My Deep-sea Fishery

Because of its special environment, Ocean University is actually a tourist attraction itself.

In terms of fame, Ocean University is definitely not comparable to the cherry blossoms of Wuhan University, but in terms of the number of people going, there are really many.

Ocean University's aquarium raises a lot of marine life for tourists to visit, but the ocean university's aquarium is not a profit-making organization, it does not sell tickets, performances, or souvenirs. Where does the funding for raising those marine animals come from? Come?

Almost half of the cost of raising those marine creatures is earned by sea lions.

How did you earn it?

Of course I ate it.

Two or two small boxes of sardines are priced at 30 yuan. As long as you are willing to feed an adult male sea lion, it can still slap its belly loudly in front of you after eating two hundred catties a day.

Sea lions in the wild eat more food. Even if an adult sea lion does nothing, it must eat at least 40 kilograms of sea fish a day. If the activity increases a little, they can even eat 120 kilograms of food a day. They are genuine ocean devourers .

It is also worth mentioning that when sea lions eat, they usually devour them whole, and they will not chew them into pieces. They can also swallow a big fish weighing three to four catties in one bite. Like chickens, they also need to eat some Pebbles go into the stomach to aid in digestion.

This is why Xiang Yang thinks that sea lions generally do not bite people. When they hunt, they like to swallow their food whole. With a human body, it is obviously not something that sea lions can swallow in one gulp, so humans are not part of the diet of sea lions. Inside.

Since people are not in their diet, the sea lions have no reason to bite people.

But the news has indeed reported the incident of sea lions hurting people.

Xiang Yang guessed that those sea lions who hurt people were either out of self-defense. This is the instinct of animals. Rabbits bite people when they are in a hurry!

Either the injured person accidentally broke into the sea lion's territory. Most sea lions are ruthless and exclusive.

Especially when the sea lions are nursing their pups.

Sea lions raise their young in a similar way to penguins.

Sea lions from multiple populations gather all their pups together to raise them.

The sea lion cub rearing base photographed by scientists is very spectacular.

The population of the sea lion cub raising base is very large, and the cubs huddle together densely, often making loud roars.

Adult male sea lions are responsible for guarding the surroundings.

The female sea lions are responsible for foraging for food.

Scientists speculate that female sea lions have a set of methods to successfully identify their cubs, but after foraging for food and returning to their habitat, female sea lions can always find their cubs quickly.

Female sea lions will take good care of their cubs, but they are extremely cruel and ruthless to other cubs.

They often pick up other sea lion cubs viciously and throw them far away when other female or male sea lions are not paying attention.

If this scene is seen by the male sea lion or the birth mother of the young sea lion, it will be a fierce battle immediately. However, even if the head is broken, the sea lion group still continues this tradition, and has great respect for this Tradition never tires.

Xiang Yang said: "You guys wait here, I'll go over and see if I can touch these sea lions."

Li Chao said, "Be careful."

Fang Youqun said, "Captain, let me go."

Xiang Yang shook his head, "Let me go. I'm familiar with sea lions, and I can withdraw immediately if something goes wrong. You don't know sea lions. Don't let them open their mouths to bite you later. Think of it as saying hello to you."

In most cases, sea lions are not malicious to humans.

And it's easy to tame.

Many diving and salvage organizations have domesticated sea lions.

The diving ability of sea lions is very high, and it is an excellent helper for humans to salvage boats or items.

In many coastal countries, people have domesticated sea lions to complete some salvage tasks that divers cannot fully complete, such as asking sea lions to go to the deep sea where divers cannot go down to fetch something.

Once a special forces unit in the United States accidentally dropped a rocket on the seabed during an experiment.

After many American salvage companies sent divers to salvage to no avail, some people came up with a way to use sea lions to salvage.

Sure enough, after a specially trained sea lion arrived at the sea area, it only took a minute to take out the rocket that sank to the bottom of the sea.

"Well--"

Among the four sea lions, the largest sea lion saw Xiang Yang approaching, and immediately uttered a loud cry similar to that of a cow, but the sound was louder and more penetrating than ordinary cow calls.

Xiang Yang stopped immediately.

This is a very bad signal, the male sea lion is calling to warn Xiang Yang not to get closer.

Xiang Yang stood still, spread his hands and said, "Don't be nervous, we have no malicious intentions."

"Well--"

"Well!"

"Well!!!"

However, Xiang Yang's words didn't help.

The four sea lions became vigilant, watching Xiang Yang's throat growl continuously, and the roars continued one after another, while sliding their four fins, their bodies kept approaching the direction of the sea.

Xiang Yang put down his hands helplessly, he knew that he failed to get close to these sea lions.

Untamed sea lions like to approach humans very much when they are young, often following behind fishing boats, or directly crawling to the beach to look for humans.

Once sea lions become adults, they are less willing to approach humans. Generally, they stay away from humans when they see humans, and they are very vigilant towards humans.

The four sea lions fell back a certain distance. Seeing that Xiang Yang did not catch up, the leading male sea lion immediately let out a howl, turned around, and twisted his fat body like a big fat pig escaping from a slaughterhouse. , roaring and fled to the sea.

When Li Chao saw them, he looked regretful, "It's a pity, with such good four sea lions, I still wanted to get a sea lion pool in my hotel, so they ran away."

Xiang Yang rolled his eyes, it would be a pity to get it in a hotel, he also wanted to tame these sea lions and bring these sea lions to the beach on the other side of Qinglong Bend for tourists to visit.

But it's useless to say anything now.

Xiang Yang turned around, looked at Li Chao and the others, and said, "Going further, you will find a more remote beach. I am afraid that there will be no one passing by for several years. We have encountered sea lions here, and there have been more sea lions in places farther away. It's not safe, why don't you go back?"

Li Chao hesitated, and turned his head to discuss with Song Guoning.

"Brother Ning, do you think we have to go on?"

Song Guoning smiled slightly, "I can do it, don't ask me, Mr. Li, you can decide for yourself."

Li Chao looked at Zhang Qicheng again, "Old Zhang, what do you mean?"

Zhang Qicheng looked at Xiang Yang, "Listen to brother Xiang, he knows this better than us."