My Deep-sea Fishery

Then Xiang Yang looked at the blue whale again.

If the blue whale is the lion of the ocean, then the blue whale is definitely the elephant of the ocean.

In the ocean, the ecological niche of blue whales is very close to that of elephants on land.

On the African savannah, although lions kill everywhere, they rarely attack adult elephants, because they will be injured when hunting animals that are several times their size.

The killer whale is the same. Although the blue whale is a baleen whale and has no teeth, its huge size may seriously injure the killer whale with a flick of its tail. Therefore, in Xiang Yang's memory, the number of times the killer whale kills the blue whale is very rare.

And the ocean is not the same as the prairies.

The lions on the grasslands lack food in the dry season, and sometimes have to risk being trampled to death to hunt elephants.

In the ocean, killer whales have plenty of food.

And most prey killer whales are very easy to hunt, such as seals, sea lions, fur seals, walruses and other small whales.

With such sufficient prey, under normal circumstances, killer whales do not need to take the risk of attacking large cetaceans, including blue whales, sperm whales and so on.

Then Xiang Yang looked at the four humpback whales at the bow who were still chasing each other and playing in the water in front of the fishing boat, and hadn't noticed the pod of killer whales behind them.

If in the ocean, killer whales are lions, and the ecological niche of blue whales is very close to elephants on land, then humpback whales are definitely rhinos in the ocean.

Like rhinos, humpback whales are also the main ones who head-butt them on a rampage, and they are usually very docile. Once they get angry, they are also afraid of lions, and their eyesight is not very good.

"Slow down the boat, that blue whale is not coming towards us, let it swim over first." Now that he knows that the blue whale is not coming towards him, Xiang Yang naturally has nothing to worry about, just Through the intercom, ask someone in the bridge to slow down the boat.

"Brother Yang, you said that this blue whale is not coming for us? Then who is he coming for?" Fang Youqun wondered.

Fang Youqun's eyes kept glancing at the hulls of the surrounding fishing boats, wondering which fishing boat this blue whale was aiming at.

Xiang Yang rolled his eyes, "Don't glance, this blue whale is not coming towards the boat, it is running for its life, and there is a killer whale chasing it behind it."

After Xiang Yang finished speaking, he immediately regretted it.

At this moment, the blue whale was hundreds of meters away from the fishing boat, and the group of killer whales was even further away from the blue whale. At such a long distance, the group of killer whales were all underwater. How could Xiang Yang be separated by such a distance? Seeing the group of killer whales in the distance is hard to explain.

Sure enough, someone made trouble the next moment.

"What? Killer whale? Brother Yang, you mean the blue whale is afraid of the killer whale? Hey, no, why didn't I see the killer whale?" Fang Youqun stretched his neck and looked behind the fishing boat, very puzzled.

Xiang Yang made up an excuse, "Just now your attention was attracted by the blue whale, and you didn't notice that another killer whale floated out behind it."

"Really?" Fang Youqun asked doubtfully.

"Otherwise, what do you think? I called the group of killer whales?" Xiang Yang pretended to be impatient.

Fang Youqun touched his head in embarrassment, and then quickly changed the subject: "Brother Yang, you said that if we don't take action, can the group of killer whales kill this blue whale? If this blue whale is bitten by a killer whale If we are dead, let’s drive those killer whales away and bring up the blue whale carcass, is it legal to catch a blue whale?”

Xiang Yang was amused by Fang Youqun's words, "You are really a logical genius, but it is not normal for killer whales to kill blue whales, and this blue whale is considered to be very large among blue whales, plus There are four adult humpback whales not far in front of us, and if there is no accident, it is impossible for the blue whale to be killed."

In March, the blue whale that was killed by killer whales off the west coast of Australia was reported to be only fifteen meters long and strayed into the breeding grounds of killer whales.

In Xiang Yang's view, a blue whale with a body length of fifteen meters is not an adult blue whale at all.

The blue whale is the largest animal in the world. The adult is big, and the cubs are not small. In fact, the blue whale has a body length of about seven meters and a weight of about 2.5 tons from the moment it is born. An orca that is close to adulthood.

Blue whale cubs only have a lactation period of about six months. During the lactation period, the weight of blue whale cubs will increase dramatically.

Blue whale calves are growing rapidly with a weight of about 100 kilograms per day. After the lactation period is over, under normal circumstances, the calves can grow to twice their birth size, which is 14 meters long. In one month, the baby whale can grow to about fifteen meters under the condition of preying on its own.

The blue whale reported by the British "Daily Mail" is only fifteen meters long, which means that it is a young whale that has just been weaned for about a month.

It has just begun to live alone and is unfamiliar with everything in the ocean, which is why it strayed into the killer whale breeding ground.

From Xiang Yang's point of view, the blue whale may have strayed into the killer whale breeding grounds, which angered the breeding killer whales, which led to the murder.

Besides, a blue whale cub broke into a large group of killer whales. Even if the killer whales were not angered, how could the smart killer whales let go of the fat in their mouths when so many killer whales faced a young blue whale? ?

After all, juvenile blue whales have immature combat experience and swimming speed.

Therefore, in Xiang Yang's view, the death of the blue whale cannot be regarded as a frequent occurrence of the battle between the killer whale and the blue whale.

Even if it was a young blue whale, according to the "Daily Mail" report, the young blue whale was bitten by seventy-five killer whales for three hours before finally killing the young blue whale together .

If it is an adult blue whale, whether it can be killed or not is another matter.

Fang Youqun shrank his head, and continued to ask: "Brother Yang, since it is not normal for orcas to kill blue whales, and there is a high probability that they cannot kill this blue whale, why do orcas still go to great lengths to kill blue whales? Also, Why did this blue whale escape?"

Xiang Yang shrugged his shoulders, "Who knows what killer whales like, they always have a special liking for mammals, as for why blue whales escape, you fight with people, you can't beat them, you will kill them because they won't kill them You, you won't run away, just lie there and let others beat you?"

Fang Youqun chuckled, "That's not possible."

"Huh?" At this moment, Xiang Yang suddenly noticed that the humpback whales playing in the water in front suddenly turned around and looked behind.

Through the big eyeballs of those humpback whales, Xiang Yang could clearly see the humanized doubts in the eyes of these humpback whales.

"Look, these humpback whales should have discovered the group of killer whales." Xiang Yang pointed at the group of humpback whales.

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