My Deep-sea Fishery

"Could it be that someone brought the dog and lost it in Antarctica?" Xiang Yang looked confused. In a place like Antarctica, it is impossible for a creature like a wolf to appear.

There are indeed wolves in the world that can survive in extremely cold environments.

Like the snow wolf in our country, and the green wolf in West Siberia, they can all advance against the snowstorm.

Even dogs, which are close relatives of wolves, have existences like the three sledgehammers who are not afraid of the severe cold.

But the number of snow wolves is limited, and they only live in the north of our country. They are endangered creatures. At present, the entire population is only more than 7,000, and it is absolutely impossible to appear in Antarctica.

Blue wolves are also unlikely to appear in Antarctica.

"No, it's a wolf." Gao Chuang shook his head.

Although the corpse had been dead for a long time, it was completely preserved because of the extremely low temperature outside. I saw that the body was nearly one meter long, and the tail was nearly 30 centimeters long. Although it looked like a garden dog It is very similar, but its eyes are slanted and its mouth is wider than that of ordinary dogs. The most important thing is that its snout is pointed, which is the best proof that it is a beast.

"Whether it's a wolf or a dog, dig out this creature first, be careful not to damage it." Xiang Yang suggested.

Gao Chuang nodded, and directly ordered to his own people: "Bring the cutting machine over and cut carefully."

The foreigner was hesitant to speak for a moment, as if he wanted to say that he had discovered the creature.

But Gao Chuang pretended not to see the expression on the foreigner's face, and the number of Gao Chuang at the scene was more than ten times that of the foreigner, and Gao Chuang was the first to get to the ice floe, even if Gao Chuang wanted to drive away the group When the foreigner leaves, the foreigner can only pinch his nose to recognize him.

Soon, the mysterious creature was chiseled out of the ice.

After seeing the whole picture of this creature, Xiang Yang vaguely guessed what kind of creature it was.

I saw this creature's tail, vertically at the tip of its hind legs, and its mouth was open with sharp fangs. As for its hair, it was a very rare red color. This was a red-haired monster.

"This should be the Antarctic snow wolf." Xiang Yang guessed.

Antarctic snow wolf, also known as Antarctic wolf, Falkland Islands wolf, is the only terrestrial mammal in the Falkland Islands. It was completely extinct as early as two hundred years ago. Before the extinction, they lived in the Falkland Islands It is also frequently found on the Antarctic continent.

And the color of the hair also testifies that this mysterious creature is a Falkland Islands wolf.

The hair of the Falkland Islands wolf changes with the temperature. In summer, its hair is generally light yellow or red, and in winter, it will turn white.

"Antarctic Snow Wolf? What is that?" Gao Chuang asked.

Xiang Yang thought for a while, and then said: "In the 18th century, there lived a kind of wolf on the Falkland Islands near the Antarctic Circle at the southern tip of South America. I really can’t think of any wolves in Antarctica other than the Orlando wolves.”

Gao Chuang frowned, "This is unscientific. I have been to the Falkland Islands. They are some isolated islands. I also know about wolves. As predators, the Falkland Islands wolves cannot survive in the isolated Falkland Islands." have thrived independently of other related things on the Orlando Islands."

Xiang Yang shrugged, "So they are extinct."

In fact, scientists are still exploring the secrets of why the Falkland Islands wolf can reproduce and survive in the Falkland Islands.

The Falkland Islands are a group of deserted islands deep in the ocean.

According to geologists, the Falkland Islands have never been connected to any continent since ancient times.

On the island, there are no other mammals.

One theory is that the ancestors of the Falkland Islands wolf were actually Antarctic wolves, which arrived on the Falkland Islands through ice floes during the Ice Age.

There is also a theory that the Falkland Islands had dense forests before the ice age. After the glacier passed, the animals and plants on the island became extinct, and the Falkland wolf was the only survivor on the island.

However, neither theory has found critical evidence.

As of today, no remains of the Falkland wolf's reproduction have been found in Antarctica.

During the Ice Age, it would have been impossible for canine predators to survive alone on a desert island.

Locals now believe that these Falkland wolves are actually foxes from South America.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the domesticated South American mountain fox was used as a hunting dog by the local primitive people and brought to the Falkland Islands. Then, because of an accident, the primitive people died, and the mountain fox survived. After hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, these South American mountain foxes eventually evolved into the Falkland Islands wolf.

However, this statement is only generally accepted by the locals, and scientists outside the world scoff at it.

Because biologists have done DNA analysis on specimens of Falkland Islands wolves in the museum, they concluded that the earliest common ancestor of Falkland Islands wolves and South American mountain foxes was 330,000 years ago.

Humans first arrived in the Falkland Islands 7,000 years ago, and at least tens of thousands of generations have passed between them.

"Extinct?" Gao Chuang was stunned for a moment, and then regretted: "It would be great if it wasn't extinct, and I don't know if this kind of wolf can be domesticated. In places like Antarctica, if a group of dogs that can survive in the local area can be domesticated Dogs, that would be of great help to us humans."

Xiang Yang smiled, "Probably can be domesticated, but unfortunately, there is no chance to domesticate now."

Fang Youqun wondered: "Brother Yang, you have never seen a living Falkland Islands wolf, how do you know they can be domesticated?"

"That's because the earliest Falkland Islands wolf was named Falkland Island Dog." Xiang Yang said with a smile.

As early as 1833, when the world-renowned biologist Darwin landed on the Falkland Islands for scientific research, the first official name given to the Falkland Islands wolf was Antarctic Dog, and he was divided into the same group as domestic dogs. genus, because Darwin discovered that the Falkland Islands wolf was a very docile carnivore.

It was only in later studies that scientists generally felt that the Falkland Islands wolf was closer to a fox than to a wolf.

It's just that its specific classification is still controversial. It's just that ordinary people are still used to calling them the Falkland Islands wolf, while scientists are using the name Darwin left for it and defining it as an Antarctic stupid dog, because They lack fear of humans. As the only carnivore on the Falkland Islands, they have no natural enemies, so they don't know what fear is. This arrogant character is one of the reasons for their extinction.

Of course, the main reason for their extinction is because of humans.