sperm whale came to prey on that fin whale?"

Xiang Yang shook his head, "I don't know about this. At present, there is no record of sperm whales preying on whales, but sperm whales are indeed very ferocious. They dive deep into the extremely cold and dark seabed to hunt squid in deep water. , sharks or other large fish, so they don't prey on fin whales."

Like humpback whales, sperm whales are also very keen on hunting food such as giant squid and large octopus.

Because the sperm whale is a diving master, it needs a substance to survive in the deep sea - astaxanthin.

Sperm whales and giant squid often fight to the death for a little astaxanthin, and they both want to take the astaxanthin in each other's body for themselves.

However, there is still a slight chance of winning when the king squid fights with the humpback whale, but the squid head is basically given to the sperm whale.

Because sperm whales are not only ferocious, but also live in groups. They usually form a small group of 5 to 10, and sometimes form a large group of hundreds like fin whales. In the past, when sperm whales were more skilled, there were often fishermen. At sea, groups of sperm whales are seen playfully playing and playing with each other on the sea.

No matter how big the king squid encounters groups of sperm whales, they can only hate on the spot, and there is nowhere to escape.

Where the king squid can dive, the sperm whale can also dive.

Rather than saying that the sperm whale is a diving mammal, it is better to say that the sperm whale is a living nuclear submarine.

The depth of more than 1,000 meters is simply pediatrics for sperm whales.

In 1991, near the Dominican island in the Caribbean Sea, scientists discovered an incredible record of a sperm whale diving to a depth of 2,000 meters.

And the deep diving records of sperm whales are far more than that. There is enough evidence in the biological world to indirectly prove that sperm whales can dive deeper.

On August 25, 1969, humans hunted a male sperm whale south of South Africa.

Those who captured the sperm whale opened up the sperm whale and found two sharks inside the sperm whale's belly.

The most astonishing thing is the kind of shark that feeds on carrion and only lives on the bottom of the sea, and the depth of that sea is more than 3,100 meters.

That discovery is enough to show that sperm whales can reach depths of more than 3,000 meters.

In addition, the sperm whale is also the holder of the longest diving record among mammals. The recorded sperm whale diving record is one hour and fifty-two minutes, which is simply terrifying.

The sperm whale is approaching Xiang Yang's fishing boat.

Out of sight of the rest of the crew.

But Xiang Yang used the mysterious jade shell to clearly see that not far from the largest sperm whale, there were six sperm whales of similar size. There were seven sperm whales in this group. If these seven sperm whales were really The ones were aimed at the fin whale, and the fin whale was definitely in danger.

Sperm whales have 28 pairs of conical long and narrow teeth, each tooth is extremely sharp, and the length can reach 20 centimeters, just like a sharp sword.

With so many teeth biting on the body at the same time, let alone a single fin whale, I am afraid that the largest king squid and blue whale will also have to suffer on the spot.

"Brother Yang." Fang Youqun stared at the approaching sperm whale and said nervously, "It won't attack our fishing boat, will it?"

"How is it possible?" Xiang Yang immediately shook his head and said, "We are an ocean-going fishing boat, how could it be possible for a whale to attack?"

Xiang Yang has absolute self-confidence. A 65-meter-long ocean-going fishing boat is definitely not something that a sperm whale can attack. If it is a narwhal or a super giant king squid, it will be almost the same.

Chen Qingsheng also nodded, "If they really dare to attack, we will sail directly, maybe we can kill this guy."